FSR: Top 5 Films by Year
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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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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919 — a.k.a. Broken Blossoms, in 13 top lists Check -
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Way Down East
1920, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1921, in 7 top lists Check -
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Robin Hood
1922, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Big Parade
1925, in 13 top lists Check -
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Seven Chances
1925, in 12 top lists Check -
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Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ
1925 — a.k.a. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, in 6 top lists Check -
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Flesh and the Devil
1926, in 9 top lists Check -
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check -
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The Unknown
1927, in 11 top lists Check -
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Wings
1927, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Circus
1928, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Crowd
1928, in 20 top lists Check -
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The Cameraman
1928, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Wind
1928, in 14 top lists Check -
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Die Büchse der Pandora
1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check -
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Lucky Star
1929, in 5 top lists Check -
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City Girl
1930, in 6 top lists Check -
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City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
67 +1
Trouble in Paradise
1932, in 17 top lists Check -
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It Happened One Night
1934, in 29 top lists Check -
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L'Atalante
1934, in 21 top lists Check -
84 +1
Top Hat
1935, in 14 top lists Check -
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My Man Godfrey
1936, in 12 top lists Check -
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936, in 11 top lists Check -
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Dodsworth
1936, in 10 top lists Check -
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Make Way for Tomorrow
1937, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Awful Truth
1937, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938, in 17 top lists Check -
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Bringing Up Baby
1938, in 23 top lists Check -
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You Can't Take It with You
1938, in 8 top lists Check -
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Gone with the Wind
1939, in 31 top lists Check -
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La règle du jeu
1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check -
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The Shop Around the Corner
1940, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Philadelphia Story
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Little Foxes
1941, in 7 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
118 +1
Now, Voyager
1942, in 13 top lists Check -
119 +1
Random Harvest
1942, in 7 top lists Check -
120 new
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943, in 16 top lists Check -
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To Have and Have Not
1944, in 16 top lists Check -
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Les enfants du paradis
1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check -
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Brief Encounter
1945, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946, in 30 top lists Check -
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Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
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A Matter of Life and Death
1946, in 23 top lists Check -
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The Red Shoes
1948, in 27 top lists Check -
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Heiress
1949, in 10 top lists Check
Last updated on May 4, 2023 by Fergenaprido;