Top 10 of Every Decade

[Headhunter]

Will be editing in honorable mentions later. Starting with the 1940s. I could put together a 1930s list but I know I wouldn't LOVE every movie on it. No specific order for any of these, just 10 each.

1940s

The Maltese Falcon
Double Indemnity
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Big Sleep
It's a Wonderful Life
Gilda
The Killers
Criss Cross
Out of the Past
The Best Years of Our Lives

Honorable Mention: The Lost Weekend, The Blue Dahlia, Dark Passage

1950s

Sunset Boulevard
In a Lonely Place
The Asphalt Jungle
Rear Window
Kiss Me Deadly
Vertigo
Touch of Evil
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Mummy
On the Waterfront

Honorable Mention: Rio Bravo, 12 Angry Men, Curse of Frankenstein

1960s

The Hustler
The Great Escape
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Goldfinger
Bonnie and Clyde
Night of the Living Dead
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Easy Rider
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Wild Bunch

Honorable Mention: Once Upon a Time in the West, Point Blank, The Dirty Dozen

1970s:

Patton
Dirty Harry
The Godfather
The Sting
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Chinatown
The Godfather Pt. 2
Network
Star Wars
Suspiria

Honorable Mention: Animal House, Dawn of the Dead, One Flew over the Cuckooo's Nest

1980s:

The Empire Strikes Back
Caddyshack
The Road Warrior
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Thing
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Aliens
Platoon
Evil Dead 2
Die Hard

Honorable Mention: Motel Hell, Coming to America, Blood Simple

1990s:

Goodfellas
Terminator 2
Pulp Fiction
Seven
Heat
The Rock
Face/Off
Boogie Nights
There's Something About Mary
Saving Private Ryan

Honorable Mention: True Romance, The Big Lebowski, Magnolia

2000s:

Memento
Black Hawk Down
Road to Perdition
Old School
The 40 Year Old Virgin
The Departed
No Country for Old Men
Zodiac
The Dark Knight
Tropic Thunder

Honorable Mention: American Psycho, Inglourious Basterds, Blood Diamond

2010s:

Inception
Drive
Skyfall
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
This is the End
American Hustle
Nightcrawler
Mad Max: Fury Road
Dunkirk

Honorable Mention: Get Out, Guardians of the Galaxy, John Wick

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Still adding 1930's cause M is just too awesome for me to ignore. Limiting myself to 3 honorable mentions for each decade.

1930's

1. M
2. The Bride of Frankenstein
3. The Wizard of Oz
4. King Kong
5. It Happened One Night
6. Dracula
7. Freaks
8. Frankenstein
9. The Adventures of Robin Hood
10. A Night At The Opera

Honorable Mentions: The Invisible Man, Gone With The Wind, The Mummy

1940's

1. Notorious
2. Pinnochio
3. Fantasia
4. Casablanca
5. The Wolf Man
6. Citizen Kane
7. Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman
8. Spellbound
9. The Uninvited
10. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Honorable Mentions: The Grapes of Wrath, It's a Wonderful Life, Cat People

1950's.

1. Sleeping Beauty
2. Rear Window
3. Alice In Wonderland
4. Touch Of Evil
5. High Noon
6. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
7. Singin' In the Rain
8. Vertigo
9. Rebel Without A Cause
10. A Streetcar Named Desire

Honorable Mentions: The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Horror of Dracula, On the Waterfront

1960's

1. Psycho
2. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
3. Once Upon A Time In The West
4. From Russia With Love
5. Masque of the Red Death
6. The Producers
7. Goldfinger
8. To Kill A Mockingbird
9. Blow-Up
10. Breathless

Honorable Mentions: Night of the Living Dead, The Innocents, The Pit & The Pendulum

1970's

1. Halloween
2. Jaws
3. The Exorcist
4. Rocky
5. Dawn Of The Dead
6. The Warriors
7. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
8. Taxi Driver
9. Young Frankenstein
10. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Honorable Mentions: Phantasm, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Alien

1980's

1. The Road Warrior
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. The Thing
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. An American Werewolf In London
(those 5 are in my 10 ten of all time, 80's rule so hard)
6. Evil Dead II
7. Ghostbusters
8. Planes Trains & Automobiles
9. Aliens
10. The Shining

Honorable Mentions: Robocop, The Terminator, Blade Runner (loved the 80's so much, all mentioned are in the top 33)

1990's

1. The Last Of The Mohicans
2. Heat
3. Unforgiven
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Fight Club
6. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
7. The Silence Of The Lambs
8. The Fugitive
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Jurassic Park

Honorable Mentions: The Crow, Jerry Maguire, Braveheart (evidently I'm pretty big on the 90's too, all mentioned are still in my top 100)

2000's

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King
3. LOTR: The Two Towers
4. LOTR: The Fellowship Of The Ring
5. Memento
6. Almost Famous
7. Spider-man 2
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10. Mulholland Drive

Honorable Mentions: Zodiac, Batman Begins, Gladiator (also all still in my top 100)

2010's

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Inception
3. I Saw The Devil
4. Skyfall
5. Dunkirk
6. The Jungle Book
7. The Hateful Eight
8. It
9. The Shape Of Water
10. Logan

Honorable Mentions: Train To Busan, The Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: Winter Soldier

Interesting things of note:

I love Ridley Scott as a director, yet none of his films cracked the top 10's, only in honorable mentions.
Only one Tarantino movie mentioned at all: The Hateful Eight. Pulp Fiction was creeping up for the 90's though, so it was close to Honorable mentions.
Only one Scorsese movie mentioned at all: Taxi Driver. Like Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas was also really close for getting an honorable mention in the 90s. 90's might not be great for horror, but damn good decade for other genres.
Also love John Carpenter, only two movies ranked, and none made it to honorable mentions. The 80's was suuuuuper competitive.
No Pixar
No Superhero movies mentioned until 2000's
Two different decades, two different Mad Max movies sitting on top of their decade

[Headhunter]

I have edited in my three honorable mentions per decade.

