Favourite 3 Films Of Each Decade

What’s everyone’s favourite 3 films from the 60s to 2010s? Here’s a stab at my list without over thinking it.

60s - Cool Hand Luke, Once Upon A Time In The West, The Good The Bad & The Ugly

70s - Serpico, A Bridge Too Far, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

80s - Planes Trains & Automobiles, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones

90s - Goodfellas, Casino, My Cousin Vinnie

00s - Gladiator, LOTR, Batman

10s - Inception, Monsters University, Zootropolis

So many films it feels sacrilegious not to include but will stick with my first answers. 2010s was probably the decade I struggled to pick 3.

60s -Psycho, Lawrence of Arabia, Great Escape
70s- Jaws, Alien, Deer Hunter
80s - Escape from New York, ET, Empire Strikes Back
90s - Schindler's List, Shawshank Redemption, American History X
00s - Dead Mans Shoes, Dark Knight, District 9
10s - Get Out, Dunkirk, Toy Story 3

70s and 80s were tough to narrow down as there s so many.

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Originally Posted by The Modfather

What’s everyone’s favourite 3 films from the 60s to 2010s? Here’s a stab at my list without over thinking it.

60s - Cool Hand Luke, Once Upon A Time In The West, The Good The Bad & The Ugly

70s - Serpico, A Bridge Too Far, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

80s - Planes Trains & Automobiles, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones

90s - Goodfellas, Casino, My Cousin Vinnie

00s - Gladiator, LOTR, Batman

10s - Inception, Monsters University, Zootropolis

So many films it feels sacrilegious not to include but will stick with my first answers. 2010s was probably the decade I struggled to pick 3.

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You've named at least 5, if not 7 in the 00s!

60s In the Heat of the Night. The Hustler. Once Upon a Time in the West.

70s Apocalypse Now. Young Frankenstein. Alien

80s Blues Brothers. The Thing. Raiders of the Lost Ark

90s Reservoir Dogs. As Good as it Gets. The Big Lebowski.

00s No Country for Old Men. The Departed. Inglorious *******s.

10s Get Out. Sicario. Blade Runner 2049.

I agree that it is hard to narrow it down to three in some decades.

Amazing how all these lists are pretty much all Hollywood movies. Inception and Dunkirk have British actors and director I suppose.

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Originally Posted by hibsbollah

Amazing how all these lists are pretty much all Hollywood movies. Inception and Dunkirk have British actors and director I suppose.

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You’re surprised that the biggest film industry in the world is the most prevalent?

Just a bit of fun, what’s your list?

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Originally Posted by Wilson

60s

70s Apocalypse Now. Young Frankenstein. Alien

80s Blues Brothers. The Thing. Raiders of the Lost Ark

90s Reservoir Dogs. As Good as it Gets. The Big Lebowski.

00s

10s

List to be completed. I agree that it is hard to narrow it down to three in some decades.

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80s was the hardest for me. Blues Brothers, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Back To The Future, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels etc all near impossible to leave out of my list.

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You’re surprised that the biggest film industry in the world is the most prevalent?

Just a bit of fun, what’s your list?

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Chill, just an observation. I would probably be similarly Hollywood-centric. A couple of Korean movies; Memories of a Murder, and Train to Pusan get in. Also Lives of Others from the 00s i think. Blew me away. Definitely needs a bit of thought.

60s -The Apartment, The Odd Couple, Butch Cassidy and the SD (Some like it Hot 1959 so misses out!!)
70s- Star Wars, American Graffiti, Little Big Man
80s - Do The Right Thing, Runaway Train, Time Bandits
90s - The Usual Suspects, The Big Lebowski, Goodfellas
00s - Memories of a Murder (SK) The Lives of Others (Ger), Lord of the Rings TTT
10s - Parasite (SK), Train to Busan (SK),Midnight in Paris

These are all subject to change depending on my mood. Some of them might not be the best movies ever made and at least one of them is pretty dreadful but memories of when and where I watched them and who with make them favourites for me.

60' s Mary Poppins, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Bonnie and Clyde.
70's Apocalypse Now, Rocky, The Likely Lads
80's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Breakfast Club.
90's Jurassic Park, From Dusk till Dawn, Fargo
00's The Ring, Football Factory, Almost Famous
10's Parasite, Skyfall, 1917

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Originally Posted by hibsbollah

Amazing how all these lists are pretty much all Hollywood movies. Inception and Dunkirk have British actors and director I suppose.

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If it had gone back as far as the 40s and 50s I'd have hade some Hitchcock and a couple of Ealing comedies at least. Although my top films essentially read as the films of Humphrey Bogart!

80s was a great time to be a young un watching movies. Hollywood was knocking it out of the park in terms of movies aimed at kids and families.

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Originally Posted by The Modfather

You’re surprised that the biggest film industry in the world is the most prevalent?

Just a bit of fun, what’s your list?

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I thought Bollywood was much bigger than Hollywood?
But in the spirit of fun I won't mention that.

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Originally Posted by brianmc

I thought Bollywood was much bigger than Hollywood?
But in the spirit of fun I won't mention that.

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It would appear the Nigerian film industry is bigger than Hollywood as well based on the same metrics. How many Nigerian films make your list? :na na:

https://www.one.org/us/stories/first...now-nollywood/

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Originally Posted by Wilson

If it had gone back as far as the 40s and 50s I'd have hade some Hitchcock and a couple of Ealing comedies at least. Although my top films essentially read as the films of Humphrey Bogart!

80s was a great time to be a young un watching movies. Hollywood was knocking it out of the park in terms of movies aimed at kids and families.

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Same! The 40s and 50s was Hollywoods golden age, had all the Bogart Bacall stuff, Ingrid Bergman. We sat down in front of Hitchcocks Rear Window at the weekend-genius. Jimmy Cagney gangster movies and the film noir genre. Most of my favourite filmsare from that era. Angels with Dirty Faces, 12 angry men. Endless.

Depends how old you were at the time , In the mid 80's i'd have been 10 at the most so films like Gremlins , ET , Indiana Jones , Goonies , Karate Kid , Big foot and the Hendersons were top class tv viewing for youngsters , Big shout out to Planes trains and automobiles by the way what a film

60’s - The Guns of Navarone , Zulu and The good , the bad and the ugly.
70’s - The Wicker Man , Jaws and Papillon .
80’s - The Shining , Die Hard and Raiders of the lost Ark .
90’s - The Shawshank Redemption, Heat and Schindlers List .
00’s - Gladiator, 28 Days Later and Downfall.
10’s - Guardians of the Galaxy, Skyfall and Dunkirk .

If I may, I'll throw in a trio of pre-60s movies just because they were some of the films which really got me into movie-watching, courtesy of my parents:

Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard and Rear Window. Those are actually just off the top of my head. There are literally dozens I could include from those years.

Anyway...60s I'll go for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Apartment (very hard to leave out The Graduate).

70s All the President's Men, Annie Hall, All That Jazz.

80s Raiders of the Lost Ark, Stop Making Sense, Withnail and I.

90s Three Colours: Red, The Fugitive, Glengarry Glen Ross

00s The Bourne Identity, Sideways, Lost in Translation

10s Midnight in Paris, The Descendants, Inside Llewyn Davis

1885 - Back to the future
1955 -Back to the future
1985 - Back to the future
2015 - Back to the future