Below are our best films ever made 'top ten' list - year by year!
2019
PARASITE
Honey Land
Joker
For Sama
Marriage Story
Uncut Gems
Bait
The Irishman
Sorry We Missed You
Can You Ever Forgive Me
2018
Climax
I, Tonya
Hereditary
A Fantastic Woman
Avenger: Infinity War
Vice
You Were Never Really Here
Leave No Trace
Roma
The Favourite
2017
Good Time
Elle
The Florida Project
Manchester by the Sea
Certain Women
T2 Trainspotting
20th Century Women
Silence
Toni Erdmann
Thor: Ragnarok
2016
American Honey
The Hateful Eight
Room
Sing Street
Tale of Tales
Hell or High Water
I, Daniel Blake
Nocternal Animals
Rogue One
High Rise
2015
Force Majeure
Mad Max: Fury Road
Wild Tales
Lady In the Van
Amy
Whiplash
Brooklyn
Foxcatcher
Ex Machina
It Follows
2014
Boyhood
Two Days, One Night
Mr Turner
Nightcrawler
Jimmy's Hall
Under the Skin
All is Lost
12 Years a Slave
Inside Llewyn Davis
Locke
2013
The Selfish Giant
Nebraska
Rush
Philomena
Behind the Candelabra
The World's End
The Way Way Back
The Great Beauty
Filth
Captain Philips
2012
Kid with a Bike
Untouchable
Amour
Rust and Bone
Killing Them Softly
The Artist
Wild Bill
Untouchable
Killer Joe
Marley
2011
Snowtown
The Rum Diary
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Tyranasaraous
Bridesmaids
The Way Back
127 Days
True Grit
Animal Kingdom
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2010
The Fighter
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Four Lions
Gainsbourgh
Another Year
The Kids are Alright
Inception
Robin Hood
Scott Pilgrim Vs the World
The Social Network
2009
The White Ribbon
Moon
Fish Tank
The Firm
An Education
Enter the Void
A Serious Man
A Prophet
The Damned United
Gran Torino
2008
Gomorrah
The Dark Knight
Hunger
In Bruges
Happy Go Lucky
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
The Class
Milk
Man on Wire
2007
There Will Be Blood
Shotgun Stories
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Inland Empires
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Counterfeiters
Boy A
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
Once
2006
This is England
London to Brighton
V for Vendetta
The Lives of Others
The Squid and the Whale
Volver
Rocky Balboa
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
The Prestige
The Departed
2005
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Grizzly Man
The Proposition
Control
Keane
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
A History of Violence
Old Boy
Hustle and Flow
Team America
2004
Sideways
Dead Man's Shoes
Before Sunset
Downfall
Vera Drake
End of the Centuary
Bad Education
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Collateral
Good Bye Lenin
2003
The Return
Sweet Sixsteen
Bus 174
The Station Agent
28 Days Later
Lilya 4-Ever
Master and Commander
Dirty Pretty Things
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
Lost in La Mancha
2002
City of God
Last Orders
Irreversible
Read My Lips
Talk To Her
Russian Ark
Punch Drunk Love
Spider
The Man Without a Past
All or Nothing
2001
Amores Perros
Together
The Dish
Ghost World
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
Gosford Park
Mulholland Drive
The Man Who Wasn't There
Buffalo Soldiers
2000
Chopper
Memento
Croupier
Sexy Beast
Gladiator
Requiem for a Dream
In the Mood for Love
American Psycho
Dancer in the Dark
Code Unknown
1999
American Beauty
The Straight Story
Rat Catcher
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
A Room For Romeo Brass
The War Zone
Human Traffic
Eyes Wide Shut
Topsy-Turvy
Bringing Out the Dead
1998
Festen
Ringu
My Name is Joe
I Stand Alone
Taxi
Buffalo 66
PI
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Trueman Show
Little Voice
1997
The Full Monty
Nil by Mouth
Boogie Nights
24:7
Funny Games
Career Girls
Lost Highway
Insomnia
Gattaca
LA Confidential
1996
Trainspotting
Secrets and Lies
L'Appartment
I Shot Andy Warhol
Fargo
Small Faces
Shine
The Crucible
Hamlet
Basquiat
1995
La Haine
Before Sunrise
Casino
Land and Freedom
Dead Man
12 Monkeys
The Madness of King George
Kids
Richard III
Leaving Las Vegas
1994
The Shawshank Redemption
3 Colours Red
The Adventures of Precilla Queen of the Desert
Pulp Fiction
Shallow Grave
Ed Wood
Heavenly Creatures
Killing Zoe
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Clerks
1993
Raining Stones
A Bronx Tale
Menace 2 Society
3 Colours Blue
Naked
The Piano
