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Top 10 Films of the Year (1950- )

If a year is missing, it simply means I haven’t seen enough good/great films to compile a top 10 list for that year. As usual feel free to comment, complain, gently harass, tell me to get a life, etc. Actually, don’t tell me to get a life, that’s mean and I’ll cry. You don’t want to see a grown man cry do you?

So, working backwards to 1950...

Top 10 Films of 2024

1. Nosferatu

2. I Saw the TV Glow 

3. Anora 

4. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

5. Saturday Night

6. Joker: Folie a Deux

7. MaXXXine

8. Kill

9. Longlegs

10. The Watchers

Top 10 Films of 2023

1. Godzilla Minus One

2. John Wick Chapter 4

3. MI: Dead Reckoning

4. Sisu

5. The Primevals

6. John Farnham: Finding the Voice

7. Oppenheimer

8. Talk to Me

9. The Offering

10. Dracula: Voyage of the Demeter

Top 10 Films of 2022

1. Mad God 

2. Men

3. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

4. The Batman

5. Everything Everywhere All At Once

6. Violent Night

7. The Northman

8. Ambulance

9. The Banshees of Inisherin

10. Barbarian

Top 10 Films of 2021

1. Godzilla vs. Kong

2. Antlers

3. Wrath of Man

4. Those Who Wish Me Dead

5. The Eyes of Tammy Faye

6. Life After the Navigator

7. Old

8. Nobody

9. One-Shot

10. Prisoners of the Ghostland

Top 10 Films of 2020

(Really a Top 7 if I'm honest)

1. Colour Out of Space

2. Sound of Metal

3. One Night in Miami...

4. Promising Young Woman

5. Class Action Park

6. Black Water: Abyss

7. Uncut Gems

8. Let Him Go

9. Nomadland

10. Monster Hunter

 

