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IMDb Decades

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IMDb Decades - 1910's

1. Intolerance (1916)
2. Broken Blossoms (1919)
3. Male and Female (1919)
4. The Perils of Pauline (1914)
5. Stella Maris (1918)
6. Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
7. Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
8. Judith of Bethulia (1914)
9. For Better, For Worse (1919)
10. Mickey (1918)
11. Les Vampires (1915)
12. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
13. I Don't Want To Be a Man (1918)
14. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
15. A Man There Was (1917)
16. Shifting Sands (1918)
17. Fantomas Against Fantomas (1914)
18. The Dying Swan (1917)
19. The Oyster Princess (1919)
20. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
21. J'accuse! (1919)
22. Fantomas (1913)
23. Johanna Enlists (1918)
24. The Mother and the Law (1919)
25. The Dead Man Who Killed (1913)
26. Dante's Inferno (1911)
27. True Heart Susie (1919)
28. The Treasure of Arne (1919)
29. The Doll (1919)
30. When the Clouds Roll By (1919)
31. Juve Against Fantomas (1913)
32. The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
33. Hearts of the World (1918)
34. [] Photo-Drama of Creation (1914) - Religious Documentary
35. The Hoodlum (1919)
36. The Avenging Conscience: Or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (1914)
37. Shoulder Arms (1918)
38. After Death (1915)
39. Regeneration (1915)
40. Le faux magistrat (1914)
41. Blind Husbands (1919)
42. Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916)
43. The Queen of Spades (1916)
44. Back To God's Country (1919)
45. The Wishing Ring (1914)
46. Quo Vadis? (1913)
47. The Little Princess (1917)
48. Ingeborg Holm (1913)
49. Eyes of Youth (1919)
50. The Greatest Question (1919)

Titles On The Margin (tied @ #51)

 
51. A Pair of Silk Stockings (1918)
52. A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
53. A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
54. Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)
55. Cinderella (1914)
56. Going Straight (1916)
57. Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919)
58. Heart O' the Hills (1919)
59. Hoodoo Ann (1916)
60. Reggie Mixes In (1916)
61. Scarlet Days (1919)
62. The Delicious Little Devil (1919)
63. The Little American (1917)
64. The Matrimaniac (1916)
65. The Mysterious X (1914)
66. The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
67. The Roaring Road (1919)
68. The Social Secretary (1916)
69. Meal Ticket (1917)
70. Wild and Woolly (1917)
71. Father Sergius (1917)
72. Frivolous Wives (1918)
73. A Girl's Folly (1917)
74. Cabiria (1914)
75. Night of Revenge (1916)
76. The Blue Bird (1918)

IMDb Decades - 1920's

1. The General (1927)
2. Metropolis (1927)
3. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
4. The Big Parade (1925)
5. Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
6. The Kid (1921)
7. The Wind (1928)
8. Safety Last (1923)
9. The Gold Rush (1925)
10. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
11. Show People (1928)
12. The Cameraman (1928)
13. The Last Laugh (1924)
14. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
15. Greed (1924)
16. Siegfried (1924)
17. The Patsy (1928)
18. Nosferatu (1922)
19. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
20. Faust (1926)
21. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
22. The Crowd (1928)
23. The Navigator (1924)
24. Our Hospitality (1923)
25. Way Down East (1920)
26. The Last Command (1928)
27. The Circus (1928)
28. Sadie Thompson (1928)
29. Pandora's Box (1929)
30. Orphans of the Storm (1921)
31. Seven Chances (1925)
32. West Point (1927)
33. Flesh and the Devil (1926)
34. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
35. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
36. The Merry Widow (1925)
37. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
38. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
39. Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
40. Girl Shy (1924)
41. Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922)
42. The Unknown (1927)
43. The Phantom Carriage (1921)
44. The Kid Brother (1927)
45. The Man Who Laughs (1928)
46. Napoleon (1927)
47. Wings (1927)
48. He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
49. Strike (1925)
50. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

Titles On The Margin (tied @ #51)

