Favorite film from each decade (2022 list)

[thelittleprince]

30s The Wizard of Oz
40s Pinocchio
50s Sunset Blvd
60s West Side Story
70s Star Wars
80s Back to the Future
90s Pulp Fiction
00s The Dark Knight
10s Joker
20s Zack Snyder’s Justice League

[Ernest Rister]

1920's The Singing Half-Man, Half-Wolf
1930's Stop Biting Me, Tom Joad!
1940's Victory Through Flush Riveting and Factory Wolf Labor
1950's Howlin' and Spreadin' Communism in the Rain
1960's Yuri Gagarin: First Werewolf to Fart in Space
1970's I Am Not a Wolf, I'm Burt Reynolds
1980's The Disillusioned and Disabled Werewolf Who Flew Planes, Poured Drinks, and Shot Pool
1990's You've Got Mail...and Lycanthropy!
2000's TSA Werewolf of Denver, Based on The Novel Push by Sapphire
2010's Delete Account -- Drunk Werewolf Gets on Twitter Again
2020's Morbius

[principehomura]

Originally Posted by zen007

A list exclusive to 007 & Hitchcock films:

And one only to Woody Allen :P

1960s - Take the Money and Run
1970s - Annie Hall
1980s - The Purple Rose of Cairo
1990s - Sweet and Lowdown
2000s - Melinda and Melinda
2010s - Magic in the Moonlight

Actual list:
1910s - Les Vampires (L. Feuillade)
1920s - The Scarlet Letter (V. Sjostrom)
1930s - Modern Times (C. Chaplin)
1940s - To Be or Not to Be (E. Lubitsch)
1950s - I Soliti Ignoti (M. Monicelli)
1960s - Rocco e I Suoi Fratelli (L. Visconti)
1970s - C'Eravamo Tanto Amati (E. Scola)
1980s - The Purple Rose of Cairo (W. Allen)
1990s - The Last of the Mohicans (M. Mann)
2000s - Mulholland Drive (D. Lynch)
2010s - Tha Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)

[Zivouhr]

1930s, I would think it's between Snow White as the first major motion animated feature length picture of 1937, versus Wizard of Oz. As a fan of animation but also the Wizard film, I don't think I can choose only 1 winner, unless I consider which film I've watched more often in a life time. Then it would go to Wizard of Oz.

[Beckford]

Originally Posted by steel_breeze

2. Tigre Reale -- I'll need to track this down!

It's on YouTube. A fantastic example of Italy's mid-teens craze for films built around the swooning emotional displays of hold nothing back divas.
"Tigre Reale" 's star, Pina Menichelli, is uniquely mesmerizing.

Lots of intriguing lists. Pleased to see mentions for unusual (but fully deserving) choices like "The Song of Bernadette"(40's), "The Tenant'(70's) and "Paddington 2 (2010's).

[stvn1974]

20s: pass
30s: The Wizard Of Oz
40s; Casablanca
50s; Rear Window
60s: The Good The Bad And The Ugly
70s: Apocalypse Now
80s: Blade Runner
90s: Lost Highway
00s: Mulholland Drive
10s: John Wick
20s: Last Night In Soho

[zen007]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

1920's The Singing Half-Man, Half-Wolf
1930's Stop Biting Me, Tom Joad!
1940's Victory Through Flush Riveting and Factory Wolf Labor
1950's Howlin' and Spreadin' Communism in the Rain
1960's Yuri Gagarin: First Werewolf to Fart in Space
1970's I Am Not a Wolf, I'm Burt Reynolds
1980's The Disillusioned and Disabled Werewolf Who Flew Planes, Poured Drinks, and Shot Pool
1990's You've Got Mail...and Lycanthropy!
2000's TSA Werewolf of Denver, Based on The Novel Push by Sapphire
2010's Delete Account -- Drunk Werewolf Gets on Twitter Again
2020's Morbius

Zen master tried to guess a few (if meant to be that way):

1920s: The Jazz Singer
1930s: Grapes of Wrath
1940s: The Great Dictator (wild guess)
1950s: Singing in the Rain
1960s: 2001
1970s: Smokey
1980s: Top Gun
1990s: You Got Mail
2010s: Wolf of Wall St or the Social Network
2020s: Moribus

[steel_breeze]

Originally Posted by Beckford

It's on YouTube. A fantastic example of Italy's mid-teens craze for films built around the swooning emotional displays of hold nothing back divas.
"Tigre Reale" 's star, Pina Menichelli, is uniquely mesmerizing.

