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1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed. Dir: Frank Capra With: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore Drama | Family | Fantasy 130 mins.
2. Casablanca (1942) Casablanca (1942)
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Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. Dir: Michael Curtiz With: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid Drama | Romance | War 102 mins.
3. The Great Dictator (1940) The Great Dictator (1940)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a doppelganger, a poor but kind Jewish barber living in the slums, who one day is mistaken for Hynkel. Dir: Charles Chaplin With: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie Comedy | Drama | War 125 mins.
4. Citizen Kane (1941) Citizen Kane (1941)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. Dir: Orson Welles With: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore Drama | Mystery 119 mins.
5. Bambi (1942) Bambi (1942)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.4/10 X  
Animated film about a young deer, Bambi, growing up in the wild after his mother is shot by hunters. Dir: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong With: Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey Animation | Drama | Family 70 mins.
6. Pinocchio (1940) Pinocchio (1940)
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A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. Dir: Norman Ferguson, T. Hee With: Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Mel Blanc Animation | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Music 88 mins.
7. Dumbo (1941) Dumbo (1941)
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Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential. Dir: Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson With: Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, James Baskett Animation | Family | Musical 64 mins.
8. Rebecca (1940) Rebecca (1940)
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When a naive young woman marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion, she finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders Drama | Mystery | Thriller 130 mins.
9. The Third Man (1949) The Third Man (1949)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.4/10 X  
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime. Dir: Carol Reed With: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller 104 mins.
10. The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Maltese Falcon (1941)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3/10 X  
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. Dir: John Huston With: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery 100 mins.
11. Double Indemnity (1944) Double Indemnity (1944)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  
An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions. Dir: Billy Wilder With: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller 107 mins.
12. Fantasia (1940) Fantasia (1940)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  
A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music. With: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, Corey Burton Animation | Family | Fantasy | Music 125 mins.
13. The Great Gatsby (1949) The Great Gatsby (1949)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.5/10 X  
In this "adaptation" of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, a Jazz Age bootlegger learns the hard way about the wages of sin. Dir: Elliott Nugent With: Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey Drama 91 mins.
14. How Green Was My Valley (1941) How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. Dir: John Ford With: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee Drama | Family 118 mins.
15. Sergeant York (1941) Sergeant York (1941)
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True story of a hillbilly sharpshooter drafted in WW1 despite his claim to be a pacifist, who ends up becoming a war hero. Dir: Howard Hawks With: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie Biography | Drama | History | War 134 mins.
16. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.2/10 X  
A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. Dir: John Ford With: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine Drama 129 mins.
17. Notorious (1946) Notorious (1946)
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A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains Drama | Romance | Thriller 101 mins.
18. Bicycle Thieves (1948) Bicycle Thieves (1948)
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A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job. Dir: Vittorio De Sica With: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell Crime | Drama 93 mins.
19. Rope (1948) Rope (1948)
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Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger Crime | Drama | Thriller 80 mins.
20. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.4/10 X  
Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Dir: John Huston With: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt Action | Adventure | Drama | Western 126 mins.
21. The Philadelphia Story (1940) The Philadelphia Story (1940)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.0/10 X  
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself. Dir: George Cukor With: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart Comedy | Romance 112 mins.
22. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.1/10 X  
A distant poor relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. Dir: Robert Hamer With: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson Comedy | Crime 106 mins.
23. Out of the Past (1947) Out of the Past (1947)
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A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames. Dir: Jacques Tourneur With: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller 97 mins.
24. The Big Sleep (1946) The Big Sleep (1946)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.2/10 X  
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love. Dir: Howard Hawks With: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller 114 mins.
25. Woman of the Year (1942) Woman of the Year (1942)
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Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle. Dir: George Stevens With: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter Comedy | Romance | Sport 114 mins.
26. White Heat (1949) White Heat (1949)
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A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn Dir: Raoul Walsh With: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller 114 mins.
27. Three Faces West (1940) Three Faces West (1940)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.1/10 X  
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler... Dir: Bernard Vorhaus With: John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn Adventure | Drama | Romance 79 mins.
28. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.2/10 X  
Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. Dir: William Wyler With: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy Drama | Romance | War 172 mins.
29. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  
Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s. Dir: Elia Kazan With: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn Drama 129 mins.
30. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.0/10 X  
A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey Thriller 108 mins.
31. Under Capricorn (1949) Under Capricorn (1949)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.2/10 X  
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor... Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding Crime | Drama | Romance 117 mins.
32. Angel and the Badman (1947) Angel and the Badman (1947)
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Quirt Evens an all round bad guy is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth a quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose from his world or the world from which Penelope lives by. Dir: James Edward Grant With: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey Romance | Western 100 mins.
33. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
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A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family. Dir: Frank Capra With: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey Comedy | Crime | Romance | Thriller 118 mins.
34. Boom Town (1940) Boom Town (1940)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X  
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. Dir: Jack Conway With: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western 119 mins.
35. Song of the South (1946) Song of the South (1946)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  
The kindhearted storyteller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear. Dir: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson With: Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett Animation | Family | Music 94 mins.
36. Suspicion (1941) Suspicion (1941)
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A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke Drama | Mystery | Thriller 99 mins.
37. Crossfire (1947) Crossfire (1947)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.4/10 X  
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why? Dir: Edward Dmytryk With: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery 86 mins.
38. Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  
When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. Dir: George Seaton With: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy 96 mins.
39. Beauty and the Beast (1946) Beauty and the Beast (1946)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.0/10 X  
Adélaïde, Belle, Félicie and Ludovic are young adult siblings who once lived in grandeur until their father's merchant ships were lost at sea... Dir: Jean Cocteau With: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély Drama | Fantasy | Romance 96 mins.
40. Spellbound (1945) Spellbound (1945)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  
A female psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller 111 mins.
41. His Girl Friday (1940) His Girl Friday (1940)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.0/10 X  
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. Dir: Howard Hawks With: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy Comedy | Drama | Romance 92 mins.
42. Laura (1944) Laura (1944)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.1/10 X  
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating. Dir: Otto Preminger With: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance 88 mins.
43. The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6/10 X  
Falling asleep during the Paradise Coffee ("The Coffee that Makes You Sleep") Program, the band's third trumpeter dreams he's Athanael... Dir: Raoul Walsh With: Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran Comedy | Fantasy | Music 78 mins.
44. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. Dir: Orson Welles With: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello Drama | Romance 88 mins.
45. Mrs. Miniver (1942) Mrs. Miniver (1942)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  
The Minivers, an English "middle-class" family experience life in the first months of World War II. While dodging bombs... Dir: William Wyler With: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright Drama | Romance | War 134 mins.
46. Strange Cargo (1940) Strange Cargo (1940)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X  
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure. Dir: Frank Borzage With: Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter Drama | Romance 113 mins.
47. Canadian Pacific (1949) Canadian Pacific (1949)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.0/10 X  
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion. Dir: Edwin L. Marin With: Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, J. Carrol Naish Western 95 mins.
48. Oliver Twist (1948) Oliver Twist (1948)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  
Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London... Dir: David Lean With: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh Adventure | Crime | Drama 116 mins.
49. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1/10 X  
Two animated adaptions of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Wind in the Willows." Dir: James Algar, Clyde Geronimi With: Bing Crosby, Basil Rathbone, Eric Blore Animation | Family | Fantasy 68 mins.
50. The Lady from Shanghai (1947) The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X  
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot. With: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller 87 mins.
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