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Top Ten Films

2010 (in alphabetical order) Another Year, The Fighter, Hereafter, Inception, The King´s Speech, Shutter Island, The Town, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter´s Bone
2009 (In alphabetical order) AN EDUCATION, (500) DAYS OF SUMMER, THE HURT LOCKER, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, INVICTUS, THE MESSENGER, A SERIOUS MAN, STAR TREK, UP, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
2008 (In alphabetical order) BURN AFTER READING, CHANGELING, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, THE DARK KNIGHT, DEFIANCE, FROST/NIXON, GRAN TORINO, MILK, WALL-E, THE WRESTLER
2007 (In alphabetical order) THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD, ATONEMENT, THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, THE BUCKET LIST, INTO THE WILD, JUNO, THE KITE RUNNER, LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, MICHAEL CLAYTON, SWEENEY TODD
2006 Letters from Iwo Jima, (and, in alphabetical order) Babel, Blood Diamond, The Departed, The Devil Wears Prada, Flags Of Our Fathers, The History Boys, Little Miss Sunshine, Notes On A Scandal, The Painted Veil
2005 Good Night, And Good Luck, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, A History of Violence, Match Point, Memoirs of a Geisha, Munich, Syriana, Walk the Line
2004 Finding Neverland, The Aviator, Closer, Million Dollar Baby, Sideways, Kinsey, Vera Drake, Ray, Collateral, Hotel Rwanda
2003 Mystic River, The Last Samurai, The Station Agent, 21 Grams, House of Sand and Fog, Lost in Translation, Cold Mountain, In America, Seabiscuit, Master and Commander
2002 The Hours, Chicago, Gangs of New York, The Quiet American, Adaptation, Rabbit-Proof Fence, The Pianist, Far From Heaven, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Frida
2001 Moulin Rouge, In the Bedroom, Ocean´s Eleven, Memento, Monster´s Ball, Black Hawk Down, The Man Who Wasn´t There, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The Pledge, Mulholland Drive
2000 Quills, Traffic, Croupier, You Can Count On Me, Billy Elliott, Before Night Falls, Gladiator, Wonder Boys, Sunshine, Dancer in the Dark
1999 American Beauty, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Magnolia, The Insider, The Straight Story, Cradle Will Rock, Boys Don´t Cry, Being John Malkovich, Tumbleweeds, Three Kings
1998 Gods and Monsters, Saving Private Ryan, Elizabeth, Happiness, Shakespeare in Love, The Butcher Boy, Lolita, The Thin Red Line, A Simple Plan, Dancing at Lughnasa
1997 L.A. Confidential, As Good As It Gets, The Wings of the Dove, Good Will Hunting, Titanic, The Sweet Hereafter, Boogie Nights, The Full Monty, The Rainmaker, Jackie Brown
1996 Shine, The English Patient, Fargo, Secrets & Lies, Everyone Says I Love You, Evita, Sling Blade, Trainspotting, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Breaking the Waves, Jerry Maguire
1995 Sense and Sensibility, Apollo 13, Carrington, Leaving Las Vegas, The American President, Mightly Aphrodite, Smoke, Persuasion, Braveheart, The Usual Suspects
1994 Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bullets Over Broadway, Ed Wood, The Shawshank Redemption, Nobody´s Fool, The Madness of King George, Tom & Viv, Heavenly Creatures
1993 Schindler´s List, The Age of Innocence, The Remains of the Day, The Piano, Shadowlands, In the Name of the Father, Philadelphia, Much Ado About Nothing, Short Cuts, The Joy Luck Club
1992 Howards End, The Crying Game, Glengarry Glen Ross, A Few Good Men, The Player, Unforgiven, One False Move, Peter´s Friends, Bob Roberts, Malcolm X
1991 The Silence of the Lambs, Bugsy, Grand Canyon, Thelma & Louise, Homicide, Dead Again, Boyz N the Hood, Rambling Rose, Frankie and Johnny, Jungle Fever
1990 Dances With Wolves, Hamlet, GoodFellas, Awakenings, Reversal of Fortune, Miller´s Crossing, Metropolitan, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge, Avalon, The Grifters
