List of years in film

Before Muybridge's 1878 work, photo sequences were not recorded in real-time because light-sensitive emulsions needed a long exposure time. The sequences were basically made as time-lapse recordings. It is possible that people at the time actually viewed such photographs come to life with a phénakisticope or zoetrope (this certainly happened with Muybridge's work).

• 1826 – View from the Window at Le Gras, Nicéphore Niépce takes the oldest known extant photograph.

• 1833 – Since 1833 onwards, 'animated films' or rather animated effects began to be made with the use of phénakisticopes, zoetropes and praxinoscopes.
• 1865 – Revolving, self-portrait by French photographer Nadar. Around 1865 he produced this series of self-portraits consisting of 12 frames showing different angles of him sitting still in a chair. Except for a smile in 1 frame, not even a fold in his jacket or a single hair seems to change between the different angles. This could be regarded as a predecessor to the chronophotography which Marey and Muybridge started to experiment with more than 10 years later. As the sequence revolves around space rather than time it is even more related to the bullet-time effect popularized by The Matrix about 135 years later. There's no clue if more than one camera was used in the shoot, but it's certainly well-executed.

• 1874 – Passage de Vénus, first precedent of a film. On December 9, 1874, french astronomer Pierre Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's 'photographic revolver' photograph the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun. They were purportedly taken in Japan. It is the oldest film on IMDb and Letterboxd.
• 1878 – The Horse in Motion, British photographer Eadweard Muybridge take a series of "automatic electro-photographs" depicting the movement of a horse. Muybridge shot the photographs in June 1878. An additional card reprinted the single image of the horse "Occident" trotting at high speed, which had previously been published by Muybridge in 1877. The most famous of these electro-photographs is "Sallie Gardner" taken on June 19, 1878. Railroad tycoon Leland Stanford hired Muybridge to settle the questions of whether a galloping horse ever had all four of its feet off the ground. Muybridge's photos showed the horse with all four feet off the ground. Muybridge went on a lecture tour showing his photographs on a moving-image device he called the zoopraxiscope.

• 1885 – American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invent a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use.
• 1885 – L'homme Machine, directed by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey. The oldest black and white animated known film.
• 1886 – Louis Le Prince is granted an American dual-patent on a 16-lens device that combines a motion picture camera with a projector.
• 1887 – Man Walking Around a Corner, directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. The oldest known film. Although according to David Wilkinson's 2015 documentary The First Film it's not film, but a series of photographs, 16 in all, each taken from one of the lens from Le Prince's camera. Pictures from the film were sent in a letter dated 18 August 1887 to his wife. Le Prince went on to develop the one lens camera and on the 14th October 1888 he finally made the world's first moving image, Roundhay Garden Scene.
• 1888 – Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving film by French inventor Louis Le Prince, is shot in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, through a groundbreaking 20 frames per second. Others short films made at the same time were Accordion Player and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge.
• 1889 - Eastman Kodak is the first company to begin commercial production of film on a flexible transparent base, celluloid.

• 1890 - London's Trafalgar Square; Monkeyshines
• 1891 - Dickson Greeting; Men Boxing; Newark Athlete
• 1892 – Le Clown et ses chiens; Pauvre Pierrot; Un bon bock, first projected animated films released by Émile Reynaud.
• 1893 – Blacksmiths, the first film shown publicly on the Kinetoscope, a system given to Edison; Thomas Edison creates "America's First Film Studio", Black Maria.
• 1894 –
  • Carmencita, according to film historian Charles Musser, directed and produced by William K.L. Dickson, the Scottish inventor credited with the invention of the motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison was the first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and may have been the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States.[1][2][3]
  • The Dickson Experimental Sound Film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895 is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto-sound-film system developed by Dickson and Thomas Edison. It is also discussed whether it is considered as the first LGBT film. Further in his book The Celluloid Closet (1981), film historian Vito Russo discusses the film, claiming, without attribution, that it was titled The Gay Brothers.[4] Russo's unsupported naming of the film has been adopted widely online and in at least three books, and his unsubstantiated assertions that the film's content is homosexual are frequently echoed.[5] In addition to there being no evidence for the title Russo gives the film, in fact, the word "gay" was not generally used as a synonym for "homosexual" at the time the film was made. A particularly relevant example of the way the word "gay" was actually used is provided by a later Edison Manufacturing Company film, directed by Edwin S. Porter. As described by scholar Linda Williams, The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903).
• 1895 – In Paris, France on December 28, 1895, the Lumière brothers screen ten films at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris making the first commercial public screening ever made, marked traditionally as the birth date of the film; Gaumont Film Company, the oldest ever film studio, is founded by inventor Léon Gaumont.
• 1896 – L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, one of the six more short films released by the Lumière brothers; Pathé-Frères is founded.
• 1897 – Vitagraph is founded in New York City.
• 1898 –The Astronomer's Dream; The Cavalier's Dream; Photographing a Ghost; Santa Claus
• 1899 – The Dreyfus Affair and Cendrillon (first screen adaptation of the traditional fairy tale Cinderella) released by Georges Méliès; earliest known use of a colour motion picture film footage by Edward Raymond Turner.[6]