 
51. Queen Kelly (1929)
52. Beyond the Rocks (1922)
53. Destiny (1921)
54. Haxan (1922)
55. 7th Heaven (1927)
56. The Docks of New York (1928)

IMDb Decades - 1930's

1. City Lights (1931)
2. M (1931)
3. Modern Times (1936)
4. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
5. It Happened One Night (1934)
6. Dodsworth (1936)
7. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
8. Trouble In Paradise (1932)
9. Grand Illusion (1937)
10. Gone With the Wind (1939)
11. All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
12. My Man Godfrey (1936)
13. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
14. Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
15. The Rules of the Game (1939)
16. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
17. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
18. Duck Soup (1933)
19. The Thin Man (1934)
20. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
21. A Night At the Opera (1935)
22. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
23. King Kong (1933)
24. Frankenstein (1931)
25. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
26. One Way Passage (1932)
27. Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
28. You Can't Take It With You (1938)
29. The Awful Truth (1937)
30. Pygmalion (1938)
31. The 39 Steps (1935)
32. L'Atalante (1934)
33. Stagecoach (1939)
34. Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
35. Ninotchka (1939)
36. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
37. Scarface (1932)
38. Mutiny On the Bounty (1935)
39. I Was Born, But... (1932)
40. Fury (1936)
41. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
42. Freaks (1932)
43. Midnight (1939)
44. The Women (1939)
45. Captains Courageous (1937)
46. Libeled Lady (1936)
47. Beau Geste (1939)
48. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
49. Der Blaue Engel (1930)
50. The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Titles On The Margin (tied @ #51)

 
51. The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
52. Downstairs (1932)
53. Peg o' My Heart (1933)
54. Music In the Air (1934)
55. The Story of the Fox (1930)
56. Le Jour Se Leve (1939)
57. Five and Ten (1931)
58. Les Miserables (1935)
59. Les Miserables (1934)
60. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
61. The Roaring Twenties (1939)

IMDb Decades - 1940's

1. Casablanca (1942)
2. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
3. Citizen Kane (1941)
4. Double Indemnity (1944)
5. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
6. The Third Man (1949)
7. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
8. The Great Dictator (1940)
9. Rebecca (1940)
10. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
11. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
12. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
13. Children of Paradise (1945)
14. Notorious (1946)
15. The Big Sleep (1946)
16. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
17. The Red Shoes (1948)
18. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
19. White Heat (1949)
20. The Heiress (1949)
21. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
22. Rome, Open City (1945)
23. Laura (1944)
24. Brief Encounter (1945)
25. To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
26. The Lost Weekend (1945)
27. His Girl Friday (1940)
28. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
29. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
30. The Lady Eve (1941)
31. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
32. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
33. Great Expectations (1946)
34. Out of the Past (1947)
35. The Little Foxes (1941)
36. Rope (1948)
37. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
38. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
39. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
40. Black Narcissus (1947)
41. To Have and Have Not (1944)
42. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
43. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945)
44. Late Spring (1949)
45. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
46. I Remember Mama (1948)
47. Shoe-Shine (1946)
48. Key Largo (1948)
49. Mildred Pierce (1945)
50. The Killers (1946)

Titles On The Margin (tied @ #51)

