Browse by Year
31 ranked years across 1,421 titles. Pick a year to see its best films and the series that premiered in it, or start with the catalogue's highest score — The Godfather (1972).
Celluloid has a ranked page for each of 31 release years, from 1994 to 2026. Every year page lists that year's films and the series that premiered in it, ordered by Celluloid Score — a composite of up to four verified inputs: Celluloid editorial, Metascore, IMDb and Letterboxd. Audience sentiment is separate.
The 2020s
The 2010s
The 2000s
- 2009 17 titles A Prophet
- 2008 22 titles The Dark Knight
- 2007 17 titles 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- 2006 21 titles Pan's Labyrinth
- 2005 16 titles Brokeback Mountain
- 2004 21 titles The Incredibles
- 2003 20 titles The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- 2002 17 titles The Pianist
- 2001 15 titles Spirited Away
- 2000 14 titles Yi Yi
The 1990s
Frequently asked questions
How do I find the best movies of a given year?
Celluloid has a ranked page for each of 31 release years, from 1994 to 2026. Every year page lists that year's films and the series that premiered in it, ordered by Celluloid Score — a composite of up to four verified inputs: Celluloid editorial, Metascore, IMDb and Letterboxd. Audience sentiment is separate.
Why do some years not have a page?
A year gets its own page once Celluloid ranks at least eight titles from it, so the ranking means something. Sparser years are still reachable from each film's page and from the decade groupings on this index.