FSR: Top 5 Films by Year

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Fergenaprido's Significance Rating - Top 5 Films by Year

This started out as a personal goal to see the top five films of each year, using imdb data. After they removed the weighted rankings beyond the Top 250, I created my own formula to try to balance each rating and its number of votes, in order to make films more comparable. I settled upon the formula of SR=(EXP(rating)*(LN(votes))/100). Why that particular formula? I tinkered around with different variations, but I prefer using ln instead of log, and this formula ended up with a fairly approximate order similar to imdb's weighted formula.

Here are the top five films from each year since 1919. For 1919-1934, the minimum number of votes is 1,000; for 1935-2022, the minimum is 5,000. I excluded years before 1919 because there weren't enough films with at least 1,000 votes, so the SR wasn't reliable enough to rank them. I do exclude films that have had voter manipulation, but I don't exclude those rated highly because of enthusiasm from their home country (i.e. "mafias").

Not meant to be definitive, just a fun side project for me, and I decided to move it from my spreadsheet to icm. Feature-length films only (including documentaries).

I collect the imdb data on May 1st each year, and update this list shortly thereafter.

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  1. 377 -

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  2. 266 -

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  3. 261 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  4. 290 -

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  5. 446 -

    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
  6. 361 -

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  7. 356 -

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  8. 276 -

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  9. 376 -

    The Shawshank Redemption

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  10. 389 -

    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
  11. 366 -

    Reservoir Dogs

    1992, in 26 top lists Check
  12. 441 -

    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
  13. 62 -

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  14. 203 -

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  15. 400 new

    The Big Lebowski

    1998, in 26 top lists Check
  16. 201 -

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  17. 157 -

    Rashômon

    1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check
  18. 185 -

    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
  19. 417 -

    Cidade de Deus

    2002 — a.k.a. City of God, in 22 top lists Check
  20. 126 -

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  21. 423 +1

    Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    2003, in 18 top lists Check
  22. 382 -

    The Usual Suspects

    1995, in 24 top lists Check
  23. 437 -

    The Departed

    2006, in 20 top lists Check
  24. 112 -

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
  25. 198 -

    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 31 top lists Check
  26. 180 -

    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  27. 394 -

    L.A. Confidential

    1997, in 27 top lists Check
  28. 379 -

    Léon

    1994 — a.k.a. Léon: The Professional, in 23 top lists Check
  29. 254 -

    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    1969, in 21 top lists Check
  30. 217 -

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    1962, in 18 top lists Check
  31. 322 -

    Scarface

    1983, in 19 top lists Check
  32. 471 -

    The Wolf of Wall Street

    2013, in 13 top lists Check
  33. 385 -

    Heat

    1995, in 23 top lists Check
  34. 329 -

    Once Upon a Time in America

    1984, in 19 top lists Check
  35. 163 -

    Strangers on a Train

    1951, in 17 top lists Check
  36. 139 -

    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  37. 397 -

    American History X

    1998, in 12 top lists Check
  38. 403 -

    The Green Mile

    1999, in 15 top lists Check
  39. 272 -

    The Sting

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  40. 478 -

    Gone Girl

    2014, in 12 top lists Check
  41. 245 -

    Le samouraï

    1967 — a.k.a. Le Samouraï, in 20 top lists Check
  42. 128 -

    Laura

    1944, in 21 top lists Check
  43. 410 -2

    Snatch

    2000, in 11 top lists Check
  44. 149 -

    Rope

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  45. 153 -

    White Heat

    1949, in 15 top lists Check
  46. 221 -

    Tengoku to jigoku

    1963 — a.k.a. High and Low, in 16 top lists Check
  47. 188 -

    The Killing

    1956, in 15 top lists Check
  48. 184 -

    Du rififi chez les hommes

    1955 — a.k.a. Rififi, in 18 top lists Check
  49. 472 +1

    Prisoners

    2013, in 8 top lists Check
  50. 194 -1

    Witness for the Prosecution

    1957, in 12 top lists Check
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Last updated on May 4, 2023 by Fergenaprido;