This year is a year of triumph for Chinese films, and a year of harvest for quality and art films.
"I Am Not a Medicine God" ranked among the word-of-mouth champions and top three box office with the annual god work. "Ready Player One" became the most popular American movie this year, and "Thief Family" broke the box office record of Japanese live-action films in China with unimaginable art films.
Chinese audiences' choice of whether to enter the theater is no longer like the previous popcorn action blockbusters, but more and more good movies, more and more pursuit of film quality, whether it is social themes, action/comedy, or literary.
Today, the list of the best 100 movies of 2018 was released before the whole network, and all of them helped you find it!
The ranking is based on the Douban score and the number of reviewers, sorted by the Douban score from high to low, and the number of evaluations is > 2,000 people.
The selected films are all films that have been released in China for the first time in 2018 or have cooked meat resources, and are limited to feature films (including animated feature films), excluding documentary feature films and short films.
Among the 100 films, Chinese mainland accounted for 13, Hong Kong 1, Taiwan 2, and 16 Chinese films. 9 in Korea, 8 in Japan, 3 in India...
Whether in terms of quantity or quality, this year is the most shining year for Chinese films.
2018 is coming to an end, the best movies of the year are here, which ones have you seen? What else haven't you seen? Hurry up and refill it! The following is the complete list of [2018 Douban 100 Best Films] -
1. I am not a medicine god
Douban 9.0 points (871316 reviews)
Drama / Comedy / Chinese mainland
This is the biggest dark horse of this year's Chinese films, its practical significance has far exceeded the film itself, douban 9 points of Chinese film reputation, but also let it win 3.1 billion box office, ranking among the top three annual box office (second only to "Red Sea Action" and "Chinatown Detective 2"). The film also won the 55th Golden Horse Awards Best Actor, Original Script, New Director Award, Xu Zheng, Wang Chuanjun, Zhang Yu, Tan Zhuo, Wang Yanhui all presented the best group portrait acting skills, "I am not a medicine god" brought too much good luck to the Chinese market this year.
2. Spider-Man: Parallel Universe
Douban 9.0 points (4601 reviews)
Animation / Action / Adventure / USA
Just hearing 6 Spider-Man break the dimensional realization of the same frame, it is already very interesting, the whole story is open, every minute is a surprise! This movie even editing, scoring and other techniques are the first in animation, Douban 9.0 high score, Rotten Tomatoes 97% freshness, IMDb 8.8 points, can be said to be the spider-man series of the best, the best animation of 2018, but also next year's Oscar most powerful winner.
3. Family of thieves
Douban 8.8 points (184611 reviews)
Plot / Family / Japan
The winner of the 71st Cannes Palme d'Or, with his image style and clever audiovisual language, made Kore-eda successfully get rid of the title of "Yasujiro Ozu's successor" through this film and began to step into the ranks of masters in the world film world. Kiki Shirin's grandmother drama like a farewell to life adds a commemorative significance to this film, and "Thief Family" can be called the most important work in the Japanese film industry this year.
4. Ready Player One
Douban 8.7 points (600609 reviews)
Sci-fi / Action / Adventure / USA
When it was released at the end of March, the world was discussing the film, as the aggregator of genre films, as the technological peak of audiovisual language, "Ready Player One" is a carnival for fans, game fans, music fans, anime fans, science fiction fans, and is a love letter written by Spielberg with imagination and talent to the film. $582 million made it the eighth highest grossing place in the world, and Douban's 8.7 points proved that its reputation and box office were on par. "Thank you for playing my game", thank you for the dream you made for us.
5. Three billboards
Douban 8.7 points (361079 reviews)
Plot / Crime / USA / UK
Received seven nominations at the 90th Academy Awards and missed best picture as the biggest jewel in last year's Oscars. But Francis McDormand's brilliant rendition adds another piece of the strongest mom to film history, and Sam Rockwell (best supporting actor) and Woody Harrison's policeman are also the best group portrait performances of the year. "Three Billboards" still tells the old-fashioned story of revenge, black absurdity and warmth and healing, and the open-ended ending makes this story unconventional. Although the domestic box office is not good, the high score of Douban 8.7 is already the best proof of word of mouth.
6. Big Buddha Plus
Douban 8.7 points (117799 reviews)
Drama / Comedy / Taiwan
As the most textured literary film this year, it shined at the Golden Horse Awards, receiving 10 nominations in one fell swoop and finally winning 5 awards. But in terms of the value of the film itself, the suffering of reality revealed behind it is the ultimate proposition. Director Huang Xinyao walked into the public with this film, and the tone of the "black humor" film was once again well known to the audience. Black and white images and metaphorical stories have pierced the nerves of many viewers, and restrictive words such as sex, violence, voyeurism, and class are wrapped in the film, starting from reality and ending in absurdity, and the "author-oriented" film has captured the hearts of many audiences.
