Can you name the movies in the IMDb Top 250 for each year?

created by Jethro

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Source: IMDb
Name one movie from each year represented in the IMDb top 250 list as of 9/19/2012.
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Year	Movie	Number of Films
2012		3
2011		5
2010		6
2009		7
2008		8
2007		6
2006		4
2005		3
2004		5
2003		7
2002		4
2001		7
2000		6
1999		5
1998		5
1997		4
1996		2
1995		8
1994		6
1993		4
1992		2
1991		3
1990		1
1989		1
1988		5
1987		2
1986		3
1985		2

Year	Movie	Number of Films
1984		4
1983		3
1982		4
1981		2
1980		4
1979		5
1978		1
1977		2
1976		3
1975		5
1974		2
1973		3
1972		1
1971		1
1970		1
1969		2
1968		3
1967		3
1966		3
1965		1
1964		2
1963		2
1962		4
1961		2
1960		3
1959		6
1958		2
1957		6

Year	Movie	Number of Films
1956		2
1955		1
1954		5
1953		2
1952		2
1951		2
1950		4
1949		1
1948		3
1946		3
1944		2
1943		1
1942		1
1941		2
1940		3
1939		3
1938		1
1936		1
1934		1
1933		1
1931		2
1930		1
1927		1
1926		1
1925		1
1922		1
1921		1

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IMDb Top 250 Movies By Year Quiz

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	corndog:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 05:23 GMT		17 points
	I love that I can get nine solely from Pixar films.

	featherfish81:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 05:51 GMT		3 points
	Wow, I was way off on some of those years, and didn't even try it in the correct year. And to start the list of surprises, I expected Philadelphia would be on there.

	starfish:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 05:53 GMT		24 points
	After doing this quiz, I really wonder whether the IMDb voters are being exposed to enough classic cinema. I mean, are "The Social Network," "How to Train Your Dragon" and "WALL-E" really so much better than "The Sound of Music" and "The African Queen"?

	REM80s:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 05:57 GMT		26 points
	It's amazing to see a movie like "Kick-Ass" be in the top 250 movies of all time (according to IMDB) but "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" did not make the cut... something is wrong here

	rockgolf:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 06:31 GMT		11 points
	@REM80s: If Drew Barrymore had just worn a purple wig....

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	reliv1908:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 06:59 GMT		1 point
	1994 was ridiculous. the current #1 movie on imdb (shawshank redemption) didn't even win best picture - lost to forrest gump. oh and pulp fiction was pretty good too.

	senob44:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 07:10 GMT		28 points
	Not even going to try. I have no idea what exact year anything over 20 or so years old came out and I'd rather not madly type in the same movies over and over just because I'm off by two or three years. Love the idea, just think it needs a better implementation, although I understand you don't want it to be a sheer "name the top movies" quiz.

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	y2jdilemma:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 08:43 GMT		16 points
	I have to agree with senob. You dont want "name a bunch of good movies". But at the same time, when a list like this doesnt include Rain Man or ET (among various other major omissions) the format makes the quiz rather tedious, and quite frankly, not much fun.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 09:54 GMT		17 points
	I agree with senob and y2jdilemma. I love movie quizzes but the format of this one became tedious very quickly.

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	cocky:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 12:52 GMT		13 points
	Fabulous surprise. I just reported your spam.

	remi27:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 13:35 GMT		9 points
	Way too difficult. I don't know the exact year every movie came out.

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	Psychward:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 14:42 GMT		10 points
	"Crash" and "Million Dollar Baby" couldn't both have been 2004 films, because they won Best Picture Oscars in successive years.

	Sulli:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 14:45 GMT		2 points
	you can clearly tell that the majority of people that go on to vote for the Top 250 Movies of All Time on IMDB dont know one thing about what a good movie actually is. you can also clearly tell that they grew up in the '90s and '00s. How else would it be possible that nearly half of the movies on the list are within that 20 year period, yet that Golden Age of Film ('20s-'50s) account for less than 70 of those movies? I am a child of '90s and '00s, but I have no problem admitting that there are very few, if any, films over the past 20 years that I consider within the top 250 of all time. Hell, I doubt that I would even consider them for the top 500.

	mr_parcheesi:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 14:48 GMT		8 points
	crash was made in 2004 but released in 2005. also, this reminds me why i hate the imdb top 250 so much.

	alleyt1989:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 15:16 GMT		1 point
	that was fun, it's weird, i found the 80's the toughest decade of all of them :(

	MrCaliChicago:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 15:27 GMT		4 points
	No "Do The Right Thing"???

	Fidelio:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 15:55 GMT		2 points
	I don't know why people are voting down Jethro's comment above, where he explains why Crash is listed for 2004. The quiz is specifically about the IMDB, so I think the appropriate thing to do is use the years that IMDB uses. And IMDB lists Crash as a 2004 film.

	pegcle:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 16:44 GMT		-3 points
	thank goodness for copy and paste...but I don't get the topic 'imdb top 250 movies by year'. There were 3 or 5 or 2...Can someone explain which movies they were looking for? Why not just ask for one of the top 5 each year?

	wnw05:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 17:33 GMT		6 points
	what do you people expect honestly? most of the people that made or voted are this list are probably under 30

	Leroy573:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 17:49 GMT		14 points
	funny how titanic is absent.

	starkiller:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 18:02 GMT		2 points
	just like some other people have already said, it's frustrating that you have to type in movies for the exact year. It's just way to hard to remember the exact year of something that came out in the 70's, and I don't want to type in A Clockwork Orange 7 times before I finally get it. Then just decrease the time a few minutes to counter too much random guessing. It's also surprising how many Academy Award Best Picture winners aren't on the list, and sometimes not even any nominees in a given year made the list. Pretty weak IMDB.

	twarner50:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 19:41 GMT		0 points
	Don't understand why people are criticizing this quiz for themselves not knowing what year a film came out. Hint: If the movie you typed in for a given year didn't work, TRY ANOTHER FILM and stop complaining. I thought this quiz was fun and very well done.

	Jethro:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 20:57 GMT		4 points
	What year a movie came out is just as valid and relevant of trivia about the film as its director or lead actor. This being a TRIVIA website, I do not see what there is to gain by complaining about the difficulty of the game. I'm sorry if a hard game makes somebody enjoy it less, but that does not mean it is a bad or faulty game.

	m0le:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 21:39 GMT		-2 points
	no Jethro, defend the game by all means but don't think that it is everyone else that is wrong about it. That's just a badly thought out quiz. There's too many variables with the year and the IMDB list is hardly common trivia knowledge. Then the actual time it would take to type all these out even if you got them all right, first time - which is absolutely impossible - makes it just not fun. starkiller is right - have a point there, starkiller.

	sc00:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 22:34 GMT		3 points
	I thought the idea for the quiz was good, but I did not take it because I knew it would be extremely tedious. Who knows what the exact IMDB list is? I don't offhand. I have an idea. Then to have to guess the correct year on top of that. Too much.

	strags11:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 23:14 GMT		11 points
	Methinks it's time for IMDB to revisit its rating formula. Call me crazy, but I'm having a hard time believing that almost 40% of the greatest movies of all time were released in the past 15 years.

	stingem3929:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 23:36 GMT		1 point
	shadow of a doubt isnt on the list now http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

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