Top movies by Year
by Koning-Aap | created - 29 Mar 2014 | updated - 09 Dec 2017 | PublicRanked
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1. Good Time (2017)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Buddy Duress
Votes: 139,979 | Gross: $2.03M
2. Arrival (II) (2016)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 768,330 | Gross: $100.55M
2016 1. Arrival 2. 20th Century Women 3. Moonlight 4. American Honey 5. Paterson 6. Hail, Caesar! 7. The Neon Demon 8. Tower 9. La La Land 10. Kubo and the Two Strings
3. The Lobster (2015)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman
Votes: 294,897 | Gross: $8.70M
2015 1. The Lobster 2. The Big Short 3. Spotlight 4. Anomalisa 5. Inside Out 6. The Martian 7. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 665,812 | Gross: $42.34M
2014 1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2. Gone Girl 3. Whiplash 4. Boyhood 5. The Dark Horse 6. Ex Machina 7. The Grand Budapest Hotel 8. Interstellar 9. Nightcrawler 10. The Imitation Game
5. Her (2013)
R | 126 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.
Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara
Votes: 668,210 | Gross: $25.57M
2013 1. Her 2. Before Midnight 3. Under the Skin 4. The Double 5. Computer Chess 6. Nebraska 7. La grande bellezza 8. Stoker 9. The Wind Rises 10. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
PG-13 | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.
Director: Benh Zeitlin | Stars: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes
Votes: 85,025 | Gross: $12.80M
2012 1. Beasts of the Southern Wild 2. Looper 3. Amour 4. Safety Not Guaranteed 5. Moonrise Kingdom 6. Frances Ha 7. The Master 8. Life of Pi 9. Mud 10. Holy Motors
7. A Separation (2011)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini
Votes: 258,196 | Gross: $7.10M
2011 1. A Separation 2. We Need to Talk About Kevin 3. Take Shelter 4. Drive 5. The Artist 6. Midnight in Paris 7. Moneyball 8. Carnage 9. Shame 10. The Descendants
8. Black Swan (2010)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
Votes: 823,068 | Gross: $106.95M
2010 1. Black Swan 2. Inception 3. Somewhere 4. The King's Speech 5. Winter's Bone 6. The American 7. Toy Story 3 8. Certified Copy 9. The Social Network 10. The Kids Are All Right
9. Moon (2009)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw
Votes: 376,271 | Gross: $5.01M
2009 1. Moon 2. Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte 3. Fantastic Mr. Fox 4. Inglourious Basterds 5. Up 6. Un prophète 7. Fish Tank 8. Black Dynamite 9. Coraline 10. The Hurt Locker
10. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
R | 124 min | Drama
A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Director: Charlie Kaufman | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener
Votes: 98,074 | Gross: $3.08M
2008 1. Synecdoche, New York 2. The Wrestler 3. Still Walking 4. The Dark Knight 5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 6. In Bruges 7. Hunger 8. WALL·E 9. Låt den rätte komma in 10. Burn After Reading
11. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
R | 160 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.
Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 192,594 | Gross: $3.90M
12. The Lives of Others (2006)
R | 137 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 409,512 | Gross: $11.29M
2006 1. Das Leben der Anderen 2. The Fountain 3. El laberinto del fauno 4. The Fall 5. The Departed 6. The Prestige 7. Children of Men 8. Littile Miss Sunshine
13. Broken Flowers (2005)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in search of answers.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Julie Delpy
Votes: 106,708 | Gross: $13.74M
2005 1. Broken Flowers 2. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 3. Adams æbler 4. Brick 5. The Squid and the Whale 6. Hard Candy 7. Good Night, and Good Luck. 8. Thank You for Smoking 9. A History of Violence 9. Batman Begins 10. Pride & Prejudice
14. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
R | 137 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah
Votes: 803,487 | Gross: $66.21M
2004 1. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 3. Before Sunset 4. Million Dollar Baby 5. Sideways 6. The Machinist 7. Shaun of the Dead 8. Garden State 9. The Incredibles
15. Lost in Translation (2003)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Votes: 487,537 | Gross: $44.59M
2003 1. Lost in Translation 2. Oldboy 3. Mystic River 4. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 5. 21 Grams 6. Finding Nemo 7. Big Fish
16. Adaptation. (2002)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton
Votes: 202,799 | Gross: $22.25M
2002 1. Adaptation. 2. Hero 3. Cidade de Deus 4. Punch-Drunk Love 5. Hable con ella 6. The Pianist 7. One Hour Photo
17. Mulholland Drive (2001)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates
Votes: 383,136 | Gross: $7.22M
18. Memento (2000)
R | 113 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Votes: 1,320,726 | Gross: $25.54M
2000 1. Memento 2. Requiem for a Dream 3. O Brother, Where Art Thou? 4. Battle Royale 5. Traffic
19. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Stars: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffin
Votes: 284,786 | Gross: $140.54M
