1940s

1940

• Dr. Cyclops (Ernest B. Schoedsack)
• The Mummy’s Hand (Christy Cabanne)
• Strange Cargo (Frank Borzage)
  
• The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim Whelan)

1941

• Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
  
• The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle)
• Hellzapoppin’ (H.C. Potter)
• The Loyal 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi)
• The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
• Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Edward Cline)
• Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu)
• The Wolf Man (George Waggner)

1942

• Black Dragons (William Nigh)
  
• Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
• The Ghost of Frankenstein (Erle C. Kenton)
• The Glass Key (Stuart Heisler)
• The Mummy’s Tomb (Harold Young)
• There Was a Father (Yasujiro Ozu)
• This Gun For Hire (Frank Tuttle)
• The Undying Monster (John Brahm)

1943

• Les anges du péché (Robert Bresson)
  
• Le corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
• Day of Wrath (Carl Th. Dreyer)
• Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (Roy William Neill)
• The Ghost Ship (Mark Robson)
• Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang)
• Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
• I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
• The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
• Occult Forces (Jean Mamy)
• The Outlaw (Howard Hughes [& Howard Hawks & Jules Furthman (?)])
• The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman)
• The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
• Son of Dracula (Robert Siodmak)

1944

• A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  
• The Curse of the Cat People (Gunther Fritsch & Robert Wise)
• House of Frankenstein (Erle C. Kenton)
• Ivan the Terrible Part 1 (Sergei Eisenstein)
• The Mummy’s Ghost (Reginald Le Borg)
• The Mummy’s Curse (Leslie Goodwins)
• Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang)
• Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak)
• The Uninvited (Lewis Allen)

1945

• The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise)
  
• House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton)
• Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson)
• Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
• Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
• Two People (Carl Th. Dreyer)

1946

• Bedlam (Mark Robson)
  
• La belle et la bete (Jean Cocteau)
• Black Angel (Roy William Neill)
• The Blue Dahlia (George Marshall)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
• Ivan the Terrible Part 2 (Sergei Eisenstein)
• A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
• Paisa (Roberto Rossellini)
• The Stranger (Orson Welles)

1947

• Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
  
• Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
• The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz)

1948

• The Big Clock (John Farrow)
  
• Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
• He Walked By Night (Anthony Mann [& Alfred Werker])
• Women of the Night (Kenji Mizoguchi)

1949

• Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak)
  
• The Heiress (William Wyler)
• Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
• Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
• Thieves’ Highway (Jules Dassin)

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