Significant Films of Every Year
Submitted by lukeprog on Fri, 07/23/2004 - 10:24
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- A significant film isn't always one of high artistic quality (but usually is). Other considerations include innovation, box office, and historical importance.
- 1890 - Monkeyshines
- 1894 - Annabelle Serpentine Dance
- 1902 - A Trip to the Moon
- 1903 - The Great Train Robbery, The Life of an American Fireman
- 1904 - The Impossible Voyage
- 1906 - The Story of the Kelly Gang
- 1909 - Les Miserables, The Life of Moses, The Lonely Villa, In the Sultan's Power
- 1910 - In Old California, The Broken Oath
- 1911 - Dante's Inferno, Little Nemo
- 1912 - Oliver Twist, An Unseen Enemy, The Musketeers of Pig Alley
- 1913 - Traffic in Souls, Quo Vadis?
- 1914 - Tillie's Punctured Romance, Judith of Bethulia, The Squaw Man
- 1915 - The Birth of a Nation, The Tramp, Les Vampires
- 1916 - Intolerance, Judex
- 1917 - The Silent Man, Easy Street, The Immigrant
- 1918 - Tih Minh, A Dog's Life
- 1919 - Broken Blossoms, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Blind Husbands, Male and Female, True Heart Susie
- 1920 - The Mark of Zorro, Way Down East, Phantom Carriage/Phantom Chariot
- 1921 - The Kid, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Camille, The Three Musketeers
- 1922 - Nanook of the North, Robin Hood, Nosferatu, Cops, Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler
- 1923 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Safety Last, Our Hospitality, Warning Shadows
- 1924 - The Thief of Bagdad, Greed, Sherlock Jr., The Navigator, The Last Laugh, Strike
- 1925 - The Battleship Potemkin, The Gold Rush, The Big Parade, The Plastic Age, The Freshman
- 1926 - The Black Pirate, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Mantrap, Faust, Maciste All' Inferno
- 1927 - Metropolis, The General, Wings, Sunrise, Napoleon, Seventh Heaven
- 1928 - The Crowd, The Last Command, The Wind, The Wedding MarchThe Passion of Joan of Arc, Pandora's Box, The Circus
- 1929 - The Man with the Movie Camera, Diary of a Lost Girl, The Skeleton Dance
- 1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front, Hell's Angels, Little Caesar, Morocco, L'Age d'Or, Blood of a Poet
- 1931 - City Lights, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Public Enemy, M
- 1932 - Frakes, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Scarface, Trouble in Paradise, I Was Born, But...
- 1933 - King Kong, Duck Soup, Dinner at Eight, 42nd Street, Sons of the Desert, Zero for Conduct
- 1934 - It Happened One Night, It's a Gift, The Thin Man, Happiness, L'Atalante
- 1935 - Bride of Frankenstein, Mutiny on the Bounty, A Night at the Opera, The 39 Steps, The Informer
- 1936 - Modern Times, My Man Godfrey, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Camille, The Crime of Monsieur Lange
- 1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, The Awful Truth, Way Out West, Humanity and Paper Balloons, The Grand Illusion
- 1938 - The Adventures of Robin Hood, Bringing Up Baby, Jezebel, Pygmalion, Holiday, Hotel du Nord
- 1939 - Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach, The Rules of the Game
- 1940 - The Shop Around the Corner, The Grapes of Wrath, His Girl Friday, Fantasia, The Great Dictator, Fantasia, The Philadelphia Story, Pinocchio, Rebecca
- 1941 - Citizen Kane, The Lady Eve, The Maltese Falcon, How Green Was My Valley, Dumbo, Sullivan's Travels
- 1942 - Casablanca, Bambi, The Magnificent Ambersons, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Cat People, The Devil's Envoys
- 1943 - The Ox-Bow Incident, Shadow of a Doubt, Day of Wrath, Douce, I Walked with a Zombie
- 1944 - Arsenic and Old Lace, Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Henry V, Laura, Meet Me in St. Louis, Detour
- 1945 - The Lost Weekend, Mildred Pierce, The Bells of St. Mary's
- 1946 - It's a Wonderful Life, A Brief Encounter, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Sleep, Notorious, Stairway to Heaven, The Postman Always Rings TWice, Beauty and the Beast
- 1947 - Out of the Past, The Lady From Shanghai, Germanyy, Year Zero, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- 1948 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Red River, The Bicycle Thief, The Lady From Shanghai
- 1949 - The Third Man, White Heat, Adam's Rib, Gun Crazy, Les Enfants Terribles, On the Town
- 1950 - Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, The Asphalt Jungle, Rashomon
- 1951 - The African Queen, An American in Paris, A Streetcar Named Desire, Strangers on a Train, The Thing From Another World
- 1952 - Singin' in the Rain, High Noon, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Quiet Man
- 1953 - Shane, Roman Holiday, From Hear to Eternity, The Big Heat, The Robe, Tokyo Story
- 1954 - Rear Window, On the Waterfront, Johnny Guitar, The Seven Samurai
- 1955 - Rebel Without a Cause, The Night of teh Hunter, East of Eden, Lady and the Tramp, Bob le Flambeur, Rififi
- 1956 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Searchers, The Ten Commandments, Around the World in 80 Days, War and Peace
- 1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai, Jailhouse Rock, Paths of Glory, 12 Angry Men, Nights of Cabiria, Wild Strawberries
- 1958 - Touch of Evil, Vertigo, The Tiger of Bengal
- 1959 - Ben-Hur, North By Northwest, Some Like It Hot, Sleeping Beauty, Breathless, Rio Bravo, The World of Apu
- 1960 - The Apartment, Psycho, Spartacus, Swiss Family Robinson, La Dolce Vita, L'Awentura
- 1961 - The Hustler, West Side Story, 101 Dalmations, Jules and Jim, Yojimbo
- 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia, The Manchurian Candidate, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, To Kill a Mockinbird, A Knife in the Water, La Jetee, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
- 1963 - The Birds, Cleopatra, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 8 1/2
- 1964 - My Fair Lady, A Hard Day's Night, Mary Poppins, Goldfinger, Dr. Strangelove...
