Best 2014 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 2014 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

#20. 20,000 Days on Earth
- Stacker score: 87.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 12,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
- Actors: Nick Cave, Susie Bick, Warren Ellis
- Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $279,558

#19. Pride
- Stacker score: 87.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 64,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Matthew Warchus
- Actors: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $1,446,634

#18. Force Majeure
- Stacker score: 88.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 71,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Ruben Östlund
- Actors: Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren
- Runtime: 2 hours
- Rating: R
- Box office: $1,359,497

#17. The Lego Movie
- Stacker score: 89.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 406,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
- Actors: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $257,966,122

#16. Gone Girl
- Stacker score: 89.4
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 1.1 million)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: David Fincher
- Actors: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris
- Runtime: 2 hours 29 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $167,767,189

#15. Interstellar
- Stacker score: 89.9
- IMDb user rating: 8.7 (votes: 2.4 million)
- Metascore: 74
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain
- Runtime: 2 hours 49 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $203,227,580

#14. Phoenix
- Stacker score: 90.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 21,000)
- Metascore: 89
- Director: Christian Petzold
- Actors: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
- Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $3,184,472

#13. Mr. Turner
- Stacker score: 90.5
- IMDb user rating: 6.8 (votes: 28,000)
- Metascore: 94
- Director: Mike Leigh
- Actors: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson
- Runtime: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $3,958,500

#12. Two Days, One Night
- Stacker score: 90.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 52,000)
- Metascore: 89
- Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
- Actors: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée
- Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $1,436,243

#11. Timbuktu
- Stacker score: 91.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 19,000)
- Metascore: 92
- Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
- Actors: Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki
- Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $1,076,075

#10. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
- Stacker score: 91.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 687,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
- Actors: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $42,340,598

#9. Life Itself
- Stacker score: 92.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 17,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Steve James
- Actors: Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, Gene Siskel
- Runtime: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $810,454

#8. Song of the Sea
- Stacker score: 92.2
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 66,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Tomm Moore
- Actors: David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan
- Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $857,522

#7. The Salt of the Earth
- Stacker score: 93.3
- IMDb user rating: 8.4 (votes: 25,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
- Actors: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado
- Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $1,343,349

#6. Winter Sleep
- Stacker score: 93.9
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 58,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Actors: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag
- Runtime: 3 hours 16 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A

#5. Citizenfour
- Stacker score: 93.9
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 59,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Laura Poitras
- Actors: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney
- Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $2,800,870

#4. The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Stacker score: 94.4
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 939,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Wes Anderson
- Actors: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric
- Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $59,301,324

#3. Whiplash
- Stacker score: 97.2
- IMDb user rating: 8.5 (votes: 1.1 million)
- Metascore: 89
- Director: Damien Chazelle
- Actors: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist
- Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $14,003,391

#2. Virunga
- Stacker score: 98.3
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 95
- Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
- Actors: André Bauma, Emmanuel de Merode, Mélanie Gouby
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A

#1. Boyhood
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 377,000)
- Metascore: 100
- Director: Richard Linklater
- Actors: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke
- Runtime: 2 hours 45 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $25,352,281