Best films from the decades of 1920s to 1950s.
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1920s
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Kid (1921)
Nosferatu (1922)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The General (1926)
Metropolis (1927)
Sunrise (1927)
The Circus (1928)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
1930s
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
City Lights (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
M (1931)
16. Freaks (1932)
17. Scarface (1932)
18. Duck Soup (1933)
19. The Invisible Man (1933)
20. King Kong (1933)
21. It Happened One Night (1934)
22. The Thin Man (1934)
23. The 39 Steps (1935)
24. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
25. A Night at the Opera (1935)
26. Modern Times (1936)
27. La Grande Illusion (1937)
28. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
29. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
30. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
33. The Rules of the Game (1939
34. Stagecoach (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
1940s
36. Fantasia (1940)
37. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
39. His Girl Friday (1940)
40. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
42. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
44. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
45. Casablanca (1942)
46. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
47. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
48. Arsenic and Old Lace (1943)
49. Double Indemnity (1944)
50. Gaslight (1944)
51. Laura (1944)
52. Lifeboat (1944)
53. To Have and Have Not (1944)
54. Brief Encounter (1945)
55. The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
57. The Big Sleep (1946)
58. Gilda (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
60. Notorious (1946)
61. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
62. Out of the Past (1947)
63. Key Largo (1948)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
65. Red River (1948)
66. The Red Shoes (1948)
67. Rope (1948)
68. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
69. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
70. The Third Man (1949)
71. White Heat (1949)
1950s
72. All About Eve (1950)
73. Harvey (1950)
74. In a Lonely Place (1950)
75. Rashomon (1950)
76. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
77. The African Queen (1951)
78. Ace in the Hole (1951)
79. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
81. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
82. High Noon (1952)
83. Ikiru (1952)
84. The Quiet Man (1952)
85. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
86. From Here to Eternity (1953)
87. Roman Holiday (1953)
88. The Wages of Fear (1953)
89. Shane (1953)
90. Stalag 17 (1953)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
93. On the Waterfront (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
95. Sabrina (1954)
96. Seven Samurai (1954)
97. La Strada (1954)
98. Diabolique (1955)
99. Rififi (1955)
100. East of Eden (1955)
101. The Ladykillers (1955)
102. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
103. Pather Panchali (1955)
104. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
105. Giant (1956)
106. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
107. The Killing (1956)
108. The Searchers (1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
12 Angry Men (1957)
111. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
112. Throne of Blood (1957)
113. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
114. Paths of Glory (1957)
115. The Seventh Seal (1957)
116. Wild Strawberries (1957)
117. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
118. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
119. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
120. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
121. Touch of Evil (1958)