Top 10 Films of 2019

1. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

2. John Wick 3: Parabellum

3. Doctor Sleep

4. Joker

5. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

6. Terminator: Dark Fate

7. Triple Threat

8. Luce

9. The Irishman

10. Parasite

Top 10 Films of 2018 

1. Tea With the Dames

2. Avengers: Infinity War

3. Black Panther

4. Hereditary

5. Widows

6. Accident Man 

7. Kickboxer: Retaliation

8. Sicario: Day of the Soldado

9. Chappaquiddick

10. Hostiles

Top 10 Films of 2017 

1. Colossal

2. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

3. War for the Planet of the Apes

4. Hounds of Love

5. Get Out

6. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

7. White Boy

8. The Shape of Water

9. John Wick: Chapter 2

10. XXX 3: The Return of Xander Cage

Top 10 Films of 2016

1. Moonlight

2. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

3. Hidden Figures

4. Train to Busan

5. Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher

6. The Jungle Book

7. The Nice Guys

8. Lion

9. Manchester By the Sea

10. Hell or High Water

Top 10 Films of 2015

1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2. The Martian

3. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

4. Ex Machina

5. The Revenant

6. Project Almanac

7. Southpaw

8. Kingsman: The Secret Service

9. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

10. Turbo Kid

Top 10 Films of 2014

1. Gone Girl

2. The Babadook

3. Fury

4. Nightcrawler

5. The Internet's Own Boy: Aaron Swartz

6. Under the Skin

7. Tales of the Grim Sleeper

8. Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead

9. Wild

10. I Am Big Bird

Top 10 Films of 2013

1. Saving Mr. Banks

2. Her

3. The Imposter

4. Gravity

5. Nebraska

6. The Company You Keep

7. Seduced and Abandoned

8. 20 Feet From Stardom

9. Man of Steel

10. Now You See Me

Top 10 Films of 2012

1. Django Unchained

2. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

3. Chronicle

4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower

5. The Five Year Engagement

6. Frankenweenie

7. Searching for Sugar Man

8. Killing Them Softly

9. The Impossible

10. Safety Not Guaranteed/Lincoln

Top 10 Films of 2011

1. Hugo

2. Rango

3. The Adjustment Bureau

4. Take Shelter

5. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

6. My Week With Marilyn

7. The Skin I Live In

8. Drive

9. Like Crazy

10. Snowtown

Top 10 Films of 2010

1. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

2. Repo Men 

3. Buried

4. The Social Network

5. 127 Hours

6. Inception

7. Machete

8. Black Swan

9. The Other Guys

10. Love & Other Drugs

Top 10 Films of 2009

1. Funny People

2. The Boat That Rocked

3. Zombieland

4. Inglourious Basterds

5. Thirst

6. Valhalla Rising

7. Up in the Air

8. Watchmen

9. Drag Me To Hell

10. The Hills Run Red

Top 10 Films of 2008

1. Doubt

2. Shine a Light

3. The Wrestler

4. Synecdoche, New York

5. The Black Balloon

6. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

7. Tropic Thunder

8. In Bruges

9. Black Water

10. The Midnight Meat Train

Top 10 Films of 2007

1. Assassination of Jesse James

2. Elizabeth: The Golden Age

3. Kurt Cobain: About a Son

4. [REC]

5. 30 Days of Night

6. American Gangster

7. The Savages

8. Death at a Funeral

9. Zodiac

10. There Will Be Blood

Top 10 Films of 2006

1. Stranger Than Fiction

2. Black Snake Moan

3. Déjà Vu

4. The Good Shepherd

5. Curse of the Golden Flower

6. Undisputed II: Last Man Standing

7. Apocalypto

8. Bubba Ho-Tep

9. Crank

10. Jesus Camp

Top 10 Films of 2005

1. War of the Worlds

2. Sin City

3. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

4. Walk the Line

5. V For Vendetta

6. The Descent

7. Jarhead

8. Brokeback Mountain

9. Good Night and Good Luck

10. Murderball

Top 10 Films of 2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2. Dreamship Surprise- Period 1