 
51. Germany: Year Zero (1948)

IMDb Decades - 1950's

1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
2. The Seven Samurai (1954)
3. Rear Window (1954)
4. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
5. North By Northwest (1959)
6. Paths of Glory (1957)
7. The Human Condition I (1959)
8. Vertigo (1958)
9. All About Eve (1950)
10. Rashomon (1950)
11. Singin' In the Rain (1952)
12. The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
13. Some Like It Hot (1959)
14. Witness For the Prosecution (1957)
15. On the Waterfront (1954)
16. Wild Strawberries (1957)
17. The Seventh Seal (1957)
18. The Wages of Fear (1953)
19. Ikiru (1952)
20. Touch of Evil (1958)
21. Tokyo Story (1953)
22. Diabolique (1955)
23. The Great War (1959)
24. Strangers On a Train (1951)
25. Umberto D (1952)
26. High Noon (1952)
27. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
28. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
29. Ace In the Hole (1951)
30. Los Olvidados (1950)
31. Rififi (1955)
32. La Strada (1954)
33. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
34. Ben-Hur (1959)
35. The 400 Blows (1959)
36. Ugetsu (1953)
37. Stalag 17 (1953)
38. The Killing (1956)
39. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
40. Throne of Blood (1957)
41. Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
42. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
43. Dial M For Murder (1954)
44. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
46. Fires On the Plain (1959)
47. Life of Oharu (1952)
48. A Man Escaped (1956)
49. Harvey (1950)
50. Roman Holiday (1953)

Titles On The Margin (tied @ #51)

 
51. Welcome Mr. Marshall (1953)
52. Early Summer (1951)
53. The Burmese Harp (1956)
54. The Human Condition II (1959)
55. Pather Panchali (1955)
56. The Browning Version (1951)

IMDb Decades - 1960's

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
2. Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
3. Psycho (1960)
4. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
7. The Apartment (1960)
8. Harakiri (1962)
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
10. Yojimbo (1961)
11. The Great Escape (1963)
12. Le Trou (1960)
13. Woman In the Dunes (1964)
14. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
15. Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
16. Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
17. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
18. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
19. High and Low (1963)
20. Andrei Rublev (1966)
21. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
22. Viridiana (1961)
23. Divorce, Italian Style (1961)
24. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
25. Persona (1966)
26. Charulata (1964)
27. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
28. Le Samourai (1967)
29. Samurai Rebellion (1967)
30. The Graduate (1967)
31. The Hustler (1961)
32. 8 1/2 (1963)
33. Army of Shadows (1969)
34. Inherit the Wind (1960)
35. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
36. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
37. Z (1969)
38. El Verdugo (1963)
39. The Lion In Winter (1968)
40. Red Beard (1965)
41. The Wild Bunch (1969)
42. The War Game (1965)
43. Sanjuro (1962)
44. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
45. The Shop On Main Street (1965)
46. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
47. The Virgin Spring (1960)
48. La Dolce Vita (1960)
49. Watch Out For the Automobile (1966)
50. Late Autumn (1960)

Titles On The Margin (tied @ #51)

 
51. Seance On a Wet Afternoon (1964)
52. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
53. The Diamond Arm (1968)
54. Il Posto (1961)
55. The Human Condition III (1961)

IMDb Decades - 1970's

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
4. Star Wars (1977)
5. Apocalypse Now (1979)
6. Taxi Driver (1976)
7. Alien (1979)
8. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
9. Chinatown (1974)
10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
11. Scenes From a Marriage (1973)
12. The Sting (1973)
13. Jaws (1975)
14. The Rascals' Class Misses Its Grades (1975)
15. Annie Hall (1977)
16. The Deer Hunter (1978)
17. Dersu Uzala (1975)
18. Life of Brian (1979)
19. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
20. Network (1976)
21. Sleuth (1972)
22. Paper Moon (1973)
23. The Conformist (1970)
24. Stalker (1979)
25. The Last Picture Show (1971)
26. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
27. Barry Lyndon (1975)
28. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
29. Autumn Sonata (1978)
30. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
31. Manhattan (1979)
32. Patton (1970)
33. The Exorcist (1973)
34. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
35. Rocky (1976)
36. The Conversation (1974)
37. All the President's Men (1976)
38. Day For Night (1973)
39. Cries and Whispers (1972)
40. Papillon (1973)
41. Harold and Maude (1971)
42. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
43. Being There (1979)
44. Solaris (1972)
45. Young Frankenstein (1974)
46. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
47. Days of Heaven (1978)
48. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
49. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
50. The Mirror (1975)

Titles On The Margin (tied @ #51)

