Movie Timeline 1940-1949

1940

A Plumbing We Will Go (US…Del Lord)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (US…John Cromwell)

Arise My Love (US…Mitchell Leisen)

The Bank Dick (US…Eddie Cline)

Bastard (Norway/Sweden…Helge Lunde)

Battement de Coeur (France…Henri Decoin)

The Biscuit Eater (US…Stuart Heisler)

The Blue Bird (US…Walter Lang)

Boogie Doodle (Canada…Norman McLaren)

Britain at Bay (UK…Harry Watt)

Broadway Melody of 1940 (US…Norman Taurog)

Christmas in July (US…Preston Sturges)

Clay (Brazil…Humberto Mauro)

Clothes Make the Man (Germany…Helmut Kautner)

The Comedy of Happiness (France…Marcel l’Herbier)

A Crime (Sweden…Anders Henriksen)

Crimes at the Dark House (UK…George King)

Dance, Girl, Dance (US…Dorothy Arzner)

De Mayerling à Sarajevo (France…Max Ophuls)

Dr Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (US…William Dieterle)

Der Ewige Jude (Germany…Fritz Hippler)

Fantasia (US…Ben Sharpsteen)

La Fille du Puisatier (France…Marcel Pagnol)

Foreign Correspondent (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

From Nurse to Worse (US…Jules White)

Gaslight (UK…ThoroldDickinson)

The Ghost Breakers (US…George Marshall)

The Grapes of Wrath (US…John Ford)

The Great Dictator (US…Charles Chaplin)

The Great McGinty (US…Preston Sturges)

Heart of a Nation (France…Julien Duvivier)

His Girl Friday (US…Howard Hawks)

Hoots Mon! (UK…Roy William Neill)

How High is Up (US…Del Lord)

Jud Suss (Germany…Veit Harlan)

Kitty Foyle (US…Sam Wood)

Let George do It (UK…Marcel Varnel)

The Letter (US…William Wyler)

London Can Take It (UK…Harry Watt, Humphrey Jennings)

The Long Voyage Home (US…John Ford)

The Mark of Zorro (US…Rouben Mamoulian)

Menaces (France…Edmond T.Gréville)

The Mortal Storm (US…Frank Borzage)

My Favorite Wife (US…Garson Kanin)

My Universities (USSR…Mark Donskoi)

Night Train to Munich (UK…Carol Reed)

No Census, No Feeling (US…Del Lord)

Nobuko (Japan…Hiroshi Shimizu)

Northwest Passage Part One (Rogers’ Rangers) (US…King Vidor)

One Man’s Fate (Finland…Nyrki Tapiovaara, Hugo Hytönen)

Our Town (US…Sam Wood)

Pastor Hall (UK…Roy Boulting)

The Philadelphia Story (US…George Cukor)

Pinocchio (US…Ben Sharpsteen,Hamilton Luske)

Pride and Prejudice (US…Robert Z.Leonard)

Rebecca (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Remember the Night (US…Mitchell Leisen)

SF Paraati (Finland…Yrjö Norta)

Sans Lendemain (France…Max Ophuls)

The Sea Hawk (US…Michael Curtiz)

The Shop Around the Corner (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Somewhere in England (UK…John E.Blakely)

The Stars Look Down (UK…Carol Reed)

The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)

Stranger on the Third Floor (US…Boris Ingster)

Swinging the Lambeth Walk (UK…Lenny Lye)

Themis (US…Dwinnel Grant)

They Drive by Night (US…Raoul Walsh)

The Thief of Baghdad (UK…Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Ludwig Berger, William Cameron Menzies, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda)

Tin Pan Alley (US…Walter Lang)

Torrid Zone (US…William Keighley)

A Wild Hare (US…Tex Avery)

You Nazty Spy! (US…Jules White)

You Ought to Be In Pictures (US…Friz Freleng)

1941

An Ache in Every Stake (US…Del Lord)

All That Money Can Buy (US…William Dieterle)

Ball of Fire (US…Howard Hawks)

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Christmas Under Fire (UK…Harry Watt, Charles Hasse)

Citizen Kane (US…Orson Welles)

The Common Touch (UK…John Baxter)

Contrathemis (US…Dwinnel Grant)

The Devil and Miss Jones (US…Sam Wood)

Dumbo (US…Ben Sharpsteen)

Five and Under (UK…Donald Alexander)

49^th Parallel (UK…Michael Powell)

The 47 Ronin: Parts I & II (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

The Ghost of St Michael’s (UK…Marcel Varnel)

The Great Lie (US…Edmund Goulding)

H.M.Pulham, Esq. (US…King Vidor)

