Dave’s Movie Database: Best Rated Movies by Year (1913-2024)

Dave’s Movie Database: Best-Rated Movies by Year, 1913-2024

These are the best-rated movies of each year based on an aggregate of the sources at the Ratings and Reviews” page on this site. 2024: Dune: Part Two 2023: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2022: Everything Everywhere All at Once 2021: CODA 2020: Nomadland 2019: Parasite (Gisaengchung) 2018: Roma 2017: Coco 2016: La La Land 2015: Spotlight 2014: Boyhood 2013: 12 Years a Slave 2012: Argo 2011: A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) 2010: Inception (2010) 2009: Up 2008: The Dark Knight 2007: No Country for Old Men 2006: Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) 2005: Brokeback Mountain 2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2003: The Return of the King 2002: The Two Towers 2001: The Fellowship of the Ring 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) 1999: Being John Malkovich 1998: Saving Private Ryan 1997: L.A. Confidential 1996: Fargo 1995: Toy Story 1994: Pulp Fiction 1993: Schindler’s List 1992: Unforgiven 1991: The Silence of the Lambs 1990: Goodfellas 1989: Do the Right Thing 1988: The Decalogue (Dekalog) 1987: The Princess Bride 1986: Platoon 1985: Back to the Future 1984: Amadeus 1983: The Right Stuff 1982: Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark 1980: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 1979: Apocalypse Now 1978: The Deer Hunter 1977: Episode IV: A New Hope 1976: Network 1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1974: The Godfather Part II (1974) 1973: American Graffiti 1972: The Godfather (1972) 1971: The French Connection 1970: Patton 1969: The Wild Bunch 1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey 1967: Playtime 1966: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1965: The Sound of Music 1964: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1963: 8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) 1962: Lawrence of Arabia 1961: West Side Story 1960: Psycho 1959: Some Like It Hot 1958: Vertigo 1957: 12 Angry Men 1956: The Searchers 1955: Rififi (Du Rififi Chez les Hommes) 1954: Rear Window 1953: Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) 1952: Singin’ in the Rain 1951: Strangers on a Train 1950: All About Eve 1949: The Third Man 1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1947: Out of the Past 1946: It’s a Wonderful Life 1945: Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) 1944: Double Indemnity 1943: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1942: Casablanca 1941: Citizen Kane 1940: The Philadelphia Story 1939: The Wizard of Oz 1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood 1937: Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) 1936: Modern Times 1935: Bride of Frankenstein 1934: The Thin Man 1933: Duck Soup 1932: Trouble in Paradise 1931: City Lights 1930: All Quiet on the Western Front 1929: Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek s Kinoapparatom) 1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) 1927: Metropolis 1926: The General 1925: Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) 1924: Greed 1923: Safety Last! 1922: Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror (aka “Nosferatu, the Vampire”) (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) 1921: The Kid 1920: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari) 1919: Broken Blossoms 1918: The Blue Bird 1917: The Poor Little Rich Girl 1916: Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages 1915: The Vampires (or the Arch Criminals of Paris) (Les Vampires) 1914: Cabiria 1913: Traffic in Souls Resources: Dave’s Movie Database: Movie Lists DavesMovieDatabase.com page for “Ratings and Reviews” Originally posted 8/15/2019; last updated 3/9/2025.