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The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Robert Wiene) - 1920
Nosferatu (F W Murnau) - 1922
Häxan (Benjamin Christensen) - 1922
Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton) - 1924
Greed (Erich von Stroheim) - 1924
Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian) - 1925
The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock) - 1927
Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage) - 1927
The Unknown (Tod Browning) - 1927
Sunrise (F W Murnau) - 1927
The Crowd (King Vidor) - 1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer) - 1928
The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni) - 1928
Pandora’s Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst) - 1929

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The Blue Angel (Joseph von Sternberg) - 1930
All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone) - 1930
L'Âge d'or (Luis Buñuel) - 1930
Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy) - 1931
The Threepenny Opera (G W Pabst) - 1931
The Public Enemy (William Wellman) - 1931
M (Fritz Lang) - 1931
À nous la liberté (René Clair) - 1931
Shanghai Express (Joseph von Sternberg) - 1932
Freaks (Tod Browning) - 1932
Scarface (Howard Hawks) - 1932
The Music Box (James Parrott) - 1932
Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer) - 1932
White Zombie (Victor Halperin) - 1932
The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel, Ernest B Schoedsack) - 1932
The Old Dark House (James Whale ) - 1932
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch) - 1932
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy) - 1932
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra) - 1933
Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo) - 1933
The Testament of Dr Mabuse (Fritz Lang) - 1933
The Invisible Man (James Whale) - 1933
The Black Cat (Edgar G Ulmer) - 1934
The Devil Is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg) - 1935
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock) - 1935
Mad Love (Karl Freund) - 1935
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin) - 1936
Fury (Fritz Lang) - 1936
Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier) - 1937
You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang) - 1937
The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir) - 1937
La bête humaine (Jean Renoir) - 1938
Wuthering Heights (William Wyler) - 1939
Daybreak (Marcel Carné) - 1939
Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir) - 1939
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Alfred L Werker) - 1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle) - 1939

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His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks) - 1940
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford) - 1940
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock) - 1940
Stranger on the 3rd Floor (Boris Ingster) - 1940
The Letter (William Wyler) - 1940
High Sierra - (Raoul Walsh) - 1941
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges) - 1941
The Sea Wolf (Michael Curtiz) - 1941
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) - 1941
The Little Foxes (William Wyler) - 1941
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston) - 1941
The Shanghai Gesture (Joseph von Sternberg) - 1941
Larceny Inc (Lloyd Bacon) - 1942
This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle) - 1942
The Glass Key (Stuart Heisler) - 1942
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) - 1942
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur) - 1942
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock) - 1943
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur) - 1943
Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder) - 1943
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur) - 1943
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti) - 1943
The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell & Pressburger) - 1943
The 7th Victim (Mark Robson) - 1943
Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot) - 1943
The Ghost Ship (Mark Robson) - 1943
Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak) - 1944
Jane Eyre (Robert Stevenson) - 1944
The Uninvited (Lewis Allen) - 1944
The Curse of the Cat People (Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise) - 1944
Gaslight (George Cukor) - 1944
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder) - 1944
Laura (Otto Preminger) - 1944
To Have & Have Not (Howard Hawks) - 1944
Bluebeard (Edgar G Ulmer) - 1944
Dark Waters (André De Toth) - 1944
Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk) - 1944
Experiment Perilous (Jacques Tourneur) - 1944
Ivan the Terrible I (Sergei Eisenstein) - 1944

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Hangover Square (John Brahm) - 1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin) - 1945
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné) - 1945
The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise) - 1945
Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson) - 1945
Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer) - 1945
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz) - 1945
The Seventh Veil (Compton Bennett) - 1945
Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger) - 1945
My Name is Julia Ross (Joseph H Lewis) - 1945
I Know Where I’m Going (Powell & Pressburger) - 1945
The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder) - 1945
Brief Encounter (David Lean) - 1945
Detour (Edgar G Ulmer) - 1945
The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak) - 1945
Leave Her to Heaven (John Stahl) - 1945
Cornered (Edward Dmytryk) - 1945
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang) - 1945
Ivan the Terrible II (Sergei Eisenstein) - 1946
Gilda (Charles Vidor) - 1946
Bedlam (Mark Robson) - 1946
The Blue Dahlia (George Marshall) - 1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett) - 1946
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestone) - 1946
Black Angel (Roy William Neill) - 1946
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock) - 1946
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks) - 1946
The Killers (Robert Siodmak) - 1946
Decoy (Jack Bernhard) - 1946
The Strange Woman (Edgar G Ulmer) - 1946
Beauty & the Beast (Jean Cocteau) - 1946
The Locket (John Brahm) - 1946
Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery) - 1947
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed) - 1947
The Devil Thumbs a Ride (Felix E Feist) - 1947
Born to Kill (Robert Wise) - 1947
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger) - 1947
They Made Me a Fugitive (Alberto Cavalcanti) - 1947
The Ghost & Mrs Muir (Joseph L Mankiewicz) - 1947
Brute Force (Jules Dassin) - 1947
Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk) - 1947
Body & Soul (Robert Rossen) - 1947
Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway) - 1947
Dark Passage (Delmer Daves) - 1947
Railroaded! (Anthony Mann) - 1947
The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz) - 1947
Ride the Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery) - 1947
Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding) - 1947
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur) - 1947
It Always Rains on Sunday (Robert Hamer) - 1947
Brighton Rock (John Boulting) - 1947
T-Men (Anthony Mann) - 1947
The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles) - 1947
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston) - 1948
The Naked City (Jules Dassin) - 1948
Corridor of Mirrors (Terence Young) - 1948
The Big Clock (John Farrow) - 1948
Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa) - 1948
Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur) - 1948
Hamlet (Laurence Olivier) - 1948
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann) - 1948
Oliver Twist (David Lean) - 1948
Key Largo (John Huston) - 1948
Pitfall (André de Toth) - 1948
Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak) - 1948
Behind Locked Doors (Budd Boetticher) - 1948
The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger) - 1948
Road House (Jean Negulesco) - 1948
Noose (Edmond T Gréville) - 1948
Cry of the City (Robert Siodmak) - 1948
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed) - 1948
Macbeth (Orson Welles) - 1948
Moonrise (Frank Borzage) - 1948
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow) - 1948
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica) - 1948
He Walked by Night (Alfred L Werker, Anthony Mann) - 1948
Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann) - 1948
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky) - 1948
Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak) - 1949
Caught (Max Ophüls) - 1949
The Small Back Room (Powell & Pressburger) - 1949
The Set-Up (Robert Wise) - 1949
Champion (Mark Robson) - 1949
Kind Hearts & Coronets (Robert Hamer) - 1949
Rope of Sand (William Dieterle) - 1949
The Window (Ted Tetzlaff) - 1949
Slattery’s Hurricane (André De Toth) - 1949
White Heat (Raoul Walsh) - 1949
The 3rd Man (Carol Reed) - 1949
The Heiress (William Wyler) - 1949
Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin) - 1949
The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls) - 1949
Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa) - 1949
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray) - 1949
Border Incident (Anthony Mann) - 1949
All the King's Men (Robert Rossen) - 1949
Whirlpool (Otto Preminger) - 1949

List p.2: 1950-69
List p.3: 1970-89
List p.4: 1990 on

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