Favorite Movie By Decade

[Darkseid Is]

Simple enough. What is your favorite movie for each decade? You can start with whatever decade you like, but I haven't seen many movies from the 20's or before.

1930's King Kong (1933)
1940's The Maltese Falcon (1941)
1950's Godzilla (1954)
1960's The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
1970's Taxi Driver (1976)
1980's Raging Bull (1980)
1990's Pulp Fiction (1994)
2000's The Dark Knight (2008)
2010's The Avengers (2012)

[Starter Set]

Hmm, difficult.

From the 2010's i would say "Your Name". From the 70's A New Hope. From the 90's The Thin Red Line.

From the 80's, Princess Bride i guess.

The rest i don't know, gotta think about it a bit more. Will edit later.

Edit : from the 00's i would say the Lord of the Rings. The first one more specifically, long version, was truly excellent. From the 60's, Fantomas.

[Soubhagya]

1920's: The Kid (1921)
1930's: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
1940's: Citizen Kane (1941)
1950's: Seven Samurai (1954)
1960's: 2001:A Space Odyssey (1968)
1970's: The Godfather Part 2 (1974)
1980's: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
1990's: Andaz Apna Apna (1994)
2000's: No Country For Old Men (2007)
2010's: Inception (2010)

Note:
I will keep updating the list. There are lots of films i haven't watched. If i like another film more then ones mentioned here, i will make changes. With time too one's choices change. A year ago i would not have placed No Country For Old Men above Dark Knight or Inglorious Basterds. But here we are. They are my #2 and #3 now.

The easiest choices were 50s and 60s. There are a number of awesome films from that time but i think my favorites are 'awesome among awesomes'. 20s, 30s, 40s were easy too as i have watched very few films from that period. In case of 20s i have watched only 2. From 30s only one. And two from 40s. The Great Dictator (1940) was great. But i don't think it was better then Citizen Kane.

[Panic]

1930's The Lady Vanishes
1940's The Maltese Falcon
1950's The Bridge on the River Kwai
1960's The Ipcress File
1970's Star Wars
1980's Raiders of the Lost Ark
1990's Miller's Crossing
2000's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2010's

I really need to let the dust settle on this decade before I know which film(s) will stand the test of time.

[Tofali]

1930s It Happened One Night
1940s Now, Voyager
1950s Cinderella (i've several favourite movies in this decade but Disney takes the cake)
1960s The Manchurian Candidate (too many to choose from but the Dame takes the bullet)
1970s The Godfather (give me justice)
1980s The Untouchables
1990s Shawshank Redemption
2000s Wall-E
2010s Guardians of the Galaxy (nothing will top this for me even though the decade isn't yet over.)

[Panic]

1930s It Happened One Night
1940s Now, Voyager
1950s Cinderella (i've several favourite movies in this decade but Disney takes the cake)
1960s The Manchurian Candidate (too many to choose from but the Dame takes the bullet)
1970s The Godfather (give me justice)
1980s The Untouchables
1990s Shawshank Redemption
2000s Wall-E
2010s Guardians of the Galaxy (nothing will top this for me even though the decade isn't yet over.)

The Manchurian Candidate was on my shortlist for the 60's. Excellent film, terrific performances, script, cinematography. I re-watched the Blu-ray only a week or two ago and it never disappoints.

[RikWriter]

1930s: King Kong
1940s: Casablanca
1950s: Forbidden Planet
1960s: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970s: Jaws
1980s: Die Hard
1990s: Saving Private Ryan
2000s: the Lord of the Rings trilogy
2010s: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

[Carabas]

1930's: The Adventures of Robin Hood
1940's: Casablanca
1950's: Dracula (Hammer version)
1960's: Once Upon a Time in the West, Point Blank
1970's: Star Wars, Kelly's Heroes, Chinatown
1980's: Raiders Of the Lost Ark, Hellraiser
1990's: Groundhog Day, Pulp Fiction
2000's: Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, Iron Man
2010's: Logan, Mad Max: Fury Road, Thor: Ragnarok

[WestPhillyPunisher]

1930's: King Kong
1940's: Citizen Kane
1950's: The Ten Commandments (it was a three way toss up with THEM!, my favorite "big bug" movie from the 50's and Godzilla)
1960's: Goldfinger
1970's: Superman (barely edging out Star Wars: Episode IV and The Godfather)
1980's: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (just squeaking past The Terminator and Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1990's: Pulp Fiction
2000's: Iron Man
2010's: Marvel's The Avengers (another toss-up with Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy)

[AndrewCrossett]

I decided to specify a comedy and a drama/action/non-comedy from each decade. This is certainly not my nominations for Best Movies in terms of the filmmaker's art, just the ones I enjoy watching the most.

