What are your personal ten best films from this decade that seems like in the "middle" of film history (and development?) from our perspective?

My own Top Ten are currently as follows:

1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock / USA / 1958) 
2. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica / Italy / 1952)
3. Saikaku ichidai onna The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi / Japan / 1952)
4. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick / USA / 1957) 
5. Les quatre cents coups The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut / France / 1959) 
6. Aparajito The Unvanquished (Satyajit Ray / India / 1957)
7. Limelight (Charles Chaplin / USA / 1952) 
8. Pnktchen und Anton Punktchen and Anton (Thomas Engel / West Germany, Austria / 1954)
9. Kumonosu j Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa / Japan / 1957)
10. Letjat zhuravli The Cranes are flying (Mikheil Kalatozishvili / Soviet Union / 1957)