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1893 |
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Blacksmithing Scene |
William K.L. Dickson |
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1894 |
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Edison Kinetoscope Record of a Sneeze |
William Heise |
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Luis Martinetti, Contortionist |
Wiliam K.L. Dickson |
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Caicedo, King of the Slack Wire |
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1895 |
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Workers Leaving the Factory |
Louis Lumiere |
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The Sprayer Sprayed |
Louis Lumiere |
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Feeding the Baby |
Louis Lumiere |
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The Card Game |
Louis Lumiere |
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Photographers Congress Arrives in Lyon |
Louis Lumiere |
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1896 |
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Demolition of a Wall |
Louis Lumiere |
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May Irwin Kiss (The Kiss) |
William Heise |
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The Devil's Castle |
Georges Melies |
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1901 |
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Sampson-Schley Controversy |
Edwin S. Porter |
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Execution of Czolgosz |
Edwin S. Porter |
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Demolishing and Building up the Star Theater |
Frederick S. Armitage |
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Kansas Saloon Smashers |
Edwin S. Porter |
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1902 |
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A Trip to the Moon |
Georges Melies |
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Jack and the Beanstalk |
Edwin S. Porter |
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How they Do Things on the Bowery |
Edwin S. Porter |
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Appointment by Telephone |
Edwin S. Porter |
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1903 |
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The Great Train Robbery |
Edwin S. Porter |
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The Life of an American Fireman |
Edwin S. Porter |
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The Gay Shoe Clerk |
Edwin S. Porter |
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Move On |
A.C Abadie |
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The Magic Lantern |
Georges Melies |
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1904 |
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Voyage Travers L'Impossible |
Georges Melies |
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Dog Factory |
Edwin S. Porter |
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Cascade of Fire |
Georges Melies |
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1905 |
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Interior New York Subway |
none |
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1906 |
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La fee Carabosse |
Georges Melies |
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Three American Beauties |
Wallace McCutcheon, Edwin S. Porter |
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1907 |
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Tunnelling the Channel |
Georges Melies |
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1908 |
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The Thieving Hand |
J. Stuart Blackton |
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The Genie of Fire |
Georges Melies |
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Rescued from an Eagle's Nest |
J. Searle Dawley |
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1909 |
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Corner in Wheat |
D.W. Griffith |
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Le Locataire Diabolique |
Georges Melies |
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Princess Nicotine or The Smoke Fairy |
J. Stuart Blackton |
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Those Awful Hats |
D.W. Griffith |
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The Sealed Room |
D.W. Griffith |
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Sightseeing Through Whisky |
George Melies |
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1910 |
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The Unchanging Sea |
D.W. Griffith |
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White Fawn's Devotion |
James Young Deer |
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Hydrotherapie Fantastique |
Georges Melies |
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1911 |
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The Lonedale Operator |
D.W. Griffith |
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Her Crowning Glory |
Lawrence Trimble |
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His Trust |
D.W. Griffith |
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1912 |
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The Land Beyond the Sunset |
Harold M. Shaw |
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The Confederate Ironclad |
Kenean Buel |
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The New York Hat |
D.W. Griffith |
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The Unseen Enemy |
D.W. Griffith |
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Conquest of the Pole |
Georges Melies |
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The Narrow Road |
DW Griffith |
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1913 |
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How Men Propose |
Lois Weber |
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A House Divided |
Lois Weber |
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A Mothering Heart |
D.W. Griffith |
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1914 |
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A Florida Enchantment |
Sidney Drew |
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz |
J. Farrell MacDonald |
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1915 |
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Les Vampires |
Louis Feuillade |
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Alias Jimmy Valentine |
Maurice Tourneur |
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Birth of a Nation |
DW Griffith |
