Longtime readers of this blog know that every year around this time I post an updated “student tomato-meter” showing the aggregated results of the ratings — on a scale from one-to-10 — that my students have given to every movie I’ve shown in my film studies classes. I’ve now taught 58 classes and shown a total of 237 unique movies over the past five-and-a-half years. Incredibly, I recently realized that I’ve shown at least one movie that was originally released during every single calendar year from 1920 through the present (boo-yah!). Below is a list of all the films I have screened to date, presented in chronological order by release date, along with the average ratings given by my students. Below that I’ve also included a list of the top 10 highest rated films. Enjoy!

The list in chronological order:

The Golem (Wegener/Boese, Germany, 1920) – 6.0

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, Germany, 1920) – 6.5

The Phantom Carriage (Sjostrom, Sweden, 1921) – 7.3

Nosferatu (Murnau, Germany, 1922) – 6.5

Our Hospitality (Keaton, USA, 1923) – 8.3

Waxworks (Leni, Germany, 1924) – 5.1

The Hands of Orlac (Wiene, Germany, 1924) – 6.2

Sherlock Jr. (Keaton, USA, 1924) – 7.9

Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, Soviet Union, 1925) – 5.1

The Last Laugh (Murnau, Germany, 1925) – 7.3

The Gold Rush (Chaplin, USA, 1925) – 8.0

The Navigator (Keaton, 1925) – 8.1

Seven Chances (Keaton, USA, 1925) – 8.2

The Freshman (Newmeyer/Taylor, USA, 1925) – 8.3

Faust (Murnau, Germany, 1926) – 7.0

The General (Keaton, USA, 1926) – 8.5

The End of St. Petersburg (Pudovkin, Soviet Union, 1927) – 5.0

Metropolis (Lang, Germany, 1927) – 6.6

Sunrise (Murnau, USA, 1927) – 7.0

Lonesome (Fejos, USA, 1928) – 6.7

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, France, 1928) – 7.3

Man with the Movie Camera (Vertov, Soviet Union, 1929) – 6.0

A Cottage on Dartmoor (Asquith, UK, 1929) – 8.3

Earth (Dovzhenko, Soviet Union, 1930) – 3.6

City Girl (Murnau, USA, 1930) – 6.5

L’age D’or (Bunuel, France, 1930) – 6.6

M (Lang, Germany, 1931) – 8.1

City Lights (Chaplin, USA, 1931) – 8.4

Vampyr (Dreyer, Denmark/Germany, 1932) – 6.9

Duck Soup (McCarey, USA, 1933) – 6.8

L’atalante (Vigo, France, 1934) – 6.7

Top Hat (Sandrich, USA, 1935) – 8.6

My Man Godfrey (La Cava, USA, 1936) – 8.5

Grand Illusion (Renoir, France, 1937) – 7.0

The Awful Truth (McCarey, USA, 1937) – 8.5

Only Angels Have Wings (Hawks, USA, 1937) – 9.4

Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, Soviet Union, 1938) – 5.0

Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, USA, 1938) – 8.3

The Rules of the Game (Renoir, France, 1939) – 7.1

Stagecoach (Ford, USA, 1939) – 7.7

The Roaring Twenties (Walsh, USA, 1939) – 8.4

The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, USA, 1940) – 7.4

How Green Was My Valley (Ford, USA, 1941) – 6.8

The Lady Eve (Sturges, USA, 1941) – 8.3

Citizen Kane (Welles, USA, 1941) – 8.3

Cat People (Tourneur, USA, 1942) – 5.0

The Palm Beach Story (Sturges, USA, 1942) – 7.5

Casablanca (Curtiz, USA, 1942) – 7.6

Ossessione (Visconti, Italy, 1943) – 5.2

The More the Merrier (Stevens, USA, 1943) – 8.5

To Have and Have Not (Hawks, USA, 1944) – 7.5

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Sturges, USA, 1944) – 8.0

Double Indemnity (Wilder, USA, 1944) – 8.1

Detour (Ulmer, USA, 1945) – 7.2

Rome, Open City (Rossellini, Italy, 1945) – 7.2

Brief Encounter (Lean, England, 1945) – 8.3

The Big Sleep (Hawks, USA, 1946) – 6.0

My Darling Clementine (Ford, USA, 1946) – 7.3

The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, USA, 1946) – 8.4

Pursued (Walsh, USA, 1947) – 7.1

Out of the Past (Tourneur, USA, 1947) – 7.6

Body and Soul (Rossen, USA, 1947) – 7.6

The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, USA, 1947) – 7.9

Dead Reckoning (Cromwell, USA, 1947) – 8.2

Germany Year Zero (Rossellini, Italy/Germany, 1948) – 7.4

Fort Apache (Ford, USA, 1948) – 7.5

Bicycle Thieves (de Sica, Italy 1948) – 8.0

The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger, UK, 1948) – 8.3

Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls, USA, 1948) – 8.8

The Third Man (Reed, UK, 1949) – 8.0

White Heat (Walsh, USA, 1949) – 8.3

A Letter to Three Wives (Mankiewicz, USA, 1949) – 8.4

Devil’s Doorway (Mann, USA, 1950) – 7.3

Los Olvidados (Bunuel, Mexico, 1950) – 7.5

The African Queen (Huston, 1951) – 8.3

Umberto D. (De Sica, Italy, 1952) – 6.8

Singin’ in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, USA, 1952) – 8.8

Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953) – 6.7

Tokyo Story (Ozu, Japan, 1953) – 6.7

The Naked Spur (Mann, USA, 1953) – 7.0

Strangers on a Train (Strangers on a Train, USA, 1953) – 7.8

The Band Wagon (Minnelli, USA, 1953) – 8.0

Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Tati, France, 1953) – 8.1

Pickup on South Street (Fuller, USA, 1953) – 8.2

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks, USA, 1953) – 8.3

Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, Japan, 1954) – 7.0

Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, Japan, 1954) – 8.3

Rear Window (Hitchcock, USA, 1954) – 8.9

All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, USA, 1955) – 8.1

Pather Panchali (Ray, India, 1955) – 6.4

Aparajito (Ray, India, 1956) – 6.6

Bigger Than Life (N. Ray, USA, 1956) – 6.8

The Searchers (John Ford, USA, 1956) – 7.4

A Man Escaped (Bresson, France, 1956) – 8.0

An Affair to Remember (McCarey, USA, 1957) – 8.7

Touch of Evil (Welles, USA, 1958) – 7.7

Some Came Running (Minnelli, USA, 1958) – 7.7

Vertigo (Hitchcock, USA, 1958) – 8.9

Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais, France, 1959) – 6.8

Pickpocket (Bresson, France, 1959) – 7.3

Rio Bravo (Hawks, USA, 1959) – 8.0

North By Northwest (Hitchcock, USA, 1959) – 8.6

The 400 Blows (Truffaut, France, 1959) – 8.8

Some Like It Hot (Wilder, USA, 1959) – 9.2

L’avventura (Antonioni, Italy, 1960) – 7.4

Breathless (Godard, France, 1960) – 7.8

Les Bonnes Femmes (Chabrol, France, 1960) – 8.0

Psycho (Hitchcock, USA, 1960) – 8.8

Viridiana (Bunuel, Spain, 1961) – 5.8

Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, France, 1961) – 6.8

Le Doulos (Melville, France, 1962) – 7.1

Vivre sa Vie (Godard, France, 1962) – 7.2

Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda, France, 1962) – 7.4

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, USA, 1962) – 8.3

8 1/2 (Fellini, Italy, 1963) – 6.5

Black Sabbath (Bava, Italy, 1963) – 7.1

Contempt (Godard, France, 1963) – 8.3

Shock Corridor (Fuller, USA, 1963) – 8.4

Onibaba (Shindo, Japan, 1964) – 8.0

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy, France, 1964) – 8.2

Alphaville (Godard, France, 1965) – 6.0

Pierrot le Fou (Godard, France, 1965) – 8.3

The Pornographers (Imamura, Japan, 1966) – 6.9

Point Blank (Boorman, USA, 1966) – 7.0

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, Italy, 1966) – 8.8

David Holzman’s Diary (McBride, USA, 1967) – 6.9

Le Samourai (Melville, France, 1967) – 8.0

Play Time (Tati, France, 1967) – 8.2

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, USA, 1968) – 7.6

My Night at Maud’s (Rohmer, France, 1969) – 7.8

The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, USA, 1969) – 8.1

