Your 10 Favorite Films of Every Decade

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2010's
1.) Looper
2.) American Hustle
3.) Whiplash
4.) Life of Pi
5.) Moonrise Kingdom
6.) The Skin I live in
7.) The Awakening
8.) Everest
9.) Sicario
10.) Prisoners

2000's
1.) Session 9
2.) Memento
3.) Wall E
4.) Gangs of New York
5.) Finding Nemo
6.) Royal Tennenbaums
7.) Kill Bill
8.) The Prestige
9.) 28 Days Later
10.) The Others

1990's
1.) L.A. Confidential
2.) Boogie Nights
3.) Magnolia
4.) The Usual Suspects
5.) Groundhog Day
6.) A League of Their Own
7.) Seven
8.) Last of the Mohicans
9.) JFK
10.) Silence of the Lambs

1980's
1.) Clue
2.) The Thing
3.) My Favorite Year
4.) The Shining
5.) Aliens
6.) Akira
7.) Raiders of the Lost Ark
8.) Blade Runner
9.) Scrooged
10.) Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

1970's
1.) Deep Red
2.) One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
3.) Aguirre Wrath of God
4.) Alien
5.) Dog Day Afternoon
6.) Being There
7.) Jaws
8.) Harold and Maude
9.) Halloween
10.) The Godfather

1960's
1.) High and Low
2.) Woman in the Dunes
3.) Kwaidan
4.) Le Samurai
5.) The Innocents
6.) The Lion in Winter
7.) The Naked Prey
8.) Seance on a Wet Afternoon
9.) The Apartment
10.) Mr Freedom

1950's
1.) House on Haunted Hill
2.) Wages of Fear
3.) Touch of Evil
4.) Wild Strawberries
5.) 12 Angry Men
6.) Rear Window
7.) Ikiru
8.) The River
9.) Forbidden Planet
10.) Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1940's
1.) Citizen Kane
2.) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
3.) The Third Man
4.) Double Indemnity
5.) The Killers
6.) Devil and Daniel Webster
7.) Le Corbeau
8.) That Hamilton Woman
9.) The Great Dictator
10.) The Maltese Falcon

1930's
1.) Captains Corageous
2.) Dodsworth
3.) The Wizard of Oz
4.) Mad Love
5.) City Lights
6.) I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
7.) It Happened One Night
8.) Jezebel
9.) Black Cat
10.) Roaring Twenties

1920's
1.) Sunrise
2.) Chang
3.) The Gold Rush
4.) Pandora's Box
5.) The Phantom of the Opera
6.) Metropolis
7.) October Three Days that Shocked the World
8.) Haxan
9.) The Unknown
10.) The Cabinet of Dr Caligari



“I was cured, all right!”


1970's

Taxi Driver
The Exorcist
Mean Streets
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Rocky
Halloween
Alien
Enter the Dragon
Texas Chainsaw Massacre



1980's
The Shining
Police Story
Kagemusha
A Better Tomorrow
The Thing
Scarface
Ran
Rambo
The Terminator
City on Fire


1990's
Reservoir Dogs
The Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Sonatine
Goodfellas
Bullet in the Head
Hard Boiled
The Devil's Advocate
Hana-Bi
Lost Highway


2000's
Battle Royale
Inglourious Basterds
Oldboy
Memento
A Bittersweet Life
Memories of Murder
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
The Chaser
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Kill Bill


2010's
Outrage
Interstellar
The Wailing
Django Unchained
No Tears for the Dead
The Man from Nowhere
John Wick
Drive
New World
The Yellow Sea
The Raid 2
The Revenant



Post your Top 10 of each decade.

1970s:



The Long Goodbye
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The Godfather
Chinatown
Alien
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Stalker
Days of Heaven
Jaws
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Of course it's your opinion, but there are a lot of great movies not mentioned here.



1940s



1. Casablanca (1942)
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
3. The Third Man (1949)
4. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
5. Double Indemnity (1944)
6. The Lost Weekend (1945)
7. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
8. Notorious (1946)
9. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
10. Rebecca (1940)


1950s



1. Vertigo (1958)
2. Touch of Evil (1958)
3. Rear Window (1954)
4. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
5. Some Like It Hot (1959)
6. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
7. In a Lonely Place (1950)
8. All About Eve (1950)
9. The Seventh Seal (1957)
10. Sweet Smell of Succes (1957)



1970s



1. Chinatown (1974)
2. A Clockwork orange (1971)
3. Taxi Driver (1976)
4. Apocalypse Now (1979)
5. The Godfather (1972)
6.. The Long Goodbye (1973)
7. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
8. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
9. Manhattan (1979)
10. Carnal Knowledge (1971)

Love these three lists.



