Lists!

At the end of the year all over the internet people make lists of their top movies of the year. These are all fun to read and make, so i decided to make a top 5 for every year, until the year of my birth.

2023

1. May December (Todd Haynes)

2. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)

3. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)

4. Hit Man (Richard Linklater)

5. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)

2022

1. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)

2. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)

3. Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)

4. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)

5. LOLA (Andrew Legge)

2021

1. The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)

2. The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)

3. Bad Luck Banging, or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)

4. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)

5. Annette (Leos Carax) 

2020

1. Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)

2. Shirley (Josephine Decker)

3. Horse Girl (Jeff Baena)

4. Tenet (Christopher Nolan)

5. Riders of Justice  (Anders Thomas Jensen)

2019

1. The Farewell (Lulu Wang)

2. Portrait of A Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma)

3. Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarevic)

4. Midosmmar (Ari Aster)

5. Gemini Man (Ang Lee)

2018

1. Creed 2 (Steven Caple Jr.)
2. And Breathe Normally (Isold Uggadottir)
3. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
4. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
5. Duelles (Olivier Masset-Depasse)

2017

1. The Little Hours (Jeff Baena)
2. The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)
3. Thelma (Joachim Trier)
4. Mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
5. Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer)

2016

1. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
2. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
3. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Love)
4. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
5. My Aunt in Sarajevo (Goran Kapetanovic)

2015

1. The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert)
2. The Martian (Ridley Scott)
3. Results (Andrew Bujalski)
4. Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)
5. 21 Nights With Pattie (Armand Larrieu)

2014

1. White God (Kornel Mundruczo)
2. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
3. Aanmodderfakker (Michiel ten Horn)
4. Beyond the Lights (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
5. Bird People (Pascale Ferran)

2013

1. Child's Pose (Calin Peter Netzer)
2. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel Coen)
3. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
4. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
5. Hard To Be A God (Aleksei German)

2012

1. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
2. 21 Jump Street (Phil Lord & Chris Miller)
3. Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
4 .Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
5. The Perks of Being A Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)

2011

1. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar)
2. Chicken With Plums (Marjane Satrapi)
3. Oslo, 31 August (Joachim Trier)
4. Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
5. Shame (Steve McQueen)

2010

1. Four Lions (Chris Morris)
2. The Social Network (David Fincher)
3. Beginners (Mike Mills)
4. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
5. Schemer (Hanro Smitsman)

2009

1. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
2. A Serious Man (Joel Coen)
3. Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
4. The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh)
5. Everyone Else (Maren Ade)

2008

1. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
2. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
3. Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)
4. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
5. W. (Oliver Stone)

2007

1. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
3. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
4. Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
5. Juno (Jason Reitman)

2006

1. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)

2. Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

3. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
4. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
5. Running Scared (Wayne Kramer)


2005

1. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
2. Match Point (Woody Allen)
3. Good Night and Good Luck (George Clooney)
4. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
5. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)

2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
2. Collateral (Michael Mann)
3. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
4. Closer (Mike Nichols)
5. Kill Bill 2 (Quentin Tarantino)

2003

1. Good Bye Lenin (Wolfgang Becker)
2. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
3. Pirates of the Caribbean (Gore Verbinsky)
4. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
5. House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman)

2002

1. 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
2. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
3. Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
4. Secretary (Steven Shainberg)
5. Changing Lanes (Roger Michell)

2001

1. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann)
2. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
3. Ocean's 11 (Steven Soderbergh)
4. Heist (David Mamet)
5. A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)

2000

1. Love & Basketball (Gina Prince-Bythewood)

2. A Friend Like Harry (Dominik Moll)
3. Snatch (Guy Ritchie)

4. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
5. Shaft (John Singleton)

1999

1. The Matrix (Lena Wachowski)
2. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
3. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)

4. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
5. The Insider (Michael Mann)

1998

1. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
2. A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi)
3. Happiness (Todd Solondz)
4. Little Voice (Mark Herman)
5. The Truman Show (Peter Weir)

1997

1. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
2. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
3. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. La vita e bella (Roberto Benigni)
5. Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage)

1996

1. Fargo (Joel Coen)

2. A Summer's Tale (Éric Rohmer)
3. Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen)
4. Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)
5. The Rock (Michael Bay)

1995

1. Nixon (Oliver Stone)
2. Seven (David Fincher)
3. To Die For (Gus Van Sant)
4. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Synger)
5. Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld)

1994

1. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)

2. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
3. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
4. Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
5. Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori)

1993

1. The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)

2. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
3. Six Degrees of Separation (Fred Schepisi)
4. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
5. Red Rock West (John Dahl)

1992

1. White Men Can't Jump (Ron Shelton)

2. Orlando (Sally Potter)
3. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)

4. Glengarry Glenn Ross (James Foley)
5. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)

1991

1. Jungle Fever (Spike Lee)
2. Slacker (Richard Linklater)

3. The Doors (Oliver Stone)
4. Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang)

5. Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow)

1990

1. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)  

2. Truly Madly Deeply (Anthony Minghella)
3. Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne)
4. The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader) 

5. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)

1989

1. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)

3. Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)

4. Back to the Future 2 (Robert Zemeckis)

5. The Abyss (James Cameron)