Le Boucher (Chabrol, France, 1970) – 7.5

Minnie and Moskowitz (Cassavetes, USA, 1971) – 5.2

McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman, USA, 1971) – 7.0

Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, USA, 1971) – 7.7

A New Leaf (May, USA, 1971) – 8.0

Solaris (Tarkovsky, Russia, 1972) – 6.9

Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer, France, 1972) – 8.6

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, Germany, 1973) – 7.1

The Mother and the Whore (Eustache, France, 1973) – 7.4

Badlands (Malick, 1973) – 7.6

The Long Goodbye (Altman, USA, 1973) – 7.8

Young Frankenstein (Brooks, USA, 1974) – 7.6

Black Christmas (Clark, Canada, 1974) – 8.2

Chinatown (Polanski, USA, 1974) – 8.2

Blazing Saddles (Brooks, USA, 1974) – 8.4

Night Moves (Penn, USA, 1975) – 8.1

The Irony of Fate: Or Enjoy Your Bath! (Ryazanov, Russia, 1975) – 8.5

Mikey and Nicky (May, USA, 1976) – 6.4

Taxi Driver (Scorsese, USA, 1976) – 8.8

One Way Boogie Woogie (Benning, USA, 1977) – 3.4

Annie Hall (Allen, USA, 1977) – 6.6

Days of Heaven (Malick, USA, 1978) – 7.3

Killer of Sheep (Burnett, USA, 1979) – 7.8

Popeye (Altman, USA, 1980) – 5.2

Raging Bull (Scorsese, USA, 1980) – 8.3

The Road Warrior (Miller, Australia, 1981) – 7.4

Rock in Reykjavik (Fridriksson, Iceland, 1982) – 6.3

The Slumber Party Massacre (Jones, USA, 1982) – 6.8

Blade Runner (Scott, USA, 1982) – 7.6

The Thing (Carpenter, USA, 1982) – 8.3

Sans Soleil (Marker, France, 1983) – 6.2

Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, USA, 1984) – 6.2

After Hours (Scorsese, USA, 1985) – 6.7

Bad Blood (Carax, France, 1986) – 7.1

The Dead (Huston, USA/UK, 1987) – 7.8

The Thin Blue Line (Morris, USA, 1988) – 7.8

A Short Film About Love (Kieslowski, Poland, 1988) – 8.4

Drugstore Cowboy (Van Sant, USA, 1989) – 8.2

Goodfellas (Scorsese, USA, 1990) – 9.2

Close-Up (Kiarostami, Iran, 1991) – 7.6

The Lovers on the Bridge (Carax, France, 1991) – 8.0

The Player (Altman, USA, 1992) – 8.1

Unforgiven (Eastwood, USA, 1992) – 8.6

Deep Cover (Duke, USA, 1992) – 8.9

The Bride With White Hair (Yu, Hong Kong, 1993) – 5.1

Naked (Leigh, UK, 1993) – 6.3

Groundhog Day (Ramis, USA, 1993) – 8.1

Dazed and Confused (Linklater, USA, 1993) – 8.2

Menace II Society (Hughes/Hughes, USA, 1993) – 8.2

The Piano (Campion, New Zealand, 1993) – 8.6

Ed Wood (Burton, USA, 1994) – 6.8

Chungking Express (Wong, Hong Kong, 1994) – 7.9

Dead Man (Jarmsuch, USA, 1995) – 8.1

A Moment of Innocence (Makhmalbaf, Iran, 1996) – 5.8

The Mirror (Panahi, Iran, 1997) – 5.1

The Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami, Iran, 1997) – 7.2

L.A. Confidential (Hanson, USA, 1997) – 9.0

The Bird People in China (Miike, Japan, 1998) – 6.6