The Heart of Britain (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

Hellzapoppin (US…H.C.Potter)

Here Comes Mr Jordan (US…Alexander Hall)

Hideko the Bus Conductress (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

High Sierra (US…Raoul Walsh)

Hold Back the Dawn (US…Mitchell Leisen)

Homeless Angel (Korea…Choi in-kyu)

How Green Was My Valley (US…John Ford)

I Wake up Screaming (US…H.Bruce Humberstone)

I’ll Never Heil Again (US…Jules White)

In the Sweet Pie and Pie (US…Jules White)

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (UK…Walter Forde)

Introspection Tower (Japan…Hiroshi Shimizu)

The Iron Crown (Italy…Alessandro Blasetti)

It Started With Eve (US…Henry Koster)

Kipps (UK…Carol Reed)

Ladies in Retirement (US…Charles Vidor)

The Lady Eve (US…Preston Sturges)

The Little Foxes (US…William Wyler)

Love on the Dole (UK…John Baxter)

Major Barbara (UK…Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean)

The Maltese Falcon (US…John Huston)

Man Hunt (US…Fritz Lang)

The Man Who Came to Dinner (US…William Keighley)

Meet John Doe (US…Frank Capra)

Never Give a Sucker An Even Break (US…Eddie Cline)

Nocni Motyl (Czechoslovakia…Frantisek Cap)

Ornamental Hairpin (Japan…Hiroshi Shimizu)

Quiet Wedding (UK…Anthony Asquith)

Remorques (France…Jean Grémillon)

Sergeant York (US…Howard Hawks)

The Shanghai Gesture (US…Josef Von Sternberg)

Skylark (US…Mark Sandrich)

The Spirit and the Flesh (Italy…Mario Camerini)

Sullivan’s Travels (US…Preston Sturges)

Superman (US…Dave Fleischer)

Suspicion (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Target for Tonight (UK…Harry Watt)

That Hamilton Woman (UK/US…Alexander Korda)

They Died With Their Boots On (US…Raoul Walsh)

Tobacco Road (US…John Ford)

Topper Returns (US…Roy del Ruth)

Tortoise Beats Hare (US…Tex Avery)

The Wolf Man (US…George Waggner)

Wabbit Twouble (US…Bob Clampett)

Words for Battle (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

1942

Across the Pacific (US…John Huston)

Afsporet (Denmark…Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen)

Aniki Bóbó (Portugal…Manoel de Oliveira)

Arabian Nights (US…John Rawlins)

L’Assassin Habite au 21 (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Bambi (US…David Hand)

The Battle of Midway (US…John Ford)

The Black Swan (US…Henry King)

Caprices (France…Leo Joannon)

Casablanca (US…Michael Curtiz)

Cat People (US…Jacques Tourneur)

Coastal Command (UK…J.B.Holmes)

Dover Jones (US…Chuck Jones)

For Me and My Gal (US…Busby Berkeley)

The Foreman Went to France (UK…Charles Frend)

Four Steps Across the Clouds (Italy…Alessandro Blasetti)

Gentleman Jim (US…Raoul Walsh)

The Glass Key (US…Theodore Heisler)

Here We Go Again (US…Allan Dwan)

Holiday Inn (US…Mark Sandrich)

I Married a Witch (US…René Clair)

In Which We Serve (UK…David Lean, Noël Coward)

Kings Row (US…Sam Wood)

The Land (US…Robert J.Flaherty, Frances Flaherty)

Let the People Sing (UK…John Baxter)

Listen to Britain (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

The Magnificent Ambersons (US…Orson Welles)

The Major and the Minor (US…Billy Wilder)

The Male Animal (US…Elliot Nugent)

Men of the Mountains (Hungary…István Szöts)

The Moon and Sixpence (US…Albert Lewin)

My Favorite Blonde (US…Sidney Lanfield)

The Next of Kin (UK…ThoroldDickinson)

Now, Voyager (US…Irving Rapper)

La Nuit Fantastique (France…Marcel l’Herbier)

The Palm Beach Story (US…Preston Sturges)

Prelude to War (US…Frank Capra)

The Pride of the Yankees (US…Sam Wood)

Random Harvest (US…Mervyn le Roy)

The Road to Heaven (Sweden…Alf Sjöberg)

Road to Morocco (US…David Butler)

Roxie Hart (US…William A.Wellman)

Saboteur (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Star Spangled Rhythm (US…George Marshall)

Take a Letter, Darling (US…Mitchell Leisen)

The Talk of the Town (US…George Stevens)

There Was a Father (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

This Gun for Hire (US…Frank Tuttle)