1999 1. The Blair Witch Project 2. Magnolia 3. American Beauty 4. The Virgin Suicides 5. Being John Malkovich 6. The Matrix 7. Toy Story 2 8. Fight Club 9. Office Space 10. Man on the Moon
20. Dark City (1998)
R | 100 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt
Votes: 211,963 | Gross: $14.38M
1998 1. Dark City 2. The Big Lebowski 3. Pi 4. Rushmore 5. The Thin Red Line 6. Festen 7. Saving Private Ryan 8. American History X 9. Lola Rennt 10. The Truman Show
21. Funny Games (1997)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering
Votes: 83,839
1997 1. Funny Games 2. The Game 3. Boogie Nights 4. Cube 5. L.A. Confidential 6. Jackie Brown 7. Gattaca 8. Chasing Amy
22. Trainspotting (1996)
R | 93 min | Drama
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Votes: 724,587 | Gross: $16.50M
1996 1. Trainspotting 2. Fargo 3. The People vs. Larry Flynt 4. Mars Attacks! 5. The Cable Guy
23. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance
Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis
Votes: 134,393 | Gross: $32.03M
1995 1. Leaving Las Vegas 2. Se7en 3. La haine 4. Toy Story 5. Before Sunrise 6. 12 Monkeys
24. Chungking Express (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong
Votes: 95,462 | Gross: $0.60M
1994 1. Chungking Express 2. Quiz Show 3. Pulp Fiction 4. Léon 5. Natural Born Killers 6. Trois couleurs: Rouge 7. Heavenly Creatures 8. Crumb 9. Satantango 10. The Shawshank Redemption
25. Schindler's List (1993)
R | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Votes: 1,447,567 | Gross: $96.90M
1993 1. Schindler's List 2. Groundhog Day 3. Dazed and Confused 4. True Romance 5. Jurassic Park
26. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
R | 99 min | Crime, Thriller
When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn
Votes: 1,086,058 | Gross: $2.83M
1992 1. Reservoir Dogs 2. Unforgiven 3. Glengarry Glen Ross 4. Man Bites Dog
27. The Double Life of Véronique (1991)
R | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jedrusik
Votes: 52,864 | Gross: $2.00M
28. Miller's Crossing (1990)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tom Reagan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro, Marcia Gay Harden
Votes: 141,948 | Gross: $5.08M
1990 1. Miller's Crossing 2. Goodfellas 3. Close-Up 4. Jacob's Ladder
29. When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby
Votes: 242,165 | Gross: $92.82M
1989 1. When Harry Met Sally... 2. Mystery Train
30. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Not Rated | 89 min | Animation, Drama, War
A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
Director: Isao Takahata | Stars: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Shinohara
Votes: 309,436
31. Wings of Desire (1987)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois
Votes: 76,789 | Gross: $3.33M
1987 1. Der Himmel über Berlin 2. Au revoir les enfants 3. Withnail & I 4. The Princess Bride 5. Full Metal Jacket
32. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey
Votes: 76,686 | Gross: $40.08M
1986 1. Hannah and Her Sisters 2. Der Name der Rose 3. Aliens 4. Jean de Florette & Manon des sources 5. Platoon
33. After Hours (I) (1985)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong
Votes: 80,935 | Gross: $10.60M
1985 1. After Hours 2. Brazil 3. The Breakfast Club
34. Amadeus (1984)
R | 160 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice
Votes: 427,053 | Gross: $51.97M
1984 1. Amadeus 2. Once Upon a Time in America 3. Blood Simple. 4. Stranger Than Paradise 5. Repo Man
35. Videodrome (1983)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky
Votes: 102,758 | Gross: $2.12M
1983 1. Videodrome 2. WarGames 3. Scarface 4. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi 5. The Dead Zone
36. Blade Runner (1982)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 821,762 | Gross: $32.87M
1982 1. Blade Runner (Final Cut) 2. The Thing 3. The King of Comedy 4. Gandhi 5. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
37. Blow Out (1981)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz
Votes: 62,968 | Gross: $13.75M
1981 1. Blow Out 2. Das Boot 3. Possession 4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
38. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,104,248 | Gross: $44.02M
1980 1. The Shining 2. Raging Bull 3. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 4. Airplane!
39. Apocalypse Now (1979)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 708,837 | Gross: $83.47M
1979 1. Apocalypse Now & Hearts of Darkness 2. Stalker 3. Alien 4. Manhattan 5. Escape from Alcatraz
40. Days of Heaven (1978)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance
A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz
Votes: 62,621
1978 1. Days of Heaven 2. The Deer Hunter
41. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
PG | 138 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon
Votes: 216,499 | Gross: $132.09M
1977 1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 2. Annie Hall 3. Star Wars
42. Network (1976)
R | 121 min | Drama
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall
Votes: 170,311
1976 1. Network 2. Taxi Driver 3. All the President's Men 4. The Man Who Fell to Earth 5. The Shootist
43. Barry Lyndon (1975)
PG | 185 min | Adventure, Drama, War