• 1900 – Sherlock Holmes Baffled, Joan of Arc, The Enchanted Drawing
• 1901 – Blue Beard, Star Theatre, Stop Thief!, Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost
• 1902 – A Trip to the Moon
• 1903 – The Great Train Robbery, The Infernal Cauldron, Life of an American Fireman, Electrocuting an Elephant, The Kingdom of the Fairies
• 1904 – The Impossible Voyage; Titanus is founded
• 1905 – The Black Imp, Rip's Dream, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom
• 1906 – The Story of the Kelly Gang, The Merry Frolics of Satan, The '?' Motorist, Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces; Nordisk Film is founded
• 1907 – Ben-Hur, The Eclipse, or the Courtship of the Sun and Moon, L'Enfant prodigue
• 1908 – Fantasmagorie, A Visit to the Seaside, The Taming of the Shrew, The Thieving Hand, The Assassination of the Duke of Guise; first use of Kinemacolor; Pathé News invents the newsreel.
• 1909 – The Country Doctor, A Corner in Wheat, Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy, Les Misérables; 35 mm film becomes a filmmaking standard across the world.

• 1910 – Frankenstein, In Old California, In the Border States, White Fawn's Devotion
• 1911 – L'Inferno, Baron Munchausen's Dream, Defence of Sevastopol, The Lonedale Operator
• 1912 – The Cameraman's Revenge, Independenţa României, The Musketeers of Pig Alley , Richard III; Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures, Hollywood's two oldest major film studios, are founded; the British Board of Film Classification is established.
• 1913 – The Bangville Police, Fantômas, Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life, Raja Harishchandra; invention of the film trailer
• 1914 – Cabiria, The Perils of Pauline, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Judith of Bethulia
• 1915 – The Birth of a Nation, The Tramp, Les Vampires, A Fool There Was
• 1916 – Intolerance, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Gertie the Dinosaur, The Queen of Spades; invention of Technicolor.
• 1917 – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, A Man There Was
• 1918 – The Outlaw and His Wife, Stella Maris, Mickey, Shifting Sands
• 1919 – Blind Husbands, Broken Blossoms, True Heart Susie, Dalagang Bukid, Male and Female; United Artists is founded.

• 1920 – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Way Down East, The Flapper, The Mark of Zorro, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Golem: How He Came into the World, Within Our Gates
• 1921 – The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Kid, The Phantom Carriage, Fool's Paradise, The Sheik, The Mechanical Man
• 1922 – Nosferatu, Häxan, Foolish Wives, The Little Rascals, Blood and Sand, Nanook of the North, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler; Motion Picture Association of America is established.
• 1923 – Safety Last!, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Our Hospitality, The Ten Commandments; Warner Bros. Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures are founded; 16 mm film introduced.
• 1924 – Sherlock Jr., The Thief of Bagdad, Greed, The Last Laugh, He Who Gets Slapped, Die Nibelungen; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures are founded
• 1925 – The Gold Rush, The Battleship Potemkin, The Big Parade, The Phantom of the Opera, Ben-Hur
• 1926 – The General, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Don Juan
• 1927 – The Jazz Singer, Metropolis, Laurel & Hardy, Wings, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Napoléon, The King of Kings
• 1928 – The Passion of Joan of Arc, Steamboat Willie, Un Chien Andalou, Lights of New York, The Circus, The Crowd; RKO Pictures is founded
• 1929 – Un Chien Andalou, Blackmail, Pandora's Box, Man with a Movie Camera, The Broadway Melody, Disraeli, The Virginian; 1st Academy Awards