Thunder Rock (UK…Roy Boulting)

To Be or Not To Be (US …Ernst Lubitsch)

Tortilla Flat (US…Victor Fleming)

Les Visiteurs du Soir (France…Marcel Carné)

We the Living (Italy…Goffredo Alessandrini)

Went the Day Well? (UK…Alberto Cavalcanti)

Woman of the Year (US…George Stevens)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (US…Michael Curtiz)

1943

Adieu Leonard (France…Pierre Prévert)

Air Force (US…Howard Hawks)

Les Anges du Pèché (France…Robert Bresson)

The Battle of Britain (US…Anthony Veiller)

Cabin in the Sky (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Coal Black and the Seven Dwarfs (US…Bob Clampett)

Le Comte de Monte Cristo (France…Robert Vernay)

The Constant Nymph (US…Edmund Goulding)

Le Corbeau (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

A Corny Concerto (US…Bob Clampett)

Day of Wrath (Denmark…Carl T.Dreyer)

Dear Octopus (UK…Harold French) LOST

Der Fuhrer’s Face (US…Jack Kinney)

Desert Victory (UK…David MacDonald)

Doña Bárbara (Mexico…Fernando de Fuentes)

Douce (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

Dumb-Hounded (US…Tex Avery)

En Passant (Canada…Alexandre Alexeieff)

L’Eternel Retour (France…Jean Delannoy)

The Fallen Sparrow (US…Richard Wallace)

Fires Were Started (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

Five Graves to Cairo (US…Billy Wilder)

Forever and a Day (US/UK…René Clair, Frank Lloyd, Cedric Hardwicke, Edmund Goulding, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox)

The Gang’s All Here (US…Busby Berkeley)

Girl Crazy (US…Norman Taurog)

Hangmen Also Die (US…Fritz Lang)

Happy Journey (Czechoslovakia…Otakar Vavra)

Heaven Can Wait (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

The Human Comedy (US…Clarence Brown)

I Walked With a Zombie (US…Jacques Tourneur)

It Happened at the Inn (France…Jacques Becker)

Jane Eyre (US…Robert Stevenson)

Journey into Fear (US…Norman Foster)

Lassie Come Home (US…Fred M.Wilcox)

The Leopard Man (US…Jacques Tourneur)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (UK…Michael Powell)

The Life of Matsu the Untamed (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

Lumière d’Été (France…Jean Grémillon)

La Main du Diable (France…Maurice Tourneur)

The Man in Grey (UK…Leslie Arliss)

Meshes of the Afternoon (US…Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid)

Millions Like Us (UK…Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat)

The More the Merrier (US…George Stevens)

Munchausen (Germany…Josef von Baky)

My Learned Friend (UK…Will Hay, Basil Dearden)

Old Acquaintance (US…Vincent Sherman)

Ossessione (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

The Ox Bow Incident (US…William A.Wellman)

Red Hot Riding Hood (US…Tex Avery)

Report from the Aleutians (US…John Huston)

The Seventh Victim (US…Mark Robson)

Shadow of a Doubt (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Silent Village (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

The Song of Bernadette (US…Henry King)

Stormy Weather (US…Andrew Stone)

Thank Your Lucky Stars (US…David Butler)

This Land is Mine (US…Jean Renoir)

Val d’Enfer (France…Maurice Tourneur)

Victory Through Air Power (US…Perce Pearce, James Algar,Clyde Geronimi)

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (France…Louis Daquin)

Watch on the Rhine (US…Herman Shumlin)

What’s Buzzing Buzzard? (US…Tex Avery)

Who Killed Who? (US…Tex Avery)

Wild Flower (Mexico…Emilio Fernandez)

World of Plenty (UK…Paul Rotha)

Yankee Doodle Daffy (US…Friz Freleng)

Yankee Doodle Mouse (US…William Hanna, Joseph Barbera)

1944

An American Romance (US…King Vidor)

Arsenic and Old Lace (US…Frank Capra)

At Land (US…Maya Deren)

The Barber of Seville (US…James Culhane)

Big Heel Watha (US…Tex Avery)

Bluebeard (US…Edgar G.Ulmer)

A Canterbury Tale (UK…Michael Powell)

The Children are Watching Us (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

Le Ciel est a Vous (France…Jean Grémillon)

Cobra Woman (US…Robert Siodmak)

Cover Girl (US…Charles Vidor)

The Curse of the Cat People (US…Robert Wise, Gunther Von Fritsch)

Dark Waters (US…André de Toth)

Don’t Take it to Heart (UK…Jeffrey Dell)

Double Indemnity (US…Billy Wilder)

