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. 247 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  2. 83 +1

    The 39 Steps

    1935, in 16 top lists Check
  3. 486 -

    Aynabaji

    2016 — a.k.a. Mirror Game, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 139 -

    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  5. 224 +1

    Charade

    1963, in 5 top lists Check
  6. 277 -

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  7. 111 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  8. 125 -1

    Le corbeau

    1943 — a.k.a. The Raven, in 9 top lists Check
  9. 183 -

    Les diaboliques

    1955 — a.k.a. Diabolique, in 21 top lists Check
  10. 17 -

    Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler

    1922 — a.k.a. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, in 14 top lists Check
  11. 143 +1

    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    1947, in 8 top lists Check
  12. 478 -

    Gone Girl

    2014, in 12 top lists Check
  13. 434 -

    Graves End

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
  14. 460 -

    Incendies

    2010, in 10 top lists Check
  15. 462 -

    Jodaeiye Nader az Simin

    2011 — a.k.a. A Separation, in 15 top lists Check
  16. 394 -

    L.A. Confidential

    1997, in 27 top lists Check
  17. 99 -

    The Lady Vanishes

    1938, in 15 top lists Check
  18. 62 -

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  19. 407 -

    Memento

    2000, in 27 top lists Check
  20. 422 +1

    Oldeuboi

    2003 — a.k.a. Oldboy, in 34 top lists Check
  21. 249 -

    Planet of the Apes

    1968, in 16 top lists Check
  22. 436 -

    The Prestige

    2006, in 15 top lists Check
  23. 313 -

    Priklyucheniya Sherloka Kholmsa i doktora...

    1981 — a.k.a. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles, in 1 top list Check
  24. 472 +1

    Prisoners

    2013, in 8 top lists Check
  25. 206 -

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  26. 157 -

    Rashômon

    1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check
  27. 177 -

    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
  28. 107 -

    Rebecca

    1940, in 23 top lists Check
  29. 293 -

    Saban Oglu Saban

    1977 — a.k.a. Saban, Son of Saban, in 0 top lists Check
  30. 245 -

    Le samouraï

    1967 — a.k.a. Le Samouraï, in 20 top lists Check
  31. 381 -

    Se7en

    1995, in 29 top lists Check
  32. 459 -

    Shutter Island

    2010, in 8 top lists Check
  33. 405 -

    The Sixth Sense

    1999, in 20 top lists Check
  34. 268 -

    Sleuth

    1972, in 4 top lists Check
  35. 267 -

    Solyaris

    1972 — a.k.a. Solaris, in 27 top lists Check
  36. 304 -

    Stalker

    1979, in 22 top lists Check
  37. 289 -1

    Süt Kardesler

    1976, in 1 top list Check
  38. 221 -

    Tengoku to jigoku

    1963 — a.k.a. High and Low, in 16 top lists Check
  39. 78 -

    The Thin Man

    1934, in 14 top lists Check
  40. 317 -

    The Thing

    1982, in 20 top lists Check
  41. 151 -

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  42. 196 -

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  43. 194 -1

    Witness for the Prosecution

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