Fifty films

All these are films which to me are memorable in some way; some of them were not particularly good, but I would be happy to see any of them again—and in some cases again and again. They are in no order other than chronological.

Each title has a link to a relevant webpage.

1 Laughing Gravy 1931
2 A Night at the Opera 1935
3 Pépé le Moko 1936
4 Oh Mr Porter 1937
5 Camille 1937
6 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938
7 Fric-Frac 1939
8 The Thief of Baghdad 1940
9 Citizen Kane 1941
10 Double Indemnity 1944
11 The Way Ahead 1944
12 Les Enfants du Paradis 1945
13 Brief Encounter 1945
14 Great Expectations 1946
15 A Matter of Life and Death 1946
16 La Belle et la Bête 1946
17 Green for Danger 1946
18 Oliver Twist 1948
19 Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
20 The Third Man 1949
21 La Beauté du Diable 1949
22 Orphée 1949
23 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951
24 The African Queen 1951
25 Genevieve 1953
26 The Wages of Fear 1953
27 Seven Samurai 1954
28 Shane 1954
29 Paths of Glory 1957
30 A Touch of Evil 1958
31 Tunes of Glory 1960
32 El Cid 1961
33 Lawrence of Arabia 1962
34 The Leopard 1963
35 Dr Strangelove 1963
36 The Killers 1964
37 Seven Days in May 1964
38 A Man for All Seasons 1966
39 In the Heat of the Night 1967
40 Z 1968
41 The Godfather 1972
42 The Day of the Jackal 1973
43 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975
44 The China Syndrome 1979
45 Kagemusha 1980
46 Manon des Sources 1986
47 Cinema Paradiso 1989
48 The Fencing Master 1992
49 The Usual Suspects 1995
50 Fargo 1996

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