Cinema: The 50 films you have to see before you die

Since cinema is cinema we have known hundreds of interesting films. Some of them marked entire generations, and others, without being the most representative of the moment, also changed in some way the way of conceiving cinema for future generations.In this review we are going to recommend one movie per decade to review to the history of cinema. 1910 – 1919 – The birth of a nation Cinema was still in the process of creation, a few interesting films such as ‘Journey to the Moon’ by Georges Méliés had already been seen. But it was with ‘The Birth of a Nation’ that cinematographic art began to be thought of as entertainment and as an industry to be exploited. 1920 – 1929 – Nosferatu Despite the fact that it was a really fruitful decade in terms of outstanding films, ‘ Nosferatu ‘became a cult film and a taste for terror began to emerge, a genre that underwent an enormous expansion during this decade and the following. 1930 – 1939 – Modern Times Halfway between silent movies and the arrival of talkies , Charles Chaplin knew how to adapt his art and his characters to the new increasingly demanding cinematographic proposals. ‘Modern Times’ in a classic from the 30s and a cult film for movie lovers. 1940 – 1949 – Citizen Kane For many, the best film in history for many reasons. Orson Welles came to concentrate in a single film all the best and most outstanding of the cinematographic art to date. A true masterpiece of cinema.1950-1959 – The night of the hunterAlthough in this decade we find authentic gems of cinema such as ‘Vertigo’ by Hitchcock, or ‘Tales from Tokyo’ by Yasujiro Ozu, ‘The night of the hunter’ became another of the small cult films that It was gaining followers with the passage of time. Curiously it was the only film made by its director, Charles Laughton. 1960 – 1969 – Person Within the filmography of the Swede Ingmar Bergman are films as interesting as’ The communicants’, ‘The spring of the maiden ‘or’ Persona ‘, one of the most interesting films of the decade. Perfectly shot, Bergman’s film contains some of the most beautiful close-ups in film history. 1970 – 1979 – Apocalypse Now The 1970s was a revolution with very prominent films. We cannot forget the formidable ‘the spirit of the hive’ by Víctor Erice; the unclassifiable ‘The Elephant Man’ by David Lynch; Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’, or the first two parts of ‘The Godfather’, but Coppola had time to make the best war movie ever made: ‘Apocalypse Now’. After this film, the war was never seen otherwise. 1980 – 1989 – One of ours Film noir has many interesting films in the genre from one of the initiators of the genre, ‘Golden Underworld’ from 1931. It is difficult to recommend a movie about mafias, but if you’ve never seen one, ‘One of Ours’ is one of the best choices. 1990 – 1999 – The MatrixIn a decade where movies like’ The Silence of the Lambs’, ‘American Beauty’, ‘ Forrest Gump ‘,’ Without forgiveness’ or ‘The fight club’, among many others, ‘Matrix’ was the real bombshell that closed the century.It was not the best film of the decade, but its revolution came in the technical aspect that has so marked the cinema in subsequent years. 2000 – 2009 – The Pianist One of the most outstanding works of Roman Polanski’s long career. After a few years of rather discreet films such as ‘The Ninth Door’, the French director released another of the great films of war cinema, ‘The Pianist’, with an unknown Adrien Brody in the character of his life. 2010 – 2019 – Mad Max: Fury Road An excellent return to the saga from George Miller, and a cast at a very high level led by Charlize Theron and a superb Ton Hardy. With a lesson in how an action movie of these characteristics should be edited, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ is already a cult film within its genre.