I Recently Started Watching 100 Films From Every Decade Starting From 1950. Here's My List In Case It's Of Use To Anyone

As a film student I'm constantly coming across "must see films" which I haven't got around to watching yet, or I find myself in a situation where I get asked "how have you not seen [name of film]; don't you study film?". I've also always found it hard to retain the large amount of information and history that comes with film study.

I decided the best way to ensure I better retained all of this information wasn't to continue what I was doing which was trying to take it in from lectures, books and other resources whilst watching films in a non-linear fashion; but to try and approximate, as best I could, a linear experience of film history.

I decided the best way to approximate this linear-experience would probably be best achieved by watching 100 films from each decade. By doing so, I would be able to not only ensure to cross off a lot of films I've never seen before, but I would also be able to better remember the people, the history of film.

Granted there a number of issues you could take with my list; and in no way to I claim this to ultimate list of films. For instance my list only starts in 1950 skipping the Silent Era and the Hollywood Golden Age. Secondly it's extremely English-language orientated, with a very significant majority being American; meaning a lot of very very important film movements from across the globe have been skipped entirely. There are obviously going to be more issues as well, and you might feel I've missed some very important films in the process of creating this list; however I've done my best to take 100 films from every decade from the 50s until now which will provide a great deal of context and hopefully be very entertaining and rewarding.

I'm fairly certain this list will be beneficial to many, especially those who are just becoming interested in film and its history. It can be further distilled and shaped and used to create other lists, so have fun with it.

Note: The list has a few a lot more international films from 00s on-wards as I used BBC's 100 films of the 21st Centuries List which can be accessed here if you haven't seen it: http://ift.tt/2bypbq0

Now here's the list for you all. I hope it serves as a useful list and might be able to generate great discussion.

1950
Sunset Boulevard
All About Eve
Treasure Island
In a Lonely Place
Rashomon
The Gunfighter
The Asphalt Jungle

1951
The Thing
The Steel Helmet
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Strangers on a Train
A Place In the Sun
The African Queen
An American In Paris

1952
Ikiru
High Noon
Singin’ in the Rain
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Big Sky
5 Fingers

1953
The Wild One
Stalag 17
Roman Holiday
Julius Caesar
Tokyo Story
From Here to Eternity
Shane

1954
The Caine Mutiny
Sabrina
Rear Window
Dial M for Murder
On the Waterfront
A Star is Born
Carmen Jones
Seven Samurai
Johnny Guitar
Three Coins in the Fountain

1955
East of Eden
The Seven Year Itch
To Catch a Thief
Artists and Models
The Night of the Hunter
Kiss Me Deadly
The Man From Laramine
Oklahoma!
Bad Day at Black Rock
Rifif
The Man With the Golden Arm
Blackboard Jungle
Rebel Without a Cause
Marty
Guys and Dolls

1956
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Killing
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Searchers
Forbidden Planet
The Wrong Man
Around the World in 80 Days
The Ten Commandments
Giant
La Strada
Picnic
Baby Doll

1957
12 Angry Men
Witness for the Prosecution
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Paths of Glory
Peyton Place
Mother India
Funny Face
Gunfight at the OK Central
Sayonara
A Face in the Crowd
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Sweet Smeel of Success
Throne of Blood
Jailhouse Rock
Wild Strawberries

1958
Vertigo
The Defiant Ones
Horror of Dracula
Gigi
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Touch of Evil
Seperate Tables

1959
North by Northwest
Anatomy of a Murder
The Young Philadelphians
Gidget
Ben Hur
Pillow Talk
A Summer Place
Hercules
Some Came Running
Rio Bravo
Some Like it Hot
On the Beach

1960
La Dolce Vita
The Apartment
Elmer Gantry
Psycho
Spartacus
The Magnificent Seven
The Time Machine
Never on Sunday

1961
One, Two, Free
The Misfits
The Hustler
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Two Women
The Pit and the Pendulum
Where the Boys Are
West Side Story
Splendor in the Grass

1962
Ride High Country
Lonely Are the Brave
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Miracle Worker
David and Lisa
The Longest Day
Lawrence of Arabia
Lolita
The Interns
The Manchurian Candidate

1963
America America
The Birds
Beach Party
Tom Jones
The Victors
The Great Escape
Hud
Cleopatra
Days of Wine and Roses

1964
The Carpetbaggers
A Hard Days Night
Becket
Goldfinger
Dr. Strangelove
The Pink Panther
My Fair Lady
Marry Poppins
The Americanization of Emily
Zorba Greek

1965
The Sound of Music
Darling
What’s New, Pussycat?
The Pawnbroker
Mickey One
Doctor Zhivago

1966
The Russians Are Comming The Russians Are Comming
Born Free
Alfie
A Man For All Seasons
The Professionals
Blow-Up
Who’s Affraid of Virginia Woolf?
A Man and a Woman
The Wild Angels

