20 Greatest Movies of Each Year 2010s

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Criteria: The movies are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.

List Begun: 2021-11-02
20 Greatest Movies of Each Year 2010s

20 Greatest Movies of 2019

  #. Movie Title - (Directors Name)

  1. Parasite - (Bong Joon-Ho)
  2. The Irishman - (Martin Scorsese)
  3. Joker - (Todd Phillips)
  4. Avengers: Endgame - (Anthony & Joe Russo)
  5. Once upon a Time in... Hollywood - (Quentin Tarantino)
  6. 1917 - (Sam Mendes)
  7. Marriage Story - (Noah Baumbach)
  8. Portrait of a Lady on Fire - (Céline Sciamma)
  9. Little Women - (Greta Gerwig)
10. Pain and Glory - (Pedro Almodóvar)
11. Knives Out - (Rian Johnson)
12. Uncut Gems - (Benny & Joshua Safdie)
13. The Farewell - (Lulu Wang)
14. Jojo Rabbit - (Taika Waititi)
15. Ford v Ferrari - (James Mangold)
16. Sound of Metal - (Darius Marder)
17. Toy Story 4 - (Josh Cooley)
18. Midsommar - (Ari Aster)
19. Us - (Jordan Peele)
20. The Lighthouse - (Robert Eggers)

Parasite movie poster

20 Greatest Movies of 2018

  1. Roma - (Alfonso Cuarón)
  2. Shoplifters - (Hirokazu Koreeda)
  3. Black Panther - (Ryan Coogler)
  4. The Favourite - (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  5. A Star Is Born - (Bradley Cooper)
  6. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman)
  7. BlacKkKlansman - (Spike Lee)
  8. Avengers: Infinity War - (Anthony & Joe Russo)
  9. Cold War - (Pawel Pawlikowski)
10. Bohemian Rhapsody - (Bryan Singer)
11. Hereditary - (Ari Aster)
12. Burning - (Lee Chang-dong)
13. Mission: Impossible - Fallout - (Christopher McQuarrie)
14. If Beale Street Could Talk - (Barry Jenkins)
15. A Quiet Place - (John Krasinski)
16. Green Book - (Peter Farrelly)
17. Capernaum - (Nadine Labaki)
18. Isle of Dogs - (Wes Anderson)
19. Incredibles 2 - (Brad Bird)
20. Eighth Grade - (Bo Burnham)

Roma movie poster

20 Greatest Movies of 2017

  1. Get Out - (Jordan Peele)
  2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - (Martin McDonagh)
  3. Call Me by Your Name - (Luca Guadagnino)
  4. The Shape of Water - (Guillermo del Toro)
  5. Dunkirk - (Christopher Nolan)
  6. Lady Bird - (Greta Gerwig)
  7. Blade Runner 2049 - (Dennis Villeneuve)
  8. Phantom Thread - (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  9. Coco - (Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina)
10. Logan - (James Mangold)
11. The Florida Project - (Sean Baker)
12. Wonder Woman - (Patty Jenkins)
13. The Square - (Ruben Östlund)
14. BPM (Beats per Minute) - (Robin Campillo)
15. Thor: Ragnarok - (Taika Waititi)
16. Baby Driver - (Edgar Wright)
17. Star Wars: The Last Jedi - (Rian Johnson)
18. Loveless - (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
19. A Fantastic Woman - (Sebastián Lelio)
20. The Death of Stalin - (Armando Iannucci)

Get Out movie poster

20 Greatest Movies of 2016

  1. La La Land - (Damien Chazelle)
  2. Moonlight - (Barry Jenkins)
  3. Arrival - (Denis Villeneuve)
  4. Manchester by the Sea - (Kenneth Lonergan)
  5. Toni Erdmann - (Maren Ade)
  6. The Handmaiden - (Park Chan-Wook)
  7. Zootopia - (Byron Howard & Rich Moore)
  8. Deadpool - (Tim Miller)
  9. Elle - (Paul Verhoeven)
10. Hacksaw Ridge - (Mel Gibson)
11. Your Name. - (Makoto Shinkai)
12. Hell or High Water - (David Mackenzie)
13. Captain America: Civil War - (Anthony & Joe Russo)
14. I, Daniel Blake - (Ken Loach)
15. Paterson - (Jim Jarmusch)
16. Hidden Figures - (Theodore Melfi)
17. The Salesman - (Asghar Farhadi)
18. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - (Gareth Edwards)
19. Lion - (Garth Davis)
20. The Jungle Book - (Jon Favreau)

La La Land movie poster

20 Greatest Movies of 2015

  1. Mad Max: Fury Road - (George Miller)
  2. Inside Out - (Pete Docter & Ronnie del Carmen)
  3. The Revenant - (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  4. Spotlight - (Tom McCarthy)
  5. Carol - (Todd Haynesv)
  6. Son of Saul - (László Nemes)
  7. The Martian - (Ridley Scott)
  8. Room - (Lenny Abrahamson)
  9. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - (J.J. Abrams)
10. Brooklyn - (John Crowley)
11. The Big Short - (Adam McKay)
12. Creed - (Ryan Coogler)
13. Straight Outta Compton - (F. Gary Gray)
14. Tangerine - (Sean Baker)
15. Sicario - (Denis Villeneuve)
16. The Assassin - (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
17. Anomalisa - (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson)
18. Bridge of Spies - (Steven Spielberg)
19. Furious 7 - (James Wan)
20. The Witch - (Robert Eggers)

