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)
The Heiress (William Wyler)
A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Paisan (Roberto Rossellini / Italy)


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


1947
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger / United Kingdom)
Great Expectations (David Lean / United Kingdom)
Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton)
Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica / Italy)


1946
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné / France)
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
Brief Encounter (David Lean / United Kingdom)
Henry V (Laurence Olivier / United Kingdom)
It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
Open City (Roberto Rossellini / Italy)


1945
The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)


1944
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
Going My Way (Leo McCarey)
Laura (Otto Preminger)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)


1943
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
In Which We Serve (Noel Coward, David Lean / United Kingdom)
The More the Merrier (George Stevens)
The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
The Song of Bernadette (Henry King)


1942
Bambi (David Hand)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)


1941
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Hall)
How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)


1940
Fantasia (Various Artists, Walt Disney Producer)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)

















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