7. Happy Lazzaro
Douban 8.7 points (23062 reviews)
Plot / Italy / Switzerland / France / Germany
This highly magical "dystopian" film won the Best Screenplay Award in the main competition section of the 71st Cannes and was nominated for the Palme d'Or, receiving a high score of 8.7 points from Douban, 7.6 points from IMDB, and 94% from Rotten Tomatoes. The "Lazzaro" portrayed in the film is undoubtedly one of the greatest screen images of this century, using his simplicity, kindness and compassion full of "divinity" to reflect the ugliness of the repressed, real world.
8. Leeds and the Bluebird
Douban 8.7 points (4431 reviews)
Anime / Drama / Japan
Kyo Ani's annual animation, after two years, once again sounded the bass trumpet, bringing new emotions to the audience. Douban's 8.7 rating has helped it become one of the best Japanese animations of the year, and it currently has its place in the top 25 lists of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. Through excellent painting and scoring, director Naoko Yamada gives love and loneliness to the characters, so that the audience can deeply feel their unspeakable voices, "Leeds and the Blue Bird" may be the best interpretation of love and separation.
9. Miracle Boy
Douban 8.6 points (229326 reviews)
Drama / Family / Children / USA / Hong Kong
This film "Miracle Boy", which has received a good reputation of 8.6 points on Douban and 8.1 points on IMDb, is a major heart-warming and healing product in 2018. Jacob, who debuted as a child star, and several young actors, the natural performance built a fairy tale for us. The film conveys kindness, love and hope in an ordinary but advanced way. Tell everyone that "you are born different, you don't have to hide", maybe you can see your own shadow in it.
10. Network Mystery Trail
Douban 8.5 points (147280 reviews)
Drama / Crime / Suspense / USA / Russia
The first suspense film of 2018, a subversive innovation of the audience's viewing experience, director Anish's blockbuster debut. Douban 8.5 points, Rotten Tomatoes 92% praise rate, in the "desktop movie" hot year, the film about the disappearance of the film from "Unfriend 2: Dark Web" and "Net Temptation" to kill the siege. Shooting for 13 days, editing for 2 years, under the double blessing of creativity and good script, "Network Lost" relied on its own strong strength to firmly sit on the first chair of the year.
11. Perfect Stranger (Spanish Version)
Douban 8.5 points (13566 reviews)
Drama / Comedy / USA / Spain / Italy
A Spanish remake of the Italian blockbuster film Perfect Stranger. Very respectful of the original version, or rely solely on dialogue to promote the plot, through the mobile phone to dissect human nature, implying the hidden dangers of modern society, so that the audience is cool and reflective. Douban score of 8.5, is enough to show that this kind of "movie on the dinner table" has enough classicity, drama and reality, the original version of the domestic release in china to obtain more than 50 million box office, for small cost production is a good result.
12. Fake Captain
Douban 8.5 points (8572 reviews)
Drama / History / War / Germany / Poland / Portugal / France
It was an unexpected work for the 2018 German film, which won the Best Cinematography Award at last year's San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film recreates how a twenty-year-old youth went from an ordinary person to a terrifying murderous demon on the battlefield of World War II. The black and white images are cold and killing, and the real story is absolutely terrifying. The totalitarian evil seems to be making a comeback at any moment, and the sin of mediocrity is happening all around you and me.
13. Dog Thirteen
Douban 8.4 points (84888 reviews)
Plot / Family / Chinese mainland
After five years of dust, this Douban 8.4 score film was finally released. Cao Baoping makes it difficult to breathe with the most realistic images, Zhang Xueying's delicate performance is moving, and the puppy Einstein has become a bystander in this youth. The film won best picture at the Beijing University Student Film Festival in 2014, as well as nominations for best director and best screenplay. This is not a cruel youth story of a young girl, this is the gray growth diary of most chinese young generations.
14. Don't stop the camera!
Douban 8.4 points (36118 reviews)
Comedy / Horror / Japan
With a cost of 180,000 to obtain a box office performance of 200 million, sweeping away the decadence of Japanese live-action movies being crushed by the second dimension in recent years, it can be called Japan's "I am not a medicine god" this year, with a Douban score of 8.5, a well-deserved phenomenon-level hit. Expressing the love and dedication of practitioners to film by showing how to make a zombie movie in one shot, this is a sincere work for Japanese films and all filmmakers around the world.