 
51. The Message (1976)
52. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
53. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
54. The Crazy Class Wakes Up (1977)
55. The Girl With the Red Scarf (1978)
56. The Foster Brothers (1976)

IMDb Decades - 1980's

1. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
3. The Shining (1980)
4. Das Boot (1981)
5. Aliens (1986)
6. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
7. Back To the Future (1985)
8. Once Upon a Time In America (1984)
9. Raging Bull (1980)
10. Amadeus (1984)
11. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
12. The Elephant Man (1980)
13. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
14. Ran (1985)
15. Return of the Jedi (1983)
16. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
17. Die Hard (1988)
18. Blade Runner (1982)
19. Come and See (1985)
20. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
21. Platoon (1986)
22. Scarface (1983)
23. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
24. The Thing (1982)
25. Stand By Me (1986)
26. Gandhi (1982)
27. The Terminator (1984)
28. Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)
29. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (1984)
30. Laputa: Castle In the Sky (1986)
31. The Princess Bride (1987)
32. Time of the Gypsies (1988)
33. Jean de Florette (1986)
34. Manon of the Spring (1986)
35. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
36. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
37. A Christmas Story (1983)
38. Paris, Texas (1984)
39. Rain Man (1988)
40. Glory (1989)
41. Brazil (1985)
42. Wings of Desire (1987)
43. The Untouchables (1987)
44. The Killer (1989)
45. Breaker Morant (1980)
46. The Killing Fields (1984)
47. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
48. The Sacrifice (1986)
49. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
50. Kagemusha (1980)

Titles On The Margin (tied @ #51)

 
51. The Vanishing (1988)
52. The Marathon Family (1986)
53. Nostalghia (1983)

IMDb Decades - 1990's

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. Pulp Fiction (1994)
3. Schindler's List (1993)
4. Fight Club (1999)
5. Goodfellas (1990)
6. The Matrix (1999)
7. The Usual Suspects (1995)
8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
9. Seven (1995)
10. Forrest Gump (1994)
11. The Professional (1994)
12. American History X (1998)
13. American Beauty (1999)
14. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
15. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
16. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
17. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
18. L.A. Confidential (1997)
19. The Green Mile (1999)
20. Braveheart (1995)
21. Unforgiven (1992)
22. Princess Mononoke (1997)
23. Heat (1995)
24. Fargo (1996)
25. The Lion King (1994)
26. The Big Lebowski (1998)
27. The Sixth Sense (1999)
28. Toy Story (1995)
29. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
30. Trainspotting (1996)
31. Groundhog Day (1993)
32. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
33. Casino (1995)
34. The Bandit (1996)
35. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
36. To Live (1994)
37. Festen (1998)
38. Good Will Hunting (1997)
39. Underground (1995)
40. Red (1994)
41. Children of Heaven (1997)
42. In the Name of the Father (1993)
43. La Haine (1995)
44. Ed Wood (1994)
45. Before Sunrise (1995)
46. Magnolia (1999)
47. The Truman Show (1998)
48. Chungking Express (1994)
49. Sling Blade (1996)
50. The Straight Story (1999)

Titles On The Margin (tied @ #51)

 
51. Andaz Apna Apna (1994)
52. The End of Evangelion (1997)

IMDb Decades - 2000's

1. The Dark Knight (2008)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
3. City of God (2002)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
6. Memento (2000)
7. Spirited Away (2001)
8. The Lives of Others (2006)
9. Amelie (2001)
10. The Pianist (2002)
11. WALL*E (2008)
12. The Departed (2006)
13. Requiem For a Dream (2000)
14. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
15. The Prestige (2006)
16. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
17. Downfall (2004)
18. Oldboy (2003)
19. Gladiator (2000)
20. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
21. Gran Torino (2008)
22. Up (2009)
23. The Best of Youth (2003)
24. Sin City (2005)
25. Batman Begins (2005)
26. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
27. No Country For Old Men (2007)
28. Snatch. (2000)
29. The Secret of Her Eyes (2009)
30. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
31. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
32. Into the Wild (2007)
33. Donnie Darko (2001)
34. Mary and Max (2009)
35. Amores Perros (2000)
36. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
37. There Will Be Blood (2007)
38. District 9 (2009)
39. Philanthropy (2002)
40. Memories of Murder (2003)
41. Finding Nemo (2003)
42. My Sassy Girl (2001)
43. The Wrestler (2008)
44. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
45. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
46. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
47. Departures (2008)
48. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (2003)
49. V For Vendetta (2006)
50. Our Country (2004)

