Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Films From Year

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Films

1.
Children of Paradise
Les Enfants du Paradis
Marcel Carné
2.
Rome, Open City
Roma città aperta
Roberto Rossellini
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Films

3.
Leave Her to Heaven John M. Stahl
4.
Mildred Pierce Michael Curtiz
5.
Brief Encounter David Lean
6.
And Then There Were None
Ten Little Niggers
René Clair
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Films

7.
I Know Where I'm Going! Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
8.
They Were Expendable John Ford and Robert Montgomery
9.
Scarlet Street Fritz Lang
10.
The Suspect Robert Siodmak
11.
Dead of Night Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, and Alberto Cavalcanti
12.
Christmas in Connecticut Peter Godfrey
13.
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry Robert Siodmak
14.
Tonight and Every Night Victor Saville
15.
Spellbound Alfred Hitchcock
16.
The Body Snatcher Robert Wise
17.
Anchors Aweigh George Sidney
18.
The Story of G.I. Joe
Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe,
William A. Wellman
19.
The Bells of St. Mary's Leo McCarey
20.
Detour Edgar G. Ulmer
21.
Blithe Spirit David Lean
22.
The Thin Man Goes Home Richard Thorpe
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Films

23.
The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder
Anchors Aweigh George Sidney 
And Then There Were None
Ten Little Niggers
René Clair 
Blithe Spirit David Lean 
Brief Encounter David Lean 
Children of Paradise
Les Enfants du Paradis
Marcel Carné 
Christmas in Connecticut Peter Godfrey 
Dead of Night Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, and Alberto Cavalcanti 
Detour Edgar G. Ulmer 
I Know Where I'm Going! Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 
Leave Her to Heaven John M. Stahl 
Mildred Pierce Michael Curtiz 
Rome, Open City
Roma città aperta
Roberto Rossellini 
Scarlet Street Fritz Lang 
Spellbound Alfred Hitchcock 
The Bells of St. Mary's Leo McCarey 
The Body Snatcher Robert Wise 
The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder 
The Story of G.I. Joe
Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe,
William A. Wellman 
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry Robert Siodmak 
The Suspect Robert Siodmak 
The Thin Man Goes Home Richard Thorpe 
They Were Expendable John Ford and Robert Montgomery 
Tonight and Every Night Victor Saville 
Tonight and Every Night Victor Saville 09 January 1945
The Thin Man Goes Home Richard Thorpe 25 January 1945
The Suspect Robert Siodmak 03 May 1945
The Body Snatcher Robert Wise 25 June 1945
The Story of G.I. Joe
Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe,
William A. Wellman 13 July 1945
Christmas in Connecticut Peter Godfrey 11 August 1945
Anchors Aweigh George Sidney 13 August 1945
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry Robert Siodmak 17 August 1945
Blithe Spirit David Lean 03 October 1945
Rome, Open City
Roma città aperta
Roberto Rossellini 08 October 1945
Mildred Pierce Michael Curtiz 20 October 1945
And Then There Were None
Ten Little Niggers
René Clair 31 October 1945
The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder 16 November 1945
Leave Her to Heaven John M. Stahl 20 December 1945
Scarlet Street Fritz Lang 28 December 1945
Spellbound Alfred Hitchcock 28 December 1945
They Were Expendable John Ford and Robert Montgomery 31 December 1945
Detour Edgar G. Ulmer 25 January 1946
Dead of Night Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, and Alberto Cavalcanti 15 February 1946
The Bells of St. Mary's Leo McCarey 21 February 1946
Brief Encounter David Lean 24 August 1946
Children of Paradise
Les Enfants du Paradis
Marcel Carné 15 November 1946
I Know Where I'm Going! Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 09 August 1947