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
  2. 2.
    The Asphalt Jungle
    by John Huston
  3. 3.
    Aventurera
    by Alberto Gout
  4. 4.
    ?
    The Breaking Point (1950)
    by Michael Curtiz
  5. 5.
    Caged!

  6. 6.
    D.O.A.
    by Rudolph Mate
  7. 7.
    Devil's Doorway
    by Anthony Mann
  8. 8.
    The File On Thelma Jordan

  9. 9.
    The Flowers of St. Francis (The Criterion Collection)
    by Roberto Rossellini
  10. 10.
    The Furies - Criterion Collection
    by Anthony Mann
  11. 11.
    Harvey
    by Henry Koster
  12. 12.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray
  13. 13.
    The Lawless
    by Joseph Losey
  14. 14.
    Night and the City (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin
  15. 15.
    No Man of Her Own
    by Mitchell Leisen
  16. 16.
    Los Olvidados
    by Luis Buñuel
  17. 17.
    Orpheus (Original French) [Criterion Collection]
    by Jean Cocteau
  18. 18.
    The Rabbit of Seville (1950)
    by Chuck Jones
  19. 19.
    Rashomon (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  20. 20.
    Rio Grande (Collector's Edition)

  21. 21.
    La Ronde
    by Max Ophuls
  22. 22.
    ?
    Un chant d'amour [A Song of Love]
    by Jean Genet
  23. 23.
    The Sound of Fury (Try and Get Me) (1950)
    by Cy Endfield
  24. 24.
    Stars in My Crown (1950)
    by Jacques Tourneur
  25. 25.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder
  26. 26.
    Wagon Master (1950)
    by John Ford
  27. 27.
  28. 28.
    Winchester '73
    by Anthony Mann
  29. 29.
    Ace in the Hole (AKA The Big Carnival)
    by Billy Wilder
  30. 30.
    The African Queen [IMPORT]

  31. 31.
    An American in Paris
    by Vincente Minnelli
  32. 32.
    Awaara (1951)
    by Raj Kapoor
  33. 33.
    Bellissima

  34. 34.
    The Browning Version (The Criterion Collection)
    by Anthony Asquith
  35. 35.
    A Christmas Carol (Colorized + Black & White Edition)
    by Brian Desmond Hurst
  36. 36.
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    by Robert Wise
  37. 37.
    Detective Story (1951)
    by William Wyler
  38. 38.
    Diary of a Country Priest (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson
  39. 39.
    Early Summer (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu
  40. 40.
    Europa '51
    by Roberto Rossellini
  41. 41.
    The Idiot (1951)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  42. 42.
    The Lavender Hill Mob
    by Charles Crichton
  43. 43.
    The Man in the White Suit
    by Alexander Mackendrick
  45. 45.
    A Place in the Sun
    by George Stevens
  46. 46.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by John Huston
  47. 47.
    Repast [Meshi] (1951)
    by Mikio Naruse
  48. 48.
    The River (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir
  49. 49.
    ?
    The Steel Helmet
    by Sam Fuller
  50. 50.
    Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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Created by lee109 on Nov 18, 2006.
 

Comments

MestnyiGeroi

Thanks for the list-- great stuff!! — 5 years ago

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

Jun 21, 12:33PM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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