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About Films By Year My 100 Favorites Features

Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Films From Year

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Films

1.
Witness Peter Weir
2.
Brazil Terry Gilliam
3.
The Color Purple Steven Spielberg
4.
After Hours Martin Scorsese
5.
The Breakfast Club John Hughes
6.
Pee-wee's Big Adventure Tim Burton
7.
Back to the Future Robert Zemeckis
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Films

8.
The Purple Rose of Cairo Woody Allen
9.
Desperately Seeking Susan Susan Seidelman
10.
A Room with a View James Ivory
11.
The Sure Thing Rob Reiner
12.
Clue Jonathan Lynn
13.
My Beautiful Laundrette Stephen Frears
14.
To Live and Die in L.A. William Friedkin
15.
Kiss of the Spider Woman Hector Babenco
16.
Ran Akira Kurosawa
17.
Fright Night Tom Holland
18.
Real Genius Martha Coolidge
19.
Re-Animator Stuart Gordon
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Films

20.
Fletch Michael Ritchie
21.
Better Off Dead... Savage Steve Holland
22.
Smooth Talk Joyce Chopra
23.
Fandango Kevin Reynolds
24.
My Life as a Dog
Mitt liv som hund Lasse Hallström
25.
A View to a Kill John Glen
26.
Blood Simple Joel Coen
27.
Lost in America Albert Brooks
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Films

28.
Day of the Dead George A. Romero
29.
Agnes of God Norman Jewison
30.
Out of Africa Sydney Pollack
31.
Prizzi's Honor John Huston
32.
Jagged Edge Richard Marquand
33.
Pale Rider Clint Eastwood
34.
Joshua Then and Now Ted Kotcheff
35.
Phenomena
Creepers Dario Argento
36.
Demons
Dèmoni Lamberto Bava
37.
Chronos Ron Fricke
38.
Silverado Lawrence Kasdan
39.
Young Sherlock Holmes Barry Levinson
40.
Cocoon Ron Howard
41.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome George Miller and George Ogilvie
42.
National Lampoon's European Vacation Amy Heckerling
43.
The Falcon and the Snowman John Schlesinger
44.
Tokyo-Ga Wim Wenders
45.
White Nights Taylor Hackford
46.
Rambo: First Blood Part II George P. Cosmatos
47.
The Journey of Natty Gann Jeremy Kagan
48.
Mask Peter Bogdanovich
49.
Follow That Bird Ken Kwapis
50.
Perfect James Bridges
51.
Spies Like Us John Landis
52.
Into the Night John Landis
53.
Bring on the Night Michael Apted
54.
The Bride Franc Roddam
55.
Fool for Love Robert Altman
56.
The Quiet Earth Geoff Murphy
57.
Three Men and a Cradle
3 hommes et un couffin Coline Serreau
58.
Vision Quest Harold Becker
59.
Volunteers Nicholas Meyer
60.
The Emerald Forest John Boorman
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Films

61.
The Goonies Richard Donner
62.
The Coca-Cola Kid Dusan Makavejev
63.
The Return of the Living Dead Dan O'Bannon
64.
Weird Science John Hughes
65.
Transylvania 6-5000 Rudy De Luca
66.
Lifeforce Tobe Hooper
67.
The Legend of Billie Jean Matthew Robbins
68.
Murphy's Romance Martin Ritt
69.
Cat's Eye Lewis Teague
70.
Legend Ridley Scott
71.
Twice in a Lifetime Bud Yorkin
72.
St. Elmo's Fire Joel Schumacher
73.
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Guy Hamilton
74.
Enemy Mine Wolfgang Petersen
75.
A Chorus Line Richard Attenborough
76.
Dreamchild Gavin Millar
77.
A Zed & Two Noughts Peter Greenaway
78.
Runaway Train Andrey Konchalovskiy
79.
Return to Oz Walter Murch
80.
Just One of the Guys Lisa Gottlieb
81.
Teen Wolf Rod Daniel
82.
Ladyhawke Richard Donner
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Films