Awesome; thanks! Already bookmarked it for later!

[Jay H.]

All of these posts, and not one of them mentions Ishtar (1987)...

[zen007]

Originally Posted by principehomura

And one only to Woody Allen :P

1960s - Take the Money and Run
1970s - Annie Hall
1980s - The Purple Rose of Cairo
1990s - Sweet and Lowdown
2000s - Melinda and Melinda
2010s - Magic in the Moonlight

Actual list:
1910s - Les Vampires (L. Feuillade)
1920s - The Scarlet Letter (V. Sjostrom)
1930s - Modern Times (C. Chaplin)
1940s - To Be or Not to Be (E. Lubitsch)
1950s - I Soliti Ignoti (M. Monicelli)
1960s - Rocco e I Suoi Fratelli (L. Visconti)
1970s - C'Eravamo Tanto Amati (E. Scola)
1980s - The Purple Rose of Cairo (W. Allen)
1990s - The Last of the Mohicans (M. Mann)
2000s - Mulholland Drive (D. Lynch)
2010s - Tha Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)

Good to see Rocco & his brothers get a mention … Amazing film!

[Jay H.]

1920s - pass
1930s - The Wizard of Oz
1940s - Citizen Kane
1950s - Rear Window
1960s - For A Few Dollars More
1970s - Halloween
1980s - E.T.
1990s - Jackie Brown
2000s - Zodiac
2010s - Looper
2020s - Last Night in Soho

[spider-neil]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

20s: pass
30s: Dracula
40s; The Wizard Of Oz
50s; Rear Window
60s: The Good The Bad And The Ugly
70s: Apocalypse Now
80s: Blade Runner
90s: Lost Highway
00s: Mulholland Drive
10s: John Wick
20s: Last Night In Soho

The Wizard of Oz is 1939.

[dallywhitty]

20s - Metropolis
30s - Gone with the Wind
40s - The Lost Weekend
50s - A Streetcar Named Desire
60s - The Graduate
70s - Caligula
80s - Blade Runner
90s - Showgirls
00s - Donnie Darko
10s - Call Me By Your Name
20s - ???

[stvn1974]

Originally Posted by spider-neil

the wizard of oz is 1939.

doh!

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by zen007

Zen master tried to guess a few (if meant to be that way):

No, lol, just screwing around. I think werewolves are hilarious, couldn't tell you why.

[Scottie]

Off the top of my head (could change at any point as there are a lot of great movies)

1920s: Sunrise
1930s: City Lights
1940s: The Big Sleep
1950s: Vertigo
1960s: Persona
1970s: Saturday Night Fever
1980s: My Neighbor Totoro
1990s: The Double Life of Veronique
2000s: Lost in Translation
2010s: Parasite
2020s: CODA

[Dr Lenera]

1920s: Metropolis
1930s: Bride of Frankenstein
1940s: The Third Man
1950s: Rear Window
1960s: The Young Girls of Rochefort
1970s: The Holy Mountain
1980s: Cinema Paradiso
1990s: Pulp Fiction
2000s: The Fountain
2010s: Interstellar
2020s: The Northman

[AKORIS]

I'll give it a shot...

30's-- KING KONG
40's-- CASABLANCA
50's-- CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
60's---PSYCHO
70's-- JAWS
80's-- ALIENS
90's-- BRAVEHEART


from here is starts to get too complicated..............

[Kuja]

Because I'm more into animation, almost all my answers ended up being animated films, so I decided to also rank a live-action film for each decade as an alternate answer. Whichever film's listed first is what I'd pick if I only went with one.

1930s: Gone With the Wind (1939) / Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
1940s: Pinocchio (1940) / Little Women (1949)
1950s: Cinderella (1950) / The Virgin Queen (1955)
1960s: The Sword in the Stone (1963) / Murder, She Said (1961)
1970s: The Exorcist (1973) / The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
1980s: The Little Mermaid (1989) / Poltergeist (1982)
1990s: Hercules (1997) / The First Wives Club (1996)
2000s: Spirited Away (2001) / Moulin Rouge! (2001)
2010s: Call Me by Your Name (2017) / Frozen (2013)
2020s: Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) / Promising Young Woman (2020)

[Rzzzz]

20's: The Unknown
30's: Freaks
40's: The Wolfman
50's: Ben Hur
60's: True Grit
70's: Apocalypse Now
80's: Evil Dead 2
90's: The Big Lebowski
2000's: A History Of Violence
2010's: American Sniper
2020's: Godzilla vs. Kong