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Cinema Seeker's 10 Best Films of Each Decade From the 1920s Through the 2010s

This list contains my picks of the 10 best films that I have seen from each of the past 10 decades. This list has 101 films instead of 100 because I counted "The Godfather" and "The Godfather, Part II" as one film for my 1970's list, but they take up two spaces in List Challenges. This list obviously contains heavy overlap with my "100 Best Films" list that I posted on List Challenges in late 2016. 76 films from that list show up here. The restraints of only having 10 films per decade caused some films that appeared on that list from the '60's, '70's, and '90's to drop off. I then had to fill in some new choices to fill out the first and last two decades on this list.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
2
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
3
Greed (1924)
Greed (1924)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
4
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
5
The Temptress (1926)
The Temptress (1926)
6
Metropolis (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
7
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
8
The Wind (1928)
The Wind (1928)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
9
Applause (1930)
Applause (1930)
Rotten Tomatoes®   80%
10
Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
11
42nd Street (1933)
42nd Street (1933)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
12
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
13
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Rotten Tomatoes®   90%
14
Swing Time (1936)
Swing Time (1936)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
15
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
16
The Rules of the Game (1939)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
17
The Thin Man (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
18
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
19
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
Rotten Tomatoes®   60%
20
Grand Illusion (1937)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
21
Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
22
Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
23
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
24
The Third Man (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
25
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
26
Detour (1945)
Detour (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
27
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
28
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
29
Rebecca (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
30
Black Narcissus (1947)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
31
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
32
The Big Country (1958)
The Big Country (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
33
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
34
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
35
The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
36
Funny Face (1957)
Funny Face (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
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Guys and Dolls (1955)
Guys and Dolls (1955)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
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Vertigo (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
39
The Searchers (1956)
The Searchers (1956)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
40
Tokyo Story (1953)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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