• 1930 – Looney Tunes, King of Jazz, All Quiet on the Western Front, Earth, Journey's End, The Blue Angel, Animal Crackers, Hell's Angels, The Big House, Betty Boop
• 1931 – Frankenstein, Dracula, The Champ, The Public Enemy, Little Caesar, Cimarron, M, City Lights, The Front Page
• 1932 – Shanghai Express, Scarface, Tarzan the Ape Man, The Mummy, Freaks, Trouble in Paradise, The Sign of the Cross, Grand Hotel; 8 mm film introduced.
• 1933 – King Kong, Gold Diggers of 1933, Fred & Ginger, The Invisible Man, 42nd Street, Duck Soup, The Three Stooges, She Done Him Wrong
• 1934 – L'Atalante, It Happened One Night, The Thin Man, Cleopatra, The Goddess, Imitation of Life, Manhattan Melodrama, The Black Cat, Bright Eyes
• 1935 – A Night at the Opera, Bride of Frankenstein, The 39 Steps, Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain Blood, Triumph of the Will; 20th Century Fox and The Rank Organisation are founded
• 1936 – Modern Times, Swing Time, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Flash Gordon, My Man Godfrey, The Great Ziegfeld, Come and Get It, Romeo and Juliet
• 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Life of Emile Zola, La Grande Illusion, Pépé le Moko, The Prisoner of Zenda, Lost Horizon
• 1938 – Bringing Up Baby, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Alexander Nevsky, Jezebel, A Christmas Carol, Boys Town, Angels with Dirty Faces
• 1939 – Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, The Rules of the Game, Sherlock Holmes, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Of Mice and Men, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach

• 1940 – His Girl Friday, The Great Dictator, Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Rebecca, Pinocchio, Fantasia, The Grapes of Wrath, The Philadelphia Story, The Blue Bird, Road to... series, Woody Woodpecker
• 1941 – Citizen Kane, The Lady Eve, Sergeant York, Dumbo, How Green Was My Valley, The Maltese Falcon, The Wolf Man
• 1942 – Casablanca, Mrs. Miniver, The Magnificent Ambersons, To Be or Not to Be, Bambi, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Cat People, Saludos Amigos, The Black Swan
• 1943 – Ossessione, The Song of Bernadette, Heaven Can Wait, Phantom of the Opera, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Lassie Come Home, Shadow of a Doubt, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Ox-Bow Incident, Cabin in the Sky, Droopy, The Gang's All Here
• 1944 – Going My Way, Double Indemnity, Meet Me in St. Louis, Ivan the Terrible, Laura, To Have and Have Not, Murder, My Sweet, The Three Caballeros, Gaslight, Buffalo Bill, Bathing Beauty; 1st Golden Globe Awards
• 1945 – Brief Encounter, Children of Paradise, Fallen Angel, Leave Her to Heaven, The Lost Weekend, The Naughty Nineties, Anchors Aweigh, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Rome, Open City, Spellbound, Along Came Jones
• 1946 – It's a Wonderful Life, Notorious, My Darling Clementine, Great Expectations, The Best Years of Our Lives, Song of the South, Make Mine Music, Beauty and the Beast, The Big Sleep, Blue Skies, The Harvey Girls; First Cannes Film Festival
• 1947 – Miracle on 34th Street, Black Narcissus, The Lady from Shanghai, Fun and Fancy Free, Monsieur Verdoux, Out of the Past, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, Odd Man Out, Life with Father
• 1948 – Bicycle Thieves, The Red Shoes, Red River, Two Guys from Texas, Hamlet, Easter Parade, Melody Time, The Paleface, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Joan of Arc, So Dear to My Heart, The Three Musketeers; 1st British Academy Film Awards
• 1949 – The Third Man, Late Spring, All the King's Men, White Heat, Whisky Galore!, Stray Dog, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, The Heiress, On the Town, My Dream is Yours, Samson and Delilah, Tulsa

