Which decade produced the best movies?

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I would argue for the 1960s as being the best decade for movies. As evidence, I offer this list of films, all of which were released sometime from 1960 through 1969:

2001: A Space Odyssey
8 1/2
The Agony and The Ecstasy
The Americanization of Emily
The Apartment
Au Hasard, Balthazar
Belle du Jour
The Birds
Blow-Up
Bonnie and Clyde
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Bullitt
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casino Royale
Closely Watched Trains
Contempt
Cool Hand Luke
Dr. Strangelove
Easy Rider
El Cid
Elmer Gantry
The Exterminating Angel
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
A Fistful of Dollars
Goldfinger
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Graduate
The Great Escape
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Guns of Navarone
A Hard Day's Night
High And Low
Hold Me While I’m Naked
Hud
The Hustler
I Am Curious (Yellow)
In Cold Blood
In The Heat of The Night
Inherit The Wind
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Judgement at Nuremburg
Jules and Jim
The Jungle Book
L'Avventura
La Dolce Vita
Lawrence of Arabia
Lilies of the Field
The Lion in Winter
Lolita
The Manchurian Candidate
A Man For All Seasons
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Midnight Cowboy
The Misfits
Mouchette
Night of the Living Dead
The Odd Couple
Once Upon A Time in The West
Persona
The Pink Panther
Planet of the Apes
The Producers
Psycho
A Raisin In the Sun
Red Desert
Repulsion
Romeo and Juliet
Rosemary's Baby
Sanjuro
Ship of Fools
Shoot The Piano Player
The Silence
Spartacus
Splendor in the Grass
Through A Glass Darkly
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Sir, With Love
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Viridiana
Vivre Sa Vie
Wavelength
West Side Story
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Wild Bunch
Yojimbo
Z

[momophile]

1. I might argue that the 80s did. I mean...

Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
Sixteen Candles

Need I say more? (please say no.)

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6. Sure I'll go along with Breakfast Club... haven't seen the other 2

[Pale Blue Dot]

2. Hey, "Cinema Paradiso" was the '80s, dude.

I know for sure because it's one of my favorite movies and I saw it in it's original release.

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5. Sorry, my bad.

[InvisibleTouch]

3. Another vote for the 80's.

Star Treks II-IV, The Last Starfighter, Raiders of the Lost Ark/Temple of Doom, ET, Romancing the Stone, Electric Dreams ... those are just the first ones that fly to my fingertips.

Yeah, I voted for the 80's on the music poll as well. :)

[Blue-Jay]

13. Plus all the John Hughes films that seemed poignant at the time.

After all, he introduced us to Molly Ringwald.

[TroubleMan]

4. I'll reserve my vote until I see "Snakes On A Plane"

It could turn out to be the best movie ever!

[T Town Jake]

7. 70's Horror Flicks Rule. Plus the KISS made-for-TV special.

:smoke:

[jobycom]

8. Casino Royale? That pretty much kills your whole argument.

To be fair, I've seen only a handful of those films. Some are good. Most have no interest to me. I guess being five when the sixties ended makes me a bit less connected to the subject of most of the films.

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9. Sorry, another mistake.

[smtpgirl]

10. Midnight Cowboy (69 or 70?, which one?)

Klute
The Exorcist
American Gigolo
Halloween
Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Sarah T.Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
Trilogy of Terror
Sybil

I know I like the macabre

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16. It was 1969

[Rhiannon12866]

11. I'm a fan of old movies.

I don't think that the current ones can compare, barring the special effects. 1939 was a banner year, but I voted for the 1940s, though I can see I'm in a minority.:shrug:

[smtpgirl]

12. Some old movies that are cool

Alfred Hitchcock, mainly Rope and how about M? M was about a pedophile, was made in the '30's

[Rhiannon12866]

15. I love Alfred Hitchcock movies. He was brilliant.

Though I saw "Psycho" for the first time while I was in college and couldn't take a shower for a few years...:scared:

1939 was a banner year, with "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind." What compares to those, these days? :shrug: My favorite Hitchcock movie is probably "Rear Window," but I really like Grace Kelly...:-)

A couple of my favorites are "Bringing Up Baby" and "My Favorite Wife." When my cousin said that she wanted to know more about old movies, I rented those two for her. And you can't beat Cary Grant, who was great in everything he did.:thumbsup:

I am not familiar with "M," but will check it out. But I have seen "Rope." My grandmother took my uncle to see that, at the movies, when it came out. But she was confused, thought that it was "The Robe," LOL! She soon realized her mistake...:rofl:

[Arkham House]

14. I'd argue for 1967-76...

...if we're going to forget artificial chronology and just select the best ten-year era...

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19. I would say the same thing for popular music, 1964-1973

[Syrinx]

17. the seventies

The seventies were a perfect storm of freewheeling artistic freedom unrestrained from the focus-group economics of later days.

[CrushTheDLC]

18. Write in candidate : 1975 - 1985

That way I can get the REAL Star Wars trilogy, the Indiana Jones movies and some of the better Star Treks. And Jaws.

[martymar64]

20. The 70's - here's why

The 70's was the flowering of the directors that are now movie gods:
Scorcese
Spielberg
Lucas
Coppola

Blaxploitation sucka!