83.
Summer Rental Carl Reiner
84.
Heaven Help Us Michael Dinner
85.
Trouble in Mind Alan Rudolph
86.
Explorers Joe Dante
87.
Lust in the Dust Paul Bartel
88.
The Man with One Red Shoe Stan Dragoti
89.
Bad Medicine Harvey Miller
90.
Water Dick Clement
91.
Once Bitten Howard Storm
92.
Rustlers' Rhapsody Hugh Wilson
93.
That Was Then... This Is Now Christopher Cain
94.
The Jewel of the Nile Lewis Teague
95.
Insignificance Nicolas Roeg
96.
King Solomon's Mines J. Lee Thompson
97.
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment Jerry Paris
98.
Mischief Mel Damski
99.
Gotcha! Jeff Kanew
100.
Tuff Turf Fritz Kiersch
101.
UFOria John Binder
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Films

102.
Girls Just Want to Have Fun Alan Metter
103.
Santa Claus: The Movie Jeannot Szwarc
104.
Fraternity Vacation James Frawley
105.
Godzilla 1985 R.J. Kizer and Koji Hashimoto
106.
The Mutilator Buddy Cooper
107.
Radioactive Dreams Albert Pyun
108.
Night Train to Terror Tom McGowan, John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, and Gregg C. Tallas
A Chorus Line Richard Attenborough 
After Hours Martin Scorsese 
Agnes of God Norman Jewison 
A Room with a View James Ivory 
A View to a Kill John Glen 
A Zed & Two Noughts Peter Greenaway 
Back to the Future Robert Zemeckis 
Bad Medicine Harvey Miller 
Better Off Dead... Savage Steve Holland 
Blood Simple Joel Coen 
Brazil Terry Gilliam 
Bring on the Night Michael Apted 
Cat's Eye Lewis Teague 
Chronos Ron Fricke 
Clue Jonathan Lynn 
Cocoon Ron Howard 
Day of the Dead George A. Romero 
Demons
Dèmoni Lamberto Bava 
Desperately Seeking Susan Susan Seidelman 
Dreamchild Gavin Millar 
Enemy Mine Wolfgang Petersen 
Explorers Joe Dante 
Fandango Kevin Reynolds 
Fletch Michael Ritchie 
Follow That Bird Ken Kwapis 
Fool for Love Robert Altman 
Fraternity Vacation James Frawley 
Fright Night Tom Holland 
Girls Just Want to Have Fun Alan Metter 
Godzilla 1985 R.J. Kizer and Koji Hashimoto 
Gotcha! Jeff Kanew 
Heaven Help Us Michael Dinner 
Insignificance Nicolas Roeg 
Into the Night John Landis 
Jagged Edge Richard Marquand 
Joshua Then and Now Ted Kotcheff 
Just One of the Guys Lisa Gottlieb 
King Solomon's Mines J. Lee Thompson 
Kiss of the Spider Woman Hector Babenco 
Ladyhawke Richard Donner 
Legend Ridley Scott 
Lifeforce Tobe Hooper 
Lost in America Albert Brooks 
Lust in the Dust Paul Bartel 
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome George Miller and George Ogilvie 
Mask Peter Bogdanovich 
Mischief Mel Damski 
Murphy's Romance Martin Ritt 
My Beautiful Laundrette Stephen Frears 
My Life as a Dog
Mitt liv som hund Lasse Hallström 
National Lampoon's European Vacation Amy Heckerling 
Night Train to Terror Tom McGowan, John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, and Gregg C. Tallas 
Once Bitten Howard Storm 
Out of Africa Sydney Pollack 
Pale Rider Clint Eastwood 
Pee-wee's Big Adventure Tim Burton 
Perfect James Bridges 
Phenomena
Creepers Dario Argento 
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment Jerry Paris 
Prizzi's Honor John Huston 
Radioactive Dreams Albert Pyun 
Rambo: First Blood Part II George P. Cosmatos 
Ran Akira Kurosawa 
Real Genius Martha Coolidge 
Re-Animator Stuart Gordon 