15. Agent
Douban 8.4 points (35248 reviews)
Plot / Suspense / South Korea
Political sensitivity, espionage themes, restriction levels, the synonym of this film is all a touch of thunder, but the film's reputation can be ranked at the forefront of the annual Korean film. The wild acting skills of Hwang Jeong-min, Lee Heung-min, Chu Ji-hoon and other acting masters have become a major attraction of the movie, and South Korea's high-quality masterpieces have once again led Asia in terms of content excellence. The theme of north and south has always been the focus of the Korean film and television industry, but the high point of the film is that it eventually moves towards a link of friendship, which is the theme of the film and the meaning of reality. Also born out of real events, the audience has improved the appreciation of Korean genre films, because from the quality point of view, this film may be another sense of "Korean version of Infernal Affairs".
16. The Ballad of Buster Scrugers
Douban 8.4 points (17578 reviews)
Comedy / Western / USA
The Coen brothers told you 6 bedtime stories, another hundred ways to die in the West, the American Western version of "Wild Story". The ridiculous black humor, with some sadness. Magnificent western beauty, fate that cannot be broken, a western elegy. The big integrated version of "Earth Thunder" + "Drunken Folk Song" + "Old Nobody", the Coen brothers are back to the peak.
17. The Classroom of Silence
Douban 8.4 points (5286 reviews)
Plot / History / Germany
The unpopular masterpiece of the year, historical background, real adaptation, focusing on the theme of anti-war and counter-revolution, triggered by the silent events of a student group to reflect on the reality of totalitarianism, known as the more magical "Wave". There have been many film and television works to present the reflections and fascism tumors after World War II, but "Silent Classroom" presents another angle of bloody rain. The sense of the times and the impact are within reach, and this masterpiece about "silence and freedom" should be remembered.
18. Where there is Shoichi Kumagai
Douban 8.4 points (4392 reviews)
Plot / Japan
One of the "most anticipated films of the year for Japanese film fans", Japanese director Shuichi Okita has returned to the pinnacle. The two actors, Kirin Kiki, the evergreen tree of the Japanese film industry, who recently bid farewell to the world, and the two actors, the old drama bone Yamazaki Tsutomu, used innocent and natural performances in this film, making this biopic that records the famous "fauvist painter" Shoichi Kumagai in the history of Japanese art have both comedy and reality, showing the warm nature of Shuichi Okita.
19. Operation Red Sea
Douban 8.3 points (521534 reviews)
Action / War / Chinese mainland / Hong Kong
Director Lin Chaoxian, another action-themed film after "Operation Mekong", brings the audience a 138-minute war drama starting from the real Yemeni evacuation incident. Douban's excellent reputation of 8.3 points, the total box office of 3.65 billion ranked first in the year, and the Hundred Flowers Awards won five awards in a row. "Operation Red Sea", which has such a good performance in 2018, which is full of masterpieces, is undoubtedly one of the leaders and the leader of recent domestic war films.
20. Isle of Dogs
Douban 8.3 points (132744 reviews)
Comedy / Animation / Adventure / USA / Germany
Wes Anderson, after The Great Fox Daddy, shot stop-motion animation again, telling a dystopian story beneath the veneer of Eastern culture, with plenty of real-world metaphors inserted: apartheid, resistance to tyranny, cat-dog strife, and more. Dog Party Must See, a masterpiece of Wes Anderson's film aesthetic.
21. Love you, Simon
Douban 8.3 points (86939 reviews)
Love / Same Sex / Usa
One of the most talked about LGBT movies of the year, it tells the love troubles of the teenagers in the deep closet. Although talking about coming out of the "small things", the cute freshness of "Love You, Simon" stems from its "same-sex theme de-labeling". The campus youth is bright and sweet, and the male protagonist Nick Robinson's beautiful flesh adds a little more sue. The $60 million worldwide box office makes it a model for small-budget campus genre films, and it also gives us a glimpse into the spring of LGBT film diversification.
22. The Kingdom of God
Douban 8.3 points (20459 reviews)
Plot / Love / Same Sex / Uk
The same rural LGBT film as "Call Me By Your Name" can be called the British version of "Brokeback Mountain". It swept the 20th British Independent Film Awards and won many awards such as Best Picture, Screenwriting Debut, and Actor. Queer themes exist every year, but not every one of them is so fresh and pleasant, and "God's Kingdom" is undoubtedly a unique presence in this year's queer themes, rarely touching on sensitive issues, but simply telling the story of two people falling in love, regardless of gender. People are beautiful, stories are beautiful, love is more beautiful.
