10 Greatest Movie Masterpieces of the Last 50 Years

Over the last fifty years, cinema has produced countless classics, box-office juggernauts, and cult favorites. Narrowing half a century of filmmaking down to ten titles is tough, but this selection ranks some of the most enduring and impactful movies since 1976 — films that embedded themselves so deeply in the culture that later works seem to orbit them.

The list spans animation, romance, war, sci‑fi fantasy, and intimate character study. Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (2001) mixes myth, surrealism, and quiet emotional truth; Wong Kar‑wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000) turns emotional repression into high art; Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993) offers a harrowing, humane portrait of the Holocaust filmed in stark black and white.

Other entries reshaped storytelling and tone.

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