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1950's
1954
Some pretty lame films tat year (Creature of the Black lagoon, etc). However some prety big films for me.


On the Waterfront: Kazan
The Caine Mutiney
Dial M for Murder (Hitchcock)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
La Strada (Fellini)
and Sabrina

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1960's


1963
Cleopatra
The Great Escape
8 1/2
Winter Light
How the West was won
It a mad, mad, mad world
Tom Jones
irm douce
Charade
The birds
Contempt
Donovan's reef
Hud
Pink Panther

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1970's
It was a tough choice for me between 1971 and 1974. In the end 1974 is what I went with. Francis Ford Copola had two big feature films that year: The Godfather pt. 2 and The Conversation.


Chinatown
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
The Great Gatsby
Alice Doesn't live Here Anymore
Scenes from a Marriage
Lenny
Alice in the Cities
The Enigma of Kasper Hauser.

1990’s (1999):
Academy: American Beauty*
Highest Grossing: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace*
Top Films:
• Fight Club*
• Eyes Wide Shut*
• Magnolia*
• The Cider House Rules*
• The Green Mile*
• Girl, Interrupted*
• The Sixth Sense
• The Matrix*
• October Sky*
• Being John Malkovich
• The Insider*
• Toy Story 2
• Tarzan
• The Mummy*
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

1980’s (1985):
Academy: Out of Africa
Highest Grossing: Back to the Future*
Top Films:
• The Breakfast Club
• The Goonies*
• Ran*
• Come and See*
• Brazil*
• After Hours*
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters*
• Tampopo*
• The Color Purple*
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Prizzi’s Honor*
• Witness
• Rambo First Blood Part II
• Rocky IV
• Cocoon
• Spies Like Us*
• The Jewel of the Nile

It’s virtually impossible to answer this for the 90s.

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1980's
1989

Steel Magnolias
Mystery Train (Jarmusch)
Dead Poets Society
Field of Dreams,

When Harry Met Sally
The Little mermaid
Drugstore Cowboy
My Left Foot
Indiana Jones The Last Crusade
Batman (Burton)
Say Anything
Do the Right Thing
Crimes and Misdemeanors

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1990's
Tough year
I went with 1999
Fight Club
Toy Story
The Matrix
Iron Giant
Princes Monokee
Office Space
Galaxy Quest
Sixth Sense
Magnolia
Being John Malkovich
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Boys Don't Cry
Three Kings
Run Lola Run
American Beauty
Blair Witch Project

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1980s

The Year is 1982

48 Hours
An Officer and a Gentleman
Blade Runner
Conan the Barbarian
ET: The Extra Testicle
Gandhi
Poltergeist
Rocky III
Star Trek II
The Thing
Tron

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200's
2006
The Departed
Casinlo Royal
The Prestige
Apacalypto
Pan's labyrinth
The Lives of others
Stranger than Fiction
Inland Empire
The Quenn
Letter's from Iwa Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
Notes on a Scandal

Children Of Men?

I can only list the ones I've seen. I'll put it on my list

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I'll second Stu's recommendation of Children of Men. One of my favorite films of the 2000's.

Just starting off with a favorite year for my favorite decade in film (at least when it comes to Hollywood), if I had to pick a favorite from the 70's, it'd be probably be '75:


Jaws
Barry Lyndon
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Dog Day Afternoon
Monty Python And The Holy Grail



And that's just for starters!