Experiment Perilous (US…Jacques Tourneur)

Farewell, My Lovely (US…Edward Dmytryk)

Frenchman’s Creek (US…Mitchell Leisen)

Gaslight (US…George Cukor)

The Great Sacrifice (Germany…Veit Harlan)

Hail the Conquering Hero (US…Preston Sturges)

Henry V (UK…Laurence Olivier)

I’ll Be Seeing You (US…William Dieterle)

It Happened Tomorrow (US…René Clair)

Ivan the Terrible Part One: Ivan Grozyni (USSR…Sergei M.Eisenstein)

Jammin the Blues (US…Gjon Mili)

Lady in the Dark (US…Mitchell Leisen)

Laura (US…Otto Preminger)

Lifeboat (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Little Red Riding Rabbit (US…Friz Freleng)

The Lodger (US…John Brahm)

Mademoiselle Fifi (US…Robert Wise)

Maria Candelaria (Mexico…Emilio Fernández)

The Mask of Dimitrios (US…Jean Negulesco)

Meet Me in St Louis (US…Vincente Minnelli)

The Memphis Belle (US…William Wyler)

Ministry of Fear (US…Fritz Lang)

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (US…Preston Sturges)

Mr Skeffington (US…Vincent Sherman)

Mouse Trouble (US…William Hanna, Joseph Barbera)

Murder Melody (Denmark…Bodil Ipsen)

On Approval (UKClive Brook)

Phantom Lady (US…Robert Siodmak)

The Rainbow (USSR…Mark Donskoi)

The Scarlet Claw (US…Roy William Neill)

Screwball Squirrel (US…Tex Avery)

Show Business (US…Edwin L.Marin)

Since You Went Away (US…John Cromwell)

Spider Woman (US…Roy William Neill)

The Suspect (US…Robert Siodmak)

Sylvie et le Fantôme (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

This Happy Breed (UK…David Lean)

To Have and Have Not (US…Howard Hawks)

Torment (Sweden…Alf Sjöberg)

The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (Spain…Edgar Neville)

Tunisian Victory (US/UK…Frank Capra, Hugh Stewart)

The Uninvited (US…Lewis Allen)

The Way Ahead (UK…Carol Reed)

The Way You Wanted Me (Finland…Teuvo Tulio)

Western Approaches (UK…Pat Jackson)

When Strangers Marry (US…William Castle)

The Woman in the Window (US…Fritz Lang)

1945

And Then There Were None (US…René Clair)

La Bataille du Rail (France…René Clément)

The Battle of San Pietro (US…John Huston)

Blithe Spirit (UK…David Lean)

The Body Snatcher (US…Robert Wise)

Boule de Suif (France…Christian-Jaque)

Brief Encounter (UK…David Lean)

Burma Victory (UK…Roy Boulting)

Caesar and Cleopatra (UK…Gabriel Pascal)

Christmas in Connecticut (US…Peter Godfrey)

The Clock (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Cornered (US…Edward Dmytryk)

La Dama Duende (Argentina…Luis Saslovsky)

Les Dames de Bois de Boulogne (France…Robert Bresson)

Dead of Night (UK…Robert Hamer, Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton)

Detour (US…Edgar G.Ulmer)

A Diary for Timothy (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

Dillinger (US…Max Nosseck)

The Dolly Sisters (US…Irving Cummings)

Les Enfants du Paradis (France…Marcel Carné)

Falbalas (France…Jacques Becker)

La Ferme du Pendu (France…Jean Dréville)

The House on 92nd Street (US…Henry Hathaway)

I Know Where I’m Going (UK…Michael Powell)

Kitty (US…Mitchell Leisen)

Leave Her to Heaven (US…John M.Stahl)

The Lost Weekend (US…Billy Wilder)

Micro-Phonies (US…Edward Bernds)

Mildred Pierce (US…Michael Curtiz)

Murder He Says (US…George Marshall)

My Name is Julia Ross (US…Joseph H.Lewis)

Objective Burma! (US…Raoul Walsh)

Open City (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (US…Albert Lewin)

Pink String & Sealing Wax (UK…Robert Hamer)

Quiet Please! (US…William Hanna, Joseph Barbera)

The Rake’s Progress (UK…Sidney Gilliat)

The Red Earth (Denmark…Lau Lauritzen Jnr)

Scarlet Street (US…Fritz Lang)

The Seventh Veil (UK…Compton Bennett)

The Shooting of Dan McGoo (US…Tex Avery)

The Southerner (US…Jean Renoir)

Spellbound (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Story of G.I. Joe (US…William A.Wellman)

