__Are there any movies that it seems you're the only person who hasn't seen? In my case, there are tons and tons. I've seen over 2,300 movies to date, but that doesn't mean I've seen all the ones you're likely to have heard of. I use my IMDb watchlist as a checklist of movies I want to see; there are currently over 1,200 titles on it, and many of them are very famous ones that you might be surprised I haven't got around to yet.
__So, inspired by a conversation with someone on Twitter a couple of days ago, I decided to compile a set of top ten lists of films on my watchlist from each decade, in terms of popularity and overall score. In other words, there'll be two lists for each decade, one being the ten films that have the highest number of votes, and the other the ten that have the highest IMDb rating – again, among the movies on my "want to see" list. Films that have the same score (like 8.2 out of ten or whatever) are then additionally sorted by number of votes; the more people contribute to that score, the higher it places.
__Naturally, there'll be quite a few instances of the same title appearing on both lists, and some pairs have more overlap than others.
__We'll start in the 1920s, because I only have two films on my watchlist from before that decade: A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Great Train Robbery (1903).
__So let's take a look at the most prominent movies spanning a hundred years on my "haven't seen yet" list, both the ones that IMDb indicates the most people have seen and the ones that its users have voted the best.🙂
1920s Most Votes
1) Metropolis (1927)
2) The Kid (1921)
3) The Gold Rush (1925)
4) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
5) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
6) The Circus (1928)
7) Safety Last! (1923)
8) The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
9) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
10) Blackmail (1929)
1920s Highest Rated
1) Metropolis (1927)
2) The Kid (1921)
3) The Gold Rush (1925)
4) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
5) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
6) The Circus (1928)
7) Safety Last! (1923)
8) The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
9) Girl Shy (1924)
10) The Kid Brother (1927)
1930s Most Votes
1) Modern Times (1936)
2) City Lights (1931)
3) M (1931)
4) It Happened One Night (1934)
5) Bringing Up Baby (1938)
6) Duck Soup (1933)
7) The Lady Vanishes (1938)
8) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
9) A Night at the Opera (1935)
10) Scarface (1932)
1930s Highest Rated
5) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
6) Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939)
7) Bringing Up Baby (1938)
8) Duck Soup (1933)
9) The Lady Vanishes (1938)
10) A Night at the Opera (1935)
1940s Most Votes
1) The Great Dictator (1940)
2) The Third Man (1949)
3) Bicycle Thieves (1948)
4) Double Indemnity (1944)
5) The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
6) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
7) The Philadelphia Story (1940)
8) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
9) His Girl Friday (1940)
10) Out of the Past (1947)
1940s Highest Rated
1) The Great Dictator (1940)
2) Bicycle Thieves (1948)
3) Double Indemnity (1944)
4) To Be or Not to Be (1942)
5) The Third Man (1949)
6) The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
7) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
8) The Red Shoes (1948)
9) White Heat (1949)
10) Out of the Past (1947)
1950s Most Votes
1) Singin' in the Rain (1952)
2) Sunset Boulevard (1950)
3) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
4) Paths of Glory (1957)
5) The Seventh Seal (1957)
6) Rashomon (1950)
7) Roman Holiday (1953)
8) All About Eve (1950)
9) Witness for the Prosecution (1958)
10) The 400 Blows (1959)
1950s Highest Rated
1) The World of Apu (1959)
2) Sunset Boulevard (1950)
3) Paths of Glory (1957)
4) Witness for the Prosecution (1958)
5) Singin' in the Rain (1952)
6) Ikiru (1952)
7) Pather Panchali (1955)
8) The Unvanquished, AKA Aparajito (1956)
9) Pyaasa (1957)
10) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
1960s Most Votes
1) The Apartment (1960)
2) Cool Hand Luke (1967)
3) Spartacus (1960)
4) Persona (1966)
5) 8½ (1963)
6) Easy Rider (1969)
7) Lolita (1962)
8) My Fair Lady (1964)
9) The Magnificent Seven (1960)
10) The Wild Bunch (1969)
1960s Highest Rated
1) Harakiri (1962)
2) High and Low (1963)
3) The Apartment (1960)
4) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
5) Red Beard (1965)
6) Z (1969)
7) Cool Hand Luke (1967)
8) Persona (1966)
9) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
10) The Battle of Algiers (1966)
1970s Most Votes
1) Chinatown (1974)
2) Annie Hall (1977)
3) The Sting (1973)
4) Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
5) Barry Lyndon (1975)
6) Network (1976)
7) Manhattan (1979)
8) Papillon (1973)
9) Serpico (1973)
10) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
1970s Highest Rated
1) Hanky Panky, AKA Gol Maal (1979)
2) The Sting (1973)
3) Chinatown (1974)
4) Dersu Uzala (1975)
5) Barry Lyndon (1975)
6) Network (1976)
7) Sholay (1975)
8) Autumn Sonata (1978)
9) Anand (1971)
10) Annie Hall (1977)
1980s Most Votes
1) Dead Poets Society (1989)
2) Platoon (1986)
3) The Breakfast Club (1985)
4) Raging Bull (1980)
5) Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
6) The Untouchables (1987)
7) Cinema Paradiso (1988)
8) Das Boot (1981)
9) Gandhi (1982)
10) Big (1988)
1980s Highest Rated
1) Nayakan (1987)
2) Cinema Paradiso (1988)
3) Das Boot (1981)
4) Come and See (1985)
5) Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
6) Vincent (1982)
7) Raging Bull (1980)
8) Dead Poets Society (1989)
9) Platoon (1986)
10) Gandhi (1982)
1990s Most Votes
1) Heat (1995)
2) Twelve Monkeys (1995)
3) Casino (1995)
4) The Fifth Element (1997)
5) The Game (1997)
6) Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
8) Magnolia (1999)
9) As Good as It Gets (1997)
10) Scent of a Woman (1992)
1990s Highest Rated
1) Heat (1995)
2) Casino (1995)
3) Children of Heaven (1999)
4) In the Name of the Father (1993)
5) La Haine (1995)
6) Three Colours: Red (1994)
7) The Bandit (1996)
8) Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
9) Twelve Monkeys (1995)
10) Magnolia (1999)
2000s Most Votes
1) Catch Me If You Can (2002)
2) Requiem for a Dream (2000)
3) I Am Legend (2007)
4) Million Dollar Baby (2004)
5) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
6) Into the Wild (2007)
7) Cast Away (2000)
8) There Will Be Blood (2007)
9) Superbad (2007)
10) Zodiac (2007)
2000s Highest Rated
1) 3 Idiots (2009)
2) The Lives of Others (2006)
3) Requiem for a Dream (2000)
4) Like Stars on Earth (2007)
5) There Will Be Blood (2007)
6) Downfall (2004)
7) The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
8) My Father and My Son (2005)
9) Catch Me If You Can (2002)
10) Million Dollar Baby (2004)
2010s Most Votes
1) It (2017)
2) Alice in Wonderland (2010)
3) Les Misérables (2012)
4) The Book of Eli (2010)
5) Robin Hood (2010)
6) Dark Shadows (2012)
7) The Magnificent Seven (2016)
8) Little Women (2019)
9) Machete (2010)
10) Dangal (2016)
2010s Highest Rated
1) 96 (2018)
2) Dangal (2016)
3) Raatchasan (2018)
4) Drishyam (2013)
5) Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)
6) Andhadhun (2018)
7) Drishyam (2015)
8) Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019)
9) Vikram Vedha (2017)
10) They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
__I've already seen most of the 2010s movies I really wanted to, during a marathon a couple of years ago to complete my personal top tens for each year of the decade. Many of the 2010s titles now on my watchlist were added afterwards because they're on the filmography of a director I like (specifically, Tim Burton with Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows, the Hughes brothers with The Book of Eli, Ridley Scott with Robin Hood, and Robert Rodriguez with Machete).
__There are a lot of Indian movies too, because I was actively avoiding watching the ones that caught my attention, no matter how acclaimed they were. Not because I wasn't interested (I mean, if I wasn't, why would they be on the list?), but because I'd never seen a single Indian movie before (Slumdog Millionaire doesn't count), and I knew the Indian film industry was the biggest in the world, so I wanted to start with some older examples before diving in at the deep end of modern Bollywood and risking being confused by it. I will eventually start running through my entire watchlist from oldest to newest, and my intention was to include the Indian movies along with everything else in their respective years, therefore starting in the old days and working my way to the present to see their evolution. But now that I've seen RRR and lost my virginity, so to speak, that plan is no longer necessary; the gate is open.😀
__So how about you? What are some popular movies you haven't seen?
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