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Schindler's List
Sonatine
Groundhog Day
1992
Reservoir Dogs
Glengarry Glen Ross
Romper Stomper
The Crying Game
Waynes World
Unforgiven
Man Bites Dog
Bad Lieutenant
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Chaplin
1991
The Commitments
Riff Raff
Europa
The Fisher King
Barton Fink
Let Him Have It
Boyz N the Hood
Cape Fear
Rambling Rose
Thelma and Louise
1990
Goodfellas
Life is Sweet
The Match Factory Girl
The Krays
Miller's Crossing
Awakenings
Wild at Heart
The Witches
Dances With Wolves
Misery
1989
Do the Right Thing
Durgstore Cowboy
Dead Poet's Society
The Dekalog
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and Her Lover
Born on the First of July
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Henry V
The Firm
My Left Foot
1988
A Short Film About Killing
Cinema Paradiso
High Hopes
They Live
A Fish Called Wanda
Rain Man
Akira
Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The Last Temptation of Christ
Willow
1987
Empire of the Sun
Hope and Glory
Wish you Were Here
Full Metal Jacket
Prick Up Your Ears
Wings of Desire
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Raising Arizon
The Last Emperor
Radio Days
1986
Withnail and I
Blue Velvet
Platoon
Down by Law
Mona Lisa
Pretty In Pink
The Colour of Money
Henry: Portrate of a Serial Killer
Sid and Nancy
Stand By Me
1985
Come and See
The Breakfast Club
Ran
Legend
My Life as a Dog
Brazil
My Beautiful Landrette
The Colour Purple
Back to the Future
Day of the Dead
1984
Once Upon a Time in America
Meantime
Dune
Nineteen Eigthy Four
Amadeus
Blood Simple
This is Spinal Tap
Paris, Texas
The Company of Wolves
The Terminator
1983
Trading Places
The Outsiders
Local Hero
Zelig
Educating Rita
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Scarface
Videodrome
A Christmas Story
National Lampoons Vacation
1982
Fitzcarraldo
Made in Britain
Blade Runner
The King of Comedy
The Thing
Gandi
Britannia Hospital
The Draughtsman's Contract
Tron
Pink Floyd: The Wall
1981
Time Bandits
Das Boot
Gregory's Girl
Excalibur
Looks and Smiles
An American Wearwolf in London
Gallipoli
Raiders of the Lost Arc
The Missionary
Clash of the Titans
1980
The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
The Shinning
Babylon
Airplane
The Empire Strikes Back
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Long Good Friday
The Gamekeeper
Cannibal Holocaust
1979
Mad Max
Scum
Life of Brian
Vengeance is Mine
Quadrophenia
Apocalypse Now
Being There
The Warriors
Caligula
Manhatten
1978
Watership Down
Straight Time
The Deer Hunter
Halloween
The Lord of the Rings
Coming Home
Midnight Express
Dawn of the Dead
La Cage Aux Folles
Autmn Sonata
1977
A Special Day
Annie Hall
The Dualists
Jabberwocky
Suspiria
Eraserhead
Saturday Night Fever
The Ascent
Star Wars: A New Hope
Father and Mother
1976
Rocky
Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Bugsy Malone
The Omen
The Man Who Fell to Earth
1900
Taxi Driver
Network
Logan's Run
Marathon Man
1975
Barry Lyndon
Holy Grail
Salo, Or the 100 Day s of Sodom
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dog Day Afternoon
Love and Death
Nashville
Night Moves
Tommy
A Boy and His Dog
1974
China Town
The Enigma of Kaspar Huaser
A Woman Under the Influence
The Godfather: Part Two
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Blazing Sadles
Lenny
Lacombe, Lucien
The Man With the Golden Gun
Badlands
1973
Mean Streets
Don't Look Now
That'll Be the DAy
O Lucky Man
Amarcord
Fantastic Planet
The Sting
Serpico
West World
The Wicker Man
1972
The Godfather
Frenzy
Solaris
Roma
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Deliverance
Cries and Whispers
Play it Again Sam
The Ruling Class
Super Fly
1971
A Clockwork Orange
Bleak Moments
Ten Rillington Place
Panic in Needle Park
THX 1138
Two Lane Blacktop
The Devils
Get Carter
Walkabouts
The French Connection
1970
Catch 22
Performance
Cromwell
El Topo
Even Dwarves Started Small
Le Cercle Rouge
Patton
Gimme Shelter
Zabriskie Point
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
The Conformist
1969
Kes
Once Upon a Time in the West
Easy Rider
The Wild Bunch
Butch Casady and the Sundance Kid
The Italian Job
Topaz
True Grit
The Battle of Britain
The Midnight Cowboy
1968
2001: A Space Odyssey
Oliver!
Rosemary's Baby
Up the Junction
The Witchfinder General
If...