3. Kill Bill vol. 2

4. The Aviator

5. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

6. Million Dollar Baby

7. Troy

8. Open Water

9. Hotel Rwanda

10. Collateral

Top 10 Films of 2003

1. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

2. Kill Bill vol. 1

3. Love Actually

4. The Last Samurai

5. Identity

6. Capturing the Friedmans

7. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

8. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

9. A Mighty Wind

10. Mystic River

Top 10 Films of 2002

1. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2. Frailty

3. Minority Report

4. Panic Room

5. Signs

6. May

7. We Were Soldiers

8. One Hour Photo

9. About Schmidt

10. Gangs of New York

Top 10 Films of 2001

1. LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring

2. Black Hawk Down

3. Brotherhood of the Wolf

4. Memento

5. Donnie Darko

6. Monsters Inc. 

7. Sexy Beast

8. A Beautiful Mind

9. In the Bedroom

10. No Man's Land

Top 10 Films of 1999

1. Being John Malkovich

2. The Talented Mr. Ripley

3. The Matrix

4. Sleepy Hollow

5. Magnolia

6. The Blair Witch Project

7. Office Space

8. Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace

9. Bowfinger

10. Fight Club

Top 10 Films of 1998

1. Saving Private Ryan

2. Life is Beautiful 

3. Pleasantville

4. The Big Lebowski

5. Elizabeth

6. Enemy of the State

7. Primary Colours

8. Simon Birch

9. American History X

10. A Simple Plan

Top 10 Films of 1997

1. L.A. Confidential

2. The Rainmaker

3. The Ice Storm

4. Starship Troopers

5. Con Air

6. Rosewood

7. Deconstructing Harry

8. Drive

9. Tomorrow Never Dies

10. Alien Resurrection

Top 10 Films of 1996

1. Sling Blade

2. Shine

3. Mars Attacks!

4. Bound

5. Star Trek First Contact

6. Beautiful Girls

7. Scream

8. Dragonheart

9. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

10. Freeway

Top 10 Films of 1995

1. Braveheart

2. The Usual Suspects

3. Se7en

4. Heat

5. Get Shorty

6. Leaving Las Vegas

7. Outbreak

8. Higher Learning

9. The American President

10. Copycat

Top 10 Films of 1994

1. Forrest Gump

2. The Crow

3. True Lies

4. Four Weddings and a Funeral

5. Muriel's Wedding

6. Ed Wood

7. Maverick

8. The Mask

9. Stargate

10. Crumb

Top 10 Films of 1993

1. Groundhog Day

2. In the Line of Fire

3. The Fugitive

4. Tombstone

5. So, I Married an Axe Murderer

6. Demolition Man

7. Philadelphia

8. My Life

9. Schindler's List

10. The Three Musketeers

Top 10 Films of 1992

1. A Few Good Men

2. Last of the Mohicans

3. Malcolm X

4. Under Siege

5. Muppet Christmas Carol

6. Naked Killer

7. Sneakers

8. Dust Devil

9. Alien 3

10. Chaplin

Top 10 Films of 1991

1. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

2. L.A. Story

3. Point Break

4. Boyz N The Hood

5. Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

6. JFK

7. Silence of the Lambs

8. Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

9. What About Bob?

10. New Jack City

Top 10 Films of 1990

1. Goodfellas

2. Awakenings

3. Misery

4. Hard to Kill

5. State of Grace

6. Wrong Bet (Lionheart)

7. Ghost

8. Nightbreed

9. Darkman

10. White Hunter, Black Heart

Top 10 Films of 1989

1. When Harry Met Sally...

2. Parenthood

3. Born on the 4th of July

4. Batman

5. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

6. Sea of Love

7. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

8. The Dream Team

9. Jacknife

10. Blind Fury

Top 10 Films of 1988

1. Child's Play

2. Die Hard

3. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

4. Rain Man

5. Big

6. The Naked Gun

7. Coming to America

8. Gorillas in the Mist

9. Mississippi Burning

10. Beetlejuice

Top 10 Films of 1987

1. The Untouchables

2. Lethal Weapon

3. Good Morning Vietnam

4. Spaceballs

5. Predator

6. The Running Man

7. Robocop

8. Roxanne

9. La Bamba

10. Near Dark

Top 10 Films of 1986

1. Stand By Me

2. Big Trouble in Little China

3. Platoon

4. Aliens

5. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

6. Lucas

7. Three Amigos!

8. The Hitcher

9. The River's Edge

10. The Fly

Top 10 Films of 1985

1. The Goonies

2. The Breakfast Club

