1949

1. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
3. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
4. Jour de Fête (Jacques Tati)
5. The Great Madcap (Luis Buñuel)
6. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
7. The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
8. Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
9. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
10. Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin)
11. The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls)

Almost There: Caught (Max Ophuls), Crows and Sparrows (Junli Zheng), I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller), Knock on Any Door (Nicholas Ray), The Small Back Room (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock).

Have Yet to See: I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks), La Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville), Twelve O’Clock High (Henry King), White Heat (Raoul Walsh).