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Der Golem |
Paul Wegener |
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The Cheat |
Cecil B. DeMille |
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A Night at the Show |
Charles Chaplin |
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Matrimony's Speed Limit |
Alice Guy-Blanche |
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The Bank |
Charles Chaplin |
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Shanghaied |
Charles Chaplin |
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By the Sea |
Charles Chaplin |
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1916 |
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Intolerance |
DW Griffith |
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Hell's Hinges |
Charles Swickard, William S. Hart |
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Snow White |
J. Searle Dawley |
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I'm Insured |
Harry Palmer |
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1917 |
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Easy Street |
Charles Chaplin |
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The Immigrant |
Charles Chaplin |
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The Cure |
Charles Chaplin |
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The Adventurer |
Charles Chaplin |
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1919 |
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Broken Blossoms |
DW Griffith |
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Cabinet of Dr. Caligari |
Robert Weine |
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Within Our Gates |
Oscar Micheaux |
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Spiders |
Fritz Lang |
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1920 |
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The Toll Gate |
Lambert Hillyer |
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1921 |
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Destiny |
Fritz Lang |
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The Kid |
Charlie Chaplin |
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Two Wise Wives |
Lois Weber |
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Tol'able David |
Henry King |
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1922 |
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Nanook of the North |
Robert Flaherty |
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Foolish Wives |
Erich von Stroheim |
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Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages |
Benjamin Christensen |
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Nosferatu |
F.W. Murnau |
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Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler |
Fritz Lang |
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Once Upon a Time |
Carl Dreyer |
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The Toll of the Sea |
Chester M. Franklin |
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1923 |
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Safety Last |
Fred C. Newmeyer |
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Our Hospitality |
Buster Keaton |
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Why Worry? |
Fred C. Newmeyer |
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1924 |
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Greed |
Erich von Stroheim |
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Sherlock Jr. |
Buster Keaton |
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The Thief of Baghdad |
Raoul Walsh |
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The Chechahcos |
Lewis H. Moomaw |
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Strike |
Sergei Eisenstein |
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Der Niebelungen |
Fritz Lang |
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Girl Shy |
Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor |
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Mikael |
Carl Dreyer |
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The Last Laugh |
F.W. Murnau |
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The Navigator |
Donald Crisp |
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The Iron Horse |
John Ford |
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Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks |
Lev Kuleshov |
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Hot Water |
Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor |
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1925 |
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Gold Rush |
Charlie Chaplin |
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The Freshman |
Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor |
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Battleship Potemkin |
Sergei Eisenstein |
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The Big Parade |
King Vidor |
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Body and Soul |
Oscar Micheaux |
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Ben Hur: A Tale of Christ |
Fred Niblo |
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Master of the House |
Carl Dreyer |
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Phantom of the Opera |
Lon Chaney |
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Seven Chances |
Buster Keaton |
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1926 |
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Faust |
FW Murnau |
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Scar of Shame |
Frank Perugini |
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Flesh and the Devil |
Clarence Brown |
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1927 |
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Sunrise |
FW Murnau |
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Metropolis |
Fritz Lang |
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The General |
Buster Keaton |
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October |
Sergei Eisenstein |
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The End of St. Petersburg |
Vsevolod Pudovkin |
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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City |
Walter Ruttmann |
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Love of Jeanne Ney |
G.W. Pabst |
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The Kid Brother |
J.A. Howe and Ted Wilde |
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The Lodger |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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Napoleon |
Abel Gance |
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Wings |