A Study in Choroegraphy for Camera (US…Maya Deren)

Swingshift Cinderella (US…Tex Avery)

They Were Expendable (US…John Ford)

The Three Caballeros (US…Norman Ferguson)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (US…Elia Kazan)

The True Glory (UK/US…Carol Reed, Garson Kanin)

Under the Bridges (Germany…Helmut Käutner)

A Walk in the Sun (US…Lewis Milestone)

The Way to the Stars (UK…Anthony Asquith)

The Wicked Lady (UK…Leslie Arliss)

Ziegfeld Follies (US…Vincente Minnelli)

1946

Angel on My Shoulder (US…Archie Mayo)

Anna and the King of Siam (US…John Cromwell)

Bad Eggs (Sweden…Arne Mattson)

La Belle et la Bête (France…Jean Cocteau)

The Best Years of Our Lives (US…William Wyler)

The Big Sleep (US…Howard Hawks)

The Blue Dahlia (US…George Marshall)

Book Review (US…Bob Clampett)

Canyon Passage (US…Jacques Tourneur)

The Captive Heart (UK…Basil Dearden)

The Chase (US…Arthur Ripley)

Children of the Earth (India…Khwaja Ahmad Abbas)

A Christmas Dream (Czechoslovakia…Karel Zeman)

Cluny Brown (US…Ernst Lubitsch)

Cross of Love (Finland…Teuvo Tulio)

The Dark Corner (US…Henry Hathaway)

The Dark Mirror (US…Robert Siodmak)

Deception (US…Irving Rapper)

Decoy (US…Jack Bernhard)

The Diary of a Chambermaid (US…Jean Renoir)

Ditte, Child of Man (Denmark…Bjarne Henning-Jansen)

Dreams That Money Can Buy (US…Hans Richter, Man Ray)

Duel in the Sun (US…King Vidor, William Dieterle)

Enamorada (Mexico…Emilio Fernandez)

Five Women Around Utamaro (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

La Foire aux Chimères (France…Pierre Chenal)

From This Day Forward (US…John Berry)

Gilda (US…Charles Vidor)

Great Expectations (UK…David Lean)

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (US…Bob Clampett)

Green for Danger (UK…Sidney Gilliat)

Hair-Raising Hare (US…Chuck Jones)

Hue and Cry (UK…Charles Crichton)

Humoresque (US…Jean Negulesco)

I See a Dark Stranger (UK…Frank Launder)

L’Idiot (France…Georges Lampin)

Iris and the Lieutenant (Sweden…Alf Sjöberg)

It’s a Wonderful Life (US…Frank Capra)

Ivan the Terrible Part Two: The Boyars Plot (USSR…Sergei M.Eisenstein)

The Jolson Story (US…Charles Vidor, Joseph H.Lewis)

The Killers (US…Robert Siodmak)

Land of Promise (UK…Paul Rotha)

Let There be Light (US…John Huston)

London Town (UK…Wesley Ruggles)

Lonesome Lenny (US…Tex Avery)

Macadam (France…Jacques Feyder, Marcel Blistène)

Margie (US…Henry King)

A Matter of Life and Death (UK…Michael Powell)

My Darling Clementine: Special Edition (US (1994)…John Ford)

A Night in Casablanca (US…Archie Mayo)

No Regrets for Our Youth (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Nobody Lives Forever (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

Northwest Hounded Police (US…Tex Avery)

Notorious (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Outlaw (US…Howard Hughes)

Paisà (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

Les Portes de la Nuit (France…Marcel Carné)

The Postman Always Rings Twice (US…Tay Garnett)

Restless Blood (Finland…Teuvo Tulio)

Un Revenant (France…Christian-Jaque)

Rhapsody Rabbit (US…Friz Freleng)

Ritual in Transfigured Time (US…Maya Deren)

Shoeshine (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

The Spiral Staircase (US…Robert Siodmak)

Strange Impersonation (US…Anthony Mann)

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (US…Lewis Milestone)

The Stranger (US…Orson Welles)

La Symphonie Pastorale (France…Jean Delannoy)

Theirs is the Glory (UK…Brian Desmond-Hurst, Terence Young)

To Each His Own (US…Mitchell Leisen)

Voyage Surprise (France…Pierre Prévert)

The Yearling (US…Clarence Brown)

1947

The Actress (Japan…Teinosuke Kinugasa)

Along the Sungari River (China…Jin Shan)

Angelina (Italy…Luigi Zampa)

Antoine et Antoinette (France…Jacques Becker)

The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer (US…Irving Reis)

The Balance (UK…Paul Rotha)

The Ball at the Anjo House (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)

