Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1949

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff – Charles Barton

The Accused – William Dieterle

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad – Jack Kinney / Clyde Geronimi

Africa Screams – Charles Barton

Alexander Popov – Gerbert Rappaport / Viktor Eysymont

Alias Nick Beal – John Farrow

Always Leave Them Laughing – Roy Del Ruth

Any Number Can Play – Mervyn LeRoy

Au grand balcon – Henri Decoin

Aventurea – Alberto Gout

The Barkleys of Broadway – Charles Walters

Barsaat (Rain) – Raj Kapoor

Battleground – William Wellman

The Beautiful Blond from Bashful Bend – Preston Sturges

Beyond the Forest – King Vidor

The Big Cat – Phil Karlson

The Big Steal – Don Siegel

Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) – Giuseppe De Santis

The Blue Lagoon – Frank Lauder

Boys from the Streets (Gategutter) – Ulf Greber / Arne Skouen

The Bribe – Robert Z. Leonard

Canadian Pacific – Edwin L. Marin

Catene – Raffaello Matarazzo

Caught – Max Ophuls

Champion – Mark Robson

Chicken Every Sunday – George Seaton

The Chiltern Hundreds – John Paddy Carstairs

Christopher Columbus – David MacDonald

Colorado Territory – Raoul Walsh

Come to the Stable – Henry Koster

Conspirator – Victor Saville 

Crows and Sparrows (Wuya yu maque) – Zheng Junli

A Dangerous Profession – Ted Tetziaff

Deadly is the Female – Joseph Lewis

Diamond City – David MacDonald

Distant Journey (Daleke cesta) – Alfred Roadok

East Side, West Side – Mervyn Leroy

Edward, My Son – George Cukor

Easy Living – Jacques Tourneur

Edward, My Son – George Cukor

The Emperor of Capri (L’imperatore di Capri) – Luigi Comencii

Father was a Fullback – John M. Stahl

For Them That Trespass – Alberto Cavalcanti

The Forbidden Street – Jean Negulesco

The Fountainhead – King Vidor

Give Us This Day – Edward Dmytryk

The Golden Arrow – Gordon Parry

The Great Gatsby – Elliott Nugent

The Great Madcap (El Gran Calavera) – Luis Bunuel

Hardly a Criminal (Apenas un delincuente) – Hugo Fregonese

The Hasty Heart – Vincent Sherman

Home of the Brave – Mark Robson

I Married a Communist – Robert Stevenson

I Shot Jesse James – Samuel Fuller

Impact – Arthur Lubin

In the Good Old Summertime – Robert Leonard

In the Name of the Law (In nome della legge) – Pietro Germi

The Inspector General – Henry Koster

The Interrupted Journey – Daniel Birt

Intruder in the Dust – Clarence Brown

It Happens Every Spring – Lloyd Bacon

It’s Not Cricket – Alfred Roome / Roy Rich

Johnny Stool Pigeon – William Castle

Jolson Sings Again – Henry Levin

Knock on Any Door – Nicholas Ray

Late Spring – Yasujiro Ozu

Life – A.V. Meiyappan

Lust For Gold – S. Sylvan Simon

Ma and Pa Kettle – Charles Lamont

Madame Bovery – Vincente Minnelli

Mahal (The Mansion) – Kamal Amrohi

Malaya – Richard Thorpe

Mother Is a Freshman – Lloyd Bacon

My Foolish Heart – Mark Robson

My Friend Irma – George Marshall

Neptune’s Daughter – Edward Buzzell

Night Unto Night – Don Siegel

No Way Back – Stefan Osiecki

Obsession – Edward Dmytryk

Oh, You Beautiful Doll – John M. Stahl

Prince of Foxes – Henry King

Prison (Fangelse) – Ingmar Bergaman

The Queen of Spades – Thorold Dickinson

The Quite Duel – Akira Kurasawa

The Reckless Moment – Max Ophuls

Red, Hot and Blue – John Farrow

Red Light – Roy Del Ruth

The Red Pony – Lewis Milestone

The Rocking Horse Winner – Anthoney Pelissier

Rope of Sand – William Dietterle

Rostation –

A Run for Your Money – Charles Frend

Rustlers – Lesley Selader

Samson and Delilah – Cecil B. DeMille

Sands of Iwo Jima – Allan Dwan

The Secret Garden – Fred M. Wilcox

Shockproof – Douglas Sirk

Slattery’s Hurricane – Andre De Toth

Le Silence de la mer (The Silence of the Sea) - Jean-Pierre Melville

The Small Back Roon – Powell / Pressburger

So Dear to My Heart – Hamilton Luske / Harold D. Schuster

Sons of Matthew – Charles Chauvel

South of St. Louis – Ray Enright

The Stratton Story – Sam Wood

Such a Pretty Little Beach (Une si jolie petite plage) – Jean-Pierre Melville

Streets of Laredo – Leslie Fenton

The Sun Comes Up – Richard Thorpe

Tension – John Berry

That Dangerous Age – Gregory Ratoff

That Forsythe Woman – Compton Bennett

That Midnight Kiss – Norman Taurog

They Were Not Divided – Terence Young

Thieves’ Highway – Jules Dassin

Too Late for Tears – Byron Haskin

Tulsa – Stuart Heisler

Tokyo Joe – Stuart Heisler

Under Capricorn – Hitchcock

The Undercover Man – Joseph H. Lewis

Vote for Huggett – Ken Annakin

Waga koi wa moenu (Flame of My Love) – Kenji Mizoguchi

The Walls of Malapaga – Rene Clemont

We Were Strangers – John Huston

The Window – Ted Tetzlaff

Without Honor – Irving Pichel

You, The Rich Ones (Ustedes lo ricos) – Ismael Rodriguez

You’re My Everything – Walter Lang