Your Top Films of All Time

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So having gone through ten decades now, what better way to cap this list frenzy off than an all-time list. Hopefully, more people will post their own top lists for the individual decades and then their overall Top Ten (or however many).

To recap, here are my top picks, the top three from each decade list:

Top 30

The 2000s:

1 The Departed (2006)
2 Apocalypto (2006)
3 No Country for Old Men (2007)

The 1990s:

1 Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
2 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3 American Beauty (1999)

The 1980s:

1 Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
2 The Abyss (1989)
3 Batman (1989)

The 1970s:

1 Barry Lyndon (1975)
2 The Godfather (1972)
3 Alien (1979)

The 1960s:

1 The Graduate (1967)
2 Psycho (1960)
3 Andrei Rublev (1966)

The 1950s:

1 Seven Samurai (1954)
2 12 Angry Men (1957)
3 The 400 Blows (1959)

The 1940s:

1 Citizen Kane (1941)
2 Casablanca (1942)
3 Rope (1948)

The 1930s:

1 Bringing Up Baby (1938)
2 M (1931)
3 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

The 1920s:

1 Metropolis (1927)
2 Sunrise (1927)
3 The Gold Rush (1925)

The 1910s:

1 Intolerance (1916)
2 Cabiria (1914)
3 The Birth of a Nation (1915)

So, with these 30 all-time favorites, I've come up with the following overall ranking:

1 Barry Lyndon (1975)
2 Bringing Up Baby (1938)
3 The Graduate (1967)
4 Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
5 Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
6 Psycho (1960)
7 Citizen Kane (1941)
8 Seven Samurai (1954)
9 The Abyss (1989)
10 Metropolis (1927)
11 12 Angry Men (1957)
12 M (1931)
13 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
14 Andrei Rublev (1966)
15 Batman (1989)
16 The Godfather (1972)
17 American Beauty (1999)
18 The 400 Blows (1959)
19 Sunrise (1927)
20 The Departed (2006)
21 Casablanca (1942)
22 Alien (1979)
23 Intolerance (1916)
24 Apocalypto (2006)
25 Rope (1948)
26 No Country for Old Men (2007)
27 Cabiria (1914)
28 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
29 The Gold Rush (1925)
30 The Birth of a Nation (1915)