Black Narcissus (UK…Michael Powell)

Body and Soul (US…Robert Rossen)

Boomerang (US…Elia Kazan)

Born to Kill (US…Robert Wise)

Brighton Rock (UK…John Boulting)

The Brothers (UK…David MacDonald)

Brute Force (US…Jules Dassin)

Caccia Tragica (Italy…Giuseppe de Santis)

The Cage (US…Sidney Peterson)

Captain from Castile (US…Henry King)

The Cat Concerto (US…William Hanna, Joseph Barbera)

Cinderella (Czechoslovakia…Nadezhda Kosheverova, Mikhail Shapiro)

Crossfire (US…Edward Dmytryk)

The Cumberland Story (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

Dark Passage (US…Delmer Daves)

Desperate (US…Anthony Mann)

Le Diable au Corps (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

A Double Life (US…George Cukor)

8,000 Li Under the Clouds and Moon (China…Shi Dongshan, Wang Weiun)

The Exile (US…Max Ophuls)

The Farmer’s Daughter (US…H.C.Potter)

Farrebique (France…Georges Rouquier)

Fear in the Night (US…Maxwell Shane)

The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)

Fireworks (US…Kenneth Anger)

Five Towns (UK…Terry Bishop)

The Fugitive (US…John Ford)

The Gangster (US…Gordon Wiles)

The Ghost and Mrs Muir (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

In Our Days (West Germany…Helmut Kautner)

It Always Rains on Sunday (UK…Robert Hamer)

Ivan the Terrible Part III: Ivan’s Battles (USSR…Sergei M.Eisenstein) UNFINISHED/LOST

Ivy (US…Sam Wood)

Les Jeux sont Faits (France…Jean Delannoy)

Jubilation Street (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

King Size Canary (US…Tex Avery)

Kiss of Death (US…Henry Hathaway)

Krakatit (Czechoslovakia…Otakar Vavra)

The Lady from Shanghai (US…Orson Welles)

The Last Stage (Poland…Wanda Jacubowska)

Life With Father (US…Michael Curtiz)

The Love of Sumiko the Actress (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Les Maudits (France…René Clément)

Mine Own Executioner (UK…Anthony Kimmins)

Miracle on 34^th Street (US…George Seaton)

Monsieur Verdoux (US…Charles Chaplin)

Monsieur Vincent (France…Maurice Cloche)

Motion Painting Number 1 (US…Oskar Fischinger)

The Murderers Are Among Us (Germany…Wolfgang Staudte)

Nicholas Nickleby (UK…Alberto Cavalcanti)

Nightmare Alley (US…Edmund Goulding)

Nora Prentiss (US…Vincent Sherman)

The October Man (UK…Roy Ward Baker)

Odd Man Out (UK…Carol Reed)

Out of the Past (US…Jacques Tourneur)

Panique (France…Julien Duvivier)

Paris 1900 (France…Nicole Vedrès)

Passion (Finland…Teuvo Tulio)

The Pearl (Mexico/US…Emilio Fernandez)

Pour une Nuit d’Amour (France…Edmond T.Gréville)

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (US…Albert Lewin)

Pursued (US…Raoul Walsh)

Le Quai des Orfèvres (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Ramrod (US…André de Toth)

Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

The Red House (US…Delmer Daves)

Ride the Pink Horse (US…Robert Montgomery)

The Secret Beyond the Door (US…Fritz Lang)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (US…Norman Z.McLeod)

Le Silence est d’Or (France…René Clair)

Somewhere in Europe (Hungary…Géza von Radványi)

The Spring River Flows East (China…Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli)

The Strike (Czechoslovakia…Karel Stekly)

T-Men (US…Anthony Mann)

Take My Life (UK…Ronald Neame)

La Tempestaire (France…Jean Epstein)

They Made Me a Fugitive (US…Alberto Cavalcanti)

They Won’t Believe Me (US…Irving Pichel)

Tweetie Pie (US…Friz Freleng)

A Village Schoolteacher (USSR…Mark Donskoi)

The Voice of the Turtle (US…Irving Rapper)

Warriors of Faith (Czechoslovakia…Vladimir Borsky)

Woman Without a Face (Sweden…Gustaf Molander)

1948

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (US…Charles Barton)

Act of Violence (US…Fred Zinnemann)

The Adventures of Don Juan (US…Vincent Sherman)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (US…Jack Kinney,Clyde Geronimi, James Algar)

L’Aigle à Deux Têtes (France…Jean Cocteau)

L’Amore (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

Les Amoureux sont seuls au monde (France…Henri Decoin)

The Angel with the Trumpet (Austria…Karl Hartl)