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Guy Hamilton 
Return to Oz Walter Murch 
Runaway Train Andrey Konchalovskiy 
Rustlers' Rhapsody Hugh Wilson 
Santa Claus: The Movie Jeannot Szwarc 
Silverado Lawrence Kasdan 
Smooth Talk Joyce Chopra 
Spies Like Us John Landis 
St. Elmo's Fire Joel Schumacher 
Summer Rental Carl Reiner 
Teen Wolf Rod Daniel 
That Was Then... This Is Now Christopher Cain 
The Breakfast Club John Hughes 
The Bride Franc Roddam 
The Coca-Cola Kid Dusan Makavejev 
The Color Purple Steven Spielberg 
The Emerald Forest John Boorman 
The Falcon and the Snowman John Schlesinger 
The Goonies Richard Donner 
The Jewel of the Nile Lewis Teague 
The Journey of Natty Gann Jeremy Kagan 
The Legend of Billie Jean Matthew Robbins 
The Man with One Red Shoe Stan Dragoti 
The Mutilator Buddy Cooper 
The Purple Rose of Cairo Woody Allen 
The Quiet Earth Geoff Murphy 
The Return of the Living Dead Dan O'Bannon 
The Sure Thing Rob Reiner 
Three Men and a Cradle
3 hommes et un couffin Coline Serreau 
Tokyo-Ga Wim Wenders 
To Live and Die in L.A. William Friedkin 
Transylvania 6-5000 Rudy De Luca 
Trouble in Mind Alan Rudolph 
Tuff Turf Fritz Kiersch 
Twice in a Lifetime Bud Yorkin 
UFOria John Binder 
Vision Quest Harold Becker 
Volunteers Nicholas Meyer 
Water Dick Clement 
Weird Science John Hughes 
White Nights Taylor Hackford 
Witness Peter Weir 
Young Sherlock Holmes Barry Levinson 
The Mutilator Buddy Cooper 05 October 1984
Tuff Turf Fritz Kiersch 11 January 1985
Blood Simple Joel Coen 18 January 1985
Fandango Kevin Reynolds 25 January 1985
Mischief Mel Damski 08 February 1985
The Falcon and the Snowman John Schlesinger 08 February 1985
Lost in America Albert Brooks 08 February 1985
Heaven Help Us Michael Dinner 08 February 1985
Witness Peter Weir 08 February 1985
Vision Quest Harold Becker 15 February 1985
The Breakfast Club John Hughes 15 February 1985
Night Train to Terror Tom McGowan, John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, and Gregg C. Tallas 22 February 1985
Into the Night John Landis 22 February 1985
The Sure Thing Rob Reiner 01 March 1985
Lust in the Dust Paul Bartel 01 March 1985
Mask Peter Bogdanovich 22 March 1985
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment Jerry Paris 29 March 1985
Ladyhawke Richard Donner 12 April 1985
Girls Just Want to Have Fun Alan Metter 12 April 1985
Cat's Eye Lewis Teague 12 April 1985
Desperately Seeking Susan Susan Seidelman 12 April 1985
Fraternity Vacation James Frawley 12 April 1985
The Purple Rose of Cairo Woody Allen 19 April 1985
Tokyo-Ga Wim Wenders 26 April 1985
Just One of the Guys Lisa Gottlieb 26 April 1985
Gotcha! Jeff Kanew 03 May 1985
Chronos Ron Fricke 10 May 1985
Rustlers' Rhapsody Hugh Wilson 10 May 1985
Rambo: First Blood Part II George P. Cosmatos 22 May 1985
A View to a Kill John Glen 24 May 1985
Fletch Michael Ritchie 31 May 1985
Ran Akira Kurosawa 01 June 1985
The Goonies Richard Donner 07 June 1985
Perfect James Bridges 07 June 1985
Prizzi's Honor John Huston 14 June 1985
Lifeforce Tobe Hooper 21 June 1985
Cocoon Ron Howard 21 June 1985
Return to Oz Walter Murch 21 June 1985
St. Elmo's Fire Joel Schumacher 28 June 1985
Pale Rider Clint Eastwood 28 June 1985
Back to the Future Robert Zemeckis 03 July 1985
The Emerald Forest John Boorman 03 July 1985