Mad Max: Fury Road movie poster

20 Greatest Movies of 2014

  1. Boyhood - (Richard Linklater)
  2. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  3. The Grand Budapest Hotel - (Wes Anderson)
  4. Whiplash - (Damien Chazelle)
  5. Gone Girl - (David Fincher)
  6. Leviathan - (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
  7. Guardians of the Galaxy - (James Gunn)
  8. Interstellar - (Christopher Nolan)
  9. The Imitation Game - (Morten Tyldum)
10. Ex Machina - (Alex Garland)
11. Captain America: The Winter Soldier - (Anthony & Joe Russo)
12. X-Men: Days of Future Past - (Bryan Singer)
13. The Lego Movie - (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller)
14. American Sniper - (Clint Eastwood)
15. Nightcrawler - (Dan Gilroy)
16. Selma - (Ava DuVernay)
17. It Follows - (David Robert Mitchell)
18. Wild Tales - (Damián Szifron)
19. Edge of Tomorrow - (Doug Liman)
20. John Wick - (Chad Stahelski)

Boyhood movie poster

20 Greatest Movies of 2013

  1. Gravity - (Alfonso Cuarón)
  2. 12 Years a Slave - (Steve McQueen)
  3. The Wolf of Wall Street - (Martin Scorsese)
  4. Her - (Spike Jonze)
  5. Blue Is the Warmest Colour - (Abdellatif Kechiche)
  6. The Great Beauty - (Paolo Sorrentino)
  7. Inside Llewyn Davis - (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  8. Frozen - (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee)
  9. Captain Phillips - (Paul Greengrass)
10. American Hustle - (David O. Russell)
11. Ida - (Pawel Pawlikowski)
12. Before Midnight - (Richard Linklater)
13. Nebraska - (Alexander Payne)
14. The Wind Rises - (Hayao Miyazaki)
15. Prisoners - (Denis Villeneuve)
16. The Conjuring - (James Wan)
17. Under the Skin - (Jonathan Glazer)
18. Dallas Buyers Club - (Jean-Marc Vallée)
19. Rush - (Ron Howard)
20. Fruitvale Station - (Ryan Coogler)

Gravity movie poster

20 Greatest Movies of 2012

  1. Amour - (Michael Haneke)
  2. Django Unchained - (Quentin Tarantino)
  3. The Avengers - (Joss Whedon)
  4. Argo - (Ben Affleck)
  5. Silver Linings Playbook - (David O. Russell)
  6. The Act of Killing - (Joshua Oppenheimer)
  7. Skyfall - (Sam Mendes)
  8. Life of Pi - (Ang Lee)
  9. Moonrise Kingdom - (Wes Anderson)
10. Zero Dark Thirty - (Kathryn Bigelow)
11. The Master - (Paul Thomas Anderson)
12. Lincoln - (Steven Spielberg)
13. Beasts of the Southern Wild - (Benh Zeitlin)
14. Holy Motors - (Leos Carax)
15. The Dark Knight Rises - (Christopher Nolan)
16. The Hunt - (Thomas Vinterberg)
17. Looper - (Rian Johnson)
18. Les misérables - (Tom Hooper)
19. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - (Stephen Chbosky)
20. The Hunger Games - (Gary Ross)

Amour movie poster

20 Greatest Movies of 2011

  1. The Tree of Life - (Terrence Malick)
  2. A Separation - (Asghar Farhadi)
  3. Drive - (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  4. Hugo - (Martin Scorsese)
  5. The Artist - (Michel Hazanavicius)
  6. Melancholia - (Lars von Trier)
  7. The Descendants - (Alexander Payne)
  8. Midnight in Paris - (Woody Allen)
  9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 - (David Yates)
10. Bridesmaids - (Paul Feig)
11. The Turin Horse - (Béla Tarr)
12. Moneyball - (Bennett Miller)
13. The Intouchables - (Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano)
14. Shame - (Steve McQueen)
15. Once upon a Time in Anatolia - (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
16. Rango - (Gore Verbinski)
17. Le Havre - (Aki Kaurismäki)
18. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - (Tomas Alfredson)
19. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - (David Fincher)
20. Rise of the Planet of the Apes - (Rupert Wyatt)

The Tree of Life movie poster

20 Greatest Movies of 2010

  1. The Social Network - (David Fincher)
  2. Inception - (Christopher Nolan)
  4. Toy Story 3 - (Lee Unkrich)
  4. Black Swan - (Darren Aronofsky)
  5. The King's Speech - (Tom Hooper)
  6. True Grit - (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  7. The Fighter - (David O. Russell)
  8. Winter's Bone - (Debra Granik)
  9. How to Train Your Dragon - (Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders)
10. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives - (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
11. Incendies - (Denis Villeneuve)
12. Shutter Island - (Martin Scorsese)
13. The Kids Are All Right - (Lisa Cholodenko)
14. Certified Copy - (Abbas Kiarostami)
15. 127 Hours- (Danny Boyle)
16. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - (Edgar Wright)
17. Exit Through the Gift Shop - (Banksy)
18. Kick-Ass - (Matthew Vaughn)
19. The Ghost Writer - (Roman Polanski)
20. Carlos - (Olivier Assayas)

The Social Network movie poster
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