Another Part of the Forest (US…Michael Gordon)

Der Apfel ist Ab (West Germany…Helmut Kautner)

Back Alley Oproar (US…Friz Freleng)

The Banquet (Sweden…Hasse Ekman)

Berliner Ballade (West Germany…Robert Stemmle)

Bicycle Thieves (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

Blanche Fury (UK…Marc Allégret)

Body at the Gate (Japan…Masahiro Makino)

Border Street (Poland…Alexander Ford)

The Boy With Green Hair (US…Joseph Losey)

The Bright Day of My Life (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)

Call Northside 777 (US…Henry Hathaway)

The Cat That Hated People (US…Tex Avery)

Caught (US…Max Ophuls)

The Charterhouse of Parma (France…Christian-Jaque)

Command Decision (US…Sam Wood)

Cry of the City (US…Robert Siodmak)

Dedée d’Anvers (France…Yves Allégret)

Les Dernières Vacances (France…Roger Leenhardt)

The Dim Little Island (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

Drunken Angel (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Easter Parade (US…Charles Walters)

Escape (UK…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

The Fallen Idol (UK…Carol Reed)

La Fleur de l’Age (France…Marcel Carné) UNFINISHED

The Foghorn Leghorn (US…Robert McKimmon)

Force of Evil (US…Abraham Polonsky)

A Foreign Affair (US…Billy Wilder)

Fort Apache (US…John Ford)

Les Frères Bouquinquant (France…Louis Daquin)

Germany, Year Zero (Italy/WestGermany…Roberto Rossellini)

Half-Pint Pygmy (US…Tex Avery)

Hamlet (UK…Laurence Olivier)

Haredevil Hare (US…Chuck Jones)

A Hen in the Wind (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Hollow Triumph (US…Steve Sekely)

I Remember Mama (US…George Stevens)

Impasse des Deux Anges (France…Maurice Tourneur)

Inspirace (Czechoslovakia…Karel Zeman)

Johnny Belinda (US…Jean Negulesco)

Key Largo (US…John Huston)

Kristinus Bergman (Denmark…Bjarne Henning-Jansen)

Letter from an Unknown Woman (US…Max Ophuls)

Life in Shadows (Spain…Lorenzo Llobet Gracia)

The Little Orphan (US…William Hanna, Joseph Barbera)

Louisiana Story (US…Robert J.Flaherty)

Macbeth (US…Orson Welles)

Maclovia (Mexico…Emilio Fernandez)

Michurin (USSR…Alexander P.Dovzhenko)

The Miracle (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (US…H.C.Potter)

Moonrise (US…Frank Borzage)

Mother’s Day (UK…James Broughton)

Music in Darkness (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

The Mysterious Cavalier (Italy…Riccardo Freda)

The Naked City (US…Jules Dassin)

Obsession (UK…Edward Dmytryk)

Oliver Twist (UK…David Lean)

The Paleface (US…Norman Z.McLeod)

Les Parents Terribles (France…Jean Cocteau)

The Passionate Friends (UK…David Lean)

The Pirate (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Pitfall (US…André de Toth)

Portrait of Jennie (US…William Dieterle)

Quartet (UK…Ken Annakin, Ralph Smart, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French)

Raw Deal (US…Anthony Mann)

Red River (US…Howard Hawks)

The Red Shoes (UK…Michael Powell)

Road House (US…Jean Negulesco)

Rope (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Ruthless (US…Edgar G.Ulmer)

The Search (US…Fred Zinnemann)

Sitting Pretty (US…Walter Lang)

Sorrows of the Forbidden City (Hong Kong…Zhu Shilin)

Spring in a Small Town (China…Fei Mu)

State of the Union (US…Frank Capra)

La Terra Trema (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

They Live by Night (US…Nicholas Ray)

The Three Godfathers (US…John Ford)

The Three Musketeers (US…George Sidney)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (US…John Huston)

The Trial (Austria…G.W.Pabst)

Unfaithfully Yours (US…Preston Sturges)

The Winslow Boy (UK…Anthony Asquith)

Without Pity (Italy…Alberto Lattuada)

The Woman in White (US…Peter Godfrey)

A Woman’s Vengeance (US…Zoltan Korda)

Yellow Sky (US…William A.Wellman)

1949

Adam’s Rib (US…George Cukor)

Alias Nick Beal (US…John Farrow)

All the King’s Men (US…Robert Rossen)

Les Amants de Vérone (France…André Cayatte)

Andaz (India…Mehboob Khan)

Au dèla des Grilles (France…René Clément)

Au royaume des cieux (France…Julien Duvivier)