William Wellman |
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My Best Girl |
Sam Taylor |
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1928 |
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Passion of Joan of Arc |
Carl Dreyer |
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Zvenigora |
Alexander Dovzhenko |
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Arsenal |
Alexandre Dovzhenko |
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The Crowd |
King Vidor |
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The Docks of New York |
Josef von Sternberg |
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The Last Command |
Josef von Sternberg |
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The Circus |
Charles Chaplin |
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Street Angel |
Frank Borzage |
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The Wedding March |
Erich von Stroheim |
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Spies |
Fritz Lang |
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The Wind |
Victor Sjostrom |
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Show People |
King Vidor |
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The Fall of the House of Usher |
James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber |
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The Man Who Laughs |
Paul Leni |
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The Cameraman |
Buster Keaton |
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Steamboat Bill, Jr. |
Buster Keaton |
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Steamboat Willie |
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Storm over Asia |
Vsevolod Pudovkin |
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Speedy |
Ted Wilde |
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1929 |
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Un Chien Andalou |
Luis Bunuel |
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Piccadilly |
E.A. Dupont |
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Man with the Movie Camera |
Dziga Vertov |
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Pandora's Box |
G.W. Pabst |
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Hallelujah |
King Vidor |
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Autumn Mist |
Dimitri Kirsanoff |
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Diary of a Lost Girl |
G.W. Pabst |
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Blackmail |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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Days of Youth |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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I Graduated, ButÉ |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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A Straightforward Boy |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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1930 |
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Earth |
Alexander Dovzhenko |
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Morocco |
Josef von Sternberg |
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Blue Angel |
Josef von Sternberg |
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All Quiet on the Western Front |
Lewis Milestone |
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Walk Cheerfully |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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I Flunked But.. |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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The Blood of a Poet |
Jean Cocteau |
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That Night's Wife |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Juno and the Paycock |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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1931 |
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City Lights |
Charlie Chaplin |
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Fritz Lang |
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Dishonored |
Josef von Sternberg |
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Frankenstein |
James Whale |
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Tokyo Chorus |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Kameradschaft |
G.W. Pabst |
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Le Million |
Rene Clair |
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Tabu |
FW Murnau |
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A Nous La Liberte |
Rene Clair |
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The Lady and the Beard |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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1932 |
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I Was Born, ButÉ |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Scarface |
Howard Hawks |
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Shanghai Express |
Josef von Sternberg |
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Vampyr |
Carl Dreyer |
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Trouble in Paradise |
Ernst Lubitsch |
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Freaks |
Tod Browning |
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I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang |
Mervyn LeRoy |
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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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1933 |
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen |
Frank Capra |
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum |
Lewis Milestone |
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Las Hurdes |
Luis Bunuel |
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King Kong |
Ernest Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper |
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Duck Soup |
Leo McCarey |
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Woman of Tokyo |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Dragnet Girl |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Dinner at Eight |
George Cukor |
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Passing Fancy |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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1934 |
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The Scarlet Empress |
Josef von Sternberg |
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Happiness |
Alexander Medvedkin |
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L'Atalante |
Jean Vigo |
