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. 111 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  4. 261 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  5. 290 -

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  6. 302 -

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  7. 446 -

    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
  8. 401 -

    Fight Club

    1999, in 19 top lists Check
  9. 361 -

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  10. 116 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  11. 356 -

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  12. 276 -

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  13. 176 -

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  14. 284 -

    Jaws

    1975, in 28 top lists Check
  15. 371 -

    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
  16. 426 -

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  17. 376 -

    The Shawshank Redemption

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  18. 282 -

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  19. 381 -

    Se7en

    1995, in 29 top lists Check
  20. 156 -

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  21. 191 -

    12 Angry Men

    1957, in 30 top lists Check
  22. 389 -

    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
  23. 277 -

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  24. 439 -

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  25. 366 -

    Reservoir Dogs

    1992, in 26 top lists Check
  26. 441 -

    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
  27. 218 -

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  28. 136 -

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  29. 41 -

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  30. 62 -

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  31. 443 -

    There Will Be Blood

    2007, in 20 top lists Check
  32. 452 -

    Inglourious Basterds

    2009, in 17 top lists Check
  33. 378 -

    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
  34. 422 +1

    Oldeuboi

    2003 — a.k.a. Oldboy, in 34 top lists Check
  35. 404 -

    American Beauty

    1999, in 25 top lists Check
  36. 146 -

    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
  37. 157 -

    Rashômon

    1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check
  38. 396 -

    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
  39. 223 -

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
  40. 185 -

    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
  41. 101 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  42. 417 -

    Cidade de Deus

    2002 — a.k.a. City of God, in 22 top lists Check
  43. 237 -

    Persona

    1966, in 25 top lists Check
  44. 126 -

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  45. 207 -

    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
  46. 248 -

    Rosemary's Baby

    1968, in 21 top lists Check
  47. 244 -

    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  48. 61 -

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  49. 467 -

    Django Unchained

    2012, in 12 top lists Check
  50. 342 -1

    Full Metal Jacket

    1987, in 18 top lists Check
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Last updated on May 4, 2023 by Fergenaprido;