Year in Film: 1951

  • Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival)
  • African Queen, The
  • American in Paris, An
  • Day the Earth Stood Still, The
  • Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d’un cure de campagne)
  • Lavender Hill Mob, The
  • Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
  • Place in the Sun, A
  • Strangers on a Train
  • Streetcar Named Desire, A

Year in Film: 1948

  • Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette)
  • Force of Evil
  • Lady from Shanghai, The
  • Letter from an Unknown Woman
  • Louisiana Story
  • Paleface, The
  • Red River
  • Red Shoes, The
  • Rope
  • Secret Beyond the Door
  • Snake Pit, The
  • Spring in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun)
  • Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The

Year in FIlm: 1946

  • Best Years of Our Lives, The
  • Beauty and the Beast (La belle et la bete)
  • Big Sleep, The
  • Black Narcissus
  • Gilda
  • Great Expectations
  • It’s a Wonderful Life
  • Killers, The
  • Matter of Life and Death, A
  • My Darling Clementine
  • Notorious
  • Paisan (Paisa)
  • Postman Always Rings Twice, The Stranger, The

Year in Film: 1945

  • Bells of St. Mary’s, The
  • Battle of San Pietro, The (John Huston Documentary)
  • Brief Encounter
  • Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis)
  • Detour
  • I Know Where I’m Going!
  • Lost Weekend, The
  • Mildred Pierce
  • Rome, Open City (Roma, citta aperta)
  • Spellbound

Year in Film: 1944

  • Double Indemnity
  • Gaslight
  • Going My Way
  • Henry V
  • I’ll Be Seeing You
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Ivan Groznyy)
  • Laura
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • Murder, My Sweet (aka Farewell, My Lovely)
  • To Have and Have Not

Year in Film: 1943

  • Casablanca (Wide Release)
  • Fires Were Started
  • I Walked with a Zombie
  • Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The
  • Man in Grey, The
  • Meshes of the Afternoon
  • Ossessione
  • Ox-Bow Incident, The
  • Seventh Victim, The
  • Shadow of a Doubt