• 1950 – Rashomon, Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Cinderella, Harvey, Father of the Bride, Orphée, Annie Get Your Gun, In a Lonely Place, Cyrano de Bergerac, King Solomon's Mines, Born Yesterday, Pirates of the High Seas, Destination Moon
• 1951 – David and Bathsheba, A Streetcar Named Desire, An American in Paris, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Alice in Wonderland, Quo Vadis, The Great Caruso, The African Queen, The Thing from Another World, Ace in the Hole, Strangers on a Train, A Place in the Sun, Decision Before Dawn
• 1952 – Singin' in the Rain, High Noon, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Quiet Man, Limelight, This Is Cinerama, The Greatest Show on Earth; first 3D films
• 1953 – Peter Pan, Tokyo Story, From Here to Eternity, Shane, Dangerous When Wet, The War of the Worlds, Ugetsu, The Robe, Trouble in Store, Calamity Jane, The Earrings of Madame de..., Salome, Roman Holiday, The Band Wagon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gun Fury; first use of CinemaScope; British cinema advertisement company Pearl & Dean is founded.
• 1954 – Godzilla, Rear Window, Seven Samurai, Dial M for Murder, White Christmas, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sansho the Bailiff, A Star Is Born, On the Waterfront, La Strada, Three Coins in the Fountain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Barefoot Contessa, 3 Ring Circus, The Adventures of Hajji Baba
• 1955 – The Kentuckian, Rebel Without a Cause, The Night of the Hunter, To Catch a Thief, The Seven Year Itch, Marty, Ordet, Pather Panchali, All That Heaven Allows, Smiles of a Summer Night, Lady and the Tramp, Oklahoma!, Mr. Arkadin, The Court Jester, Mister Roberts, Blackboard Jungle
• 1956 – The Ten Commandments, High Society, Moby Dick, Carousel, The King and I, Giant, The Searchers, A Man Escaped, Forbidden Planet, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Night and Fog, Around the World in 80 Days, Wakeful Eyes, Rock Around the Clock, Invitation to the Dance, Rock, Rock, Rock!
• 1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai, 12 Angry Men, Sweet Smell of Success, Old Yeller, The Seventh Seal, Touch of Evil, Jailhouse Rock, Let's All Go to the Lobby, Mother India, The Snow Queen, Wild Strawberries, Paths of Glory, Throne of Blood, The Curse of Frankenstein, Back Again
• 1958 – Vertigo, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Gigi, South Pacific, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Carry On, Ashes and Diamonds, Jalsaghar, The Fly, The Blob, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Jamila, the Algerian, Tom Thumb
• 1959 – Ben-Hur, Some Like It Hot, The 400 Blows, Hey Boy! Hey Girl!, Shake Hands with the Devil, North by Northwest, Anatomy of a Murder, Sleeping Beauty, Rio Bravo, Pickpocket, Hiroshima mon amour, Pillow Talk, Forbidden Women, Among the Ruins, The Second Man, Imitation of Life, Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Song of the Nightingale

• 1960 – Psycho, Spartacus, Breathless, The Apartment, Exodus, The Magnificent Seven, La Dolce Vita, Money and Women, L'Avventura, Love and Adoration, The Boy and the Pirates, The Time Machine, A Scrap of Bread, Swiss Family Robinson, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• 1961 – West Side Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Divorce, Italian Style, El Hub Keda, Judgment at Nuremberg, Yojimbo, Last Year at Marienbad, Ana Wa Banati, A Storm of Love, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Absent-Minded Professor
• 1962 – Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Dr. No, Seven Seas to Calais, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Ivan's Childhood, The Manchurian Candidate, Lolita, La Jetée, Sundays and Cybele, Appointment at the Tower, The Cursed Palace, Gay Purr-ee, The Music Man
• 1963 – The Birds, The Great Escape, The Pink Panther, Tom Jones, Hud, Cleopatra, Charade, 8½, Not on Your Life, Soft Hands, Lilies in the Field, The Haunting, How the West Was Won, The Nutty Professor, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Sword in the Stone, Jason and the Argonauts, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, The Leopard, High and Low, Irma la Douce, Saladin the Victorious, McLintock!
• 1964 – Mary Poppins, A Hard Day's Night, My Fair Lady, Dr. Strangelove, A Fistful of Dollars, Goldfinger, A Husband on Vacation, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, A Tiger Walks
• 1965 – The Sound of Music, Doctor Zhivago, The Great Race, Cat Ballou, For a Few Dollars More, Dearer than My Life, Repulsion
• 1966 – Persona, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Blowup, Fantastic Voyage, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Au Hasard Balthazar, The Battle of Algiers, A Man for All Seasons, The Wild Angels, Winnie the Pooh, Alfie, Born Free, My Wife, the Director General, A Wife from Paris, Andrei Rublev
• 1967 – Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Playtime, Belle de jour, Cool Hand Luke, In the Heat of the Night, The Jungle Book, Dont Look Back, The Dirty Dozen, The Producers, My Wife's Dignity, Doctor Dolittle, Jack and the Beanstalk, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Second Wife
• 1968 – 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rosemary's Baby, Planet of the Apes, Once Upon a Time in the West, Night of the Living Dead, Stolen Kisses, My Wife's Goblin, Yellow Submarine, The Man Who Lost His Shadow, Oliver!, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Love Bug, Bullitt, Funny Girl, Yours, Mine and Ours
• 1969 – Midnight Cowboy, True Grit, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Easy Rider, The Wild Bunch, Z, The Color of Pomegranates, The Italian Job, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Good Morning, My Dear Wife, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

