| 1. Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
| 2. Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio de Sica | 1948 |
| 3. The Third Man | Carol Reed | 1949 |
| 4. Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1942 |
| 5. The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson Welles | 1942 |
| 6. It’s a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | 1946 |
| 7. Rome, Open City | Roberto Rossellini | 1945 |
| 8. Children of Paradise | Marcel Carne | 1945 |
| 9. The Red Shoes | Michael Powell | 1948 |
| 10. The Big Sleep | Howard Hawks | 1946 |
| 11. Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | 1944 |
| 12. Black Narcissus | Michael Powell | 1947 |
| 13. Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 |
| 14. A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell | 1946 |
| 15. The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford | 1940 |
| 16. Red River | Howard Hawks | 1948 |
| 17. Laura | Otto Preminger | 1944 |
| 18. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell | 1943 |
| 19. Germany Year Zero | Roberto Rossellini | 1948 |
| 20. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | 1948 |
| 21. Late Spring | Yasujirō Ozu | 1949 |
| 22. White Heat | Raoul Walsh | 1949 |
| 23. Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | 1947 |
| 24. The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | 1941 |
| 25. Pinocchio | Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske | 1940 |
| 26. How Green Was My Valley | John Ford | 1941 |
| 27. The Killers | Robert Siodmak | 1946 |
| 28. His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | 1940 |
| 29. The Best Years of Our Lives | Willam Wyler | 1946 |
| 30. Letter From an Unknown Woman | Max Ophüls | 1948 |
| 31. Rope | Alfred Hitchcock | 1948 |
| 32. The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges | 1941 |
| 33. Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | 1940 |
| 34. Scarlet Street | Fritz Lang | 1945 |
| 35. Shadow of a Doubt | Alfred Hitchcock | 1943 |
| 36. Sullivan’s Travels | Preston Sturges | 1941 |
| 37. The Palm Beach Story | Preston Sturges | 1942 |
| 38. Meet Me in St Louis | Vincente Minnelli | 1944 |
| 39. Unfaithfully Yours | Preston Sturges | 1948 |
| 40. Fallen Angel | Otto Preminger | 1945 |
| 41. The Lady From Shanghai | Orson Welles | 1947 |
| 42. The Shop Around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch | 1940 |
| 43. The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | 1940 |
| 44. To Be or Not To Be | Ernst Lubitsch | 1942 |
| 45. Yankee Doodle Dandy | Michael Curtiz | 1942 |
| 46. They Live By Night | Nicholas Ray | 1948 |
| 47. The Fallen Idol | Carol Reed | 1948 |
| 48. Cat People | Jacques Torneur | 1942 |
| 49. The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder | 1945 |
| 50. The Woman in the Window | Fritz Lang | 1944 |
| 51. Bambi | David Hand | 1942 |
| 52. The Ox-Bow Incident | William A. Wellman | 1943 |
| 53. The Miracle of Morgan Creek | Preston Sturges | 1944 |
| 54. Gentleman Jim | Raoul Walsh | 1942 |
| 55. The Postman Always Rings Twice | Tay Garnett | 1946 |
| 56. The Thief of Baghdad | Michael Powell | 1940 |
| 57. Arsenic and Old Lace | Frank Capra | 1944 |
| 58. Fantasia | Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen, David D. Hand, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, T. Hee, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson | 1940 |
| 59. They Drive By Night | Raoul Walsh | 1940 |
| 60. Miracle on 34th Street | George Seaton | 1947 |