Favorite movies from each decade? 1930's to the 2000's

[Brad Russ]

I originally made this thread about four or five years ago, but figured I'd resurrect it since it's been so long, and there's so many new members here. Here's my favorites.

1930's: The Wizard of Oz

1940's: ???

1950's Rebel Without A Cause

1960's: The Graduate

1970's: Rocky, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, and Summer of 42'

1980's: The Karate Kid

1990's: The Cure

2000's My Flesh And Blood (Documentary)

[comedyfreak]

1930's-Boys Town, The Champ, Huckleberry Finn, The Wizard Of Oz.

1940's- Christmas In Connecticut, The Big Street, Double Indemnity, It's A Wonderful Life, Fancy Pants.

1950's- The Long Long Trailer, The Ten Commandments, All About Eve

1960's- Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Munster Go Home!, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane.

1970's- Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, Car Wash, Grease, Superman

1980's- The Outsiders, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Back To The Future, The Karate Kid, Star Trek IV.

1990's- Home Alone, Liar Liar, The Wedding Singer, Star Trek First Contact.

2000's- 50 First Dates, Spider-Man, The X-Men.

[Janice]

1930s: Gone With The Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Cane

1940s: Stagecoach, High Noon, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Body and Soul, A Walk In The Sun, From Here To Eternity, The Sands of Iwo Jima, It's A Wonderful Life

1950s: Ben Hur, Giant, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, 12 Angry Men, The Robe, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Spartacus, All About Eve

1960: The Days of Wine and Roses, Goldfinger, The Graduate, Rosemary's Baby, Psycho, The Hustler, Breakfast At Tiffanys, 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly', Whatever Happened To Baby Jane

1970: Saturday Night Fever, The Godfather, Rocky, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Patton, Death Wish, Jaws, Taxi, How The West Was Won, The Towering Inferno

1980s: Raging Bull, Kramer vs Kramer, Ordinary People, Born on The Fourth of July, The Verdict, The Accused, Mommie Dearest, Ghost, Dirty Dancing, Fatal Attraction

1990s: Goodfellas, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, The Remains of The Day, Forrest Gump, Good Will Hunting, Titanic, The Sixth Sense, The Green Mile, The Fugitive, Murder In The First, The Silence of The Lambs, A Beautiful Mind, The Shawshank Redemption

2000s: Unfaithful, Mystic River, The Departed, Crash, Milk, Open Range, Fever Pitch, I, Robot, Walk The Line, The Gladiator, The Aviator, Defiance

[Marvo301]

1930's Wizard of Oz

1940's Casablanca

1950's The African Queen

1960's To Kill a Mockingbird

1970's Rocky

1980's Back to the Future

1990's Forrest Gump

2000's Remember the Titans

[tv star collector]

1930s
"The Bride of Frankenstein"
"Dracula"
"Frankenstein"
"Gone with the Wind"
"Gulliver's Travels"
"King Kong" (tie)
"The Mummy" (Boris Karloff)
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
"Stagecoach"
"Tarzan and His Mate"
"Way Out West"
"The Wizard of Oz" (tie)

1940s
"Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein"
"Bambi"
"Casablanca"
"Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome"
"Dumbo"
"Fantasia"
"It's a Wonderful Life"
"The Maltese Falcon"
"Miracle on 34th Street"
"My Pal Trigger" (Roy Rogers)
"Pinocchio"
"Song of the South"
"The Three Caballeros"
"The Wolfman"

1950s
"The African Queen"
"Bus Stop"
"Cinderella"
"Creature from the Black Lagoon"
"Darby O'Gill and the Little People"
"Francis"
"Godzilla, King of the Monsters" (Raymond Burr)
"High Noon"
"I Was a Teenage Werewolf"
"Jailhouse Rock"
"Lady and the Tramp"
"Li'l Abner"
"Loving You"
"No Time for Sergeants"
"Old Yeller"
"Peter Pan"
"Prince Valiant"
"The Road to Bali"
"The Shaggy Dog"
"Sleeping Beauty"
"Some Like It Hot"
"Son of Paleface"
"War of the Worlds" (Gene Barry)