• 1970 – Love Story, The Conformist, Performance, Patton, M*A*S*H, Woodstock, The Aristocats, Tora! Tora! Tora!, My Husband's Wife, Five Easy Pieces, Airport, Let It Be; first IMAX films
• 1971 – The French Connection, A Clockwork Orange, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Dirty Harry, Get Carter, The Last Picture Show, Fiddler on the Roof, Harold and Maude, Straw Dogs, Duel, Shaft, The Killers, Chitchat on the Nile, Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• 1972 – The Godfather, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Poseidon Adventure, Cries and Whispers, Those People of the Nile, Solaris, Deep Throat, Pink Flamingos, Snoopy Come Home, Fritz the Cat, What's Up, Doc?, Last Tango in Paris, Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Featureless Men
• 1973 – The Exorcist, Enter the Dragon, Amarcord, The Sting, American Graffiti, Paper Moon, Mean Streets, The Wicker Man, Belladonna of Sadness, Fantastic Planet, Robin Hood, Charlotte's Web, Distant Thunder, Day for Night, The Other Man, Papillon, Serpico, Badlands, High Plains Drifter
• 1974 – A Woman Under the Influence, The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Phantom of the Paradise, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Conversation, That's Entertainment!, Black Christmas, The Towering Inferno, In Summer We Must Love, Benji
• 1975 – Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Passenger, The Guilty, Karnak, Dog Day Afternoon, Nashville, Barry Lyndon, Mirror, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Dersu Uzala, Sholay; videocassette recorders appear on mass markets.
• 1976 – Taxi Driver, Alice Sweet Alice, Rocky, Network, Carrie, All the President's Men, In the Realm of the Senses, 1900, The Omen, Logan's Run, Bugsy Malone, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Smurfs and the Magic Flute, Freaky Friday
• 1977 – Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Annie Hall, Wizards, Saturday Night Fever, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, A Bridge Too Far, The Rescuers, Providence, House, Suspiria, Eraserhead, Fun with Dick and Jane
• 1978 – Superman, Grease, Halloween, The Deer Hunter, Dawn of the Dead, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Midnight Express, Watership Down, The Lord of the Rings, Days of Heaven, Up in Smoke, National Lampoon's Animal House
• 1979 – Alien, Apocalypse Now, Mad Max, The Warriors, Kramer vs. Kramer, Monty Python's Life of Brian, The Castle of Cagliostro, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Muppet Movie, Stalker, Manhattan, All That Jazz

