Best Single Year for Movies?

[Midnightangel]

The top 5 in order:

1974
1993
2010
1975
2013

Could you list the movies you think makes these years better than the others?

 

[olympicoscar]

What year, in your opinion, had the best single year for movies?

I'm going with 1994.


The Lion King

Forrest Gump

Shawshank

Speed

Pulp Fiction

The Crow

True Lies

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Dumb and Dumber

AirHeads

Legends of the Fall


Some GREAT dramas in there, along with a couple great action flicks and side splitting comedies.

Too many dumb movies such as AirHeads, Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura. Speed is not a classic.

 

[olympicoscar]

Since 1990 my two favorites have been Braveheart and Shawshank.

Mine would be Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. I don't think this century has yet produced a GREAT movie.

 

[olympicoscar]

The year 1939, which remains the most celebrated year in the history of film, had five films in the American Film Institute top 100:

Gone With the Wind (1939) (# 4)
The Wizard of Oz (1939) (# 6)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (# 29)
Stagecoach (1939) (# 63)
Wuthering Heights (1939) (# 73)

That would be my number 1 year also.

 

[Nosferatu]

So what year has the best movies? We will look at these in 3 stages. 1939 - 1963 : 1964 - 1988 : 1989 : 2013

1939
Gone with the Wind
Wizard of Oz
Of Mice and Men
Wuthering Heights
Stagecoach
Hunchback of Notre Dame

1941
Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
Sullivan's Travels
Sergeant York
High Sierra
49th Parallel

1946
It's a Wonderful Life
Notorious
Great Expectations
The Big Sleep
My Darling Clementine
The Postman Always Rings Twice

1954
Rear Window
Dial M For Murder
On the Waterfront
The Caine Mutiny
A Star is Born
White Christmas

1959
North by Northwest
Some Like it Hot
Ben-Hur
Rio Bravo
Anatomy of a Murder
Diary of Anne Frank

1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Hustler
Breakfast at Tiffany's
West Side Story
The Guns of Navarone
A Raisin in the Sun

1962
The Manchurian Candidate
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Longest Day
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Cape Fear
Mutiny on the Bounty

 

[Nosferatu]

Obviously there are a few other years that had some good ones but I think these were the top years.

 

[Nosferatu]

Looks like I wasted my time with this one...

 

[steveringo]

I've only seen eight of those movies.... And I'm over 40....

Perhaps just skip to the next round....

 

[Nosferatu]

I've only seen eight of those movies.... And I'm over 40....

Perhaps just skip to the next round....

Only eight? Okay maybe people just don't like classic movies... Oh well. I thought this might be cool to do... I was wrong.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

I believe this thread has been done before. I go with 1994, for me personally it's not even close.

 

[packerzrule]

1972
The Godfather
Deep Throat
Jeremiah Johnson
Deliverance
Cabaret

BTW, I've seen 34 of those films. All classics IMO

 

[Nosferatu]

Of the 42 movies listed i've only seen 25 so...

 

[Nosferatu]

I believe this thread has been done before. I go with 1994, for me personally it's not even close.

Sorry, I didn't know it had been done before, I never seen it.

 

[outofyourmind]

For me, out of what is listed, it's 1959.