IMDb Poll Board Top Picks During 2020
by NDbportmanfan | created - 09 Nov 2020 | updated - 19 Jan 2021 | PublicWith release dates being pushed to next year, 2020 has seen far fewer movies than recent years. The question I usually pose the poll board members is their top 5 movies for the current year. This time around I am asking what 5 titles (movies, TV, video games, music artists, books) regardless of year got them through 2020. Which list do you agree would keep you indoors?
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1. Veep (2012–2019)
TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy
Former Senator Selina Meyer finds that being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she hoped and everything that everyone ever warned her about.
Stars: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott
Votes: 63,471
Picks made by ndbportmanfan
1.) Veep (2012)
2.) The Last of Us: Part II (2020)
3.) Chvrches (music)
4.)The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)
5.) The Vow (2020)
2. Touch of Evil (1958)
PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 109,788 | Gross: $2.24M
Picks made by thenolanfan
1.) Touch of Evil (1958)
2.) La dolce vita (1960)
3.) Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
4.) Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
5.) Fa yeung nin wah (2000)
3. Another Round (2020)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
Four high-school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe
Votes: 194,838
Picks made by pbn
1.) Druk (2020)
2.) Gisaengchung (2019)
3.) Normal People (2020)
4.) 22. juli (2020)
5.) Schitt$ Creek (2015)
4. Azumanga Daioh: The Animation (2002)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
A humorous and highly unpredictable animated series following a group of high school girls and their teachers.
Stars: Tomoko Kaneda, Yuki Matsuoka, Chieko Higuchi, Rie Tanaka
Votes: 3,467
Picks made by TsarStepan
1.) Azumanga daiô (2002)
2.) Nichijou (2011)
3.) Peggies (music)
4.) Mili (music)
5.) Kyaroru & Chûzudei (2019) (soundtrack)
5. Devs (2020)
TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A computer engineer investigates the secretive development division in her company, which she believes is behind the disappearance of her boyfriend.
Stars: Sonoya Mizuno, Nick Offerman, Jin Ha, Cailee Spaeny
Votes: 47,838
Picks made by RaviNathan
1.) Devs (2020)
2.) Star Trek: Picard (2020)
3.) Helstrom (2020)
4.) Tenet (2020)
5.) Fantasy Island (2020)
6. Free Solo (2018)
PG-13 | 100 min | Documentary, Adventure, Sport
Alex Honnold faces the biggest challenge of his career, climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He pursues it Free Solo, which means climbing without a rope and alone.
Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Stars: Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Cheyne Lempe
Votes: 77,321 | Gross: $17.54M
Picks made by Djesika
1.) Free Solo (2018)
2.) Strictly Ballroom (1992)
3.) What We Do in the Shadows (2019)
4.) Terminal Velocity (music album)
5.) Child of a Mad God: A Tale of the Coven by R.A. Salvatore (book)
7. Attack on Titan (2013–2023)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
After his hometown is destroyed and is traumatized, young Eren Jaeger vows to cleanse the earth of the giant humanoid Titans that have brought humanity to the brink of extinction.
Stars: Jessie James Grelle, Bryce Papenbrook, Trina Nishimura, Yûki Kaji
Votes: 510,433
Picks made by CyrilMartin
1.) Shingeki no Kyojin (2013)
2.) 12 Angry Men (1957)
3.) Person of Interest (2011)
4.) True Detective (2014)
5.) Mr. Robot (2015)
8. Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019)
TV-MA | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Convicted of a decade-old crime of transporting drug money, ordinarily law-abiding Piper Chapman is sentenced to 18 months behind bars and quickly discovers the realities of life-changing prison time.
Stars: Taylor Schilling, Danielle Brooks, Taryn Manning, Emma Myles
Votes: 320,085
Picks made by rubyfruit76
1.) Orange Is the New Black (2013)
2.) Sharon Van Etten (musician)
3.) Waves (2019)
4.) Silence (2016) (and the rest of Scorsese's filmography)
5.) Louise Gluck and Lucille Clifton (poetry)
9. Cerrone: Supernature (1977 Music Video)
4 min | Short, Music
Original music video for the song "Supernature", title track from the album "Cerrone III" by French disco composer Marc Cerrone, imagining a future in which the use of chemicals in agriculture has caused gene mutations in subspecies.
Star: Marc Cerrone
Picks made by breumaster
1.) Cerrone: Symphony (Album)
2.) Purple Disco Machine: Soulmatic (Album)
3.) Klaus (2019)
4.) The Beatles: 1 (Album)
5.) Electroswing Fever (Album from various)
10. 1917 (2019)
R | 119 min | Action, Drama, History
April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth
Votes: 675,114 | Gross: $159.23M
Picks made by Brijesh
1.) 1917 (2019)
2.) Hamilton (2020)
3.) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
4.) Da hong denglong gaogao gua (1991)
5.) Jean de Florette (1986) accompanied by Manon des sources (1986)
11. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As WWII rages, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front; investigating crime on the south coast of England. Later series, see the retired detective working as an MI5 agent in the aftermath of the war.
Stars: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Ellie Haddington
Votes: 18,256
Picks made by Pencho15
1.) Foyle's War (2002)
2.) Watchmen (2019)
3.) Swamp Thing (2019)
4.) Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
5.) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014)
12. I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
R | 134 min | Drama, Thriller
Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself.
Director: Charlie Kaufman | Stars: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis
Votes: 100,012
Picks made by Sparse
1.) I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
2.) La casa lobo (2018)
3.) Devs (2020)
4.) El hoyo (2019)
5.) Electric Swan (2019)
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