Top 5 movie by decade

So i think it's an interesting subject to everyone to share their favourite movie by decade.

(by the way i do not speek english perfectly so expect some mistake here and there)

for me it's (I have not seen every movie and it's my personal opinion)

1940
1. Rope (Hitchcock)
2. Notorious (Hitchcock)
3. The Treasure of Sierra Madre (John Huston)
4. It's a wonderfull Life (Frank Capra)
5. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)

1950
1. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
2. Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
3. The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
4. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
5. Ikiru (Kurosawa)

1960
1. The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
3. The Appartment (Billy Wilder)
4. Psycho (Hitchcock)
5. Dr Strangelove (Kubrick)

1970
1. Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
2. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (Milos Forman)
3. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
4. Star Wars (George Lucas)
5. Jaws (Spielberg)

1980
1. Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
2. Empire Strike Back (George Lucas)
3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
4. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
5. Raiders of the lost ark (Spielberg)

1990
1. Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
2. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
3. Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
4. Fight Club (Fincher)
5. Léon (Luc Besson)

2000
1. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
2. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
3. Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
4. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
5. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)

2010
1. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
2. the last Harry Potter (David Yates)
3. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
4. 127 Hours (Danny Boyle)
5. Incendies (Denis Villeneuve) (a french canadian film)

Pussy Galore? I must be dreaming...

you might be dreaming James haha

1960
1. Goldfinger

and what's your 4 others?

Great choices for the 70s

From 1-5:

1920:
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Man With A Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M. Eisenstein)

1930:
M (Fritz Lang)
Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)

1940:
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
The Third Man (Carol Reed)
Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)

1950:
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)

1960:
Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)

1970:
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky))
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Eraserhead (David Lynch) / Stroszek (Werner Herzog) / The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)

1980:
Santa sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Visitor of a Museum (Konstantin Lopushansky)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)

1990:
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai)
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)

2000:
Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
Caché (Michael Haneke)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai)

2010:
Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky)
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

1920s

1. Underworld (1927)
2. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
3. The Kid (1921)
4. The Phantom Carriage (1921)
5. The Penalty (1920)

1930s (I'm pretty limited here)

1. The Awful Truth (1937)
2. Duck Soup (1933)
3. La Grande Illusion (1937)
4. Frankenstein (1931)
5. The Invisible Man (1933)

1940s

1. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
3. Bad Luck Blackie (1949 Short Film)/The Screwy Truant (1945 Short Film)/King-Size Canary (1947 Short Film)/Blitz Wolf (1942 Short Film)/Red Hot Riding Hood (1943 Short Film)/Northwest Hounded Police (1946 Short Film)
4. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
5. The Wolf Man (1941)

1950s

1. Ikiru (1952)
2. The Human Condition Trilogy
3. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
4. Umberto D. (1952)
5. The Killing (1956)

1960s

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2. Yojimbo (1961)
3. The Apartment (1960)
4. Psycho (1960)
5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

1970s

1. Amarcord (1973)
2. Chinatown (1974)
3. The Exorcist (1973)
4. Suspiria (1977)
5. Eraserhead (1977)

1980s

1. The Shining (1980)
2. Das Boot (1981)
3. The King of Comedy (1982)
4. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)/Time Bandits (1981)
5. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

1990s

1. Unforgiven (1992)
2. Toy Story (1995)
3. The Big Lebowski (1998)
4. Boogie Nights (1997)
5. Underground (1995)

2000s (I've seen most of the acclaimed stuff from this decade, which makes it the hardest for me to organize.)

1. There Will Be Blood (2007)
2. No Country for Old Men (2007)
3. American Psycho (2000)
4. Moon (2009)
5. WALL·E (2008)

2010s so far

1. Black Swan (2010)
2. Killer Joe (2011)
3. I Saw the Devil (2010)
4. The Tree of Life (2011)
5. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
HM: The Terrys (2011 Short Film) - Best short film of the decade so far

1940s:
1) Casablanca
2) The Third Man
3) Notorious
4) Rope
5) Citizen Kane

1950s:
1) Vertigo
2) Rebel Without a Cause
3) Rear Window
4) North by Northwest
5) Some Like it Hot

1960s:
1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) Psycho
3) Last Year at Marienbad
4) Breathless
5) Persona

1970s:
1) Taxi Driver
2) Nashville
3) The Godfather
4) The Godfather Part II
5) Chinatown

1980s:
1) Fanny and Alexander
2) Blue Velvet
3) Blow Out
4) The Shining
5) The Empire Strikes Back

1990s:
1) Magnolia
2) Pulp Fiction
3) Goodfellas
4) Eyes Wide Shut
5) Short Cuts

2000s:
1) Mulholland Drive
2) Inland Empire
3) There Will Be Blood
4) Zodiac
5) The Dark Knight

2010s:
1) The Master
2) The Social Network
3) Holy Motors
4) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
5) The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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That's certainly the best list on this thread.

I have already posted my top 10 favorites for each decade on several different threads. Though my preferences have changed since as I have watched more movies. Let's see how my favorites change in a year or so.

1920's (I only know 3 movies that I liked from this decade, needs to watch more)

The Passion of Joan'D Arc (Carl's Dreyer)
Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)

1930's

M (Fritz Lang)
City Lights (Chaplin)
I Was Born But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
Pygmalion (Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith)

1940's

Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
Day of Wrath (Carl Dreyer)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Education For Death (Disney's greatest movie was a WW2 propaganda short IMO)

1950's

Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)

1960's

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
8 1/2 (Fellini)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)

1970's

Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
Aguirre The Wrath of God (Herzog)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)

1980's

The 1980's suffers from the "Ghibli effect" (where every Ghibli movie released that time was better than anything else, IMO), I can also give my top 5 non-Ghibli films as well:

My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
Nausicaa (Miyazaki)
Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki)
Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki)
Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)

Top 5 that aren't Ghibli:

The Empire Strikes Back (Lucas & co)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
The Terminator (James Cameron)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)

1990's

Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki)
Porco Rosso (Miyazaki)
Only Yesterday (Takahata)
Schindler's List (Spielberg)
Whisper of the Heart (Kondo)

At least one wasn't Ghibli. Though, it is the one that I have the least desire to watch again.

