Best Films by Year

By: Erik Gregers​en

Not in the database:

Pack Train at Chilkoot Pass (Anonymous, 1898)
Fun in camp (James White, 1899)
The mob outside the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition (Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1901)
Bold Bank Robbery (Lubin, 1904)
San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake (Anon., 1906)
The roller skate craze (Selig, 1907)
Alias Jimmy Valentine (Maurice Tourneur, 1915)
The Narrow Trail (Lambert Hillyer and William S. Hart, 1917)
Line Describing a Cone (Anthony McCall, 1973)

• 01
  Carmencita
  William K.L. Dickson
• 02
  Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory
  Louis Lumière
• 03
  Snowball Fight
  Louis Lumière
• 04
  Danse serpentine
  Auguste Lumière
• 05
  Panorama of the Moving Boardwalk
  Thomas A. Edison
• 06
  Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants
  Georges Méliès
• 07
  The Great Train Robbery
  Edwin S. Porter
• 08
  The Kleptomaniac
  Edwin S. Porter
• 09
  Fantasmagorie
  Émile Cohl
• 10
  The Country Doctor
  D.W. Griffith
• 11
  In the Border States
  D.W. Griffith
• 12
  Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics
  Winsor McCay
• 13
  The New York Hat
  D.W. Griffith
• 14
  Twilight of a Woman's Soul
  Yevgeni Bauer
• 15
  The Bargain
  Reginald Barker
• 16
  Judex
  Louis Feuillade
• 17
  The Sinking of the Lusitania
  Winsor McCay
• 18
  Broken Blossoms
  D.W. Griffith
• 19
  Erotikon
  Mauritz Stiller
• 20
  Never Weaken
  Fred C. Newmeyer
• 21
  Foolish Wives
  Erich von Stroheim
• 22
  Safety Last!
  Fred C. Newmeyer
• 23
  Sherlock Jr.
  Buster Keaton
• 24
  Greed
  Erich von Stroheim
• 25
  Faust
  F.W. Murnau
• 26
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 27
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 28
  Man with a movie camera
  Dziga Vertov
• 29
  Miss Europe
  Augusto Genina
• 30
  Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
  F.W. Murnau
• 31
  Vampyr
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 32
  Counsellor at Law
  William Wyler
• 33
  A Story of Floating Weeds
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 34
  Wife! Be Like a Rose!
  Mikio Naruse
• 35
  Things to Come
  William Cameron Menzies
• 36
  Grand Illusion
  Jean Renoir
• 37
  The Adventures of Robin Hood
  Michael Curtiz
• 38
  Destry Rides Again
  George Marshall
• 39
  The Great Dictator
  Charlie Chaplin
• 40
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 41
  Sullivan's Travels
  Preston Sturges
• 42
  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  Michael Powell
• 43
  At Land
  Maya Deren
• 44
  I Know Where I'm Going!
  Michael Powell
• 45
  A Matter of Life and Death
  Michael Powell
• 46
  Black Narcissus
  Michael Powell
• 47
  Macbeth
  Orson Welles
• 48
  The Third Man
  Carol Reed
• 49
  The Flowers of St. Francis
  Roberto Rossellini
• 50
  Awaara
  Raj Kapoor
• 51
  Ikiru
  Akira Kurosawa
• 52
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 53
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 54
  The Phenix City Story
  Phil Karlson
• 55
  Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  Don Siegel
• 56
  The Cranes Are Flying
  Mikhail Kalatozov
• 57
  Vertigo
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 58
  North by Northwest
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 59
  La dolce vita
  Federico Fellini
• 60
  Lola
  Jacques Demy
• 61
  Lawrence of Arabia
  David Lean
• 62
  The Trial
  Orson Welles
• 63
  Gertrud
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 64
  The Saragossa Manuscript
  Wojciech Has
• 65
  It Happened Here
  Kevin Brownlow
• 66
  Branded to Kill
  Seijun Suzuki
• 67
  The Color of Pomegranates
  Sergei Parajanov
• 68
  Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 69
  The Man Who Left His Will on Film
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 70
  Two-Lane Blacktop
  Monte Hellman
• 71
  Solaris
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 72
  Zardoz
  John Boorman
• 73
  F for Fake
  Orson Welles
• 74
  Fellini's Casanova
  Federico Fellini
• 75
  Providence
  Alain Resnais
• 76
  Filming 'Othello'
  Orson Welles
• 77
  Stalker
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 78
  Death Watch
  Bertrand Tavernier
• 79
  Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
  George Miller
• 80
  Blade Runner
  Ridley Scott
• 81
  Pauline at the Beach
  Éric Rohmer
• 82
  Shanghai Blues
  Tsui Hark
• 83
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 84
  Castle in the Sky
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 85
  Full Metal Jacket
  Stanley Kubrick
• 86
  The Decalogue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 87
  My Twentieth Century
  Ildikó Enyedi
• 88
  Frankenstein Unbound
  Roger Corman
• 89
  The Double Life of Véronique
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 90
  Malcolm X
  Spike Lee
• 91
  Three Colors: Blue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 92
  Heavenly Creatures
  Peter Jackson
• 93
  Before Sunrise
  Richard Linklater
• 94
  Hamlet
  Kenneth Branagh
• 95
  Kundun
  Martin Scorsese
• 96
  Flowers of Shanghai
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 97
  Eyes Wide Shut
  Stanley Kubrick
• 98
  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  Ang Lee
• 99
  Pistol Opera
  Seijun Suzuki
• 100
  24 Hour Party People
  Michael Winterbottom
• 101
  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  Peter Weir
• 102
  2046
  Wong Kar-wai
• 103
  The New World
  Terrence Malick
• 104
  The Prestige
  Christopher Nolan
• 105
  My Winnipeg
  Guy Maddin
• 106
  Summer Hours
  Olivier Assayas
• 107
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 108
  Inception
  Christopher Nolan
• 109
  The Tree of Life
  Terrence Malick