1989 Driving Miss Daisy, Henry V, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, The Fabulous Baker Boys, My Left Foot, Dead Poets Society, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Born on the Fourth of July, Glory, Field of Dreams
1988 Mississippi Burning, Dangerous Liasions, The Accused, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Last Temptation of Christ, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Big, Running on Empty, Gorillas in the Mist, Midnight Run
1987 Empire of the Sun, The Last Emperor, Broadcast News, The Untouchables, Gaby: A True Story, Cry Freedom, Fatal Attraction, Hope and Glory, Wall Street, Full Metal Jacket
1986 A Room With A View, Hannah and Her Sisters, My Beautiful Laundrette, The Fly, Stand By Me, The Color of Money, Children of a Lesser hod, ´Round Midnight, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Mission
1985 The Color Purple, Out of Africa, The Trip to Bountiful, Witness, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi´s Honor, Back to the Future, The Shooting Party, Blood Simple, Dreamchild
1984 A Passsage to India, Paris, Texas, The Killing Fields, Places in the Heart, Mass Appeal, Country, A Soldiers Story, Birdy, Careful, He Might Hear You, Under the Volcano
1983 Betrayal, Terms of Endearment, Educating Rita, Tender Mercies, The Dresser, The Right Stuff, Testament, Local Hero, The Big Chill, Cross Creek, Yentl
1982 Gandhi, The Verdict, Sophie´s Choice, An Officer and a Gentleman, Missing, E.T., The World According to Garp, Tootsie, Moonlighting, The Chosen
1981 Chariots of Fire, Reds, Atlantic City, Stevie, Gallipoli, On Golden Pond, Prince of the City, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Heartland, Ticket to Heaven, Breaker Morant
1980 Ordinary People, Raging Bull, Coal Miner´s Daughter, Tess, Melvin and Howard, The Great Santini, The Elephant Man, The Stunt Man, My Bodyguard, Resurrection
1979 Manhattan, Yanks, The Europeans, The China Syndrome, Breaking Away, Apocalypse Now, Being There, Time After Time, North Dallas Forty, Kramer vs. Kramer
1978 Days of Heaven, Coming Home, Interiors, Superman, Movie Movie, Midnight Express, An Unmarried Woman, Pretty Baby, Girlfriends, Comes a Horseman
1977 The Turning Point, Annie Hall, Julia, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Late Show, Saturday Night Fever, Equus, The Picture Show Man, Harlan County, USA
1976 All the President´s Men, Network, Rocky, The Last Tycoon, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, The Front, The Shootist, Family Plot, Silent Movie, Obsession
1975 Nashville, Barry Lyndon, Conduct Unbecoming, One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest, Lies My Father Told Me, Dog Day Afternoon, The Day of the Locust, The Passenger, Hearts of the West, Farewell, My Lovely, Alice Doesn´t Live Here Anymore
1974 The Conversation, Murder on the Orient Express, Chinatown, The Last Detail, Harry and Tonto, A Woman Under the Influence, Thieves Like Us, Lenny, Daisy Miller, The Three Musketeers
1973 The Sting, Paper Moon, Bang the Drum Slowly, Serpico, O Lucky Man!, The Last American Hero, The Hireling, The Day of the Dolphin, The Way We Were
1972 Cabaret, Man of La Mancha, The Godfather, Sounder, 1776, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Deliverance, The Ruling Class, The Candidate, Frenzy
1971 Macbeth, The Boyfriend, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The French Connection, The Last Picture Show, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Go-Between, King Lear, Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter, Death in Venice
1970 Patton, Kes, Women in Love, Five Easy Pieces, Tyan´s Daughter, I Never Sang for My Father, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Love Story, The Virgin and the Gypsy, Tora! Tora! Tora!