Bullitt
Yellow Submarine
Hang Em High
The Thomas Crown Affair
1967
Two for the Road
Bonnie and Clyde
In Cold Blood
Cool Hand Luke
Bedazzled
Smashing Time
Far From the Madding Crowd
The Producers
The Graduate
Don't Look Back
1966
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Battle of Algiers
Blow Up
Persona
A Man for all Seasons
Fahrenheit 451
Fantastic Voyage
Torn Curtain
Andrei Rublev
Alfie
1965
The Hill
Repulsion
Alphaville
Pierrot Le Fou
Help!
Dr. Zhivago
The Collector
Othello
Darling
The Knack....and How to Get It
1964
Zorba the Greek
A Hard Day's Night
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Gold Finger
Carry on Cleo
Marnie
Bande a Part
The Train
Mary Poppins
1963
8 ½
Le Mepris
The Servant
Billy Liar
This Sporting Life
The Great Escape
The Birds
Cleopatra
Jason and the Argonauts
Tom Jones
1962
Lawrence of Arabia
Jules and Jim
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
La Jetee
A Kind of Loving
Lolita
Cape Fear
Lonliness of the Long Distant Runner
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cleo from 5 to 7
1961
The Hustler
Divorce Italian Style
Une Femme est Une Femme
Through a Glass Darkly
Yojimbo
Victim
Lola
A Taste of Honey
The Innocents
West Side Story
1960
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Breathless
Psycho
Le Dolce Vita
Peeping Tom
The Virgin Spring
Spartacus
The Time Machine
Shoot the Piano Player
The Apartment
1959
The 400 Blows
North By Northwest
Look Back in Anger
I'm Alright Jack
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Pickpocket
Black Orpheus
Ben-Hur
Rio Bravo
Anatomy of a Murder
1958
Vertigo
Ice Cold in Alex
The Old Man and the Sea
The Hidden Fortress
Mon Oncle
Room at the Top
Touch of Evil
The Fly
Dracula
The Defiant Ones
1957
The Seventh Seal
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Curse of Frankstein
Hell Drivers
Paths of Glory
3:10 to Yuma
12 Angry Men
Throne of Blood
Wild Strawberries
Nights of Cabiria
1956
The Searchers
Bob Le Flambeur
The Ten Commandments
Giant
The Killing
Forbidden Planet
Il Tetto
The Red Balloon
Gervaise
Around the World in Eighty Days
1955
Night of the Hunter
The Man with the Golden Arm
East of Eden
The Lady Killers
The Dam Busters
Richard III
Rififi
Night and Fog
Rebel Without a Cause
Smiles of a Summer Night
1954
On the Waterfront
Dial M for Murder
Read Window
A Kid for Two Farthings
Animal Farm
Sansho the Bailiff
Journey to Italy
La Strada
Seven Samurai
The Cain Mutiny
1953
Wages of Fear
The Titfield Thunderbolt
Tokyo Story
Stalag 17
I Vitelloni
Summer With Monika
Strangers on a Train
War of the Worlds
Roman Holiday
Shane
1952
Singing in the Rain
Umberto D
The Quiet Man
The Cruel Sea
Ikiru
Singing in the Rain
The Bad and Beautiful
The Importance of Being Earnest
Othello
Forbidden Games
1951
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Man in the White Suit
Strangers on a Train
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Lavender Hill Mob
The African Queen
Miracle in Milan
A Christmas Carol
Ace in the Hole
An American in Paris
1950
Rashomon
Night and the City
Orpheus
Les Enfants Terribles
Sunset Boulevard
The Asphalt Jungle
Harvey
The Young and the Damned
Rio Grande
Stromboli
1949
Kind Hearts and Coronets
White Heat
Champion
Late Spring
Passport to Pimlico
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
On the Town
Whiskey Galore!