Silverado Lawrence Kasdan 10 July 1985
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome George Miller and George Ogilvie 10 July 1985
Explorers Joe Dante 12 July 1985
The Coca-Cola Kid Dusan Makavejev 14 July 1985
The Man with One Red Shoe Stan Dragoti 19 July 1985
Day of the Dead George A. Romero 19 July 1985
The Legend of Billie Jean Matthew Robbins 19 July 1985
Kiss of the Spider Woman Hector Babenco 26 July 1985
National Lampoon's European Vacation Amy Heckerling 26 July 1985
Follow That Bird Ken Kwapis 02 August 1985
Weird Science John Hughes 02 August 1985
Phenomena
Creepers Dario Argento 02 August 1985
Insignificance Nicolas Roeg 02 August 1985
Fright Night Tom Holland 02 August 1985
Real Genius Martha Coolidge 07 August 1985
Pee-wee's Big Adventure Tim Burton 09 August 1985
Summer Rental Carl Reiner 09 August 1985
Volunteers Nicholas Meyer 16 August 1985
The Bride Franc Roddam 16 August 1985
The Return of the Living Dead Dan O'Bannon 16 August 1985
Godzilla 1985 R.J. Kizer and Koji Hashimoto 23 August 1985
Teen Wolf Rod Daniel 23 August 1985
Joshua Then and Now Ted Kotcheff 20 September 1985
Agnes of God Norman Jewison 27 September 1985
The Journey of Natty Gann Jeremy Kagan 27 September 1985
UFOria John Binder 01 October 1985
Jagged Edge Richard Marquand 04 October 1985
Dreamchild Gavin Millar 04 October 1985
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Guy Hamilton 11 October 1985
After Hours Martin Scorsese 11 October 1985
Better Off Dead... Savage Steve Holland 11 October 1985
The Quiet Earth Geoff Murphy 18 October 1985
Re-Animator Stuart Gordon 18 October 1985
To Live and Die in L.A. William Friedkin 01 November 1985
Twice in a Lifetime Bud Yorkin 08 November 1985
That Was Then... This Is Now Christopher Cain 08 November 1985
Transylvania 6-5000 Rudy De Luca 08 November 1985
Bring on the Night Michael Apted 08 November 1985
Once Bitten Howard Storm 15 November 1985
Smooth Talk Joyce Chopra 15 November 1985
King Solomon's Mines J. Lee Thompson 22 November 1985
Bad Medicine Harvey Miller 22 November 1985
Santa Claus: The Movie Jeannot Szwarc 27 November 1985
Young Sherlock Holmes Barry Levinson 04 December 1985
White Nights Taylor Hackford 06 December 1985
Spies Like Us John Landis 06 December 1985
Trouble in Mind Alan Rudolph 11 December 1985
The Jewel of the Nile Lewis Teague 11 December 1985
Clue Jonathan Lynn 13 December 1985
Brazil Terry Gilliam 18 December 1985
A Chorus Line Richard Attenborough 20 December 1985
Out of Africa Sydney Pollack 20 December 1985
Enemy Mine Wolfgang Petersen 20 December 1985
Runaway Train Andrey Konchalovskiy 17 January 1986
Murphy's Romance Martin Ritt 31 January 1986
The Color Purple Steven Spielberg 07 February 1986
My Beautiful Laundrette Stephen Frears 04 April 1986
A Room with a View James Ivory 11 April 1986
Water Dick Clement 18 April 1986
Legend Ridley Scott 18 April 1986
Three Men and a Cradle
3 hommes et un couffin Coline Serreau 25 April 1986
Fool for Love Robert Altman 14 May 1986
Demons
Dèmoni Lamberto Bava 30 May 1986
Radioactive Dreams Albert Pyun 19 September 1986
My Life as a Dog
Mitt liv som hund Lasse Hallström 01 May 1987
A Zed & Two Noughts Peter Greenaway 25 May 1990
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