1967
Barefoot in the Park
In the Heat of the Night
The Graduate
You’re A Big Boy Now
Cool Hand Luke
The Trip
Valley of the Dolls
Bonnie and Clyde
In Cold Blood
The Dirty Dozen
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Planet of the Apes
2001: A Space Odessey
Barbarella
Wild In the Streets
Petulia
Rosemary’s Baby

1968
The Producers
The Odd Couple
Funny Girl
Pretty Poison
The Green Berets
Belle De Joup
Rachel, Rachel
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
Bullitt
Romeo and Juliet
The Killing of Sister George
Midnight Cowboy
True Grit
The Wild Bunch

1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Shoot Horses, Don’t They
Alice’s Restaurant
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Medium Cool
The Sterile Cuckoo
Take the Money and Run
Easy Rider

1970
The Molly Maguires
Hi, Mom!
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The Landlord
Catch-22
Wanda
Five Easy Pieces
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Where’s Poppa?
Little Big Man

1971
Vanishing Point
Get Carter
The Andromeda Strain
The Beguiled
Pretty Maids All in a Row
Bananas
Taking Off
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Klute
The Hired Hand
The French Connection
Carnal Knowledge
Play Misty for Me
A Clockwork Orange
Harold and Maude
Dirty Harry

1972
The Rolling Stones: Cocksucker Blues
Silent Running
Prime Cut
Fat City
Deliverance
Junior Bonner
Bad Company
The King of Marvin Gardens
Pulp
The Getaway

1973
Steelyard Blues
The Long Goodbye
Scarecrow
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Dillinger
White Lightning
Electra Glide in Blue
Charley Varrick
The Outfit
Mean Streets
Serpico
The Last Detail
Sleeper
The Laughing Policeman
The Exorcist

1974
Thieves Like Us
Busting
The Conversation
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
The Swinging Cheerleaders
The Parallax View
The Dion Brothers
The Terminal Man
Chinatown
California Split
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
11 Harrowhouse
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Yakuza

1975
Welfare
Smile
The Passenger
The Day of the Locust
Race with the Devil
Night Moves
The Drowning Pool
Dog Day Afternoon
Hard Times
Milestones
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

1976 Taxi Driver
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
The Missouri Breaks
The Fron
Marathon Man
Assault on Precinct 13
Bound for Glory

1977
The Late Show
Annie Hall
Rolling Thunder
Looking for Mr. Goodbar

1978
Blue Collar
Fingers
Straight Time
Martin
The Driver
Who’ll Stop the Rain

1979
The Warriors
Alien
Apocalypse Now
Wise Blood
Being There

1980
Airplane!
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
Raging Bull
The Shinning
Ordinary People
Kagemusha
Heavens Gate

1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark
An American Werewolf in London
Chariots of Fire
Das Boot
The Evil Dead
Gallipoli
Arthur
Thief
Blow Out

1982
Blade Runner
E.T.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Thing
48 Hrs.
Tootsie
First Blood
Gandhi
Poltergeist

1983
Scarface
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Local Hero
The Man With Two Brains
The Big Chill
Terms of Endearment
The Dead Zone

1984
Ghost Busters
Once Upon a Time In America
The Terminator
This Is Spinal Tap
Beverly Hills Cop
Amadeus
Top Secret
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Paris Texas
Blood Simple
The Killing Fields
A Passage to India

1985
Back to the Future
The Breakfast Club
Ran
The Colour Purple
Out of Africa
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Brazil
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
After Hours
The Goonies
To Live and Die in L.A.

1986
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Platoon
Aliens
Blue Velvet
Stand By Me
Jean De Florette
Crocodile Dundee
The Fly
Top Gun
Little Shop of Horrors
Sid and Nancy
Lucas
Something Wild

1987
Fatal Attraction
Full Metal Jacket
Wall Street
Evil Dead II
Raising Arizona
Withnail and I
The Princess Bride
Good Morning Vietnam
The Last Emperor
The Untouchables
Lost Boys

1988
Die Hard
The Naked Gun: From The Files of Police Squad
Akira
Cinema Paradisio
Big
A Cry in the Dark
Heathers
The Last Temptation of Christ
Rain Man
My Neighbor Totoro
The Thin Blue Line
Mississippi Burning
They Live

1989
Do The Right Thing
When Harry Met Sally
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Killer
Batman
Dead Poets Society
Driving Miss Daisy
The Killer
My Left Foot
Say Anything
Field of Dreams

1990
Edward Scissorhands
Life Is Sweet
Wild at Heart
Metropolitan
To Sleep With Anger
Paris Is Burning
Close-Up
Goodfellas

1991
A Brighter Summer Day
Raise the Red Lantern
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
La Belle Noiseuse
Madonna: Truth or Dare
Poison
JFK
The Double Life of Veronique
My Own Private Idaho
Barton Fink
Slacker
The Silence of the Lambs

