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. 302 -

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  2. 116 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  3. 439 -

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  4. 452 -

    Inglourious Basterds

    2009, in 17 top lists Check
  5. 396 -

    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
  6. 342 -1

    Full Metal Jacket

    1987, in 18 top lists Check
  7. 299 -

    The Deer Hunter

    1978, in 26 top lists Check
  8. 193 -1

    Paths of Glory

    1957, in 26 top lists Check
  9. 195 -1

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  10. 32 -

    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
  11. 418 -

    The Pianist

    2002, in 21 top lists Check
  12. 346 -

    Hotaru no haka

    1988 — a.k.a. Grave of the Fireflies, in 21 top lists Check
  13. 91 -

    La grande illusion

    1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion, in 30 top lists Check
  14. 106 -

    The Great Dictator

    1940, in 25 top lists Check
  15. 333 -

    Idi i smotri

    1985 — a.k.a. Come and See, in 27 top lists Check
  16. 238 -

    La battaglia di Algeri

    1966 — a.k.a. The Battle of Algiers, in 29 top lists Check
  17. 72 -

    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
  18. 338 -

    Platoon

    1986, in 21 top lists Check
  19. 137 -

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  20. 117 -

    To Be or Not to Be

    1942, in 24 top lists Check
  21. 187 -1

    Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent...

    1956 — a.k.a. A Man Escaped, in 20 top lists Check
  22. 56 -

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
  23. 133 -

    Roma città aperta

    1945 — a.k.a. Rome, Open City, in 23 top lists Check
  24. 257 -

    Patton

    1970, in 13 top lists Check
  25. 332 -

    Shoah

    1985, in 18 top lists Check
  26. 255 -

    L'armée des ombres

    1969 — a.k.a. Army of Shadows, in 18 top lists Check
  27. 123 -2

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  28. 460 -

    Incendies

    2010, in 10 top lists Check
  29. 212 -

    Judgment at Nuremberg

    1961, in 7 top lists Check
  30. 204 -

    Ningen no jôken

    1959 — a.k.a. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love, in 13 top lists Check
  31. 175 -

    Stalag 17

    1953, in 7 top lists Check
  32. 33 -

    The Big Parade

    1925, in 13 top lists Check
  33. 211 -

    Ningen no jôken

    1961 — a.k.a. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer, in 12 top lists Check
  34. 205 -

    Ningen no jôken

    1959 — a.k.a. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity, in 12 top lists Check
  35. 45 -

    Wings

    1927, in 12 top lists Check
  36. 368 -

    Baraka

    1992, in 5 top lists Check
  37. 1 -

    J'accuse

    1919 — a.k.a. J'accuse!, in 7 top lists Check
  38. 15 -

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    1921, in 7 top lists Check
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Last updated on May 4, 2023 by Fergenaprido;