Please Quote/Tag Or I'll Miss Your Responses
I've edited this 4 times in the last minute..

1930s

La Grande Illusion
You Can't Take It With You
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
The Rules of the Game
M
Stagecoach
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang
Hell's Angels
It Happened One Night

1940s
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Bicycle Thieves
The Grapes of Wrath
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
The Lost Weekend
Meet John Doe
The Blue Dahlia
The Gentleman's Agreement

1950s
1. La Strada
2. The Seventh Seal
3. Ace In The Hole
4. On The Waterfront
5. Wild Strawberries
6. 12 Angry Men
7. Ikiru
8. A Face In The Crowd
9. Ordet
10. All About Eve

1960s
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
The Battle of Algiers
Birdman of Alcatraz
The Misfits
A Child Is Waiting
An Autumn Afternoon
Elmer Gantry
Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner
Red Beard
Persona

1970s
Harry and Tonto
Nashville
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Network
A Woman Under The Influence
McCabe And Mrs. Miller
Mikey and Nicky
Taxi Driver
A Clockwork Orange
The Godfather
I'll have to edit again...

For the 1930s, I'll add "A Man To Remember" and take off "It Happened One Night"



2010s:

The Witch
Under the Skin
Take Shelter
The Eyes of My Mother
Embrace of the Serpent
Crimson Peak
The Turin Horse
Upstream Color
Knight of Cups
Knock Knock


Honorable mentions: The Master, Enemy, The Neon Demon, Blue is the Warmest Color

2000s:

Antichrist
Synecdoche, New York
Moon
Hostel Part II
Primer
Let the Right One In
There Will Be Blood
Cabin Fever
The Descent
28 Days Later


Honorable Mentions: WALL-E, Children of Men, Oldboy, Dogtooth, Trick r Treat, Pontypool, High Tension

1990s:

Naked
American Movie
Breaking the Waves
Se7en
Man Bites Dog
Braindead
Scream
The Silence of the Lambs
Titanic
Pulp Fiction


Honorable Mentions: Institute Benjamenta, The Piano, Dead man, Jacob’s Ladder, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Clerks

1980s:

Pieces
Cannibal Holocaust
Blade Runner
Sleepaway Camp
The Evil Dead
Ms. 45
The Thing
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
City of the Living Dead


Honorable Mentions: Possession, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, The Beyond, The Vanishing, The Thing, An American Werewolf in London, The Stepfather, Christmas Evil, The Burning

1970s:

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Fantastic Planet
Taxi Driver
Last House on the Left
A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin
Halloween
Suspiria
Alien
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Star Wars


Honorable Mentions: The Exorcist, Mirror, House, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Cries and Whispers, El Topo, Straw Dogs, The Devils, Rabid, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, Thriller: A Cruel Picture

1960s:

Vire sa Vie
The Time Machine
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Rosemary’s Baby
Black Sunday
Blood Feast
Incubus
Once Upon a Time in the West
Spider Baby
Night of the Living Dead


1950s:

Lady and the Tramp
The Curse of Frankenstein
12 Angry Men
The Seventh Seal
Roman Holiday
Ikiru
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
Sansho the Bailiff
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Rio Bravo


1940s:

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Wolf Man
Beauty and the Beast
The Third Man
Citizen Kane
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
My Darlng Clementine
Double Indemnity
Bicycle Thieves
Arsenic and Old Lace


1930s:

Gone with the Wind
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
City Lights
It Happened One Night
L’age d’Or
King Kong
The Invisible Man
Freaks
Duck Soup


1920s:

Sherlock, Jr.
The Phantom of the Opera
Diary of a Lost Girl
Nosferatu
Metropolis
Sunrise
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Go West (Keaton)



Sansho! Indemnity! It Happened One Night!

Swan how do you think I would like The Witch?
I'm not sure to be honest. It seems to be fairly polarizing. Hopefully you like it.



This will be fun.

1920s:
I have not watched enough, but Our Hospitality (1923) is a favorite. Who doesn't love Metropolis, and Nosferatu?

1930s:
1.City Lights (1931)
2.Modern Times (1936)
3.It Happened One Night (1934)
4.Frankenstein (1931)
5.Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
6.The Wizard of Oz (1939)
7.La Bęte Humaine (1938)
8.Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
9..M (1931)

This is another decade of film I seriously need to explore more.