Titles On The Margin (tied @ #51)

 
51. Ip Man (2008)
52. Do Your Thing (2001)
53. Rang De Basanti (2006)
54. 3 Idiots (2009)
55. Like Stars On Earth (2007)

OFFICIAL IMDb "TOP 50 RATED FILMS BY DECADES" LISTS -- In addition to maintaining a Top 250 list, IMDb used to also maintain official (& fluid) "Top 50 Rated Films by Decade" lists for each decade beginning with the 1910's (the decade during which the first qualifying movies currently exist). The exact criteria and algorithms used to create these lists is not known but was probably similar to the methodologies used to establish the IMDb Top 250 list. Similar to the IMDb Top 250, films included in the decades lists were confined to theatrically released feature length narrative films (i.e. no documentaries, shorts, TV Movies, etc.). One definite difference from the IMDb Top 250 was that the minimum vote threshold for inclusion in the earlier decades was significantly lower than that required for the IMDb Top 250 (and more recent decades lists) because less than 50 films would have qualified otherwise.

 

DISCONTINUATION OF DECADES LISTS -- These "official" decades lists were discontinued by IMDb in September 2012. The reason, according to an IMDb official rep:

"When [IMDb] introduced Advanced Search, a lot of these charts became obsolete or didn't work anymore and were removed. You can generate the same lists, and add a lot more refinements/criteria, via the search: http://www.imdb.com/search/title ... By playing with the genre and release date fields, you can construct all kinds of 'Top 50' charts."

 

TITLES ON THE MARGIN -- Because these lists were fluid, a small handful of titles generally hovering around the 50 spot would cycle in and out of the list. To track these, I maintained (and frequently updated) a spreadsheet of all the decades lists beginning in 2008 and continuing until August 4, 2011 (which was when I last checked and documented the lists). Each time I checked the lists, I noted the 50 titles in the current lists, what titles had fallen out since the last time I checked, and which films entered the top 50 since the last time I checked. These "extra" titles are included in the "Titles On The Margin" category. Although I don't claim to have recorded every one of these extra titles over these final years IMDb maintained the lists, I do believe they are pretty comprehensive. It is noted that there are only a few extra titles for each decade except for the 1910's, and to a smaller degree the 1920's, because there were greater fluctuations in those lists due to the lower number of votes for these titles (meaning just a few new ratings votes could drastically change a film's average rating and placement within the list). Although these extra titles are numbered from #51 up, they are not in any particular order. Therefore, ALL should technically be considered as tied at #51.

 

BOGUS TITLE -- I am not including the 8-hour long Jehovah's Witnesses religious documentary from 1914 titled "The Photo-Drama of Creation". In my opinion, the title should never have been included since it was (1) not so much a movie but rather a religious documentary outlining the sects religious beliefs via synchronised sound, moving film, and colour slides, and (2) not INTENDED as a fictional narrative film, but rather a documentary depicting their beliefs.

 

SUMMARY --- The lists included herein represent a snapshot taken on August 4, 2011 of IMDb's official "Top 50 Rated Films by Decade" for each decade from the 1910's through the 2000's, with extra titles as included in the "Titles On The Margin" categories representing those films which are known to have cycled in and out of the Top 50 lists before &/or after the August 4, 2011 snapshot. Becase the lists were abandoned in 2012, I am not including the incomplete 2010's decade for obvious reasons.

 

"Top 50 Rated Films by Decade" lists represent August 4, 2011 snapshot

(last update January 4, 2014)