*Your Favorite Movies of EVERY Year*

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* = Best film of the decade

2011:
1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alfredson) *
2. Midnight in Paris (Allen)
3. Drive (Winding Refn)

2010:
1. The King’s Speech (Hooper)
2. Winter’s Bone (Granik)
3. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)


2009:
1. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
2. Where the Wild Things are (Jonze)
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Anderson)

2008:
1. The Wrestler (Aronofsky)
2. Milk (Van Sant)
3. Bronson (Winding Refn)

2007:
1. The Darjeeling Limited (Anderson)
2. No Country for Old Men (Coen)
3. [Rec] (Balagueró/Plaza)

2006:
1. Inland Empire (Lynch)
2. The Departed (Scorsese)
3. Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro)

2005:
1. Syriana (Gaghan)
2. Stoned (Woolley)
3. The Devil's Rejects (Zombie)

2004:
1. Four Shades of Brown (Alfredson)
2. Vera Drake (Leigh)
3. A Very Long Engagement (Jeunet)

2003:
1. Return of the King (Jackson)
2. Mystic River (Eastwood)
3. Kill Bill (Tarantino)

2002:
1. The Two Towers (Jackson)
2. City of God (Meirilles)
3. Scratch (Pray)

2001:
1. Mulholland Drive (Lynch) *
2. Amélie (Jeunet)
3. The Others (Amenábar)

2000:
1. High Fidelity (Frears)
2. Wonder Boys (Hanson)
3. Memento (Nolan)


1999:
1. Being John Malkovich (Jonze)
2. Fight Club (Fincher)
3. Topsy-Turvy (Leigh)

1998:
1. The Big Lebowski (Coen)
2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam)
3. Fucking Åmål / Show me Love (Moodysson)

1997:
1. Nil by Mouth (Oldman)
2. Lost Highway (Lynch)
3. Abre los Ojos (Amenábar)

1996:
1. Pusher (Winding Refn)
2. Trainspotting (Boyle)
2. Hard Eight (Anderson)

1995:
1. Se7en (Fincher)
2. The Usual Suspects (Singer)
3. Friday (Gray)

1994:
1. Naked (Leigh) *
2. Crumb (Zwigoff)
3. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)

1993:
1. Sonatine (Kitano)
2. Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
3. Raining Stones (Loach)

1992:
1. Man Bites Dog (Belvaux)
2. Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley)
3. Tetsuo 2: The Body Hammer (Tsukamoto)

1991:
1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Lynch)
2. JFK (Stone)
3. Slacker (Linklater)

1990:
1. Goodfellas (Scorsese)
2. Short Time (Champion)
3. Swordsman (Ching/Hu/Lee/Tsui)


1989:
1. Violent Cop (Kitano)
2. The Killer (Woo)
3. Christmas Vacation (Chechik)

1988:
1. The Vanishing (Sluizer)
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Zemeckis)
3. Phantasm 2 (Coscarelli)

1987:
1. Withnail & I (Robinson) *
2. Predator (McTiernan)
3. Prince of Darkness (Carpenter)

1986:
1. Aliens (Cameron)
2. Hannah and her Sisters (Allen)
3. A Better Tomorrow (Woo)

1985:
1. Shoah (Lanzmann)
2. Fletch (Ritchie)
3. The Falcon and the Snowman (Schlesinger)

1984:
1. Gremlins (Dante)
2. Blood Simple (Coen)
3. Repo Man (Cox)

1983:
1. Return of the Jedi (Marquand)
2. Zelig (Allen)
3. King of Comedy (Scorsese)

1982:
1. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
2. The Thing (Carpenter)
3. My Favorite Year (Benjamin)

1981:
1. Das Boot (Petersen)
2. Thief (Mann)
3. Where the Buffalo Roam (Linson)

1980:
1. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner)
2. Caddyshack (Ramis)
3. Grown-Ups (Leigh)


1979:
1. A Decent Life (Jarl)
2. Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
3. The Jerk (Reiner)

1978:
1. Dawn of the Dead (Romero)
2. Capricorn One (Hyams)
3. Up in Smoke (Adler)