1960s
"Batman" (Adam West)
"Beach Blanket Bingo"
"The Birds"
"Doctor Zhivago"
"Gay Purr-ee"
"Greyfriars Bobby"
"A Hard Day's Night" (tie)
"Help!"
"Hey There, It's Yogi Bear"
""It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (tie)
"Jungle Book"
"King of Kings"
"Mad Monster Party"
"The Man Called Flintstone"
"Mary Poppins"
"McLintock!"
"The Monkey's Uncle"
"Munster, Go Home"
"The Nutty Professor" (Jerry Lewis)
"101 Dalmatians"
"The Outlaws Is Coming" (The Three Stooges)
"Planet of the Apes"
"Psycho"
"That Darn Cat"
"The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze"
"Toby Tyler"
"Viva Las Vegas"
"Yellow Submarine"

1970s
"Charlotte's Web"
"The Cheap Detective"
"C.H.O.M.P.S."
"Grease"
"The Muppet Movie"
"Rocky"
"Smokey and the Bandit"
"Star Wars" (tie)
"Superman: The Movie" (tie)

1980s
"Batman" (Michael Keaton)
"Dragnet" (Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks)
"E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial"
"Flash Gordon"
"Ghostbusters"
"Gremlins"
"The Little Mermaid"
"Oh! Heavenly Dog"
"Oliver & Company"
"Santa Claus"
"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home"
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit"

1990s
"Addams Family"
"Adventures of Stuart Little"
"Beauty and the Beast"
"Beethoven"
"Bicentennial Man"
"Casper"
"Dick Tracy"
"Ernest Goes to Jail"
"Ferngully: the Last Rainforest"
"The Flintstones"
"Forrest Gump"
"George of the Jungle"
"Iron Giant"
"Jurassic Park"
"The Lion King"
"The Mask" (Jim Carrey)
"The Mask of Zorro"
"Mighty Joe Young"
"Mulan"
"The Mummy" (Brendan Fraser)
"Pocahontas"
"Prince of Egypt"
"The Rocketeer"
"The Shadow"
"Space Jam"
"Tarzan" (Disney)
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
"Toy Story" (tie)
"Toy Story 2" (tie)

2000s
"The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle"
"Looney Tunes Back in Action"
"Monsters, Inc."
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
"Road to El Dorado"
"Scooby-Doo"
"Shrek"
"Spider-Man"
"Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron"
"Tomb Raider"
"X-Men"

[Dusty's Fan]

1930s: My Man Godfrey
1940s: Little Giant (Abbott & Costello) and How Green Was My Valley
1950s: Dial M for Murder
1960s: Batman (based on TV series), Planet of the Apes, The Pink Panther, and A Shot in the Dark
1970s: All of the Pink Panther films and Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1980s: Superman II, Batman ('89), and The Blues Brothers
1990s: The Phantom and The Mask of Zorro (big Zeta-Jones fan!)
2000s: X-Men

[Liza]

1930s: My Man Godfrey, Midnight, Gone With the Wind, Dinner at Eight, The Wizard of Oz, The Thin Man, It Happened One Night.

Best film of the 30s: Bringing Up Baby

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40s: Rebecca, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Razor's Edge, Love Letters, Casablanca, The Philadelphia Story, Meet Me in St Louis, The Mark of Zorro

Best film of the decade: The Best Years of Our Lives (also happens to be the best film ever made)

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50s: All About Eve, Guys and Dolls, Vertigo, Pillow Talk, The King and I, Sleeping Beauty, Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, Anastasia, Giant, Sayonara

Best film of the decade: A Streetcar Named Desire

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60s: The Sound of Music, Romeo and Juliet, Breakfast at Tiffany's, West Side Story, Psycho, My Fair Lady, Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Best film of the decade: Doctor Zhivago

