Great Movies – By Decade

1800-1920
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Gold Rush (1925)
Metropolis (1927)

1930s
Scarface (1932)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Stagecoach (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Gone With the Wind (1939)

1940s
Fantasia (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca (1943)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Heiress (1949)

1950s
All About Eve (1950)
Rashomon (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
The Big Country (1958)
Damn Yankees (1958)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)

1960s
West Side Story (1961)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
8 1/2 (1962)
The Leopard (1963)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Producers (1968)

1970s
Cabaret (1972)
Chinatown (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Godfather II (1974)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
Star Wars (1974)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Jaws (1975)
All The President’s Men (1976)
Carrie (1976)
The Omen (1976)
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind (1977)
Killer of Sheep (1977)
Apocalypse Now (1978)
Superman (1978)
Alien (1979)
All That Jazz (1979)

1980s
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Reds (1981)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Thing (1982)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1982)
Amadeus (1984)
The Terminator (1984)
Kiss of the Spiderwoman (1984)
Terms of Endearment (1985)
Witness (1985)
Bull Durham (1988)
Coming to America (1988)
Moonstruck (1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Steel Magnolias (1989)

1990s
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Aladdin (1992)
A Few Good Men (1992)
Batman (1992)
Fern Gully: The Last Rain Forest (1992)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Sandlot (1993)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Independence Day (1994)
The Lion King (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The English Patient (1996)
Scream (1996)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Live Flesh (1997)
Titanic (1997)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Wild Things (1998)
American Pie (1999)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
The Matrix (1999)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Toy Story 2 (1999)

2000s
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
Remember the Titans (2000)
The Brothers (2001)
Kingdom Come (2001)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
Original Sin (2001)
Chicago (2002)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Undercover Brother (2002)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
X-Men 2 (2003)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
The Incredibles (2004)
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
The Punisher (2004)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Sin City (2005)
Casino Royale (2006)
Little Children (2006)
The Descent (2006)
Volver (2006)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
The Mist (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Cloverfield (2008)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Strangers (2008)
Avatar (2009)
District 9 (2009)
Inglorious Basterds (2009)
Precious (2009)
Star Trek (2009)
Watchmen (2009)

2010s
Black Swan (2010)
Inception (2010)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
The Social Network (2010)
A Separation (2011)
Weekend (2011)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
How to Survive a Plague (2012)
ParaNorman (2012)
The Conjuring (2013)
Her (2013)
Stories We Tell (2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Boyhood (2014)
Foxcatcher (2014)
kink (2014)
The Way He Looks (2014)
Ex Machina (2015)
Spotlight (2015)
The Tribe (2015)
Everybody Wants Some (2016)
Hell or High Water (2016)
Moonlight (2016)
The Witch (2016)
Get Out (2017)
Lady Bird (2017)
mother! (2017)
The Shape of Water (2017)
Black Panther (2018)
Burning (2018)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (2018)
Apollo 11 (2019)
Parasite (2019)
Shadow (2019)

2020s

I Carry You with Me (2020)
Jallikattu (2020)
Night of the Kings (2020)
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Benedetta (2021)
A Hero (2021)
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Summer of Soul (2021)
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Happening (2022)
RRR (2022)
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Saltburn (2023)
Past Lives (2023)
The Brutalist (2024)
Didi (2024)
Hundreds of Beavers (2024)
Ky Nam Inn (2025)
It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Cactus Pears (2025)
Sinners(2025)