1969 They Shoot Horses, Don´t They?, Ring of Bright Water, Topaz, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Battle of Britain, The Loves of Isadora, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Support Your Local Sheriff, True Grit, Midnight Cowboy
1968 The Shoes of the Fisherman, Romeo and Juliet, Yellow Submarine, Charly, Rachel, Rachel, The Subject was Roses, the Lion in Winter, Planet of the Apes, Oliver!, 2001: A Space Odyssey
1967 Far from the Madding Crowd, The Whisperers, Ulysses, In Cold Blood, The Family Way, The Taming of the Shrew, Doctor Doolittle, The Graduate, The Comedians, Accident
1966 A Man for All Seasons, Born Free, Alfie, Who´s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Bible, Georgy Girl, Years of Lightning, Days of Drums, It Happened Here, The Russians are Coming, Shakespeare Wallah
1965 The Eleanor Roosevelt Story, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Doctor Zhivago, Ship of Fools, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Darling, The Greatest Story Ever Told, A Thousand Clowns, The Train, The Sound of Music
1964 Becket, My Fair Lady, The Girl with Green Eyes, The World of Henry Orient, Zorba the Greek, Topkapi, The Chalk Garden, The Finest Hours, Four Days in November, Séance on a Wet Afternoon
1963 Tom Jones, Lilies of the Field, All the Way Home, Hud, This Sporting Life, Lord of the Flies, The L-Shaped Room, The Great Escape, How the West Was Won, The Cardinal
1962 The Longest Day, Billy Bud, The Miracle Worker, Lawrence of Arabia, Long Day´s Journey Into Night, Whistle Down the Wind, Requiem for a Heavyweight, A Taste of Honey, Birdman of Alcatraz, War Hunt
1961 Question 7, The Hustler, West Side Story, The Innocents, The Hoodlum Priest, Summer and Smoke, The Young Doctors, Judment at Nuremberg, One, Two, Three, Fanny
1960 Sons and Lovers, The Alamo, The Sundowners, Inherit the Wind, Sunrise at Campobello, Elmer Gantry, Home from the Hill, The Apartment, Wild River, The ark at the Top of the Stairs
1959 The Nun´s Story, Ben-Hur, Anatomy of Murder, The Diary of Anne Frank, Middle of the Night, The Man Who Understood Women, Some Like it Hot, Suddenly, Last Summer, On the Beach, North by Northwest
1958 The Old Man and the Sea, Separate Tables, The Last Hurrah, The Long Hot Summer, Windjammer, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Goddess, The Brothers Karamazov, Me and the Colonel, Gigi
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai, 12 Angry Men, The Spirit of St. Louis, The Rising of the Moon, Albert Schweitzer, Funny Face, The Bachelor Party, The Enemy Below, A Hatful of Rain, A Farewell to Arms
1956 Around the World in 80 Days, Moby Dick, The King and I, Lust For Life, Friendly Persuasion, Somebody Up There Likes Me, The Catered Affair, Anastasia, The Man Who Never Was, Bus Stop
1955 Marty, East of Eden, Mister Roberts, Bad Day at Black Rock, Summertime, The Rose Tattoo, A Man Called Peter, Not as a Stranger, Picnic, The African Lion
1954 On the Waterfront, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Country Girl, A Star is Born, Executive Suite, The Vanishing Prairie, Sabrina, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Unconquered, Beat the Devil
1953 Julius Caesar, Shame, From Here to Eternity, Martin Luther, Lili, Roman Holiday, Stalag 17, The Little Fugitive, Magambo, The Robe
1952 The Quiet Man, High Noon, Limelight, Five Fingers, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Thief, The Bad and the Beautiful, Singin´ in the Rain, Above and Beyond, My Son John
1951 A Place in the Sun, The Red Badge of Courage, An American in Paris, Death of a Salesman, Detective Story, A Streetcar Named Desire, Decision Before Dawn, Strangers on a Train, Quo Vadis?, Fourteen Hours
1950 Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, The Asphalt Jungle, The Men, Edge of Doom, Twelve O´Clock High, Panic in the Streets, Cyrano de Bergerac, No Way Out, Stage Fright