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70s: Paper Moon, The Poseidon Adventure, Superman, Love Story, The Sting, The Boys From Brazil, Sleuth

Best film of the decade: Cabaret

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80s: A Room With a View, Ordinary People, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, Dirty Dancing, The Terminator, Somewhere in Time, The Shining, Ragtime

Best film of the decade: Amadeus

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90s: Little Women, Forrest Gump, The Crucible, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, Portrait of a Lady, Wings of the Dove

Best film of the decade: Sense and Sensibility

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00s: Doubt, Amazing Grace, Chicago, Atonement, The Painted Veil, A Beautiful Mind, I Am Sam, Moulin Rouge!

Best film of the decade: Mulholland Dr

[PunkyP0WER]

1930's - Gone With The Wind -1939; The Wizard of Oz - 1939; The Little Princess - 1939; Inspector Hornleigh - 1939; Inspector Hornleigh On Holiday-1939

1940's - Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It -1940; To The Shores of Tripoli -1942; Sentimental Journey -1946; Green For Danger -1946; Miracle On 34th Street -1947

1950's - Tripoli -1950; Cinderella -1950; Scrooge a.k.a. A Christmas Carol -1951; A Streetcar Named Desire -1951; An Inspector Calls -1954

1980's - Dirty Dancing -1987; Lethal Weapon -1987; Die Hard -1988; Prancer -1989; Look Who's Talking -1989

1990's - Home Alone -1990; The Ref -1994

[MickeyMac]

Good topic, got to think on this one.

[Brad Russ]

1930s: Gone With The Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Cane

1940s: Stagecoach, High Noon, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Body and Soul, A Walk In The Sun, From Here To Eternity, The Sands of Iwo Jima, It's A Wonderful Life

1950s: Ben Hur, Giant, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, 12 Angry Men, The Robe, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Spartacus, All About Eve

1960: The Days of Wine and Roses, Goldfinger, The Graduate, Rosemary's Baby, Psycho, The Hustler, Breakfast At Tiffanys, 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly', Whatever Happened To Baby Jane

1970: Saturday Night Fever, The Godfather, Rocky, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Patton, Death Wish, Jaws, Taxi, How The West Was Won, The Towering Inferno

1980s: Raging Bull, Kramer vs Kramer, Ordinary People, Born on The Fourth of July, The Verdict, The Accused, Mommie Dearest, Ghost, Dirty Dancing, Fatal Attraction

1990s: Goodfellas, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, The Remains of The Day, Forrest Gump, Good Will Hunting, Titanic, The Sixth Sense, The Green Mile, The Fugitive, Murder In The First, The Silence of The Lambs, A Beautiful Mind, The Shawshank Redemption

2000s: Unfaithful, Mystic River, The Departed, Crash, Milk, Open Range, Fever Pitch, I, Robot, Walk The Line, The Gladiator, The Aviator, Defiance

I forgot about the Days of Wine And Roses, that would definitely be on my 60's list. Great movie!! :thumbsup: I was surprised that My Flesh And Blood didn't make your 2000's list Janice!! you once posted that it was the best documentary you had seen in years. That's still the best movie I've seen this decade. I never Imagined a documentary would be one of my 5 all time favorite movies, but it definitely makes the list.

Great list by the way!! :thumbsup:

[Liza]

The Little Princess - 1939Miracle On 34th Street -1947

I never liked the Shirley Temple version of A Little Princess. I love the book so much and the movie just got it so wrong. I mean, her dad died - he didn't get amnesia - and what the heck was Queen Victoria doing there??? The BBC did the best adaptation of that book in the 80s with Amelia Shankley and Nigel Havers. I like to pretend this version never happened.

But Shirley Temple definately deserves to be mentioned. I forgot to add my favorite of her films to the 30s list: Curly Top!