23. Breadwinners
Douban 8.3 points (14763 reviews)
Animation / Family / Drama / Ireland / Canada / Luxembourg
Titled "female consciousness awakening" can not be skipped, this pure female perspective of the animated feature film has been favored by the animation Ginny Award, Golden Globe Award, Academy Award, won a number of nominations, "feminism" is the core of the film, religion, regime, war for the film's multi-element perspective to add a lot of color, its own fiery energy, shining in the hearts of the audience. "The Breadwinner" creates a tough female figure in a cruel social context, and the sea of Afghanistan and Pavana's dreams cause people to shed tears. Animation with serious themes finally evokes women's self-appeal, and this realistic film will also shine in the film world of 2018.
24. Mr. and Mrs. Adelman
Douban 8.3 points (10222 reviews)
Love / France / Belgium
Perhaps the most important thing in French cinema is love, and Nicolas Beddos's self-written and self-directed debut performs a new French love story for the audience. Douban 8.3 points, IMDb 7.3 points, the French Caesars Film Festival Best Debut nomination, director Nicholas's love debut is extremely eye-catching. A film that seriously discusses the relationship between hair loss and marriage, the bones of the French are dressed as if they are not bone marrow but love and romance, which can always bring a different shock and impact to the audience.
25. Mission Impossible 6: Total Disintegration
Douban 8.2 points (283909 reviews)
Action / Adventure / USA
"Mission Impossible 6" still continues the super high standard of the series for 22 years, and the 56-year-old Tom Cruise insists on not using stand-ins and special effects, personally performing kilometer skydiving, helicopter chase battles, rooftop running and downtown motorcycle racing, showing the old-school Hollywood tough guy temperament. The 148-minute film is compact, the scene is grand, the whole process is free of urine points, and it definitely deserves to be a global box office of $1 billion!
26. The Unknown
Douban 8.2 points (274001 reviews)
Drama / Comedy / Chinese mainland
27. Unmatched
Douban 8.2 points (273319 reviews)
Drama / Action / Crime / Chinese mainland / Hong Kong
28. Burst into silence
Douban 8.2 points (203911 reviews)
Drama / Crime / Suspense / Chinese mainland
29. Blood Guanyin
Douban 8.2 points (125775 reviews)
Plot / Taiwan
30. Invincible Destruction King 2: Make a big fuss about the Internet
Douban 8.2 points (123167 reviews)
Animation / Comedy / Adventure / USA
31. The Washington Post
Douban 8.2 points (55565 reviews)
Drama / Biography / History / United States / United Kingdom
32. Go see you now
Douban 8.2 points (38606 reviews)
Drama / Love / Fantasy / Korea
33. The Story of the Big Bad Fox
Douban 8.2 points (31026 reviews)
Animation / Comedy / France / Belgium
34. Love before memory fades
Douban 8.2 points (20635 reviews)
Love / Drama / Italy / France
35. Letterhead stories
Douban 8.2 points (11891 reviews)
Plot / USA
36. Rome
Douban 8.2 points (8828 reviews)
Plot / Family / Mexico / USA
37. Humiliation
Douban 8.2 points (7688 reviews)
Plot / Lebanon / France / Cyprus / Belgium / USA
38. Village drama
Douban 8.2 points (6143 reviews)
Plot /Chinese mainland
39. Childhood promises
Douban 8.2 points (2614 reviews)
Biography / Love / France
40. A bag of marbles
Douban 8.2 points (2212 reviews)
Plot / History / War / France / Canada / Czech Republic
41. Avengers 3: Infinity War
Douban 8.1 points (442983 reviews)
Action / Sci-Fi / Adventure / USA
42. Upgrade
Douban 8.1 points (64180 reviews)
Action / Sci-fi / Thriller / Australia
43. Iron rain
Douban 8.1 points (52034 reviews)
Plot / Action / Korea
44. When the prayer ends
Douban 8.1 points (20098 reviews)
Plot / Suspense / Japan
45. Goodbye in heaven
Douban 8.1 points (8028 reviews)
Plot / France / Canada