1949 The Bicycle Thief, The Quiet One, Intruder in the Dust, The Heiress, Devil in the Flesh, Quartet, Germany Year Zero, Home of the Brave, A Letter to Three Wives, The Fallen Idol
1948 Paisan, Day of Wrath, The Search, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Louisiana Story, Hamlet, The Snake Pit, Johnny Belinda, Joan of Arc, The Red Shoes
1947 Monsieur Verdoux, Great Expectations, Shoeshine, Crossfire, Boomerang! Odd Man Out, Gentleman´s Agreement, To Live in Peace, It´s a Wonderful Life, The Overlanders
1946 Henry V, The Best Years of Our Lives, Brief Encounter, A Walk in the Sun, It Happened at the Inn, My Darling Clementine, The Diary of a Chambermaid, The Killers
1945 The True Glory, The Lost Weekend, The Southerner, The Story of GI Joe, The Last Chance, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Fighting Lady, The Way Ahead, The Clock
1944 None But the Lonely Heart, Going My Way, The Miracle of Morgan´s Creek, Jail the Conquering Hero, The Son of Bernadette, Wilson, Meet Me in St. Louis, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Thunder Rock, Lifeboat
1943 The Ox-Bow Incident, Watch on the Rhine, Air Force, Holy Matrimony, The Hard Way, Casablanca, Lassie Come Home, Bataan, The Moon Is Down, The Next of Kin
1942 In Which We Serve, One of Our Aircraft is Missing, Mrs. Miniver, Journey for Margaret, Wake Island, The Male Animal, The Major and the Minor, Sullivan´s Travels, The Moon and the Sixpence, The Pied Piper
1941 Citizen Kane, How Green Was My Valley, The Little Foxes, The Stars Look Down, Dumbo, High Sierra, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Tom, Dick, and Harry, The Road to Zanzibar, The Lady Eve
1940 The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, Of Mice and Men, Our Town, Fantasia, The Long Voyage Home, Foreign Correspondent, The Biscuit Eater, Gone With the Wind, Rebecca
1939 Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Wuthering Heights, Stagecoach, Ninotchka, Young Mr. Lincoln, Crisis, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Roaring Twenties, U-Boat 29
1938 The Citadel, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Beachcomber, To the Victor, Sing, You Sinners, The Edge of the World, Of Human Hearts, Jezebel, South Riding, Three Comrades
1937 Night Must Fall, The Life of Emile Zola, Black Legion, Camille, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Good Earth, They Won´t Forget, Captains Courageous, A Star is Born, Stage Door
1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, The Story of Louis Pasteur, Modern Times, Fury, Winterset, The Devil is a Sissy, Ceiling Zero, Romeo and Juliet, The Prisoner of Shark Island, Green Pastures
1935 The Informer, Alice Adams, Anna Karenina, David Copperfield, The Gilded Lilly, Les Miserables, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ruggles of Red Gap, Who Killed Cock Robin?
1934 It Happened One Night, The Count of Monte Cristo, Crime Without Passion, Eskimo, The First World War, The Lost Patrol, Lot in Sodom, No Greater Glory, The Thin Man, Viva Villa!
1933 Topaze, Berekely Square, Cavalcade, Little Women, Mama Loves Papa, The Pied Piper, She Done Him Wrong, State Fair, Three Cornered Moon, Zoo in Budapest
1932 I Am a Fugitive From a Chang Gang, As You Desire Me, A Bill of Divorcement, A Farewell to Arms, Madame Rocketeer, Payment Deferred, Scarface, Tarzan the Ape Man, Trouble in Paradise, Two Seconds
1931 Cimarron, City Lights, City Streets, Dishonored, The Front Page, The Guardsman, Quick Millions, Rango, Surrender, Tabu
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front, Holiday, Laughter, The Man From Blankey´s, Men Without Women, Morocco, Outward Bound, Romance, The Street of Chance, Tol´able David
1929 Applause, Broadway, Bulldog Drummond, The Case of Lena Smith, Disraeli, Halleujah, The Letter, The Love Parade, Paris Bound, The Valiant

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