1940s:
1.The Great Dictator (1940)
2.Pinocchio (1940)
3.Casablanca (1942)
4.Fantasia (1940)
5.Brief Encounter (1945)
6.Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
7.The Lost Weekend(1945)
8.Bambi(1942)
9.Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
10.The Red Shoes (1948)

Of course I love Citizen Kane. But, this is one of my favorite decades for film, give me a break!

1950s:
1.The Night of the Hunter (1955)
2.Ikiru (1952)
3.Sunset Boulevard (1950)
4.Throne of Blood (1957)
5.Limelight (1952)
6.Singin' in the Rain (1952)
7.[Seven Samurai (1954)
8.Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
9.A Man Escaped (1956)
10.Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)


Another really tough one. I hate that I couldn't include Tokyo Story,Wild Strawberries, Witness for the Prosecution, and Peter Pan but I love these more.

1960s:
1Playtime (1967)
2.2001:A Space Odyssey (1968)
3.Jules and Jim (1962)
4.The Hustler (1961)
5.Dr.Strangelove (1964)
6.Mary Poppins (1964)
7Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
8..The Apartment (1960)
9.Andrei Rublev (1966)
10.Midnight Cowboy (1969

Very honorable mentions include Vivra Sa Vie, and The Producers.

1970s:
1.Jaws (1975)
2.Alien (1979)
3.Taxi Driver (1976)
4.Cries and Whispers (1972)
5.Aguirre:The Wrath of God (1972)
6.A Clockwork Orange (1971)
7.Eraserhead (1977)
8.Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
9.Star Wars (1977)
10.The Godfather (1972)

You know a list that doesn't include Rocky,.Amarcord, .Animal House, and The Godfather: Part II was a tough one to make.

1980s:
1.Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
2.Amadeus (1984)
3.Ghostbusters (1984)
4.The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
5.The Blues Brothers (1980)
6.Wings of Desire (1987)
7.Moonstruck (1987)
8.The King of Comedy (1982)
9.E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
10.An American Werewolf in London (1981)

It killed me not putting The Shining, or Full Metal Jacket on here.

1990s:
1.Happy Together (1997)
2.American Beauty (1999)
3.Pulp Fiction (1994)
4.Edward Scissorhands (1990)
5.Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
6.Whisper of the Heart (1995)
7.Groundhog Day (1993)
8.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
9.Rosetta (1999)
10.Glengrarry Glen Ross (1992) (Updated. I had to put it on the list.)

I feel so bad not making room for Goodfellas.

2000s:
1..Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
2.Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
3.Lost in Translation (2003)
4.Wall.E (2008)
5.Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
6.Sideways (2004)
7.The Dark Knight (2008)
8.Adaptation (2002)
9.Superbad (2007)
10.Ratatouille (2007)

Let's not forget Bad Santa, Once, Before Sunset, and L'Enfant.

2010s:
1.Birdman (2014)
2.The Social Network (2010)
3.Spring Breakers (2012)
4.The Master (2012)
5.Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
6.Whiplash (2014)
7.Moonlight (2016)
8.Fruitvale Station (2013)
9.Frances Ha (2012)
10.Greenberg (2010)

Son of Saul, Toy Story 3, and Mad Max: Fury Road are among the very many honorable mentions.



Yikes! Er...

1970s
1 Black Christmas
2 Jaws
3 Halloween
4 The Spy Who Loved Me
5 The Brood
6 Alien
7 Moonraker
8 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
9 Live and Let Die
10 Theatre of Blood

1980s (so hard to choose JUST ten)
1 The Terminator
2 Aliens
3 Raiders of the Lost Ark
4 Back to the Future 2
5 Fright Night Part II
6 Ghostbusters
7 For Your Eyes Only
8 The Running Man
9 Lethal Weapon
10 A View to a Kill

1990s
1 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
2 Show Me Love
3 True Lies
4 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
5 The Frighteners
6 Scream
7 Leon
8 Speed
9 10 Things I Hate About You
10 Urban Legend

2000s (so hard to get to ten!)
1 Let the Right One In
2 In Bruges
3 REC
4 Donnie Darko
5 Serendipity
6 DEBS
7 Spiderman
8 Spiderman 2
9 Shaun of the Dead
10 Severance

2010s (don't think I can reach 10 as yet)
1 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2 The Conjuring
3 Terminator Genisys
4 The Last Stand
5 Ouija: Origin of Evil
6 Oculus
7 John Wick
8 Kingsman: The Secret Service
9 Guardians of the Galaxy
10 Er...