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1940s
reviews
Film Title; Year; Director; Country; Rating;
400 Blows, the 1959 Francois Truffaut France 5
All the Boys are Called Patrick 1959 Jean-Luc Godard France
All the World's Memories 1956 Alain Resnais France
Amants, les 1958 Louis Mall France
Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger USA
Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray India
Asphalt Jungle, the 1950 John Huston USA
Astronautes, les 1959 Marker and Borowczyk France
Blue Jeans 1958 Jacques Rozier France
Bob le Flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville France
Bonjour Tristesse 1958 Otto Preminger USA
Gion Bayashi 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi Japan
Harvey 1950 Henry Koster USA
Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 Alain Resnais France
I Vitelloni 1953 Federico Fellini Italy #
Irma la Douce 1956 Billy Wilder USA
Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray USA
Lift to the Scaffold 1959 Louis Malle France 5
Limelight 1952 Charlie Chaplin USA
Madame De.... 1953 Max Ophuls France
Man Escaped, A 1956 Robert Bresson France
M Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati France
Mistons, Les 1957 Francois Truffaut France
Night and Fog 1955 Alain Resnais

France

Oyu Sama 1951 Kenji Mizoguchi Japan
Pather Panchalli 1955 Satyajit Ray India
Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick USA
Pick-Up on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller USA
Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 Ed Wood Jr USA
Red Balloon, the 1956 Albert Lamorisse France
Rififi 1955 Jules Dasin France
Sansho Dayu 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi Japan
Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa Japan
Seventh Seal, the 1957 Ignmar Bergman Sweden
Signe du Lion 1959 Eric Rohmer France
Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Ingmar Bergman Sweden
Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder USA
Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock USA
Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu Japan
Ugestsu Monogatari 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi Japan
Umberto D 1952 Vittorio de Sica Italy
White Maine, the 1953 Albert Lamorisse France
Word of Apu, the 1959 Satyajit Ray India