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It's a Wonderful Life
(1946) An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed. Dir: Frank Capra With: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore Drama | Family | Fantasy 130 mins. |
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Casablanca
(1942) Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. Dir: Michael Curtiz With: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid Drama | Romance | War 102 mins. |
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The Great Dictator
(1940) Dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a doppelganger, a poor but kind Jewish barber living in the slums, who one day is mistaken for Hynkel. Dir: Charles Chaplin With: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie Comedy | Drama | War 125 mins. |
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Citizen Kane
(1941) Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. Dir: Orson Welles With: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore Drama | Mystery 119 mins. |
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Fantasia
(1940) A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music. With: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, Corey Burton Animation | Family | Fantasy | Music 125 mins. |
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Bambi
(1942) Animated film about a young deer, Bambi, growing up in the wild after his mother is shot by hunters. Dir: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong With: Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey Animation | Drama | Family 70 mins. |
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Pinocchio
(1940) A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. Dir: Norman Ferguson, T. Hee With: Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Mel Blanc Animation | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Music 88 mins. |
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Dumbo
(1941) Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential. Dir: Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson With: Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, James Baskett Animation | Family | Musical 64 mins. |
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The Third Man
(1949) Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime. Dir: Carol Reed With: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller 104 mins. |
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Rebecca
(1940) When a naive young woman marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion, she finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders Drama | Mystery | Thriller 130 mins. |
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Double Indemnity
(1944) An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions. Dir: Billy Wilder With: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller 107 mins. |
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The Great Gatsby
(1949) In this "adaptation" of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, a Jazz Age bootlegger learns the hard way about the wages of sin. Dir: Elliott Nugent With: Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey Drama 91 mins. |
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The Maltese Falcon
(1941) A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. Dir: John Huston With: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery 100 mins. |
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The Grapes of Wrath
(1940) A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. Dir: John Ford With: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine Drama 129 mins. |
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Notorious
(1946) A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains Drama | Romance | Thriller 101 mins. |
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Rope
(1948) Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger Crime | Drama | Thriller 80 mins. |
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How Green Was My Valley
(1941) At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. Dir: John Ford With: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee Drama | Family 118 mins. |
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Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944) A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family. Dir: Frank Capra With: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey Comedy | Crime | Romance | Thriller 118 mins. |
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Bicycle Thieves
(1948) A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job. Dir: Vittorio De Sica With: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell Crime | Drama 93 mins. |
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
(1948) Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Dir: John Huston With: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt Action | Adventure | Drama | Western 126 mins. |
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Spellbound
(1945) A female psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller 111 mins. |
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I Remember Mama
(1948) The ups and downs of a Norwegian immigrant family, circa 1910. Dir: George Stevens With: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka Drama | Family 134 mins. |
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The Big Sleep
(1946) Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love. Dir: Howard Hawks With: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller 114 mins. |
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Woman of the Year
(1942) Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle. Dir: George Stevens With: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter Comedy | Romance | Sport 114 mins. |
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Kiss of Death
(1947) With his law-breaking lifestyle in the past, an ex-con, along with his family, attempt to start a new life, knowing a betrayed someone from the past is bound to see otherwise. Dir: Henry Hathaway With: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller 98 mins. |
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
(1942) A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan. Dir: Michael Curtiz With: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston Biography | Drama | Musical 126 mins. |
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Roughly Speaking
(1945) In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. She enrolls at... Dir: Michael Curtiz With: Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Robert Hutton Comedy | Drama 117 mins. |
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The Best Years of Our Lives
(1946) Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. Dir: William Wyler With: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy Drama | Romance | War 172 mins. |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
(1945) Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s. Dir: Elia Kazan With: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn Drama 129 mins. |
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The Philadelphia Story
(1940) When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself. Dir: George Cukor With: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart Comedy | Romance 112 mins. |
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Song of the South
(1946) The kindhearted storyteller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear. Dir: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson With: Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett Animation | Family | Music 94 mins. |
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Shadow of a Doubt
(1943) A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey Thriller 108 mins. |
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Miracle on 34th Street
(1947) When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. Dir: George Seaton With: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy 96 mins. |
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Mildred Pierce
(1945) After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but can't win the approval of her spoiled daughter. Dir: Michael Curtiz With: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance 111 mins. |
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His Girl Friday
(1940) A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. Dir: Howard Hawks With: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy Comedy | Drama | Romance 92 mins. |
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
(1947) In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted...and forms a unique relationship with the ghost. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz With: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller 104 mins. |
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Laura
(1944) A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating. Dir: Otto Preminger With: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance 88 mins. |
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Suspicion
(1941) A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke Drama | Mystery | Thriller 99 mins. |
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Saratoga Trunk
(1945) An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them. Dir: Sam Wood With: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson Drama | Romance 135 mins. |
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Rome, Open City
(1945) Rome, 1944. Giorgio Manfredi, one of the leaders of the Resistance, is tracked down by the Nazis. He goes to his friend Francesco's... Dir: Roberto Rossellini With: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero Drama | War 100 mins. |
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Out of the Past
(1947) A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames. Dir: Jacques Tourneur With: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller 97 mins. |
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Beauty and the Beast
(1946) Adélaïde, Belle, Félicie and Ludovic are young adult siblings who once lived in grandeur until their father's merchant ships were lost at sea... Dir: Jean Cocteau With: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély Drama | Fantasy | Romance 96 mins. |
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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
(1949) Two animated adaptions of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Wind in the Willows." Dir: James Algar, Clyde Geronimi With: Bing Crosby, Basil Rathbone, Eric Blore Animation | Family | Fantasy 68 mins. |
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To Have and Have Not
(1944) Expatriate American Harry Morgan helps to transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer. Dir: Howard Hawks With: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan Adventure | Romance | Thriller | War 100 mins. |
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The Red Shoes
(1948) A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina. Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger With: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer Drama | Music | Romance 133 mins. |
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Brief Encounter
(1945) Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband. Dir: David Lean With: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway Romance | Drama 86 mins. |
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Gaslight
(1944) Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret which he will do anything to protect, even if that means driving his wife insane. Dir: George Cukor With: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller United States-PASSED 114 mins. |
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White Heat
(1949) A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn Dir: Raoul Walsh With: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller 114 mins. |
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Red River
(1948) Dunson is driving his cattle to Red River when his adopted son, Matthew, turns against him. Dir: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson With: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru Action | Adventure | Romance | Western 133 mins. |
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Cat People
(1942) An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together. Dir: Jacques Tourneur With: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith Horror | Mystery | Thriller 73 mins. |
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