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A Story of Floating Weeds |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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It Happened one Night |
Frank Capra |
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Twentieth Century |
Howard Hawks |
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Our Daily Bread |
King Vidor |
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A Mother Should Be Loved |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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1935 |
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Bride of Frankenstein |
James Whale |
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A Night at the Opera |
Sam Wood |
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An Inn at Tokyo |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Top Hat |
Mark Sandrich |
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The Informer |
John Ford |
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The Devil is a Woman |
Josef von Sternberg |
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1936 |
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Modern Times |
Charlie Chaplin |
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Rose Hobart |
Joseph Cornell |
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Sisters of the Gion |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
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A Day in the Country |
Jean Renoir |
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The Only Son |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Fury |
Fritz Lang |
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My Man Godfrey |
Gregory De La Cava |
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Dodsworth |
William Wyler |
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Sabotage |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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Show Boat |
James Whale |
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Kagamijishi |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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1937 |
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Street Angel |
Yuan Muzhi |
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Humanity and Paper Balloons |
Sadao Yamanaka |
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La Grande Illusion |
Jean Renoir |
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The Awful Truth |
Leo McCarey |
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Make Way for Tomorrow |
Leo McCarey |
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What Did the Lady Forget? |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Stage Door |
Gregory La Cava |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
Walt Disney |
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This Spanish Earth |
Joris Ivens |
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Shall We Dance |
Mark Sandrich |
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Young and Innocent |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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The Good Earth |
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1938 |
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Porky in Wackyland |
Robert Clampett |
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Bringing Up Baby |
Howard Hawks |
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Edge of the World |
Michael Powell |
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Holiday |
George Cukor |
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You and Me |
Fritz Lang |
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Angels with Dirty Faces |
Michael Curtiz |
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The Adventures of Robin Hood |
Michael Curtiz |
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Alexander Nevsky |
Sergei Eisenstein |
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Sidewalks of London a/k/a St. Martin's Lane |
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Le Bete Humaine |
Jean Renoir |
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Jezebel |
William Wyler |
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Pygmalion |
Anthony Asquith |
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1939 |
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Rules of the Game |
Jean Renoir |
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Story of the Late Chrysanthemums |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
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Wizard of Oz |
Victor Fleming |
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Only Angels Have Wings |
Howard Hawks |
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Jour Se Leve |
Marcel Carne |
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Gone with the Wind |
Victor Fleming |
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The 400 Million |
Joris Ivens |
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1940 |
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The Shop around the Corner |
Ernst Lubitsch |
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His Girl Friday |
Howard Hawks |
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The Grapes of Wrath |
John Ford |
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The Great Dictator |
Charles Chaplin |
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The Letter |
William Wyler |
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The Bank Dick |
Edward F. Cline |
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1941 |
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Citizen Kane |
Orson Welles |
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How Green Was My Valley |
John Ford |
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Notes on an Itinerant Performer |
Hiroshi Shimizu |
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Maltese Falcon |
John Huston |
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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The Shanghai Gesture |
Josef von Sternberg |
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The Little Foxes |
William Wyler |
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1942 |
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The Magnificent Ambersons |
Orson Welles |
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Casablanca |
Michael Curtiz |
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The Palm Beach Story |
Preston Sturges |
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To Be or Not to Be |
Ernst Lubitsch |
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Road to Morocco |
David Butler |
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Cat People |
Jacques Tourneur |