Beau Travail (Denis, France/Djibouti, 1999) – 5.4

Nowhere to Hide (Lee, S. Korea, 1999) – 7.5

Audition (Miike, Japan, 1999) – 7.6

Ravenous (Bird, UK/USA, 1999) – 8.0

Needing You (To/Wai, Hong Kong, 2000) – 7.1

In the Mood for Love (Wong, Hong Kong, 2000) – 7.4

The Day I Became a Woman (Meshkini, Iran, 2000) – 7.5

Failan (Song, S. Korea, 2000) – 8.0

Dancer in the Dark (Von Trier, Denmark/Sweden, 2000) – 8.1

Yi Yi (Yang, Taiwan, 2000) – 8.4

JSA: Joint Security Area (Park, S. Korea, 2000) – 8.4

Avalon (Oshii, Japan/Poland, 2001) 7 .8

Mulholland Drive (Lynch, USA, 2001) – 8.3

The Devil’s Backbone (Del Toro, Spain/Mexico, 2001) – 8.6

Far From Heaven (Haynes, USA, 2002) – 7.6

Infernal Affairs (Lau/Mak, Hong Kong, 2002) – 7.8

The Tracker (De Heer, Australia, 2002) – 7.9

Save the Green Planet (Jang, S. Korea, 2003) – 7.0

Oldboy (Park, S. Korea, 2003) – 8.6

Memories of Murder (Bong, S. Korea, 2003) – 8.8

Dumplings (Chan, Hong Kong, 2004) – 6.4

The Island of Black Mor (Laguionie, France, 2004) – 8.1

Moolade (Sembene, Senegal, 2004) – 8.2

3-Iron (Kim, S. Korea, 2004) – 8.8

Before Sunset (Linklater, USA/France, 2004) – 9.1

The Proposition (Hillcoat, Australia, 2005) – 8.1

Grizzly Man (Herzog, USA, 2005) – 8.1

A History of Violence (Cronenberg, Canada/USA, 2005) – 9.1

A Scanner Darkly (Linklater, USA, 2006) – 8.0

Offside (Panahi, Iran, 2006) – 8.1

Once (Carney, UK, 2006) – 8.8

The Host (Bong, S. Korea, 2006) 8.9

Zodiac (Fincher, USA, 2007) – 9.1

The Headless Woman (Martel, Argentina, 2008) – 6.1

Me and Orson Welles (Linklater, USA, 2008) – 7.9

The House of the Devil (West, USA, 2009) – 8.1

The Hunter (Pitts, Iran, 2010) – 6.8

The Social Network (Fincher, USA, 2010) – 8.5

Sleeping Sickness (Kohler, Germany, 2011) – 6.6

Drive (Refn, USA, 2011) – 8.1

Holy Motors (Carax, France, 2012) – 8.6

Spring Breakers (Korine, USA, 2012) – 9.4

Only Lovers Left Alive (Jarmusch, USA, 2013) – 6.3

Jimmy P. (Desplechin, France/USA, 2013) – 7.7

Before Midnight (Linklater, USA, 2013) – 7.8

Nymphomaniac (Von Trier, Denmark/Germany, 2013) – 9.2

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Anderson, USA, 2014) – 8.9

Boyhood (Linklater, USA, 2014) – 9.8

A countdown of the top 10 highest ranked films:

10. L.A. Confidential (Hanson, USA, 1997) – 9.0

9. Zodiac (Fincher, USA, 2007) – 9.1

8. Before Sunset (Linklater, USA/France, 2004) – 9.1

7. A History of Violence (Cronenberg, Canada/USA, 2005) – 9.1

6. Nymphomaniac (Von Trier, Denmark/Germany, 2013) – 9.2

5. Goodfellas (Scorsese, USA, 1990) – 9.2

4. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, USA, 1959) – 9.2

3. Only Angels Have Wings (Hawks, USA, 1937) – 9.4

2. Spring Breakers (Korine, USA, 2012) – 9.4

1. Boyhood (Linklater, USA, 2014) – 9.8