Combined Film Canon - 1950 / 1959

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Updated: July 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. 1.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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    The Asphalt Jungle
    by John Huston

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    Aventurera
    by Alberto Gout

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    Diary of a Country Priest - Criterion Collection
    by Robert Bresson

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  5. 5.
    The Flowers of St Francis - Criterion Collection
    by Roberto Rossellini

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    Harvey
    by Henry Koster

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    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray

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    La Ronde
    by Max Ophuls

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  10. 10.
    Los Olvidados

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    Night and the City - Criterion Collection
    by Jules Dassin

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    Orpheus (Original French) [Criterion Collection]
    by Jean Cocteau

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    The Rabbit of Seville (1950)
    by Chuck Jones

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  14. 14.
    Rashomon - Criterion Collection

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    Scarlet Pumpernickel, The (1950)
    by Chuck Jones

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  16. 16.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

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    Wagon Master (1950)
    by John Ford

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    Un Chant D’Amour
    by Jean Genet

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    Winchester '73
    by Anthony Mann

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    Ace in the Hole (AKA The Big Carnival)
    by Billy Wilder

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  21. 21.
    The African Queen [IMPORT]

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  22. 22.
    Alice in Wonderland (Masterpiece Edition)
    by Wilfred Jackson

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  23. 23.
    An American in Paris
    by Vincente Minnelli

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    Awaara (1951)
    by Raj Kapoor

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  25. 25.
    Bellissima
    by Luchino Visconti

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    The Browning Version (Criterion Collection)
    by Anthony Asquith

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  27. 27.
    The Day the Earth Stood Still

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  29. 29.
    Early Summer - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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    Europa '51
    by Roberto Rossellini

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    Forbidden Games - Criterion Collection
    by René Clément

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  32. 32.
    The Idiot (Hakuchi)
    by Akira Kurosawa

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    The Lavender Hill Mob
    by Charles Crichton

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    The Man in the White Suit
    by Alexander Mackendrick

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    Outcast of the Islands (1951)
    by Carol Reed

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  36. 38.
    A Place in the Sun

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    Le Plaisir/House of Pleasure (1951)
    by Max Ophüls

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    The Red Badge of Courage

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    Return To Glennascaul/Orson Welles' Ghost Story (1951)
    by Hilton Edwards

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    The River - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  41. 43.
    A Christmas Carol (Original B&W Version)
    by Brian Desmond Hurst

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    A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan

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  43. 46.
    The Tales of Hoffmann - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  44. 47.
    The Thing from Another World
    by Christian Nyby

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  45. 48.
    Angel Face
    by Otto Preminger

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  46. 49.
    The Bad and the Beautiful
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  47. 50.
    Bend Of The River
    by Anthony Mann

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Comments

MestnyiGeroi
New York City

Thanks for the list-- great stuff!! — 1 year ago

However, you have an actor’s name in place of the director’s for Salt of the Earth. The director is Biberman.


Untitled — 1 year ago

Somehow I can’t find “La Strada”. Is it not on this list?