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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 Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler
2.
Notorious Alfred Hitchcock
3.
The Big Sleep Howard Hawks
4.
It's a Wonderful Life Frank Capra
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Films

5.
My Darling Clementine John Ford
6.
Stairway to Heaven
A Matter of Life and Death Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
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Films

7.
The Stranger Orson Welles
8.
The Postman Always Rings Twice Tay Garnett
9.
The Killers Robert Siodmak
10.
The Verdict Don Siegel
11.
Song of the South Wilfred Jackson and Harve Foster
12.
Beauty and the Beast
La belle et la bête Jean Cocteau
13.
Green for Danger Sidney Gilliat
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Films

14.
Cloak and Dagger Fritz Lang
15.
Dragonwyck Joseph L. Mankiewicz
16.
The Spiral Staircase Robert Siodmak
17.
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers Lewis Milestone
18.
Gilda Charles Vidor
19.
The Blue Dahlia George Marshall
20.
The Locket John Brahm
21.
Black Angel Roy William Neill
22.
The Diary of a Chambermaid Jean Renoir
23.
Somewhere in the Night Joseph L. Mankiewicz
24.
Cluny Brown Ernst Lubitsch
25.
Duel in the Sun King Vidor
26.
Three Strangers Jean Negulesco
27.
So Dark the Night Joseph H. Lewis
28.
Bedlam Mark Robson
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Films

29.
A Night in Casablanca Archie Mayo
A Night in Casablanca Archie Mayo 
Beauty and the Beast
La belle et la bête Jean Cocteau 
Bedlam Mark Robson 
Black Angel Roy William Neill 
Cloak and Dagger Fritz Lang 
Cluny Brown Ernst Lubitsch 
Dragonwyck Joseph L. Mankiewicz 
Duel in the Sun King Vidor 
Gilda Charles Vidor 
Green for Danger Sidney Gilliat 
It's a Wonderful Life Frank Capra 
My Darling Clementine John Ford 
Notorious Alfred Hitchcock 
So Dark the Night Joseph H. Lewis 
Somewhere in the Night Joseph L. Mankiewicz 
Song of the South Wilfred Jackson and Harve Foster 
Stairway to Heaven
A Matter of Life and Death Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 
The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler 
The Big Sleep Howard Hawks 
The Blue Dahlia George Marshall 
The Diary of a Chambermaid Jean Renoir 
The Killers Robert Siodmak 
The Locket John Brahm 
The Postman Always Rings Twice Tay Garnett 
The Spiral Staircase Robert Siodmak 
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers Lewis Milestone 
The Stranger Orson Welles 
The Verdict Don Siegel 
Three Strangers Jean Negulesco 
Three Strangers Jean Negulesco 28 January 1946
The Spiral Staircase Robert Siodmak 07 February 1946
The Diary of a Chambermaid Jean Renoir 15 February 1946
Dragonwyck Joseph L. Mankiewicz 19 April 1946
Gilda Charles Vidor 25 April 1946
Bedlam Mark Robson 10 May 1946
The Stranger Orson Welles 25 May 1946
The Blue Dahlia George Marshall 01 June 1946
Cluny Brown Ernst Lubitsch 02 June 1946
Black Angel Roy William Neill 02 August 1946
The Killers Robert Siodmak 30 August 1946
The Big Sleep Howard Hawks 31 August 1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice Tay Garnett 06 September 1946
Notorious Alfred Hitchcock 06 September 1946
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers Lewis Milestone 13 September 1946
Somewhere in the Night Joseph L. Mankiewicz 23 September 1946
Cloak and Dagger Fritz Lang 28 September 1946
So Dark the Night Joseph H. Lewis 10 October 1946
A Night in Casablanca Archie Mayo 12 October 1946
Stairway to Heaven
A Matter of Life and Death Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 01 November 1946
Song of the South Wilfred Jackson and Harve Foster 20 November 1946
The Verdict Don Siegel 23 November 1946
My Darling Clementine John Ford 03 December 1946
Green for Danger Sidney Gilliat 07 December 1946
The Locket John Brahm 20 December 1946
It's a Wonderful Life Frank Capra 07 January 1947
The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler 03 October 1947
Duel in the Sun King Vidor 21 November 1947
Beauty and the Beast
La belle et la bête Jean Cocteau 23 December 1947
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