And OMG, I can't believe I forgot Miracle on 34th Street! :blush: One of Maureen O'Hara's best - and Edmund Gwenn totally deserved that Oscar! Natalie Wood was so darling and John Payne so handsome - talk about the perfect cast!

[Jack Gomez]

1920s: Nosferatu, The Kid, The Gold Rush, The Circus

1930s: City Lights, Modern Times, The Wizard of Oz, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, Dracula

1940s: The Wolf Man

1950s: The Searchers, Rio Bravo, Shane, Horror of Dracula, Lady and the Tramp

1960s: Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Targets, Planet of the Apes, Psycho, Night of the Living Dead

1970s: Rocky, The Spy Who Loved Me, Halloween, Star Wars, Enter the Dragon, Way of the Dragon, Escape From The Planet of the Apes, The Bad News Bears

1980s: The Empire Strikes Back, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, The Living Daylights, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, The Last Crusade, Return of the Jedi, Running On Empty, Stand By Me, The Goonies, The Thing, Psycho II

1990s: Clerks, Before Sunrise, Almost Famous, Ed Wood, Dazed and Confused, Chasing Amy, Matinee, Star Trek: First Contact, Gattaca

2000s: X2, Clerks II, Before Sunset, Sunshine, 28 Days Later, Rocky Balboa, Casino Royale, Rocket Science, Big Fish, Serenity, Gran Torino

[Shine]

1920's: Blackmail

1930's: The 39-Steps

1940's: Foreign Correspondent

1950's: Vertigo

1960's: 2001:A Space Odyssey

1970's: Jaws

1980's: Blow Out

1990's: Goodfellas

2000's: Casino Royale

[MickeyMac]

1930's: Gone With The Wind, Stagecoach, Mutany On The Bounty, It Happened One Night, Scarface, Wuthering Heights, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington


1940's: Casablanca, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Key Largo, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indementy, The Killers, The Wolfman


1950's: Rebel Without A Cause, On The Waterfront, The Blackboard Jungle, The Wild One, Rock Rock Rock, King Creole, Sunset Bouelvard, Vertigo, Diaboulique, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, The Hidden Fortress, Shadows


1960's: The TAMI Show, The Big TNT Show, A Hard Days Night, Psycho, 8 1/2, The Wild Bunch, Easy Rider, A Patch of Blue, The Great Escape, The Manchurian Candidate, La Dolce Vita, Faces, Batman, Fist Full of Dollars, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Bullit, Our Man Flint


1970's Five Easy Pieces, Mean Streets, The Last Waltz, Gimmie Shelter, Carnal Knowledge, The Godfather, Superfly, Saturday Night Fever, The French Connection, Beyond The Valley of the Dolls, Dirty Harry, Death Wish, Enter The Dragon, Network, Superman

[MrCleveland]

30's-"Duck Soup", "A Night at the Opera", "Great Zigfried", "The Wizard of OZ", and "Gone with the Wind"
40's-"Citizen Kane", "Casablanca", "Three Caballeros", "It's a Wonderful Life", and "Walter Mitty"
50's-"Ten Commandments", "Ben Hur", "Some Like It Hot", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much"
60's-"West Side Story", "Goldfinger", "Yellow Submarine", "Help!", and "The Pink Panther"
70's-"Rocky Horror", "Star Wars", "Rocky", "Willy Wonka", and "The Godfather"
80's-"Roger Rabbit", "Rain Man", "UHF", "Driving Miss Daisy", and "Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade"
90's-"Forrest Gump", "Space Jam", "Home Alone", "Austin Powers", and "Coneheads"
00's-"Across the Universe", "Dude, Where's My Car?", "Bruce Almighty", "The Simpsons Movie", and "Big Trouble".

[adultescent]

For the sake of brevity, I'll only pick one favourite movie from each decade:

1930's: The Wizard of Oz (1939)

1940's: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

1950's: Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

1960's: True Grit (1969)

1970's: Grease (1978)

1980's: The Outsiders (1983)

1990's: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

2000's: Million Dollar Baby (2004)