Bad Luck Blackie (US…Tex Avery)

Battleground (US…William A.Wellman)

Begone Dull Care (Canada…Norman McLaren)

Beyond the Forest (US…King Vidor)

The Big Steal (US…Don Siegel)

Blue Mountains: Parts I & II (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

Border Incident (US…Anthony Mann)

A Broken Drum (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Cardboard Cavalier (UK…Walter Forde)

Catene (Italy…Raffaello Matarazzo)

Champion (US…Mark Robson)

Colorado Territory (US…Raoul Walsh)

The Counterfeit Cat (US…Tex Avery)

Criss Cross (US…Robert Siodmak)

Crows and Sparrows (China…Zheng Junli)

The Devil’s Wanton (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Diva Bara (Czechoslovakia…Vladimir Cech)

Doggone Tired (US…Tex Avery)

The Emperor’s Nightingale (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Trnka, Milos Makovec)

Fabiola (Italy…Alessandro Blasetti)

The Fall of Berlin (USSR…Mikhail Chiaureli)

Fast and Furry-Ous (US…Chuck Jones)

Flamingo Road (US…Michael Curtiz)

For Scent-Imental Reasons (US…Chuck Jones)

The Fountainhead (US…King Vidor)

Gigi (France…Jacqueline Audry)

The Girl from the Third Row (Sweden…Hasse Ekman)

The Hasty Heart (US…Vincent Sherman)

Heaven Over the Marshes (Italy…Augusto Genina)

The Heiress (US…William Wyler)

Here’s to the Girls (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

High Diving Hare (US…Friz Freleng)

A Hometown in Heart (Korea…Yoon Yong-kyu)

House of Strangers (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

I Shot Jesse James (US….Samuel Fuller)

I Was a Male War Bride (US…Howard Hawks)

Intruder in the Dust (US…Clarence Brown)

Jour de Fête (France…Jacques Tati)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (UK…Robert Hamer)

Kiss Me Casanova (Austria…Arthur de Glahs)

Late Spring (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

The Lead Shoes (US…Sidney Peterson)

A Letter to Three Wives (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

Little Rural Riding Hood (US…Tex Avery)

Long Haired Hare (US…Chuck Jones)

The Long Journey (Czechoslovakia…Alfred Radok)

Madame Bovary (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Madeleine (UK…David Lean)

Mafia (Italy…Pietro Germi)

Mahal (India…Kamal Amrohi)

The Man on the Eiffel Tower (US…Burgess Meredith)

The Man Who Stole the Sun (Czechoslovakia…Zdenek Miller)

Manon (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

The Mill on the Po (Italy…Alberto Lattuada)

My Love Has Been Burning (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Occupe-toi d’Amélie (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

On the Town (US…Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)

Only a Mother (Sweden…Alf Sjöberg)

Out-Foxed (US…Tex Avery)

Passport to Pimlico (UK…Henry Cornelius)

Pattes Blanche (France…Jean Grémillon)

The Poacher’s Ward (Czechoslovakia…Martin Fric)

Le Point du Jour (France…Louis Daquin)

The Queen of Spades (UK…ThoroldDickinson)

The Reckless Moment (US…Max Ophuls)

Reign of Terror (US…Anthony Mann)

Rendezvous de Juillet (France…Jacques Becker)

Riso Amaro (Italy…Giuseppe de Santis)

Rotation (West Germany…Wolfgang Staudte)

Salon Mexico (Mexico…Emilio Fernandez)

Samson and Delilah (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

Sands of Iwo Jima (US…Allan Dwan)

Le Sang des Bêtes (France…Georges Franju)

The Secret History of the Imperial Palace (Hong Kong…Zhu Shilin)

Señor Droopy (US…Tex Avery)

The Set-Up (US…Robert Wise)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (US…John Ford)

Une Si Jolie Petit Plage (France…Yves Allégret)

Le Silence de la Mer (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

The Silent Barricade (Czechoslovakia…Otakar Vavra)

Story of a Bass Cello (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Trnka)

Stray Dog (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Stromboli (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (US…Busby Berkeley)

The Third Man (UK…Carol Reed)

The Threat (US…Felix Feist)

Three Strange Loves (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Too Late for Tears (US…Byron Haskin)

Under Capricorn (UK…Alfred Hitchcock)

Whisky Galore (UK…Alexander Mackendrick)

White Heat (US…Raoul Walsh)

White Paws (France…Jean Grémillon)

Who Done It? (US…Edward Bernds)

The Window (US…Ted Tetzlaff)

The Woman of the Port (Mexico…Emilio Gómez Muriel)