2000's

Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
The Lord of the Rings (Jackson)
City of God (Salles)
There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck)

2010's - To be defined in seven years: I still didn't love anything that has been released so far in this decade.

Best films.

1920s:

1. GREED (von Stroheim)

2. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (Murnau)

3. SPIONE (Lang)

4. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Dreyer)

5. METROPOLIS (Lang)

1930s:

1. L’ATALANTE (Vigo)

2. LA RÈGLE DU JEU (Renoir)

3. STAGECOACH (Ford)

4. VAMPYR (Dreyer)

5. BRINGING UP BABY (Hawks)

1940s:

1. CITIZEN KANE (Welles)

2. THE BIG SLEEP (Hawks)

3. THE BICYCLE THIEVES (De Sica)

4. LATE SPRING (Ozu)

5. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Welles)

1950s:

1. THE SEARCHERS (Ford)

2. ORDET (Dreyer)

3. TOKYO STORY (Ozu)

4. SUNSET BOULEVARD (Wilder)

5. THE 400 BLOWS (Truffaut)

1960s:

1. PLAYTIME (Tati)

2. LE MÉPRIS (Godard)

3. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Kubrick)

4. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Bresson)

5. PERSONA (Bergman)

1970s:

1. APOCALYPSE NOW (Coppola)

2. TAXI DRIVER (Scorsese)

3. THE GODFATHER (Coppola)

4. MEAN STREETS (Scorsese)

5. NASHVILE (Altman)

1980s:

1. RAGING BULL (Scorsese)

2. FANNY AND ALEXANDER (Bergman)

3. A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou)

4. COME AND SEE (Klimov)

5. L’ARGENT (Bresson)

1990s:

1. HOOP DREAMS (James)

2. BOYZ N’ THE HOOD (Singleton)

3. GOODFELLAS (Scorsese)

4. THE THIN RED LINE (Malick)

5. PULP FICTION (Tarantino)

2000s:

1. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Anderson)

2. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Spielberg)

3. WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (Tarr)

4. WALL-E (Stanton)

5. JUNO (Reitman)

1930s
1. King Kong
2. Dracula
3. Frankenstein
4. The Wizard of Oz
5. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

I haven't seen very much from the 1940s, I've seen Citizen Kane but I don't care for it.
1940s
1. Sergeant York
2. Dumbo

1950s
1. Godzilla
2. The African Queen
3. The Curse of Frankenstein
4. The Horror of Dracula
5. The Night of the Hunter

1960s
1. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. The Day of the Triffids
3. The Wild Bunch
4. The Sadist
5. Carnival of Souls

1970s
1. Jaws
2. Halloween
3. Alien
4. The Exorcist
5. The Other

1980s
1. Aliens
2. The Thing
3. First Blood
4. The 'Burbs
5. Return to Oz

1990s
1. Jurassic Park
2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
3. Army of Darkness
4. Stalingrad
5. Stone Cold

2000s
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Downfall
3. The Descent
4. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
5. Splinter

2010s
1. Drive
2. Dredd
3. Moneyball
4. Tron: Legacy
5. The Town

1930s
1) Gone with the wind
2) Wizard of Oz
3) The Public Enemy
4) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
5) It happened one night

1940s
1) Citizen Kane
2) The Third Man
3) It's a wonderful life
4) The Grapes of Wrath
5) White Heat

1950s
1) Vertigo
2) The Searchers
3) Rear window
4) On the waterfront
5) The Bridge on the River Kwai

1960s
1) Psycho
2) To kill a Mockingbird
3) Lawrence of Arabia
4) The Good the Bad and the Ugly
5) Bonnie and Clyde

1970s
1) Godfather
2) Clockwork Orange
3) One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
4) The Exorcist
5) Deer Hunter

1980s
1) Raging Bull
2) Blue Velvet
3) E.T
4) The Shining
5) The Elephant Man

1990s
1) Schindler's List
2) Silence of the Lambs
3) Goodfellas
4) Toy story
5) Pulp Fiction

2000s
1) Mulholland Drive
2) Pan's Labyrinth
3) City of God
4) The Departed
5) No Country for Old Men

No mention of Rocky or Titanic or Avatar

One mention of Star Wars and E.T


Lol

Maybe they arent that good

Though i havent seen Titanic but i really dont think im ever going to watch it. BTW i really love the empire strikes back and give it a it would probably be in the top 10-15 from the 80's.

People are listing a few movies that flopped when it originally released but they went on to become cult classics.

Blade Runner over Indiana Jones?Seriously

BTW,I can't believe someone actually hasn't watched The Titanic.

What's bad about that?

What is wrong with that? I personally don't like E.T, Rocky, and Avatar, but I can still admit they're good film for a certain public.

Yup... If i look at the movies i have watched from the 80's i have at least 60 movies that i personally am more fond of than Indiana Jones. Personally i rank it as an above average movie at

Avatar bored the **** out of me and i would rank it at

Believe it or not Blade Runner is my all-time favorite Sci-Fi movie.

Well im not into big blockbuster Hollywood romances. IMO it doesnt seem that i missed out on anything!