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There Was a Father |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Mrs. Miniver |
William Wyler |
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Yankee Doodle Dandy |
Michael Curtiz |
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1943 |
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Meshes of the Afternoon |
Maya Deren |
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Dayof Wrath |
Carl Dreyer |
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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The Leopard Man |
Jacques Tourneur |
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Ossessione |
Luchino Visconti |
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Cabin in the Sky |
Vincente Minnelli |
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1944 |
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A Canterbury Tale |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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Meet Me in St. Louis |
Vincente Minnelli |
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To Have and Have Not |
Howard Hawks |
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Hail the Conquering Hero |
Preston Sturges |
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1945 |
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Ivan the Terrible Part I |
Sergei Eisenstein |
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Rome, Open City |
Roberto Rossellini |
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Scarlet Street |
Fritz Lang |
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Les Dames de Bois du Bologne |
Robert Bresson |
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Leave Her to Heaven |
John M. Stahl |
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Children of Paradise |
Marcel Carne |
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Lost Weekend |
Billy Wilder |
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The Clock |
Vincente Minnelli |
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I Know Where I'm Going |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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1946 |
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My Darling Clementine |
John Ford |
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Notorious |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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It's a Wonderful Life |
Frank Capra |
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Utamaro and His Five Women |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
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Brief Encounter |
David Lean |
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A Matter of Life and Death |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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The Stranger |
Orson Welles |
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The Best Years of Our Lives |
William Wyler |
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Beauty and the Beast |
Jean Cocteau |
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Paisan |
Roberto Rossellini |
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No Regrets for Our Youth |
Akira Kurosawa |
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Murderers Are Among Us |
Wolfgang Staudte |
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Great Expectations |
David Lean |
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The Killers |
Robert Siodmark |
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Gilda |
Charles Vidor |
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Diary of a Chambermaid |
Jean Renoir |
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1947 |
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Germany Year Zero |
Roberto Rossellini |
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The Lady from Shanghai |
Orson Welles |
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
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A Double Life |
George Cukor |
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Out of the Past |
Jacques Tourneur |
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Monsieur Verdoux |
Charlie Chaplin |
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Brute Force |
Jules Dassin |
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Odd Man Out |
Carol Reed |
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Body and Soul |
Robert Rossen |
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T-Men |
Anthony Mann |
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The Fugitive |
John Ford |
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Black Narcissus |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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Crossfire |
Edward Dmytryk |
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1948 |
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Fort Apache |
John Ford |
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La Terra Trema |
Luchino Visconti |
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Spring in a Small Town |
Fei Mu |
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The Red Shoes |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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Force of Evil |
Abraham Polonsky |
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Raw Deal |
Anthony Mann |
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Red River |
Howeard Hawks |
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The Bicycle Thieves |
Vittorio De Sica |
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A Hen in the Wind |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
John Huston |
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Key Largo |
John Huston |
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Hamlet |
Laurence Olivier |
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Macbeth |
Orson Welles |
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He Walked by Night |
Anthony Mann |
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Letter from an Unknown Woman |
Max Ophuls |
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Drunken Angel |
Akira Kurosawa |
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The Search |
Fred Zinnemann |
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1949 |
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The Third Man |
Carol Reed |
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Stromboli |
Roberto Rossellini |
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Late Spring |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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On the Town |
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen |
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Crows and Sparrows |
Zheng Junli |
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Stray Dog |
Akira Kurosawa |
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Myriads of Lights |
Shen Fu |
| 8 |
Adam's Rib |
George Cukor |
| 9 |
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| 10 |
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1950 |
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| 1 |
This Life of Mine |
Shi Hui |
| 2 |
Los Olvidados |
Luis Bunuel |
| 3 |
Outrage |
Ida Lupino |
| 4 |
In a Lonely Place |
Nicholas Ray |
| 5 |
Orphee |
Jean Cocteau |
| 6 |
The Munekata Sisters |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 7 |
Sunset Boulevard |
Billy Wilder |
| 8 |
Rio Grande |
John Ford |
| 9 |
Winchester '73 |
Anthony Mann |
| 10 |
Wagonmaster |
John Ford |
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1951 |
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| 1 |
Awara |
Raj Kapoor |
| 2 |
Diary of a Country Priest |
Robert Bresson |
| 3 |
Early Summer |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 4 |
An American in Paris |
Vincente Minnelli |
| 5 |
Rashomon |
Akira Kurosawa |
| 6 |
Tales of Hoffmann |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
| 7 |
Strangers on a Train |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| 8 |
The African Queen |
John Huston |
| 9 |
A Place in the Sun |
George Stevens |
| 10 |
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1952 |
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| 1 |
Singin' in the Rain |
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly |
| 2 |
Ikiru |
Akira Kurosawa |
| 3 |
Life of Oharu |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 4 |
Forbidden Games |
Rene Clement |
| 5 |
El |
Luis Bunuel |
| 6 |
The Golden Coach |
Jean Renoir |
| 7 |
The Bad and the Beautiful |
Vincente Minnelli |
| 8 |
Umberto D |
Vittorio De Sica |
| 9 |
High Noon |
Fred Zinneman |
| 10 |
Moulin Rouge |
John Huston |
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1953 |
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| 1 |
Tokyo Story |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 2 |
Voyage To Italy |
Roberto Rossellini |
| 3 |
The Naked Spur |
Anthony Mann |
| 4 |
Ugetsu |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 5 |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
Howard Hawks |
| 6 |
The Bigamist |
Ida Lupino |
| 7 |
The Big Heat |
Fritz Lang |
| 8 |
Summer with Monika |
Ingmar Bergman |
| 9 |
Roman Holiday |
William Wyler |
| 10 |
From Here to Eternity |
Fred Zinnemann |
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The Bandwagon |
Vincente Minnelli |
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The Earrings of Madame DeÉ |
Max Ophuls |
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1954 |
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| 1 |
Seven Samurai |
Akira Kurosawa |
| 2 |
Rear Window |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| 3 |
Sansho the Bailiff |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 4 |
Anatahan |
Josef von Sternberg |
| 5 |
Johnny Guitar |
Nicholas Ray |
| 6 |
Boot Polish |
Prakash Arora |
| 7 |
On the Waterfront |
Elia Kazan |
| 8 |
La Strada |
Federico Fellini |
| 9 |
Senso |
Luchino Visconti |
| 10 |
The Caine Mutiny |
Edward Dmytryk |
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1955 |
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| 1 |
Ordet |
Carl Dreyer |
| 2 |
Night and Fog |
Alain Resnais |
| 3 |
Pather Panchali |
Satyajit Ray |
| 4 |
Rebel Without a Cause |
Nicolas Ray |
| 5 |
Night of the Hunter |
Charles Laughton |
| 6 |
Smiles of a Summer Night |
Ingmar Bergman |
| 7 |
Kiss Me Deadly |
Robert Aldrich |
| 8 |
All that Heaven Allows |
Douglas Sirk |
| 9 |
The Empress Yang Kwei Fei |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 10 |
French Cancan |
Jean Renoir |
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Guys and Dolls |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
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Bad Day at Black Rock |
John Sturges |
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Mr. Arkadin |
Orson Welles |
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Shree 420 |
Raj Kapoor |
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Mr. Roberts |
John Ford |
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East of Eden |
Elia Kazan |
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1956 |
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| 1 |
A Man Escaped |
Robert Bresson |
| 2 |
Early Spring |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 3 |
Lust for Life |
Vincent Minnelli |
| 4 |
Street of Shame |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 5 |
Written on the Wind |
Douglas Sirk |
| 6 |
Bigger than Life |
Nicholas Ray |
| 7 |
The Burmese Harp |
Kon Ichikawa |
| 8 |
The Wrong Man |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| 9 |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
Don Siegel |
| 10 |
New Year's Sacrifice |
Sang Hu |
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The Killing |
Stanley Kubrick |
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The Mystery of Picasso |
Henri Georges Clouzot |
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The Searchers |
John Ford |
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The Ten Commandments |
Cecil B. DeMille |
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The Man who Knew Too Much |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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Around the World in 80 Days |
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1957 |
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| 1 |
Mother India |
Mehboob Khan |
| 2 |
Pyaasa |
Guru Dutt |
| 3 |
Aparajito |
Satyajit Ray |
| 4 |
Tokyo Twilight |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 5 |
A King in New York |
Charles Chaplin |
| 6 |
Nights of Cabiria |
Federico Fellini |
| 7 |
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter |
Frank Tashlin |
| 8 |
Il Grido |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 9 |
Throne of Blood |
Akira Kurosawa |
| 10 |
Wild Strawberries |
Ingmar Bergman |
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Bitter Victory |
Nicholas Ray |
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Kanal |
Andrzej Wajda |
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12 Angry Men |
Sidney Lumet |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai |
David Lean |
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Sweet Smell of Success |
Alexander Mackendrick |
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Paths of Glory |
Stanley Kubrick |
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Man on the Tracks |