• 1980 – The Shining, Raging Bull, The Empire Strikes Back, Airplane!, The Blues Brothers, Caddyshack, Ordinary People, Friday the 13th, Fame, Kagemusha, The Elephant Man, 9 to 5, Private Benjamin, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, The Gods Must Be Crazy
• 1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark (first Indiana Jones film), Chariots of Fire, Reds, The Evil Dead, On Golden Pond, Pennies from Heaven, The Fox and the Hound, Das Boot, American Pop, Blow Out, Heavy Metal, Arthur, Scanners, Time Bandits, Clash of the Titans, An American Werewolf in London, Escape from New York, I'm Not Lying But I'm Beautifying
• 1982 – Blade Runner, Poltergeist, The Thing, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Tron, Sophie's Choice, Tootsie, Fanny and Alexander, Fitzcarraldo, Gandhi, The Dark Crystal, The Secret of NIMH, Heidi's Song, The Last Unicorn, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, First Blood, Annie, 48 Hrs., Fast Times at Ridgemont High, An Officer and a Gentleman, The Peacock, The Plague Dogs
• 1983 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, Return of the Jedi, Terms of Endearment, Risky Business, Sans Soleil, L'Argent, The King of Comedy, The Right Stuff, Strange Brew, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, National Lampoon's Vacation, Scarface, Nostalghia, Flashdance, Trading Places, A Christmas Story; THX sound system is developed.
• 1984 – Ghostbusters, This Is Spinal Tap, Amadeus, The Terminator, Gremlins, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Romancing the Stone, The Karate Kid, Once Upon a Time in America, Paris, Texas, Footloose, Splash, Beverly Hills Cop, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Sixteen Candles, The River, The NeverEnding Story, Police Academy
• 1985 – Back to the Future, The Breakfast Club, Out of Africa, The Color Purple, Brazil, Shoah, Ran, Come and See, The Goonies, The Care Bears Movie, Tony de Peltrie, The Black Cauldron, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Fright Night, A Room with a View
• 1986 – Top Gun, Aliens, Blue Velvet, The Sacrifice, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Platoon, Hannah and Her Sisters, Stand By Me, An American Tail, Castle in the Sky, The Adventures of Milo and Otis, Pretty in Pink, Howard the Duck, The Transformers: The Movie, Luxo Jr., Crocodile Dundee, Three Amigos, Stewardess School, Labyrinth, Flight of the Navigator, Big Trouble in Little China, Short Circuit, GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords, The Fly, Little Shop of Horrors, The Great Mouse Detective
• 1987 – Full Metal Jacket, The Princess Bride, RoboCop, Fatal Attraction, Dirty Dancing, The Chipmunk Adventure, The Brave Little Toaster, Wings of Desire, The Dead, Evil Dead II, The Last Emperor, The Untouchables, Raising Arizona, Wall Street, The Lost Boys, Hellraiser, Predator, Moonstruck, Hope and Glory, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Empire of the Sun, Lethal Weapon, Mannnequin, Innerspace, Spaceballs, Good Morning, Vietnam, Broadcast News, Babette's Feast. Au revoir les enfants, Masters of the Universe
• 1988 – Die Hard, Rain Man, My Neighbor Totoro, Beetlejuice, Akira, Cinema Paradiso, Child's Play, The Accused, Big, Grave of the Fireflies, Willow, Moonwalker, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Days of Terror, The Land Before Time, The Last Temptation of Christ, Dead Ringers, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Heathers, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, The Big Blue, The Bear, Monsieur le Directeur
• 1989 – Batman, Do the Right Thing, Driving Miss Daisy, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, A Fish Called Wanda, The Abyss, When Harry Met Sally..., The Little Mermaid (first installment of the Disney Renaissance), Kiki's Delivery Service, Say Anything..., Weekend at Bernie's, Crimes and Misdemeanors, My Left Foot, Dead Poets Society, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Field of Dreams, Born on the Fourth of July, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; first publication of Empire

• 1990 – Home Alone, Ghost, Goodfellas, Close-Up, Dances with Wolves, Edward Scissorhands, Wild at Heart, Total Recall, Misery, Pretty Woman, Journey of Hope, The Hunt for Red October, Arachnophobia, The Rescuers Down Under, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dick Tracy
• 1991 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, JFK, Thelma & Louise, A Brighter Summer Day, Barton Fink, Wicked Game, The Addams Family, My Girl, Point Break, Boyz n the Hood
• 1992 – The Bodyguard, Unforgiven, Reservoir Dogs, Basic Instinct, Aladdin, A Few Good Men, The Player, The Crying Game, Wayne's World, Porco Rosso, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Indochine, Candyman, Death Becomes Her, Cool World, A League of Their Own
• 1993 – Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, The Piano, Groundhog Day, In the Name of the Father, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Philadelphia, Three Colours trilogy, Free Willy, Hocus Pocus, Cliffhanger, Ninja Scroll, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Sleepless in Seattle, True Romance, Dazed and Confused, Mrs. Doubtfire
• 1994 – The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Legends of the Fall, The Lion King,Clerks, Sátántangó, The Swan Princess, Interview with the Vampire, Speed, True Lies, Five-Star Thieves, The Crow, Maverick, Léon: The Professional, Il Postino: The Postman, Three Colours: Red, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, Through the Olive Trees, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Baby's Day Out
• 1995 – Braveheart, Se7en, Apollo 13, Toy Story, Babe, The Usual Suspects, Heat, Bad Boys, 12 Monkeys, Clueless, Mortal Kombat, Casper, The City of Lost Children, Ghost in the Shell, Balto, Jumanji, Leaving Las Vegas, Casino, La Haine, Before trilogy, Sense and Sensibility, Pocahontas, first DVDs released.
• 1996 – Independence Day, Fargo, Space Jam, Trainspotting, Jerry Maguire, Mission: Impossible, Scream, Mars Attacks!, Harriet the Spy, That Thing You Do!, Flirting with Disaster, The English Patient, Shall We Dance?, Fly Away Home, Shine, Matilda, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, James and the Giant Peach, The Nutty Professor, Happy Gilmore
• 1997 – Titanic, Men in Black, Gattaca, Good Will Hunting, Boogie Nights, Jackie Brown, Austin Powers, L.A. Confidential, Funny Games, Taste of Cherry, Hana-bi, The Full Monty, Princess Mononoke, Anastasia, Life is Beautiful, The Fifth Element, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Contact, Perfect Blue, Cats Don't Dance
• 1998 – Saving Private Ryan, American History X, Shakespeare in Love, The Big Lebowski, Buffalo '66, Little Voice, The Thin Red Line, Pleasantville, Blade, The Prince of Egypt, Antz, Pokémon: The First Movie, Bulworth, The Mask of Zorro, The Truman Show, The Wedding Singer, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Rush Hour, There's Something About Mary, Run Lola Run, Ring, Paulie, Waking Ned
• 1999 – The Matrix, American Beauty, Girl, Interrupted, The Iron Giant, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, The Sixth Sense, Fight Club, Magnolia, Notting Hill, Stuart Little, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, The Blair Witch Project, Eyes Wide Shut, Beau Travail, My Neighbors the Yamadas, All About My Mother, American Pie, The Green Mile, Election, The Mummy, Boys Don't Cry, Office Space, Galaxy Quest, Being John Malkovich

