Sijmen's List of Mainstream Classics
of World Cinema


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1949
All the King's Men (Robert Rossen)
The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica / Italy)
Paisan (Roberto Rossellini / Italy)
Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu / Japan)
White Heat (Raoul Walsh)


1948
Hamlet (Laurence Olivier / United Kingdom)
Red River (Howard Hawks)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger / United Kingdom)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)


1947
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger / United Kingdom)
Great Expectations (David Lean / United Kingdom)
Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica / Italy)


1946
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne / France)
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
Brief Encounter (David Lean / United Kingdom)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
Open City (Roberto Rossellini / Italy)


1945
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)


1944
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
Laura (Otto Preminger)
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)


1943
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)


1942
The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)


1941
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)


1940
Fantasia (Various Artists, Walt Disney Producer)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)

















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