1940s [ edit ]

1940 [ edit ]

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  Fantasia
• The Grapes of Wrath
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  The Philadelphia Story
• 
  Rebecca

1941 [ edit ]

• 
  Citizen Kane
• Dumbo
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  How Green Was My Valley
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  The Lady Eve
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  The Maltese Falcon

1942 [ edit ]

• Casablanca
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  Mrs Miniver
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  Now, Voyager
• 
  The Palm Beach Story
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  Yankee Doodle Dandy

1943 [ edit ]

• 
  For Whom the Bell Tolls
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  Shadow of a Doubt
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  The Song of Bernadette
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  Stage Door Canteen
• This Is the Army

1944 [ edit ]

• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Double Indemnity
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  Gaslight
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  Going My Way
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  The Woman in the Window

1945 [ edit ]

• 
  The Bells of St. Mary's
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  Children of Paradise '
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  Roma, citta aperta
• 
  Scarlet Street
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  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1946 [ edit ]

• 
  Gilda
• 
  Paisan
• The Stranger
• 
  It's a Wonderful Life

1947 [ edit ]

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  The Bishop's Wife
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  Gentleman's Agreement
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  Monsieur Verdoux
• 
  One Wonderful Sunday
• 
  Out of the Past

1948 [ edit ]

• 
  Bicycle Thieves
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  A Foreign Affair
• 
  Key Largo
• 
  La Terra Trema
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  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1949 [ edit ]

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  Adam's Rib
• 
  Criss Cross
• 
  I Was a Male War Bride
• 
  Late Spring
• 
  White Heat

1950s [ edit ]

1950 [ edit ]

59 films

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  All About Eve
• 
  D.O.A.
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  Father of the Bride
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  In a Lonely Place
• 
  Quicksand
• 
  Rashomon
• 
  Sunset Boulevard
• 
  Tea for Two

1951 [ edit ]

59 films

• 
  The African Queen
• 
  Alice in Wonderland
• 
  An American in Paris
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
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  Operation Pacific
• 
  Strangers on a Train
• 
  A Streetcar Named Desire

1952 [ edit ]

• 
  The Big Trees
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  The Greatest Show on Earth
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  High Noon
• 
  Monkey Business
• 
  The Quiet Man
• 
  Singing in the Rain
• 
  The Snows of Kilimanjaro

1953 [ edit ]

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  Angel Face
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  From Here to Eternity
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  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• 
  Roman Holiday
• 
  Shane
• 
  Tokyo Story
• 
  Ugetsu

1954 [ edit ]

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  The Barefoot Contessa
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  The Bridges at Toko-Ri
• 
  Dial M for Murder
• 
  On the Waterfront
• 
  Rear Window
• 
  Sabrina
• 
  Sansho the Bailiff
• 
  White Christmas

1955 [ edit ]

• 
  Daddy Long Legs
• 
  East of Eden
• 
  Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
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  Marty
• 
  Mister Roberts
• 
  Rebel Without a Cause
• 
  The Seven Year Itch
• 
  To Catch a Thief

1956 [ edit ]

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  Giant
• 
  The Killing
• 
  The Man Who Knew Too Much
• 
  Please Murder Me
• 
  The Searchers
• 
  The Ten Commandments
• 
  Trapeze
• 
  Written on the Wind

1957 [ edit ]

• 
  Designing Woman
• 
  Desk Set
• 
  Gunfight at the OK Corral
• 
  Pal Joey
• 
  Paths of Glory
• 
  Peyton Place
• 
  The Spirit of St. Louis

1958 [ edit ]

55 films

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  Auntie Mame
• 
  The Big Country
• 
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• 
  Houseboat
• 
  The Long, Hot Summer
• 
  Touch of Evil
• Vertigo
• 
  The Young Lions

1959 [ edit ]

• 
  Anatomy of a Murder
• 
  Ben-Hur
• 
  House on Haunted Hill
• 
  Journey to the Center of the Earth
• 
  North By Northwest
• 
  Operation Petticoat
• 
  Rio Bravo
• 
  Some Like It Hot