• 2000 – Big Momma's House, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, In the Mood for Love, Gladiator, Billy Elliot, Cast Away, Platform, Memento, Erin Brockovich, Almost Famous, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, High Fidelity, Meet the Parents, Battle Royale, X-Men, Final Destination, Unbreakable, American Psycho, Before Night Falls, Requiem for a Dream; first digital cinema in Europe by Phillippe Binant.
• 2001 – The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Shrek, A Beautiful Mind, The Royal Tenenbaums, Spirited Away, Mulholland Drive, Donnie Darko, The Fast & the Furious, Moulin Rouge!, Zoolander, Training Day, Black Hawk Down, Waking Life, Monster's Ball, Ocean's Eleven, Spy Kids, Amélie, Bridget Jones's Diary, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
• 2002 – City of God, Talk to Her, Spider-Man, Chicago, 8 Mile, Minority Report, The Pianist, Russian Ark, The Hours, The Quiet American, Gangs of New York, Lilo & Stitch, Bowling for Columbine, About a Boy, Frieda, 28 Days Later, Bend It Like Beckham, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Punch-Drunk Love, The Ring, Better Luck Tomorrow, Catch Me If You Can, The Bourne Identity, Adaptation
• 2003 – Oldboy, Kill Bill, Seabiscuit, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Finding Nemo, Love Actually, Elf, Lost in Translation, Elephant, Monster, Big Fish, Cold Mountain, Bad Santa, The Room, School of Rock, Once Upon a Time in Mexico
• 2004 – Dodgeball, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Million Dollar Baby, The Incredibles, The Passion of the Christ, Sideways, Hotel Rwanda, Downfall, Friday Night Lights, The Aviator, Ray, Hellboy, Saw, Shaun of the Dead, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Team America: World Police, White Chicks, Mean Girls, Napoleon Dynamite, Finding Neverland, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; Anti-piracy campaign "Piracy. It's a crime", which features the first line You Wouldn't Steal a Car, first advertised.
• 2005 – Caché, The New World, Brokeback Mountain, Batman Begins, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, A History of Violence, Pride & Prejudice, Walk the Line, March of the Penguins, Munich, Capote, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, V for Vendetta, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Serenity, Sin City, Wedding Crashers, Good Night, and Good Luck, Click, Zathura, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• 2006 – Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, 300, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, The Departed, Dreamgirls, The Lives of Others, The Prestige, Happy Feet, The Queen, Borat, Little Miss Sunshine, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Devil Wears Prada, An Incovenient Truth, The Last King of Scotland, Snakes on a Plane, Babel, Little Man, United 93, My Super Ex-Girlfriend; First Blu-rays released
• 2007 – There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, I Am Legend, Ratatouille, Into the Wild, Juno, Atonement, Superbad, Grindhouse, Trick 'r Treat, Persepolis, Once, Michael Clayton, The Simpsons Movie, Enchanted, Transformers, La Vie En Rose, Knocked Up, Son of Rambow, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Norbit
• 2008 – Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, The Dark Knight, the Marvel Cinematic Universe begins, WALL-E, Slumdog Millionaire, Mamma Mia!, Gran Torino, The Wrestler, Hancock, Milk, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Frost/Nixon, Cloverfield, Ip Man, Tropic Thunder, Kung Fu Panda, Taken, Waltz with Bashir, Marley & Me, In Bruges, Man on Wire, Revolutionary Road, The Reader, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• 2009 – Avatar, Inglourious Basterds, Up, A Serious Man, District 9, The Hangover, Coraline, The Hurt Locker, Precious, The Princess and the Frog, Star Trek, The Lovely Bones, Moon, An Education, Up In The Air, In the Loop, Zombieland, Crazy Heart

