Favorite Movie By Decade

[Scott Taylor]

1920's The Kid (1921)
1930's Snow White (1937)
1940's I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
1950's Vertigo (1958)
1960's Mary Poppins (1964)
1970's Jaws (1975)
1980's Valley Girl (1983)
1990's Silence of the Lambs (1991)
2000's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
2010's Captain America: The First Avenger (2014)

The 20s is the era I'm most shaky on. Haven't really seen that many of those.

Toughest decade to pick was the 1970s

[Global Honored]

1920s: The General, The Gold Rush, Pandora’s Box
1930s: Dracula, King Kong, Gunga Din
1940s: Casablanca, Out of the Past, The Maltese Falcon
1950s: On the Waterfront, Seven Samurai, North by Northwest
1960s: Cool Hand Luke, Dr. Strangelove, Goldfinger (sorry Lawrence)
1970s: Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Five Easy Pieces
1980s: Ghostbusters, Big Trouble in Little China, Lethal Weapon
1990s: The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, Fargo
2000s: The Prestige, There Will Be Blood, Inglourious Basterds
2010s: Seven Psychopaths, Nightcrawler, The Master

[JBatmanFan05]

2010's (so far): The Revenant or Shape of Water probably

But I watch so many older films and I haven't seen enough films from this decade we're in.

[Jim Kelly]

1870s
Edweard Muybridge, HORSE IN MOTION, 1878

1880s
Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince, TRAFFIC CROSSING LEEDS BRIDGE, 1888

1890s
The Lumiére Brothers, L’ARRIVÉE D’UN TRAIN À LA CIATOT, 1896
Thomas Edison, THE KISS, 1896

1900s
Georges Méliès, LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE, 1902
Edwin S. Porter, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, 1903

1910s
Charlie Chaplin, THE IMMIGRANT, 1917

1920s
Fred Niblo, THE MARK OF ZORRO, 1920
Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, THE GENERAL, 1926
F.W. Murnau, SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS, 1927
Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali, UN CHIEN ANDALOU, 1929

1930s
Frank Capra, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, 1934
Jean Renoir, LA GRANDE ILLUSION, 1937
Ernst Lubitsch, NINOTCHKA, 1939
Victor Fleming et al, THE WIZARD OF OZ, 1939

1940s
Howard Hawks, HIS GIRL FRIDAY, 1940
Orson Welles, CITIZEN KANE, 1941
Preston Sturges, SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS, 1941
Michael Curtiz, CASABLANCA, 1942
Marcel Carné, LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS, 1945
Howard Hawks, THE BIG SLEEP, 1946
Frank Capra, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, 1946

1950s
Akira Kurosawa, RASHOMON, 1950
Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, 1952
Yasujirō Ozu, TOKYO STORY, 1953
Frederico Fellini, LA STRADA, 1954
Billy Wilder, SABRINA, 1954
Melvin Frank & Norman Panama, THE COURT JESTER, 1955
Alfred Hichcock, VERTIGO, 1958
Alfred Hitchcock, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, 1959

1960s
Frederico Fellini, LA DOLCE VITA, 1960
Frederico Fellini, OTTO E MEZZO, 1963
Richard Lester, A HARD DAY’S NIGHT, 1964
Jacques Demi, LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG, 1964
Jean-Luc Godard, PIERROT LE FOU, 1965
David Lean, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, 1965
Elliot Silverstein, CAT BALOU, 1965
Éric Rohmer, MA NUIT CHEZ MAUDE, 1969

1970s
Alejandro Jodorowsky, EL TOPO, 1970
Nicolas Roeg, WALKABOUT, 1971
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, SLEUTH, 1972
Luis Buñuel, LE CHARME DISCRET DE LA BOURGEOISIE, 1972
Werner Herzog, THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER, 1974
Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, 1975
John Badham, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, 1977
Richard Donner, SUPERMAN, 1978

1980s
Barry Levinson, DINER, 1982
Alan J. Pakula, SOPHIE’S CHOICE, 1982
John Hughes, THE BREAKFAST CLUB, 1985
James Ivory, A ROOM WITH A VIEW, 1985
Éric Rohmer, LE RAYON VERT, 1986
Pat O’Connor, A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, 1987
Philip Kaufman, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, 1988
Terry Gilliam, THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, 1988
Giuseppe Tornatore, CINEMA PARADISO, 1988


1990s
Martin Scorsese, GOODFELLAS, 1990
Vincent Ward, MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART, 1992
Harold Ramis, GROUNDHOG DAY, 1993
Peter Jackson, HEAVENLY CREATURES, 1994
Richard Linklater, BEFORE SUNRISE, 1995
Kenneth Branagh, HAMLET, 1996
Roger Michell, NOTTING HILL, 1999

2000s
Ang Lee, CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, 2000
David Lynch, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, 2001
Patrice Leconte, L’HOMME DU TRAIN, 2002
Christopher Nolan, BATMAN BEGINS, 2005
Mark Lawrence, MUSIC AND LYRICS, 2007

2010s
Michel Hazanavicius, THE ARTIST, 2011
Richard Curtis, ABOUT TIME, 2013
Patty Jenkins, WONDER WOMAN, 2017

[Jim Kelly]

For 1960s add

Fielder Cook, A BIG HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY, 1966

[thwhtGuardian]

1920's: The Thief of Bagdad
1930's: King Kong
1940's: Casablanca
1950's: Tie between Rashomon and North by Northwest
1960's:2001
1970's:The Exorcist
1980's: The Goonies
1990's: Groundhog Day
2000's: Wall-E
2010's so far: Shape of Water