Combined Film Canon - 1940 / 1949

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Updated: June 2007

The “Combined Film Canon” is a list of 2,000 great movies, assembled by combining the “They Shoot Pictures Don’t They” list of 1,000 movies and a “Doubling the Canon” list, created by participants on the IMDb Classic Film message board, which added an additional 1,000 great movies. The result is a list of 2,000 movies, which includes feature films, shorts, TV-movies, and TV mini-series. It does not include TV series or music videos.

Because of its unwieldy size, the Combined Film Canon will be posted as nine lists: 1890-1929, 1930’s, 1940’s, 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, and 2000-present. These lists will be updated regularly, as They Shoot Pictures and the “Doubling the Canon” project make revisions.

On each of the nine Combined Film Canon lists, movies are first listed chronologically, and then alphabetically within the years.

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  1. 51.
    Ossessione
    by Luchino Visconti

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  2. 52.
    The Palm Beach Story
    by Preston Sturges

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  3. 53.
    Saboteur

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  4. 54.
    This Gun for Hire
    by Frank Tuttle

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  5. 55.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  6. 56.
    Above Suspicion (1943)
    by Richard Thorpe

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  7. 57.
    Cabin in the Sky
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  8. 58.
    Le Corbeau (The Raven) - Criterion Collection
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

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  9. 59.
    Carl Theodor Dreyer - Day of Wrath
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  10. 60.
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    Douce/Love Story
    by Claude Autant-Lara

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  11. 61.
    Education For Death (1943)
    by Clyde Geronimi (dir.), Ward Kimball (anim.)

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  12. 62.
    Fires Were Started
    by Humphrey Jennings

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  13. 63.
    Heaven Can Wait (Criterion Collection)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  14. 64.
    I Walked with a Zombie
    by Jacques Tourneur

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  15. 65.
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  16. 66.
    Meshes of the Afternoon
    by Maya Deren

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  17. 67.
    The More the Merrier
    by George Stevens

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  18. 68.
    Old Acquaintance
    by Vincent Sherman

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  19. 69.
    The Ox-Bow Incident
    by William A. Wellman

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  20. 70.
    Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
    by Tex Avery

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  21. 71.
    The Seventh Victim
    by Mark Robson

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  22. 72.
    Shadow of a Doubt

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  23. 73.
    This Land Is Mine
    by Jean Renoir

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  24. 75.
    Arsenic and Old Lace
    by Frank Capra

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  25. 76.
    At Land (1944)
    by Maya Deren

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  26. 77.
    A Canterbury Tale - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  27. 78.
    The Children Are Watching Us - Criterion Collection
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  28. 79.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

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  29. 80.
    Gaslight
    by George Cukor

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  30. 81.
    Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
    by Preston Sturges

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  31. 82.
    Henry V - Criterion Collection
    by Laurence Olivier

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  32. 83.
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    Ivan the Terrible, Part One
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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  33. 85.
    Laura
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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  34. 86.
    Lifeboat (Special Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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  35. 87.
    Meet Me In St. Louis (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  36. 88.
    The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
    by Preston Sturges

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  37. 89.
    Murder, My Sweet
    by Edward Dmytryk

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  38. 90.
    National Velvet
    by Clarence Brown

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  39. 91.
    Phantom Lady (1944)
    by Robert Siodmak

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  40. 92.
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    Screwball Squirrel (1944)
    by Tex Avery

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  41. 93.
    This Happy Breed
    by David Lean

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  42. 94.
    To Have and Have Not (Snap case)
    by Howard Hawks

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  43. 95.
    The Uninvited
    by Lewis Allen

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  44. 96.
    And Then There Were None
    by René Clair

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  45. 97.
    The Body Snatcher
    by Robert Wise

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  46. 98.
    Brief Encounter - Criterion Collection
    by David Lean

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  47. 99.
    The Clock
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  48. 100.
    Dead of Night
    by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer

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