In your opinion

Great question.There have been so many decades with great films.I pick the 1950's.There were musicals like Singing In The Rain and An American In Paris and Show Boat.There were great dramas like A Streetcar Named Desire and On The Waterfront. There were comedies like Some Like Hot and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. There were film noir films like Sunset Boulevard and Touch Of Evil . There were westerns like The Searchers and High Noon. And romance films like Roman Holiday.And epics like Ben Hur.

I think every decade has had their share of great movies, and then our choices would really be based on personal appeal. I like epic dramas, so the sixties were full of them, like spartucus, the ten commandments, ben hur, just to name a few.

I don't believe there is a best decade. There has been a lot of great movies in every decade. Sure... things have changed... but not always for the better. Just because old movies sound old fashion today... does not mean that they were not huge blockbusters in their days. People taste in movies have changed... particulary amongst the teenagers. I grew up in the sixties... watching westerns from the fifties with John Wayne and war movies with John Wayne. There was no science fiction... laser beams... things blowing up for the fun of it... or stupid comedies for the sake of being stupid. I saw an old western the other day "Red River" with John Wayne... and it has to be one of the best western ever. Steve McQueen was a big name in the sixties... and "The Great Escape" is a classic. The Seventies saw Clint Eastwood becoming a superstar with the movies "Dirty Harry" and Burt Reynolds was number one on the Hollywood list after making "Smokey and the Bandit". The eighties and nineties saw Mel Gibson and Demi Moore at the top. There are hundred of great movies out there and I would not have much trouble of listing 500 great movies from the last 50 years.