• 2010 – The King's Speech, Inception, Black Swan, The Social Network, How to Train Your Dragon, Despicable Me, Winter's Bone, Tangled, 127 Hours, True Grit, The Fighter, Kick-Ass, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Hot Tub Time Machine, Blue Valentine, The Kids Are All Right, Grown Ups
• 2011 – A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, The Artist, Bridesmaids, Hugo, Drive, The Intouchables, A Separation, The Tree of Life, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Midnight in Paris, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, Moneyball, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Help, The Cabin in the Woods, Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• 2012 – Life of Pi, Argo, Lincoln, Django Unchained, The Dark Knight Rises, Les Misérables, Ted, Silver Linings Playbook, The Hunger Games, Pitch Perfect, 21 Jump Street, Magic Mike, Looper, The Master, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Ernest & Celestine, Zero Dark Thirty
• 2013 – The Wolf of Wall Street, Gravity, Frozen, We're the Millers, 12 Years a Slave, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, The Great Beauty, Rush, American Hustle, Dallas Buyers Club, Inside Llewyn Davis, Her, The Wind Rises, The Conjuring, Nebraska, Pacific Rim, Philomena, Prisoners, Blue Jasmine, Blue is the Warmest Colour
• 2014 – Interstellar, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Lego Movie, Paddington, Birdman, Whiplash, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Babadook, The Interview, American Sniper, Ex Machina, Big Hero 6, Selma, Edge of Tomorrow, John Wick, Gone Girl, The Fault in Our Stars, Frank, Foxcatcher, Nightcrawler, Still Alice, Wild, The Imitation Game, A Million Ways to Die in the West, The Theory of Everything, Ride Along
• 2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, Inside Out, The Hateful Eight, Spotlight, The Martian, Bridge of Spies, Anomalisa, The Big Short, Room, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Carol, Creed, Amy, Jupiter Ascending, Straight Outta Compton, Spy
• 2016 – O Shaolin do Sertão, La La Land, Deadpool, Zootopia, Your Name, Arrival, Moana, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, Hacksaw Ridge, Fences, Lion, Dangal, Train To Busan, Kubo and the Two Strings, Sing Street, The Handmaiden, Don't Breathe, In This Corner of the World, I, Daniel Blake, Silence, Hell or High Water
• 2017 – The Shape of Water, Wonder Woman, Get Out, It, Coco, Dunkirk, Logan, The Disaster Artist, Baby Driver, I, Tonya, Paddington 2, Blade Runner 2049, The Silent Child, In a Heartbeat, Lady Bird, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Call Me by Your Name, Phantom Thread, Darkest Hour; The Harvey Weinstein scandal begins.
• 2018 – Bohemian Rhapsody, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Favourite, Roma (which is released on Netflix), Eighth Grade, A Quiet Place, Hereditary, Ready Player One, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Crazy Rich Asians, BlacKkKlansman, Isle of Dogs, Green Book, Free Solo, Shoplifters, Rampage
• 2019 – Joker, 1917, Parasite, Rocketman, Little Women, The Irishman, The Farewell, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Bombshell, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, The Lighthouse, Marriage Story, Uncut Gems, Knives Out, Ford v Ferrari, Dolemite Is My Name, Jojo Rabbit, Booksmart, Richard Jewell, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

• 2020 – Nomadland, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, Tenet, Minari, The Eight Hundred, Hamilton, Mank, Soul, The Invisible Man, Enola Holmes, Da 5 Bloods, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Another Round, Promising Young Woman, The Father, Wolfwalkers, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Half of It; due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of films shut down production, or are either removed from their originally scheduled releases and moved to new release dates or digital releases.
• 2021 – Dune, The Power of the Dog, Encanto, Judas and the Black Messiah, Belfast, Licorice Pizza, Don't Look Up, The Last Duel, Flee, West Side Story, Free Guy, House of Gucci, Spencer, CODA, The White Tiger, King Richard, Tick, Tick... Boom!, The Lost Daughter, Zack Snyder's Justice League
• 2022 – Everything Everywhere All at Once, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Top Gun: Maverick, The Batman, The Northman, Tár, The Fabelmans, X, Avatar: The Way of Water, Triangle of Sadness, RRR, Elvis, Aftersun, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Woman King, All Quiet on the Western Front, She Said, Matilda the Musical, The Whale, Women Talking, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
• 2023 – The Super Mario Bros. Movie

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