Year-End Lists

The Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2017. See also their list of documentaries.

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2018]

1. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
2. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
3. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
4. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
5. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
6. Twin Peaks: The Return
   David Lynch
7. Dawson City: Frozen Time
   Bill Morrison
8. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
9. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
10. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
11. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
12. Song to Song
    Terrence Malick
13. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
14. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
15. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
16. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
17. Princess Cyd
    Stephen Cone
18. Marjorie Prime
    Michael Almereyda
19. Brawl in Cell Block 99
    S. Craig Zahler
20. A Quiet Passion
    Terence Davies
21. Blade Runner 2049
    Denis Villeneuve
22. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman
23. The Shape of Water
    Guillermo del Toro
24. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
25. Columbus
    Kogonada
26. The Square
    Ruben Östlund
27. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
28. Personal Shopper
    Olivier Assayas
29. The Work
    Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
30. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    Martin McDonagh
31. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
32. Staying Vertical
    Alain Guiraudie
33. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins
34. Foxtrot
    Samuel Maoz
35. God’s Own Country
    Francis Lee
36. Ta’ang
    Wang Bing
37. Logan
    James Mangold
38. Coco
    Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
39. Tramps
    Adam Leon
40. World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts
    Don Hertzfeldt
41. Western
    Valeska Grisebach
42. Loveless
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
43. Milla
    Valérie Massadian
44. Raw
    Julia Ducournau
45. The Untamed
    Amat Escalante
46. Nathan for You: Finding Frances
    Nathan Fielder
47. In This Corner of the World
    Sunao Katabuchi
48. The Other Side of Hope
    Aki Kaurismäki
49. Good Luck
    Ben Russell
50. Uncertain
    Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands