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.
    D.O.A.

  5. 5.
    The File on Thelma Jordan (1950)
    by Robert Siodmak
  6. 6.
    The Flowers of St. Francis (The Criterion Collection)
    by Roberto Rossellini
  7. 7.
    The Furies - Criterion Collection
    by Anthony Mann
  8. 8.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis
  9. 9.
    The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
    by Frank Launder
  10. 10.
    Harvey

  11. 11.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray
  12. 12.
    Kon Tiki
    by Thor Heyerdahl
  13. 13.
    La Ronde
    by Max Ophuls
  14. 14.
    Les Enfants Terribles: (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Pierre Melville
  15. 15.
  16. 16.
    Night and the City (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin
  17. 17.
    Orpheus (Original French) [Criterion Collection]
    by Jean Cocteau
  18. 18.
    The Rabbit of Seville (1950)
    by Chuck Jones
  19. 19.
  20. 20.
    Rio Grande (Collector's Edition)

  21. 21.
    The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)
    by Chuck Jones
  22. 22.
    Stars in My Crown (1950)
    by Jacques Tourneur
  23. 23.
    Stromboli
    by Roberto Rosellini
  24. 24.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder
  25. 25.
    ?
    Un chant d'amour [A Song of Love]
    by Jean Genet
  26. 26.
    Wagon Master (1950)
    by John Ford
  27. 27.
    Winchester '73
    by Anthony Mann
  28. 28.
    The Woman in Question
    by Anthony Asquith
  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

  32. 32.
    Awaara (1951)
    by Raj Kapoor
  33. 33.
    Early Summer (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujiro Ozu
  34. 34.
    Bellissima

  35. 35.
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    by Robert Wise
  36. 36.
    The Idiot (1951)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  37. 37.
    Diary of a Country Priest (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson
  38. 38.
    The Lavender Hill Mob
    by Charles Crichton
  39. 39.
    The Man in the White Suit
    by Alexander Mackendrick
  41. 41.
    Pandora and The Flying Dutchman
    by Albert Lewin
  42. 42.
    A Place in the Sun
    by George Stevens
  43. 43.
    The Red Badge of Courage

  44. 44.
    The River (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir
  46. 46.
    Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  48. 48.
    The Tales of Hoffmann (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger
  49. 49.
    The Thing from Another World
    by Christian Nyby
  50. 50.
    Angel Face
    by Otto Preminger

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Created by lee109 on Nov 18, 2006.
 

Comments

MestnyiGeroi

Thanks for the list-- great stuff!! — 4 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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