46. Teen Titan Strikes Out Movie Version
Douban 8.1 (2013 Reviews)
Animation / Comedy / Action / USA
47. Florida Paradise
Douban 8.0 points (47507 reviews)
Plot / Children /USA
48. The elephant sits on the ground
Douban 8.0 (38514 reviews)
Plot / Chinese mainland
49. Christopher Robin
Douban 8.0 (12395 reviews)
Comedy / Adventure / USA
50. Tehran contraindications
Douban 8.0 points (3043 reviews)
Drama / Animation / Germany / Austria
51-60
51. "Aquaman" Douban 7.9 points / Action / Adventure / USA
52. "The Incredibles 2" Douban 7.9 points / Animation / Comedy / USA
53. "Burning" Douban 7.9 points / Plot / Suspense / South Korea
54. "Unfriend 2: The Dark Web" Douban 7.9 points / Crime / Horror / United States
55. "Professor Marston and Wonder Woman" Douban 7.9 points / Plot / Biography / USA
56. "Family Affliction 3" Douban 7.9 points / Comedy / Family / Japan
57. "The Twelfth Man" Douban 7.9 points / History / War / Norway
58. "Little Princess" Douban 7.9 points / Love / South Korea
59. "The Hate You Give" Douban 7.9 points / Drama / Crime / UNITED States
60. "Cold War" Douban 7.9 points / Plot / Love / Poland
61-70
61. "Like, Kiss, Run" Douban 7.8 points / Love / Same Sex / France
62. "Babylon" Douban 7.8 points / Crime / Suspense / Czech Republic
63. "Blood of the Lone Wolf" Douban 7.8 points / Plot / Crime / Japan
64. "Midsummer" Douban 7.8 points / Biography / Music / Russia
65. "Mysterious Superstar" Douban 7.7 points / Plot / Music / India
66. "Walking with God" Douban 7.7 points / Drama / Fantasy / Korea
67. "King of the Circus" Douban 7.7 points / Biography / Song and Dance / USA
68. "Square" Douban 7.7 points / Plot / Sweden
69. "Indian Partner" Douban 7.7 points / Comedy / Biography / India
70. "Sinner" Douban 7.7 points / Thriller / Crime / Denmark
71-80
71. "Hello Brad" Douban 7.7 points / Comedy / Music / USA
72. "Goodbye, Christopher Robin" Douban 7.7 points / Biography / History / Uk Kingdom
73. "This room is made by me" Douban 7.7 points / Thriller / Crime / Denmark
74. "No Questions Asked" Douban 7.6 points / Plot / Love / Chinese mainland
75. "Children of jianghu" Douban 7.6 points / love / crime / Chinese mainland
76. "Disaster Artist" Douban 7.6 points / Comedy / Biography / USA
77. "Tully" Douban 7.6 points / Plot / USA
78. "Broke Up with You Last Winter" Douban 7.6 points / Suspense / Crime / Japan
79. "Leave No Trace" Douban 7.6 points / Plot / Usa
80. "The First Man on the Moon" Douban 7.6 points / Plot / Biography / United States
81-90
81. "Bookstore" Douban 7.6 points / Plot / UK
82. Douban 7.6 points / Comedy / Music / Finland
83. "Anthology" Douban 7.6 points / Plot / Love / South Korea
84. "The Man Who Sleeps on the Couch" Douban 7.6 points / Comedy / Family / Chinese mainland
85. "Private Life" Douban 7.6 points / Plot / United States
86. Deadpool 2 Douban 7.5 points / Comedy / Action / Sci-Fi / USA
87. "The Phantom Sewer" Douban 7.5 points / Plot / Love / Usa
88. "Hiccup Teacher" Douban 7.5 points / Drama / Comedy / India
89. "The Taste of Rice Blossoms" Douban 7.5 points / Plot / Chinese mainland
90. "Norway 7.22 Explosion Shooting" Douban 7.5 points / Plot / History / Norway
91-100
91. "Find You" Douban 7.4 points / plot / family / Chinese mainland
92. "Walking with God 2: Cause and Circumstance" Douban 7.4 points / Action / Fantasy / Korea
93. "Shadow" Douban 7.3 points / Plot / Action / Martial Arts / Chinese mainland
94. "Ant-Man 2: Wasp Woman Appears" Douban 7.3 points / Action / Sci-Fi / USA
95. "Boarding School" Douban 7.3 points / Horror / United States
96. "Little Forest (Korean Version)" Douban 7.3 points / Plot / South Korea
97. "To All the Boys I've Ever Loved" Douban 7.3 points / Love / USA
98. "Guardianship" Douban 7.3 points / Plot / Family / France
99. "The Shape of Water" Douban 7.2 points / Love / Fantasy / Usa
100. "Annihilation" Douban 7.2 points / Sci-fi / Thriller / Usa