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Filmmaker Magazine: Top 50 Films of 2019

14 January 2020

The Irishman - Martin Scorsese

Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2019, as reconstructed by Mike D’Angelo for Filmmaker Magazine

[see also 2020 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. The Irishman
    Martin Scorsese
  2. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
  3. Uncut Gems
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
  4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino
  5. Marriage Story
    Noah Baumbach
  6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Céline Sciamma
  7. Transit
    Christian Petzold
  8. Little Women
    Greta Gerwig
  9. Pain and Glory
    Pedro Almodóvar
  10. The Souvenir
    Joanna Hogg
  11. A Hidden Life
    Terrence Malick
  12. The Farewell
    Lulu Wang
  13. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke
  14. High Life
    Claire Denis
  15. Atlantics
    Mati Diop
  16. An Elephant Sitting Still
    Hu Bo
  17. Apollo 11
    Todd Douglas Miller
  18. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Bi Gan
  19. Asako I & II
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  20. Knives Out
    Rian Johnson
  21. Midsommar
    Ari Aster
  22. Us
    Jordan Peele
  23. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    Joe Talbot
  24. Peterloo
    Mike Leigh
  25. La Flor
    Mariano Llinás
  26. Under the Silver Lake
    David Robert Mitchell
  27. The Hottest August
    Brett Story
  28. Ad Astra
    James Gray
  29. Our Time
    Carlos Reygadas
  30. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
    Marielle Heller
  31. Her Smell
    Alex Ross Perry
  32. Hustlers
    Lorene Scafaria
  33. The Nightingale
    Jennifer Kent
  34. In My Room
    Ulrich Köhler
  35. Dark Waters
    Todd Haynes
  36. Synonyms
    Nadav Lapid
  37. Birds of Passage
    Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
  38. Waves
    Trey Edward Shults
  39. The Lighthouse
    Robert Eggers
  40. The Image Book
    Jean-Luc Godard
  41. Climax
    Gaspar Noé
  42. High Flying Bird
    Steven Soderbergh
  43. Sunset
    László Nemes
  44. Diamantino
    Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
  45. Monos
    Alejandro Landes
  46. Booksmart
    Olivia Wilde
  47. Ford v Ferrari
    James Mangold
  48. Give Me Liberty
    Kirill Mikhanovsky
  49. Richard Jewell
    Clint Eastwood
  50. End of the Century
    Lucio Castro

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