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Combined Film Canon - 1950 / 1959

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. All About Eve
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
 
2. The Asphalt Jungle
by John Huston
 
3. Aventurera
by Alberto Gout
 
4. Diary of a Country Priest - Criterion Collection
by Robert Bresson
 
5. The Flowers of St Francis - Criterion Collection
by Roberto Rossellini
 
6.
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The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
by Frank Launder
 
7. Harvey
by Henry Koster
 
8. In a Lonely Place
by Nicholas Ray
 
9.
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La Ronde
by Max Ophuls
 
10. Los Olvidados  
11. Night and the City - Criterion Collection
by Jules Dassin
 
12. Orpheus (Original French) [Criterion Collection]
by Jean Cocteau
 
13.
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The Rabbit of Seville (1950)
by Chuck Jones
 
14. Rashomon - Criterion Collection  
15.
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The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)
by Chuck Jones
 
16. Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
by Billy Wilder
 
17.
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Wagon Master (1950)
by John Ford
 
18.
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Un chant d'amour [A Song of Love]
by Jean Genet
 
19. Winchester '73
by Anthony Mann
 
20.
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Ace in the Hole (AKA The Big Carnival)
by Billy Wilder
 
21. The African Queen [IMPORT]  
22. Alice in Wonderland (Masterpiece Edition)
by Wilfred Jackson
 
23. An American in Paris
by Vincente Minnelli
 
24.
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Awaara (1951)
by Raj Kapoor
 
25. Bellissima
by Luchino Visconti
 
26. The Browning Version (Criterion Collection)
by Anthony Asquith
 
27. The Day the Earth Stood Still
by Robert Wise
 
28.
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Drip-Along Daffy (1951, Chuck Jones)  
29. Early Summer - Criterion Collection
by Yasujiro Ozu
 
30.
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Europa '51
by Roberto Rossellini
 
31. Forbidden Games - Criterion Collection
by René Clément
 
32.
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The Idiot (Hakuchi)
by Akira Kurosawa
 
33. The Lavender Hill Mob
by Charles Crichton
 
34. The Man in the White Suit
by Alexander Mackendrick
 
35. Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]
by Vittorio De Sica
 
36. On Dangerous Ground - Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers starring Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
by Nicholas Ray
 
37.
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Outcast of the Islands (1951)
by Carol Reed
 
38. A Place in the Sun  
39.
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Le Plaisir/House of Pleasure (1951)
by Max Ophüls
 
40. The Red Badge of Courage  
41.
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Return To Glennascaul/Orson Welles' Ghost Story (1951)
by Hilton Edwards
 
42. The River - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
 
43. A Christmas Carol (Original B&W Version)
by Brian Desmond Hurst
 
44. Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Elia Kazan
 
46. The Tales of Hoffmann - Criterion Collection
by Emeric Pressburger
 
47. The Thing from Another World
by Christian Nyby
 
48. Angel Face
by Otto Preminger
 
49. The Bad and the Beautiful
by Vincente Minnelli
 
50. Bend Of The River
by Anthony Mann
 
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Created by lee109 on Nov 18, 2006.