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About Films By Year My 100 Favorites Features

Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Films From Year

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Films

1.
The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming
2.
The Rules of the Game
La Règle du jeu Jean Renoir
3.
Stagecoach John Ford
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Films

4.
Ninotchka Ernst Lubitsch
5.
Only Angels Have Wings Howard Hawks
6.
Drums Along the Mohawk John Ford
7.
Destry Rides Again George Marshall
8.
The Women George Cukor
9.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame William Dieterle
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Films

10.
Gone with the Wind Victor Fleming
11.
Young Mr. Lincoln John Ford
12.
The Roaring Twenties Raoul Walsh
13.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Alfred L. Werker
14.
Son of Frankenstein Rowland V. Lee
15.
Beau Geste William A. Wellman
16.
Babes in Arms Busby Berkeley
17.
Alexander Nevsky
Aleksandr Nevskiy Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev
18.
Jamaica Inn Alfred Hitchcock
19.
The Hound of the Baskervilles Sidney Lanfield
20.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra
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Films

21.
The Man They Could Not Hang Nick Grinde
22.
Love Affair Leo McCarey
23.
Another Thin Man
Return of the Thin Man W.S. Van Dyke
24.
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man George Marshall and Edward F. Cline
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Films

25.
Dark Victory Edmund Goulding
26.
Gunga Din George Stevens
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Films

27.
Fast and Furious Busby Berkeley
Alexander Nevsky
Aleksandr Nevskiy Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev 
Another Thin Man
Return of the Thin Man W.S. Van Dyke 
Babes in Arms Busby Berkeley 
Beau Geste William A. Wellman 
Dark Victory Edmund Goulding 
Destry Rides Again George Marshall 
Drums Along the Mohawk John Ford 
Fast and Furious Busby Berkeley 
Gone with the Wind Victor Fleming 
Gunga Din George Stevens 
Jamaica Inn Alfred Hitchcock 
Love Affair Leo McCarey 
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra 
Ninotchka Ernst Lubitsch 
Only Angels Have Wings Howard Hawks 
Son of Frankenstein Rowland V. Lee 
Stagecoach John Ford 
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Alfred L. Werker 
The Hound of the Baskervilles Sidney Lanfield 
The Hunchback of Notre Dame William Dieterle 
The Man They Could Not Hang Nick Grinde 
The Roaring Twenties Raoul Walsh 
The Rules of the Game
La Règle du jeu Jean Renoir 
The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming 
The Women George Cukor 
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man George Marshall and Edward F. Cline 
Young Mr. Lincoln John Ford 
Son of Frankenstein Rowland V. Lee 13 January 1939
Gunga Din George Stevens 17 February 1939
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man George Marshall and Edward F. Cline 18 February 1939
Stagecoach John Ford 03 March 1939
Alexander Nevsky
Aleksandr Nevskiy Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev 22 March 1939
The Hound of the Baskervilles Sidney Lanfield 31 March 1939
Love Affair Leo McCarey 07 April 1939
Dark Victory Edmund Goulding 22 April 1939
Only Angels Have Wings Howard Hawks 25 May 1939
Young Mr. Lincoln John Ford 09 June 1939
Beau Geste William A. Wellman 24 July 1939
The Man They Could Not Hang Nick Grinde 17 August 1939
The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming 25 August 1939
The Women George Cukor 01 September 1939
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Alfred L. Werker 01 September 1939
Fast and Furious Busby Berkeley 06 October 1939
Babes in Arms Busby Berkeley 13 October 1939
Jamaica Inn Alfred Hitchcock 13 October 1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra 19 October 1939
The Roaring Twenties Raoul Walsh 28 October 1939
Drums Along the Mohawk John Ford 10 November 1939
Another Thin Man
Return of the Thin Man W.S. Van Dyke 17 November 1939
Ninotchka Ernst Lubitsch 23 November 1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame William Dieterle 29 December 1939
Destry Rides Again George Marshall 29 December 1939
Gone with the Wind Victor Fleming 17 January 1940
The Rules of the Game
La Règle du jeu Jean Renoir 08 April 1950
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