- 1965 - The Sound of Music, Repulsion, Doctor Zhivago, Thunderball, Alphaville
- 1966 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Blow-Up, Andrei Rublev, Persona, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 1967 - Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Cool Hand Luke, The Jungle Book
- 1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Lion in Winter, Night of the Living Dead, Planet of the Apes, Rosemary's Baby, The Producers, Faces
- 1969 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, The Wild Bunch
- 1970 - Patton, M*A*S*H, Five Easy Pieces, Love Story, Airport
- 1971 - A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Get Carter, The Last Picture Show
- 1972 - The Godfather, Cabaret, Deliverence, The Poseidon Adventure, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Harold and Maude
- 1973 - American Graffiti, Badlands, Enter the Dragon, The Exorcist, Mean Streets, The Sting, Amarcord
- 1974 - Chinatown, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Towering Inferno
- 1975 - Jaws, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Man Who Would Be King, Nashville, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- 1976 - Network, Rocky, Taxi Driver, 1900
- 1977 - Annie Hall, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Saturday Night Fever, Star Wars, Smokey and the Bandit
- 1978 - The Deer Hunter, Halloween, Grease, National Lampoon's Animal House, Superman, Dawn of the Dead
- 1979 - Alien, Apocalypse Now, Being There, Manhattan, Monty Python's Life of Brian
- 1980 - Raging Bull, The Shining, The Empire Strikes Back, The Blues Brothers, Airplane!
- 1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blow Out, Das Boot
- 1982 - Blade Runner, E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial, Poltergeist, The Road Warrior, Tootsie, Diner
- 1983 - The King of Comedy, Koyaanisqatsi, Return of the Jedi, Videodrome, Zelig
- 1984 - Amadeus, The Terminator, This Is Spinal Tap, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, Blood Simple
- 1985 - Brazil, Back to the Future, Ran
- 1986 - Blue Velvet, Platoon, Hannah and Her Sisters, Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee, Aliens
- 1987 - Full Metal Jacket, The Last Emperor, Akira, Dekalog, The Princess Bride, Wings of Desire, Withnail & I
- 1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Crimes and Misdemeanors, A Fish Called Wanda, Rain Man, Cinema Paradiso
- 1989 - Do the Right Thing, Field of Dreams, Glory, Henry V, When Harry Met Sally, Batman, Dead Poets Society
- 1990 - Goodfellas, Home Alone, Dances With Wolves, Ghost, Edward Scissorhands
- 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, JFK, Beauty and the Beast, Thelma & Louise
- 1992 - Unforgiven, Aladdin, Malcolm X, The Player, Bad Lieutenant
- 1993 - The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Piano, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, The Fugitive, Carlito's Way, Groundhog Day, Short Cuts
- 1994 - The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, Three Colours: Red
- 1995 - Toy Story, The Usual Suspects, Dead Man Walking, Babe, Trainspotting
- 1996 - Fargo, Breaking the Waves, Sling Blade, Independence Day, Twister
- 1997 - LA Confidential, Titanic, Boogie Nights, Contact, Life is Beautiful, The Sweet Hereafter
- 1998 - Saving Private Ryan, The Truman Show, The Big Lebowski, The Thin Red Line
- 1999 - American Beauty, Being John Malkovich, The Matrix, Toy Story 2, The Sixth Sense, The Phantom Menace, Magnolia, Fight Club, Eyes Wide Shut
- 2000 - Requiem for a Dream, Chicken Run, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Almost Famous, Dancer in the Dark
- 2001 - Memento, Fellowship of the Ring, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Shrek, Amelie, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Dr., Spirited Away, Waking Life
- 2002 - Adaptation, The Two Towers, Spider-Man, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Russian Ark, Bowling for Columbine
- 2003 - Finding Nemo, Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lost in Translation
- 2004 - Shrek 2, Passion of the Christ, Fahrenheit 9/11
how about Kill Bill volume 1 for 2003? it was 1st tarantino movie in 5 yrs.
great idea for a list very cool
I considered it, but not everyone counts the years by Tarantino releases :-)
:() lol you have a point there...:( but i do ;() lol
1984 - ghostbusters
shoot, I thought I put that one on there.
Oh, lol, I did on my first update to the list (but it must have been after your post).
;)