Andrzej Munk |
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An Affair to Remember |
Leo McCarey |
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The Cranes are Flying |
Mikhail Kalatozov |
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A Face in the Crowd |
Elia Kazan |
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Seventh Seal |
Ingmar Bergman |
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Witness for the Prosecution |
Billy Wilder |
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The Lower Depths |
Akira Kurosawa |
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Les Girls |
George Cukor |
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1958 |
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| 1 |
Vertigo |
Alfred Hithccock |
| 2 |
Nazarin |
Luis Bunuel |
| 3 |
Jalshaghar (The Music Room) |
Satyajit Ray |
| 4 |
Man of the West |
Anthony Mann |
| 5 |
Ivan the Terrible Part II |
Sergei Eisenstein |
| 6 |
Touch of Evil |
Orson Welles |
| 7 |
Some Came Running |
Vincente Minnelli |
| 8 |
Enjo |
Kon Ichikawa |
| 9 |
Mon Oncle |
Jacques Tati |
| 10 |
Equinox Flower |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Gigi |
Vincente Minnelli |
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A Night to Remember |
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Ashes and Diamonds |
Andrzej Wajda |
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Elevator to the Gallows |
Louis Malle |
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Separate Tables |
Delbert Mann |
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The Hidden Fortress |
Akira Kurosawa |
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Look Back in Anger |
Tony Richardson |
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1959 |
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| 1 |
Imitation of Life |
Douglas Sirk |
| 2 |
Floating Weeds |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 3 |
Fires on the Plain |
Kon Ichikawa |
| 4 |
Rio Bravo |
Howard Hawks |
| 5 |
North by Northwest |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| 6 |
Eyes Without a Face |
Georges Franju |
| 7 |
The Lin Family Shop |
Shui Hua |
| 8 |
Pickpocket |
Robert Bresson |
| 9 |
Ohayo |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 10 |
Shadows |
John Cassavetes |
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400 Blows |
Francois Truffaut |
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Some Like it Hot |
Billy Wilder |
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The Crimson Kimono |
Sam Fuller |
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1960 |
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| 1 |
Underworld, USA |
Sam Fuller |
| 2 |
Psycho |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| 3 |
Breathless |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 4 |
The Lady with the Dog |
Josef Heifetz |
| 5 |
Mughal E Azam |
K. Asif |
| 6 |
Late Autumn |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 7 |
L'Avventura |
Michaelangelo Antonioni |
| 8 |
Peeping Tom |
Michael Powell |
| 9 |
La Dolce Vita |
Federico Fellini |
| 10 |
The Testament of Orpheus |
Jean Cocteau |
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Spartacus |
Stanley Kubrick |
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Elmer Gantry |
Richard Brooks |
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The Bad Sleep Well |
Akira Kurosawa |
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The Apartment |
Billy Wilder |
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Rocco and His Brothers |
Lichino Visconti |
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1961 |
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| 1 |
Last Year at Marienbad |
Alain Resnais |
| 2 |
Lola |
Jacques Demy |
| 3 |
Cleo From 5 to 7 |
Agnes Varda |
| 4 |
Viridiana |
Luis Bunuel |
| 5 |
Accatone |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 6 |
The Hustler |
Robert Rossen |
| 7 |
A Taste of Honey |
Tony Richardson |
| 8 |
Yojimbo |
Akira Kurosawa |
| 9 |
Third Sister Liu |
Su Li |
| 10 |
West Side Story |
Robert Wise |
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A Woman Is a Woman |
Jean-Luc Godard |
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Flower Drum Song |
Henry Koster |
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La Notte |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's |
Blake Edwards |
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1962 |
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| 1 |
L'Eclisse |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 2 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
David Lean |
| 3 |
An Autumn Afternoon |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 4 |
Vivre Sa Vie |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 5 |
La Jetee |
Chris Marker |
| 6 |
The exterminating Angel |
Luis Bunuel |
| 7 |
My Name is Ivan |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 8 |
Knife in the Water |
Roman Polanski |
| 9 |
The Trial |
Orson Welles |
| 10 |
High and Low |
Akira Kurosawa |
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Mamma Roma |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
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Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? |
Robert Aldrich |
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Lolita |
Stanley Kubrick |
| |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Robert Mulligan |
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Sanjuro |
Akira Kurosawa |
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Winter Light |
Ingmar Bergman |
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1963 |
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| 1 |
The Leopard |
Luchino Visconti |
| 2 |
8 1/2 |
Federico Fellini |
| 3 |
Contempt |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 4 |
Shock Corridor |
Sam Fuller |
| 5 |
Muriel |
Alain Resnais |
| 6 |
The Birds |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| 7 |
Le Petit Soldat |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 8 |
Les Carabiniers |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 9 |
An Actor's Revenge |
Kon Ichikawa |
| 10 |
The Love Eterne |
Li Han Hsiang |
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This Sporting Life |
Lindsay Anderson |
| |
Donovan's Reef |
John Ford |
| |
Cheryomushki |
Herbert Rappaport |
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Tom Jones |
Tony Richardson |
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Billy Liar |
John Schlesinger |
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1964 |
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| 1 |
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg |
Jacques Demy |
| 2 |
The Gospel According to St. Matthew |