Please clap.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

*golf claps*

[Tiggnutz]

Must put time and work into this

[Jason]

Looks like peeps need to see Dial M for Murder. Easy top 5 50s movie.

[Headhunter]

Pretty sure we've both seen it. Could crack my top 20 for the 1950s but "Easy top 5" is insane. It's probably the 5th best Hitchcock movie of that decade.

[Jason]

Greatest opening act in movie history.

[Headhunter]

Yeah, okay...

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Also seen it. It's decent, but others stick to the ribs better for me.

[Headhunter]

It's a really solid, nicely pieced together murder mystery. It doesn't exactly stand out in Hitchcock's library, especially when held up against Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho which were all groundbreaking.

[Jason]

It's a really solid, nicely pieced together murder mystery. It doesn't exactly stand out in Hitchcock's library, especially when held up against Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho which were all groundbreaking.

It's not at all a murder mystery. Not even close. :p

You need to rewatch it. :p
It really does have my all-time favorite opening act in movie history.

"I thought of three different ways of killing him. I even thought of killing her... That seemed a far more sensible idea."

[Jason]

It's in my Hitchcock big three with Rear Window and Psycho. Can't pick a favorite. Definitely the most cozy Hitchcock suspense flick. Totally brilliant piece, without a flaw.

[Headhunter]

It's a really solid, nicely pieced together murder mystery. It doesn't exactly stand out in Hitchcock's library, especially when held up against Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho which were all groundbreaking.

It's not at all a murder mystery. Not even close. :p

You need to rewatch it. :p
It really does have my all-time favorite opening act in movie history.

"I thought of three different ways of killing him. I even thought of killing her... which seemed a far more sensible idea."

Not even close? How? It's a mystery about the fallout of an attempted murder. You can play the semantics game if you'd like.

It's a good movie.

[Headhunter]

It's in my Hitchcock big three with Rear Window and Psycho. Can't pick a favorite. Definitely the most cozy Hitchcock suspense flick. Totally brilliant piece, without a flaw.

"Cozy"? What the fuck . . .

[Jason]

It's a really solid, nicely pieced together murder mystery. It doesn't exactly stand out in Hitchcock's library, especially when held up against Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho which were all groundbreaking.

It's not at all a murder mystery. Not even close. :p

You need to rewatch it. :p
It really does have my all-time favorite opening act in movie history.

"I thought of three different ways of killing him. I even thought of killing her... which seemed a far more sensible idea."

Not even close? How? It's a mystery about the fallout of an attempted murder. You can play the semantics game if you'd like.

It's a good movie.

Still disagree. There is no mystery here aside from not knowing how the movie is going to end. In which case, every movie with a murder is a murder mystery.

You should give it a rewatch dude. It's excellent.

[Jason]

It's in my Hitchcock big three with Rear Window and Psycho. Can't pick a favorite. Definitely the most cozy Hitchcock suspense flick. Totally brilliant piece, without a flaw.

"Cozy"? What the fuck . . .

Comfort flick. Blanket on the sofa with some popcorn kind of a movie.

[Headhunter]

It's a really solid, nicely pieced together murder mystery. It doesn't exactly stand out in Hitchcock's library, especially when held up against Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho which were all groundbreaking.

It's not at all a murder mystery. Not even close. :p

You need to rewatch it. :p
It really does have my all-time favorite opening act in movie history.

"I thought of three different ways of killing him. I even thought of killing her... which seemed a far more sensible idea."

Not even close? How? It's a mystery about the fallout of an attempted murder. You can play the semantics game if you'd like.

It's a good movie.

Still disagree. There is no mystery here aside from not knowing how the movie is going to end. In which case, every movie with a murder is a murder mystery.

You should give it a rewatch dude. It's excellent.

I said it was a good movie. I've even seen it again in the past year.

[Headhunter]

It's in my Hitchcock big three with Rear Window and Psycho. Can't pick a favorite. Definitely the most cozy Hitchcock suspense flick. Totally brilliant piece, without a flaw.

"Cozy"? What the fuck . . .

Comfort flick. Blanket on the sofa with some popcorn kind of a movie.

I hope that is the last time I ever hear a movie described as cozy. :cry:

[Jason]

It's in my Hitchcock big three with Rear Window and Psycho. Can't pick a favorite. Definitely the most cozy Hitchcock suspense flick. Totally brilliant piece, without a flaw.

"Cozy"? What the fuck . . .

Comfort flick. Blanket on the sofa with some popcorn kind of a movie.

I hope that is the last time I ever hear a movie described as cozy. :cry:

Others have liked that description.

The Fog.