3. Commando

4. Ladyhawke

5. Spies Like Us

6. Mask

7. Fletch

8. Back to the Future

9. Re-Animator

10. Weird Science

Top 10 Films of 1984

1. The Terminator

2. The NeverEnding Story

3. Ghostbusters

4. The Karate Kid

5. Beverly Hills Cop

6. Gremlins

7. Streets of Fire

8. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

9. The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter

10. Places in the Heart

Top 10 Films of 1983

1. Return of the Jedi

2. National Lampoon's Vacation

3. Trading Places

4. Monty Python's Meaning of Life

5. The Evil Dead

6. The Entity

7. The Outsiders

8. Cujo

9. The Dead Zone

10. Octopussy

Top 10 Films of 1982

1. ET: The Extra Terrestrial

2. Gandhi

3. Rocky III

4. The Last American Virgin

5. First Blood

6. The Beastmaster

7. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

8. Squizzy Taylor

9. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

10. Visiting Hours

Top 10 Films of 1981

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark

2. History of the World Part 1

3. Gallipoli

4. The Howling

5. Whose Life is it, Anyway?

6. Stripes

7. Mad Max II

8. Scanners

9. Roadgames

10. Time Bandits

Top 10 Films of 1979 

1. Mad Max

2. The China Syndrome

3. Escape From Alcatraz

4. The Last of the Knucklemen

6. The Muppet Movie

7. Time After Time

8. Kramer vs. Kramer

9. Breaker Morant

10. The Brood

Top 10 Films of 1978

1. Halloween

2. Superman

3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

4. Dawn of the Dead

5. The Deer Hunter

6. Coming Home

7. The Wild Geese

8. Drunken Master

9. Absolution

10. Foul Play/Blue Collar

Top 10 Films of 1976

1. The Omen

2. Rocky

3. Network

4. Robin and Marian

5. Voyage of the Damned

6. Taxi Driver

7. All the President's Men

8. Carrie

9. Murder By Death

10. Don's Party

Top 10 Films of 1975

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

2. Jaws

3. Dog Day Afternoon

4. Death Race 2000

5. One Armed Boxer vs. The Flying Guillotine

6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

7. Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold

8. Tommy

9. The Wilby Conspiracy

10. The Man From Hong Kong

Top 10 Films of 1974

1. Blazing Saddles

2. Chinatown

3. Young Frankenstein

4. The Godfather Part II

5. The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3

6. Black Christmas

7. Truck Turner

8. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot/Blood for Dracula

9. The Internecine Project

10. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Top 10 Films of 1973

1. The Sting

2. The Wicker Man

3. Serpico

4. Black Caesar

5. Theatre of Blood

6. Don't Look Now

7. Robin Hood

8. Coffy

9. The Last of Sheila

10. Cleopatra Jones

Top 10 Films of 1972

1. The Poseidon Adventure

2. The Godfather

3. Fist of Fury

4. Superfly

5. Blood From the Mummy's Tomb

6. Five Fingers of Death (King Boxer)

7. Blacula

8. Across 110th Street

9. Frenzy

10. Sleuth

Top 10 Films of 1971

1. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

2. Bedknobs and Broomsticks

3. Shaft

4. Play Misty For Me

5. Wake in Fright

6. Skin Game

7. Vampyros Lesbos

8. The Beguiled

9. The Devil's Nightmare

10. Silent Running

Top 10 Films of 1970 

1. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

2. Kelly's Heroes

3. Count Dracula

4. The Vampire Lovers

5. Entertaining Mr. Sloane

6. The Mind of Mr. Soames

7. And Soon the Darkness

8. Scars of Dracula

9. Taste the Blood of Dracula

10. The Red Circle

Top 10 Films of 1968                        

1. Planet of the Apes

2. Romeo and Juliet

3. Barbarella

4. Once Upon a Time in the West

5. Destroy All Monsters!

6. Night of the Living Dead

7. Rosemary's Baby

8. No Way to Treat a Lady

9. Firecreek

10. Golden Swallow

Top 10 Films of 1967                        

1. The Dirty Dozen

2. Cool Hand Luke

3. Bonnie and Clyde

4. In Cold Blood

5. The Deadly Affair

6. The President's Analyst

7. You Only Live Twice

8. In the Heat of the Night

9. King Kong Escapes

10. Danger Route

Top 10 Films of 1966                       

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

2. For a Few Dollars More

