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. 101.
    Detour
    by Edgar G. Ulmer

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  2. 102.
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    A Diary for Timothy
    by Humphrey Jennings

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  3. 103.
    I Know Where I'm Going! - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  4. 104.
    Leave Her to Heaven
    by John M. Stahl

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  5. 105.
    Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
    by Marcel Carné

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  6. 106.
    Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne - Criterion Collection
    by Robert Bresson

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  7. 107.
    The Lost Weekend
    by Billy Wilder

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  8. 108.
    Mildred Pierce (Keepcase)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  9. 109.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
    by Albert Lewin

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  10. 110.
    Open City
    by Roberto Rossellini

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  11. 111.
    Scarlet Street
    by Fritz Lang

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  12. 112.
    The Southerner
    by Jean Renoir

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  13. 113.
    Spellbound - Criterion Collection

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  14. 114.
    They Were Expendable

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  15. 116.
    Anna and the King of Siam
    by John Cromwell

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  16. 118.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

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  17. 119.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

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  18. 120.
    Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell

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  19. 121.
    The Blue Dahlia
    by George Marshall

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  20. 122.
    The Cat Concerto (1946)
    by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera

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  21. 123.
    Duel in the Sun
    by King Vidor

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  22. 124.
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    Five Women Around Utamaro [Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna]
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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  23. 125.
    Gilda
    by Charles Vidor

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  24. 126.
    Great Expectations - Criterion Collection
    by David Lean

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  25. 127.
    The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
    by Robert Clampett

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  26. 128.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra

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  27. 129.
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    Ivan the Terrible, Part Two
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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  28. 130.
    The Jolson Story
    by Alfred E. Green

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  30. 132.
    A Matter of Life and Death (AKA Stairway to Heaven)
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  31. 133.
    The Murderers Are Among Us
    by Wolfgang Staudte

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  32. 134.
    My Darling Clementine
    by John Ford

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  33. 135.
    Notorious - Criterion Collection

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  34. 136.
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    No Regrets for Our Youth

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  35. 137.
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    Paisa/Paisan
    by Roberto Rossellini

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  36. 138.
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    Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
    by Maya Deren

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  37. 139.
    Shoeshine (Sciuscia)
    by Vittorio de Sica

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  38. 140.
    The Spiral Staircase
    by Robert Siodmak

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  39. 141.
    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
    by Lewis Milestone

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  40. 142.
    A Stolen Life (1946)
    by Curtis Bernhardt

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  41. 143.
    The Yearling
    by Clarence Brown

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  42. 144.
    Body and Soul
    by Robert Rossen

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  43. 145.
    Brighton Rock
    by John Boulting 1947 (UK) 92min

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  44. 146.
    Germany Year Zero
    by Roberto Rossellini

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  45. 147.
    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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  46. 148.
    Hue and Cry
    by Charles Crichton

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  47. 149.
    King Size Canary
    by Tex Avery

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  48. 150.

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