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Häxan

Benjamin Christensen
1922 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • Denmark
Spine: #134 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Benjamin Christensen’s legendary silent film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. Häxan is a witches’ brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

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M

Fritz Lang
1931 • 110 minutes • 1.19:1 • Germany
Spine: #30 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Peter Lorre stars as serial killer Hans Beckert in Fritz Lang’s harrowing masterwork M, a suspenseful panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

Alfred Hitchcock
1934 • 75 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #643 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, iTunes

This fleet and gripping film is the first of the early thrillers the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, made during the fertile phase of his career spent at the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.

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The 39 Steps

Alfred Hitchcock
1935 • 86 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #56 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

A heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) as he stumbles upon a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.

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Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin
1936 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #543 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard).

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The Lady Vanishes

Alfred Hitchcock
1938 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #3 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

In Alfred Hitchcock’s most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, a young woman finds herself drawn into a complex web of mystery and high adventure while traveling across Europe by train. The Lady Vanishes remains one of the master filmmaker’s purest delights.

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The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir
1939 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #216 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Considered one of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), by Jean Renoir, is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners.

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Stagecoach

John Ford
1939 • 96 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States
Spine: #516 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

This is where it all started. John Ford’s smash hit and enduring masterpiece Stagecoach revolutionized the western, elevating it from B movie to the A-list.

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The Four Feathers

Zoltán Korda
1939 • 115 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #583 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

This Technicolor spectacular, directed by Zoltán Korda, is considered the finest of the many adaptations of A. E. W. Mason’s classic 1902 adventure novel about the British empire’s exploits in Africa, and a crowning achievement of Alexander Korda’s legendary production company, London Films.

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The Great Dictator

Charles Chaplin
1940 • 125 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #565 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona.

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The Devil and Daniel Webster

William Dieterle
1941 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #214 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus, iTunes

After a streak of bad luck tempts a hard-working farmer to bargain with the Devil, he enlists the aid of the legendary orator and politician Daniel Webster. William Dieterle’s stylish film features an unforgettable score by Bernard Herrmann and a truly diabolical performance from Walter Huston.

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1943 • 163 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #173 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

Considered by many to be the finest British film ever made, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is a stirring masterpiece like no other.

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Henry V

Laurence Olivier
1944 • 137 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #41 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

This sumptuous Technicolor rendering of Shakespeare’s play features a thrilling re-creation of the battle of Agincourt, and Sir Laurence Olivier in his prime as director and actor.

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Brief Encounter

David Lean
1945 • 86 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #76 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a muted but passionate, ultimately doomed, love affair.

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I Know Where I’m Going!

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1945 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #94 Editions: DVD, iTunes

In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s stunningly photographed comedy, Wendy Hiller stars as a headstrong young woman who travels to the remote Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich lord.

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Beauty and the Beast

Jean Cocteau
1946 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #6 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunes

The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death in Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder.

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Green for Danger

Sidney Gilliat
1946 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #375 Editions: DVD, iTunes

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural English hospital. But was the death accidental? A delightful and wholly unexpected murder mystery, British writer/director Sidney Gilliat’s Green for Danger features Trevor Howard and Sally Gray.

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Black Narcissus

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1947 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #93 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, iTunes

This explosive work about the conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the epitome of the sensuous style of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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Monsieur Verdoux

Charles Chaplin
1947 • 124 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #652 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder.

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The Red Shoes

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1948 • 133 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #44 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, iTunes

The Red Shoes, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema’s quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen.

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Oliver Twist

David Lean
1948 • 116 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #32 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

An orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home in David Lean’s rendition of Dickens’s classic tale.

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Hamlet

Laurence Olivier
1948 • 153 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #82 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy.

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Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa
1950 • 88 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
Spine: #138 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunes

A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice Rashomon is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.

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The River

Jean Renoir
1951 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #276 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River.

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The Browning Version

Anthony Asquith
1951 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #294 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Michael Redgrave gives the performance of his career in Anthony Asquith’s adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s unforgettable play. Redgrave portrays Andrew Crocker-Harris, an embittered, middle-aged schoolmaster who begins to feel that his life has been a failure.

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