Chlotrudis Awards members were invited to share their Top movie lists of 2014 on the website. See what various members chose as their top films of the year. See how many of their favorites made the final ballot. See if your tastes coincide with any particular Chlotrudis member. If you’re a member, send in your Top 10 of the year and we’ll include it here.

Finding Vivian Maier
Finding Vivian Maier

Julie Blumenthal’s Top 10 Films of 2014 

  1. Coffee in Berlin
  2. Finding Vivian Maier
  3. Gloria
  4. The Grand Budapest Hotel
  5. Like Father, Like Son
  6. The Lunchbox
  7. We Are the Best!
  8. Paradise: Hope
  9. Borgman
  10. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
  11. Frank
  12. Unrelated
  13. Ida
  14. Ilo Ilo

 

Life Itself
Life Itself

Kim Brown’s Dynamite Dozen of 2014

  • Big Hero 6
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Chef
  • The Fault of Our Stars
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
  • I Am Santa Claus
  • I Know That Voice
  • Life Itself
  • Mudbloods
  • To Be Takei
  • Tokyo Waka

 

Unrelated
Unrelated

Beth Caldwell’s Top Movies of 2014

  1. Ida
  2. A Coffee in Berlin
  3. Unrelated
  4. We Are the Best! 
  5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
  6. Paradise: Hope
  7. Child’s Pose
  8. Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil le Clercq
  9. Omar
  10. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden

 

Only Lovers Left Alive
Only Lovers Left Alive
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

Michael Colford’s Top Movies of 2014

  1. Like Father, Like Son
  2. Archipelago
  3. Only Lovers Left Alive
  4. The Congress
  5. We Are the Best!
  6. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
  7. The Babadook
  8. Mommy
  9. Land Ho!
  10. The Way He Looks
  11. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
  12. Ida
  13. Under the Skin
  14. Devil’s Knot
  15. It Was You Charlie
  16. Space Station 76
  17. A Brony Tale
  18. Force Majeure
  19. Hateship Loveship
  20. White Bird in a Blizzard
  21. Wrong Cops

 

The Congress
The Congress

Ned Hinkle’s Top Movies Released in 2014

  • 20,000 Days on Earth
  • The Congress
  • Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Inherent Vice
  • Jodorowsky’s Dune
  • The Lego Movie
  • Only Lovers Left Alive
  • Under the Skin
  • We Are the Best!

 

Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors

TC Kirkham’s Bakers Dozen of 2014

  • Big Hero 6
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Chef
  • The Decent One
  • Diplomacy
  • The Fault In Our Stars
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Life Itself
  • Maidentrip
  • Rich Hill
  • Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors
  • The Strange Little Cat
  • Under the Electric Sky

 

A Coffee in Berlin

Bruce Kingsley’s Top Films of 2014

  1. A Coffee in Berlin
  2. Archipelago
  3. Boyhood
  4. Force Majeure
  5. Foxcatcher
  6. The Way He Looks
  7. The Strange Little Cat
  8. Unrelated
  9. Finding Vivien Maier
  10. Like Father, Like Son
  11. Two Days One Night
  12. Ida
  13. Stranger By the Lake
  14. Mommy
  15. Liliting
  16. The Wind Rises
  17. Pride

 

Mommy
Mommy

Chris Kriofske’s Top 10 of 2014

  1. Boyhood
  2. Mommy
  3. A Coffee In Berlin
  4. Under The Skin
  5. Love Is Strange
  6. The Overnighters
  7. Snowpiercer
  8. We Are The Best!
  9. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
  10. Force Majeure

Honorable Mention: Life Itself, The Way He Looks, Archipelago, Whiplash, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The One I Love, Leviathan, Inherent Vice, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

Best film not eligible for Chlotrudis: Nightcrawler

 

Ida
Ida

Hannah Martin’s Top Movies of 2014

  1. Ida
  2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
  3. Boyhood
  4. Coffee in Berlin 
  5. Whiplash
  6. Still Alice
  7. Calvary
  8. The Lunchbox
  9. The Immigrant
  10. The Congress

 

Soshite chichi ni naru
Like Father, Like Son

Jeffrey Pike’s Top Movies of 2014

  • 7 Boxes
  • Birdman
  • Blue Ruin
  • A Coffee in Berlin
  • Cold in July
  • The Double
  • A Field in England
  • Finding Vivian Maier
  • Frank
  • Gloria
  • God’s Pocket

    Vi är bäst!
    We Are the Best!
  • Ilo Ilo
  • Land Ho!
  • Like Father, Like Son
  • Locke
  • On My Way
  • Redwood Highway
  • The Rover
  • Run & Jump
  • The Skeleton Twins
  • Tim’s Vermeer
  • To Be Takei
  • Under the Skin
  • We Are the Best!
  • Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

 

Frank

Toni Pennacchia’s Top Movies of 2014

  • Bicycling with Molière
  • Borgman
  • The Best Offer
  • Calvary
  • The Congress
  • The Dance of Reality
  • Frank
  • Ida
  • The Homesman
  • Jodorowsky’s Dune
  • Joe
  • Like Father, Like Son
  • Locke
  • Rocks in My Pockets
    Rocks in My Pockets

    Rocks in My Pockets

  • Tim’s Vermeer
  • The Wind Rises
  • Whiplash
  • Wrinkles
  • Wrong Cops

Honorable Mentions: Belle, Boyhood, A Letter to Momo, The Lunchbox, Omar, Pride, Rich Hill, The Skeleton Twins, Under the Skin, The Grand Budapest Hotel

 

 

Boyhood
Boyhood

Kyle Renick’s Top Movies of 2013

  1. Boyhood
  2. Citizenfour
  3. Goodbye to Language
  4. Nymphomaniac, volumes 1 and 2
  5. Like Father, Like Son
  6. A Touch of Sin
  7. Jodorowsky’s Dune
  8. Two Days One Night
  9. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
  10. Dear White People
  11. Whiplash
  12. Belle
  13. Birdman, or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance
  14. Mr. Turner
  15. Only Lovers Left Alive
  16. Buzzard
  17. The Case Against 8
  18. National Gallery
  19. Ida
  20. A Coffee in Berlin