1977:
1. Star Wars (Lucas)
2. Eraserhead (Lynch)
3. Suspiria (Argento)

1976:
1. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
2. Man on the Roof (Widerberg)
3. Master of the Flying Guillotine (Wang)

1975:
1. Jaws (Spielberg)
2. Hustle (Aldrich)
3. The Man who Would be King (Huston)

1974:
1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Hooper)
2. The Conversation (Coppola)
3. The Parallax View (Pakula)

1973:
1. The Wicker Man (Hardy) *
2. The Long Goodbye (Altman)
3. Mean Streets (Scorsese)

1972:
1. The Godfather (Coppola)
2. Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (Misumi)
3. The Last House on the Left (Craven)

1971:
1. Harold and Maude (Ashby)
2. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
3. Duel (Spielberg)

1970:
1. Performance (Roeg/Cammell)
2. Gimme Shelter (Maysles/Zwerin)
3. Scream and Scream Again (Hessler)


1969:
1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill)
2. The Italian Job (Collinson)
3. Le Boucher (Chabrol)

1968:
1. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)
2. Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski)
3. Where Eagles Dare (Hutton)

1967:
1. The Devil Rides Out (Fisher)
2. Cool Hand Luke (Rosenberg)
3. Le Samourai (Melville)

1966:
1. Persona (Bergman)
2. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Leone)
3. Plague of the Zombies (Gilling)

1965:
1. Repulsion (Polanski)
2. Pierrot le Fou (Godard)
3. Rasputin – The Mad Monk (Sharp)

1964:
1. Seven Days in May (Frankenheimer)
2. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
3. A Hard Day’s Night (Lester)

1963:
1. Kvarteret Korpen (Widerberg)
2. Shock Corridor (Fuller)
3. The Great Escape (Sturges)

1962:
1. Carnival of Souls (Harvey)
2. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
3. The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer)

1961:
1. One Eyed Jacks (Brando)
2. The Guns of Navarone (Thompson)
3. The Innocents (Clayton)

1960:
1. The Apartment (Wilder) *
2. School for Scoundrels (Hamer)
3. Peeping Tom (Powell)


1959:
1. Á Bout de Souffle (Godard)
2. Rio Bravo (Hawks)
3. Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger)

1958:
1. The Fly (Neumann)
2. Touch of Evil (Welles)
3. Horror of Dracula (Fisher)

1957:
1. 12 Angry Men (Lumet)
2. Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
3. Night of the Demon (Tourneur)

1956:
1. A Man Escaped (Bresson)
2. The Killing (Kubrick)
3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel)

1955:
1. Rififi (Dassin)
2. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
3. Kiss me Deadly (Aldrich)

1954:
1. Rear Window (Hitchcock) *
2. On the Waterfront (Kazan)
3. Les Diaboliques (Clouzot)

1953:
1. Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
2. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
3. The Big Heat (Lang)

1952:
1. The Quiet Man (Ford)
2. High Noon (Zinnemann)
3. Singin’ in the Rain (Donnen/Kelly)

1951:
1. Ace in the Hole (Wilder)
2. The Lavender Hill Mob (Crichton)
3. Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock)

1950:
1. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder)
2. Harvey (Koster)
3. The Asphalt Jungle (Huston)


1949:
Whiskey Galore! (Mackendrick)

1948:
Rope (Hitchcock)

1947:
Out of the Past (Tourneur)

1946:
A Matter Of Life And Death (Powell)

1945:
The Lost Weekend (Wilder)

1944:
Double Indemnity (Wilder)

1943:
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell) *

1942:
Casablanca (Curtiz)

1941:
The Maltese Falcon (Huston)

1940:
Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock)


1939:
Stagecoach (Ford)

1938:
The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock)

1937:
La Grande Illusion (Renoir)

1936:
Modern Times (Chaplin)

1935:
Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)

1934:
The Thin Man (Van Dyke)

1933:
Duck Soup (McCarey)

1932:
Freaks (Browning)

1931:
M (Lang) *

1930:
Little Caesar (LeRoy)