1920's: Comedy: The Gold Rush. Non-comedy: Metropolis

1930's: Comedy: A Night at the Opera. Non-comedy: The Wizard of Oz

1940's: Comedy: Miracle on 34th Street; Non-comedy: Casablanca

1950's: Comedy: The Quiet Man; Non-comedy: On the Waterfront

1960's: Comedy: The Producers; Non-comedy: In the Heat of the Night

1970's: Comedy: Young Frankenstein; Non-comedy: The Godfather Part II

1980's: Comedy: Caddyshack; Non-comedy: Raiders of the Lost Ark. (Special award: Labyrinth)

1990's: Comedy: The Big Lebowski; Non-comedy: Ed Wood

2000's: Comedy: O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Non-comedy: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2010's: Comedy: Inside Out; Non-comedy: Mad Max: Fury Road

[GOLGO 13]

1950's 7 SAMURAI (1954)

1960's SPARTUCUS (1960) & WEST SIDE STORY (1961)

1970's BLAZING SADDLES (1974)

1980's THE THING (1980)

1990's SOUTH PARK: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

2000's SUPER TROOPERS(2008)

2010's The RAID(2011)

These are movies that I would stop & watch if I ever came across them.

[Jokerz79]

1920's: Nosferatu (Horror) Speedy (Comedy and anything Chaplin.).

1930's: The Roaring Twenties (Non-Comedy), Frankenstein (Horror, Barely beating Dracula and Bride of Frankenstein), King Kong (Sci-Fi Yeah Giant Ape and Dinosaurs I'm going Sci-Fi), and It Happened One Night (Comedy).

1940's: The Stranger (Non-Comedy), Wolf Man (Horror), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Sci-Fi-ish), and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Comedy).

1950's: A Face in the Crowd (Non-Comedy), Hammer's Dracula (Horror), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Sci-Fi), and The Long Long Trailer (Comedy).

1960's: Dirty Dozen (Non-Comedy, Barely Beating Her Majesty's Secret Service), Psycho (Horror), Planet of the Apes (Sci-Fi), and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Comedy).

1970's: Godfather (Non-Comedy Barely edging out Jaws), Dawn of the Dead (Horror Barely Beating Halloween and Invasion of the Body Snatchers), Soylent Green (Sci-Fi, Yeah Not Star Wars), and Animal House (Comedy, Barely beating Blazing Saddles)

1980's: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Non-Comedy, Barely beating Robocop, Terminator, and Diehard), Gremlins (Horror it was my first but the 80's had so many good ones.), Empire Strikes Back (Sci-Fi Beating Back to the Future), and Ghostbusters (Comedy Barely Beating Police Academy and Blues Brothers).

1990's: Goodfellas (Non-Comedy), Darkman (It's listed as Horror), Total Recall (Sci-Fi), and Mrs. Doubtfire (Comedy).

2000's: Dark Knight (Non-Comedy), Teeth (Horror), Daybreakers (Sci-Fi), and Shaun of the Dead (Comedy).

2010's: Ex-Machina (Non-Comedy), Snowpiercer (Sci-Fi), Train to Busan (Horror), and Thor Ragnarok (Yeah if Ghostbusters is comedy so is this).

[Powerboy]

1950's: The Spirit of St. Louis
1960's: At the time, the Jungle Book, now 2001 A Space Odyssey.
1970's: Star Wars (A New Hope).
1980's: The Princess Bride
1990's: Unforgiven
2000's: Lord of the Rings especially the second one
2010- present: Wonder Woman

Note: in many cases, I'll probably think of some other movie I've overlooked and that I liked better.

Edit: And it's happened already. At the time, Star Wars was my favorite of the 1970's. Now I'd say "Young Frankenstein".

[Assam]

1920's: Metropolis
1930's: M
1940's: Citizen Kane
1950's: It's Always Fair Weather (This one is mostly nostalgia)
1960's: To Kill a Mockingbird
1970's: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1980's: A toss-up between The Princess Bride and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
1990's: The Prince of Egypt (My go to answer when people ask me what my favorite movie in general is.)
2000's: Adaptation
2010's: A toss-up between Toy Story 3, God Bless America and Koe No Katachi.

[Vworp Vworp]

1920's - Pandora's Box. Cos Louise Brooks.
1930's - King Kong
1940's - It's a Wonderful Life
1950's - Rear Window
1960's - Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
1970's - Jaws. Obviously
1980's - Can't choose between Back to the Future and Labyrinth
1990's - The Commitments. With a shout out to The Rocketeer and Tremors
2000's - Enchanted
2010's - Star Wars - The Force Awakens