| 1. Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
| 2. Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio de Sica | 1948 |
| 3. The Third Man | Carol Reed | 1949 |
| 4. The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson Welles | 1942 |
| 5. Black Narcissus | Michael Powell | 1947 |
| 6. Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1942 |
| 7. The Red Shoes | Michael Powell | 1948 |
| 8. Rome, Open City | Roberto Rossellini | 1945 |
| 9. Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 |
| 10. Children of Paradise | Marcel Carne | 1945 |
| 11. Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | 1944 |
| 12. A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell | 1946 |
| 13. Germany Year Zero | Roberto Rossellini | 1948 |
| 14. Late Spring | Yasujirō Ozu | 1949 |
| 15. The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | 1946 |
| 16. La Terra Trema | Luchino Visconti | 1948 |
| 17. It’s a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | 1946 |
| 18. Laura | Otto Preminger | 1944 |
| 19. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | 1948 |
| 20. The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford | 1940 |
| 21. My Darling Clementine | John Ford | 1946 |
| 22. White Heat | Raoul Walsh | 1949 |
| 23. Red River | Howard Hawks | 1948 |
| 24. The Big Sleep | Howard Hawks | 1946 |
| 25. Ossessione | Luchino Visconti | 1943 |
| 26. Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | 1947 |
| 27. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell | 1943 |
| 28. Pinocchio | Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske | 1940 |
| 29. How Green Was My Valley | John Ford | 1941 |
| 30. Ivan the Terrible | Sergei Eisenstein | 1944-46 |
| 31. The Killers | Robert Siodmak | 1946 |
| 32. The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | 1941 |
| 33. Letter From an Unknown Woman | Max Ophüls | 1948 |
| 34. His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | 1940 |
| 35. A Hen in the Wind | Yasujirō Ozu | 1948 |
| 36. Scarlet Street | Fritz Lang | 1945 |
| 37. Rope | Alfred Hitchcock | 1948 |
| 38. Stray Dog | Akira Kurosawa | 1949 |
| 39. Shadow of a Doubt | Alfred Hitchcock | 1943 |
| 40. Beauty and the Beast | Jean Cocteau | 1946 |
| 41. Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | 1940 |
| 42. Day of Wrath | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1943 |
| 43. Paisan | Roberto Rossellini | 1946 |
| 44. The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges | 1941 |
| 45. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | John Ford | 1949 |
| 46. Fallen Angel | Otto Preminger | 1945 |
| 47. There Was a Father | Yasujirō Ozu | 1942 |
| 48. Brief Encounter | David Lean | 1945 |
| 49. Meet Me in St. Louis | Vincente Minnelli | 1944 |
| 50. Sullivan’s Travels | Preston Sturges | 1941 |
| 51. The Lady From Shanghai | Orson Welles | 1947 |
| 52. The Palm Beach Story | Preston Sturges | 1942 |
| 53. Unfaithfully Yours | Preston Sturges | 1948 |
| 54. To Have and Have Not | Howard Hawks | 1944 |
| 55. The Shop Around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch | 1940 |
| 56. The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | 1940 |
| 57. To Be or Not To Be | Ernst Lubitsch | 1942 |
| 58. Yankee Doodle Dandy | Michael Curtiz | 1942 |
| 59. The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder | 1945 |
| 60. The Fallen Idol | Carol Reed | 1948 |
| 61. The Woman in the Window | Fritz Lang | 1944 |
| 62. 49th Parallel | Michael Powell | 1941 |
| 63. Bambi | David Hand | 1942 |
| 64. The Ox-Bow Incident | William A. Wellman | 1943 |
| 65. Leave Her to Heaven | John M. Stahl | 1945 |
| 66. Hamlet | Laurence Olivier | 1948 |
| 67. Gentleman Jim | Raoul Walsh | 1942 |
| 68. Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | 1942 |
| 69. Record of a Tenement Gentleman | Yasujirō Ozu | 1947 |
| 70. 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 |
| 71. They Live By Night | Nicholas Ray | 1948 |
| 72. The More the Merrier | George Stevens | 1943 |
| 73. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1947 |
| 74. The Miracle of Morgan Creek | Preston Sturges | 1943 |
| 75. A Letter to Three Wives | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1949 |
| 76. The Thief of Baghdad | Michael Powell | 1940 |
| 77. Arsenic and Old Lace | Frank Capra | 1944 |
| 78. The Postman Always Rings Twice | Tay Garnett | 1946 |
| 79. They Drive By Night | Raoul Walsh | 1940 |
| 80. Miracle on 34th Street | George Seaton | 1947 |