3. Flight of the Phoenix

4. Fantastic Voyage

5. Kill, Baby...Kill!

6. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

7. The Professionals

8. The Blue Max

9. Nevada Smith

10. The Wild Angels/Incubus

Top 10 Films of 1965           

1. Repulsion

2. Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte

3. A Patch of Blue

4. The Hill

5. The Cincinnati Kid

6. King Rat

7. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

8. Godzilla vs. Monster Zero

9. The Tomb of Ligeia

10. Mirage

Top 10 Films of 1964                             

1. The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao

2. At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

3. The Night of the Iguana

4. The Fall of the Roman Empire

5. Godzilla vs. The Thing (Mothra)

6. The Masque of the Red Death

7. The Comedy of Terrors

8. The Last Man on Earth

9. The Comedy Man

10. The Gorgon

Top 10 Films of 1963

1. The Great Escape

2. The Haunting

3. Hud

4. Black Sabbath

5. Jason and the Argonauts

6. Matango

7. From Russia With Love

8. The Whip and the Body

9. Charade

10. The Prize

Top 10 Films of 1962                   

1. Days of Wine and Roses

2. Dr. No

3. The Birdman of Alcatraz

4. How the West Was Won

5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

6. The Intruder

7. Lolita

8. Requiem for a Heavyweight

9. Cape Fear

10. To Kill a Mockingbird

Top 10 Films of 1961

1. The Misfits

2. El Cid

3. The Innocents

4. The Pit and the Pendulum

5. Black Sunday

6. Homicidal!

7. Cash on Demand

8. The Day the Earth Caught Fire

9. Judgement at Nuremberg

10. Yojimbo

Top 10 Films of 1960

1. The Magnificent Seven

2. The Apartment

3. Peeping Tom

4. The Little Shop of Horrors

5. The Entertainer

6. Elmer Gantry

7. Never Take Sweets From a Stranger

8. Fall of the House of Usher

9. Psycho

10. The Full Treatment

Top 10 Films of 1959

1. Some Like it Hot

2. A Bucket of Blood

3. Last Train From Gun Hill

4. The Diary of Anne Frank

5. Odds Against Tomorrow

6. The World, the Flesh and the Devil

7. Ten Seconds to Hell

8. Yesterday's Enemy

9. House on Haunted Hill

10. North By Northwest

Top 10 Films of 1958     

1. Vertigo

2. The Vikings

3. The Horror of Dracula

4. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

5. The Big Country

6. The Young Lions

7. The Defiant Ones

8. The Left-Handed Gun

9. A Tale of Two Cities/The Hidden Fortress

10. Revenge of Frankenstein

Top 10 Films of 1957

1. 12 Angry Men

2. Sweet Smell of Success

3. Edge of the City

4. Throne of Blood

5. The Incredible Shrinking Man

6. Gunfight at the OK Corral

7. Bridge on the River Kwai

8. 20 Million Miles to Earth

9. Night of the Demon

10. Fire Down Below

Top 10 Films of 1956

1. Bus Stop

2. The Harder They Fall

3. Lust for Life

4. The Ten Commandments

5. Three Violent People

6. X the Unknown

7. Jubal

8. The Last Hunt

9. The Killing

10. 23 Paces to Baker Street

Top 10 Films of 1955

1. Night of the Hunter

2. The Ladykillers

3. Bad Day at Black Rock

4. Marty

5. To Catch a Thief

6. The Big Combo

7. The Seven Year Itch

8. The Day the World Ended

9. Lady and the Tramp

10. The Virgin Queen

Top 10 Films of 1954

1. The Caine Mutiny

2. The Creature From the Black Lagoon

3. Gojira

4. Them!

5. Dial M for Murder

6. River of No Return

7. Suddenly

8. Hobson's Choice

9. The Seven Samurai

10. Broken Lance

Top 10 Films of 1953

1. From Here to Eternity

2. House of Wax

3. The Big Heat

4. Peter Pan

5. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

6. How to Marry a Millionaire

7. Julius Caesar

8. Niagara

9. Pickup on South Street

10. I Confess

Top 10 Films of 1952

1. My Cousin Rachel

2. The Bad and the Beautiful

3. Limelight

4. Clash By Night

5. The Lawless Breed

6. Bend of the River

7. The Greatest Show on Earth

8. Phone Call From a Stranger

9. The Prisoner of Zenda/Don't Bother to Knock

10. Venetian Bird

Top 10 Films of 1950

1. All About Eve

2. The Asphalt Jungle

3. Night and the City

4. Cinderella

5. Rashomon

6. So Long at the Fair

7. The Winslow Boy

8. The Happiest Days of Your Life

9. Winchester '73

10. Walk Softly, Stranger/Stage Fright