All the King's Men
The Third Man
1948
The Bicycle Thief
The Red Shoes
Oliver Twist
The Tresure of Sierra Medre
Red River
Hamlet
The Fallen Idol
Le Terra Trema
Key Largo
The Naked City
1947
Germany Year Zero
Black Narcissus
Nicholas Nickleby
Hue and Cry
The Lady from Shanghai
Odd Man Out
Blackmail
Miracle on 34th Street
The Paradine Case
Body and Soul
1946
Great Expectations
Beauty and the Beast
Notorious
Shoeshine
A Matter of Life and Death
It's a Wonderful Life
The Big Sleep
Iven the Terrible: Part 2
The Killers
Decoy
1945
Rome Open City
Spellbound
Brief Encounters
Dead of Night
Deteur
Fallen Angel
Captain Kid
The Children of Paradise
Mildred Pierce
They Won't Believe Me
1944
Double Indemnity
Lifeboat
Henry V
Ivan the Terrible: Part 1
The Canterbury Tale
The Happy Breed
Arsnic and Old Lace
Meet Me in St Lewis
Gaslight
The Canterville Ghost
1943
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Shadow of a Doubt
The Seventh Victim
The Ox Bow Incident
The Man in Grey
This Land is Mine
Jane Eyre
Obssessione
Day of Wrath
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1942
Casablanca
Sabatour
Cat People
In Which We Serve
Bambi
Gentleman Jim
King's Row
This Gun for Hire
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Magnificent Ambersons
1941
Citizen Kane
Suspicion
The Maltese Falcon
How Green was My Valley
High Sierra
Dumbo
The Lady Eve
Meet John Doe
Sergeant York
The Wolf Man
1940
The Great Dictator
Rebecca
Grapes of Wrath
Pinocchio
The Thief of Bagdad
Fantasia
His Girl Friday
Foreign Correspondent
The Long Vougue Home
The Sea Hawk
1939
The Wizard of Oz
The Lady Vanishes
The Roaring 20s
Gone With the Wind
Stage Coach
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
The Women
Goodbye Mr Chips
Only Angels Have Wings
The Rules of the Game
1938
Angels With Dirty Faces
Bringing up Baby
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Jezebel
The Lady Vanishes
Alexander Nevsky
Boy's Town
Pygmalion
You Can't Take it With You
Holiday
1937
The Grand Illusion
Song at Midnight
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Aweful Touch
Stella Dallas
The Life of Emile
Youn and Innocent
Stage Door
Pepe Le Moka
A DAy at the Races
1936
Fury
Modern Times
Swing Time
A Day in the Country
Dobsworth
Mr Deeds Goes to Town
The Story of Cheat
Sabotage
Rembrandt
Camille
1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
I' Claudius
A Night at the Opera
Captain Blood
Triumph of the Will
The 39 Steps
G-Men
The Bride of Frankenstein
Secret Agent
The Call of the Wild
1934
L'Atalante
The Man Who Knew Too Much
It Happened One Night
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Thin Man
Cleopatra
The Black Cat
Viva Vila!
It Happened One Night
Of Human Bondage
1933
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Duck Soup
42nd Street
The Invisible Man
The Testament of Dr Mabuse
She Done Him Wrong
Land Without Bread
Dinner at Eight
King Kong
Sons of the Dessert
1932
Scarface
Freaks
Vampyr
The Shanghai Express
Love Me Tonight
Grand Hotel
Me and My Girl
A Farewell to Arms
I am a Fugitve From a Chain Gang
Blonde Venus
1931
M
The Public Enemy
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
City Lights
Drakula
Little Caesar
Tabu
Bad Girl
The Smiling Lietenant
The Front Page
1930
All Quiet on the Western Front
L'Age D'Or
The Blue Angel
Earth
The Unholly Three
Under the Roofs of Paris
Age of Gold
Freedom of Us
Animal Crackers
Hell's Angels
1929
Man With a Movie Camera
Pandora's Box
The Diary of teh Lost Girl
Arsenal
Love Parade
Where East is East
Blackmail
Girl in the Moon
Asphalt
Queen Kelly
1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Circus
Show People
The Wind
The Camerman
The Wedding Maid
The Man Who Laughs
The Last Command
Steamboat Billy Jr
1927
Sunrise
Metropolis
Napoleon
Wings
The Unknown
Underworld
The Jazz Singer
The Lodger
The Ring
October: Ten Days Taht Shook the World
1926
The General
Faust
The Magician
Mother
Flesh and the Devil
The Blackbird
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Battling Butler
The Scarlet letter
The Son of Sheik
1925
Battleship Potemkin
Seven Chances
The Unholy Three
Strike
Gold Rush
The Lost World
Master in the House
The Eagle
The Merry Widow
Phantom of the Opera
1924
Greed
Sherlock Jr
The Last Laugh
The Thief of Bagdad
Die Nibelungen
Girl Shy
Kriemhild's Revenge
Aelita
The Navigator
He Who Gets Slapped
1923
Safety Last!
Our Hospitality
The Wheel
The Ten Commandments
A Woman in Paris
Crime and Punishment
Coeur Fidele
Souls for Sale
The Extra Girl
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1922
Nosferatu
Haxan
Fololish Wives
Dr Mabuse and the Gambler
Nanook of the North
Robin Hood
Moriarty
Blood and Sand
Oliver Twist
Salome
1921
The Kid
Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
Destiny
The Phantom Cariage
The Boat
Orphans of the Storm
The Three Musketeers
Tol'able
David
The Sheik
1920
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
The Mask of Zorro
The Golem
The Penalty
Outside the Law
Convict 13
One Week
Way Down West
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Erotikon
Early Cinema
A Trip to the Moon
The Birth of a Nation
Cabiria
The Immigrant
The Great Train Robbery
Suspense
Intolerance
The Kiss
Easy Street
Brocken Blossoms
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