1992
Orlando
Singles
The Long Day Closes
Bad Lieutenant
Wayne’s World
Unforgiven
The Player
Reservoir Dogs
Malcolm X

1993
The Age of Innocce
Schindler’s List
Dazed and Confused
Naked
Three Colors: Blue
Groundhog Day
The Piano

1994
Clerks
Dumb and Dumber Once Were Warriors The Shawshank Redemption
Satantango
Natural Born Killers
Heavenly Creatures
The Lion King
Crumb
Chungking Express
Pulp Fiction
Hoop Dreams

1995
Billy Madison
The Usual Suspects
Casino
The City of Lost Children
Before Sunrise
Friday
Clueless
Seven
Heat
Kids
Dead Man
Toy Story
Safe

1996
Romeo + Juliet
Lone Star
Swingers
When We Were Kings
Scream
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Breaking the Waves
Crash
Trainspotting
Fargo

1997
The Ice Storm
Titanic
Jackie Brown
L.A. Confidential
Starship Troopers
Fireworks (Hana-Bi)
The Sweet Hereafter
Princess Mononoke
Boogie Nights

1998
Buffalo ‘66
Velvet Goldmine
Last Night
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
There’s Something About Mary
Babe: Pig in the City
The Big Lebowski
Out of Sight
Rushmore

1999
The Virgin Suicides
Election
Audition
Being John Malkovich
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
All About My Mother
The Blair Witch Project
Magnolia
Eyes Wide Shut
Fight Club
The Matrix
Beau Travail

2000
Requiem for a Dream
The Gleaners and I
Almost Famous
Werckmeister Harmonies
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
​Memento
Yi Yi: A One and a Two
In the Mood for Love
The Beach
Traffic
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Billy Elliot
Amores Perros
American Psycho

2001
Amélie
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The Royal Tenenbaums
Moulin Rouge!
Spirited Away
Mulholland Drive
Donnie Darko
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2002
Narc
Ten
The Pianist
Far From Heaven
City of God
Talk to Her
25th Hour
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Adaptation
Bowling for Columbine
Gangs of New York
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Punch Drunk Love
Russian Ark
28 Days Later

2003
Finding Nemo
The Return
Big Fish
Kill Bill Vol.1
Dogville
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring
Oldboy
Lost in Translation
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Love Actually
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
21 Grams

2004
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Before Sunset
Moolaadé
Bad Education
The Incredibles
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Million Dollar Baby
The Passion of Christ
Sideways
Shaun of the Dead
Supersize Me
Tropical Malady
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2005
Brick
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
A History of Violence
Brokeback Mountain
The New World
Caché
Capote
Batman Begins
Lord of War
Crash
A History of Violence

2006
The Fall
Apocalypto
Babel
Casino Royale
The Departed
The Inconvenient Truth
Little Miss Sunshine
Volver
United 93
Syndromes and a Century
The Lives of Others
Pan’s Labyrinth
Children of Men

2007
I’m Not There
Zodiac
Across the Universe
Atonement
Gone Baby Gone
Juno
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
The Assassination of Jesse James by
the Coward Robert Ford

2008
Let the Right One In
The Headless Woman
The Hurt Locker
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
WALL-E
Synecdoche, New York
Frost/Nixon
Gran Torino
Milk
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire

2009
Watchmen
The White Ribbon
Moon
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
White Material
The Secret in Their Eyes
A Prophet
A Serious Man
Fish Tank
Inglourious Basterds

2010
Buried
Blue Valentine
Black Swan
True Grit
Inception
Certified Copy
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall
His Past Lives
The Social Network

2011
Take Shelter
Shame
The Artist
The Turin Horse
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Melancholia
Margaret
A Separation
The Tree of Life
Drive
Super 8

2012
Looper
Moonrise Kingdom
Spring Breakers
Tabu
Stories We Tell
Zero Dark Thirty
Amour
The Master
Holy Motors
The Act of Killing
Mud
Dredd
Seven Psychopaths
The Place Beyond the Pines

2013
Rush
Before Midnight
Snowpiercer
Inside Llewyn Davis
Her
Dallas Buyers Club
Wolf of Wall Street
Only Lovers Left Alive
Prisoners
The Great Beauty
Under the Skin
Ida
Blue Is the Warmest Color
12 Years a Slave

2014
Inherent Vice
Goodbye to Language
Leviathan
Birdman
Timbuktu
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Boyhood
Gone Girl
Whiplash

2015
Spotlight
Carol
The Assassin
Brooklyn
Inside Out
Son of Saul
Mad Max: Fury Road
Amy
The Big Short
Ex Machina
The Martian
Room
Revenant
Sicario

2016 Hail, Caesar!
Hell or High Water
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Nocturnal Animals

2017
Okja
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
The Beguiled
Trainspotting 2

Edit: Replaced Dumb and Dumber with Once Were Warriors

Submitted August 01, 2017 at 02:42PM by 35mmOfView http://ift.tt/2visKv1