1940's

1940

Angels Over Broadway (Ben Hecht & Lee Garmes, USA)
City for Conquest (Anatole Litvak, USA)
Contraband (Michael Powell, UK)
Gaslight (Thorold Dickinson, UK)
The House Across the Bay (Archie Mayo, USA)
The Letter (William Wyler, USA)
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
The Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster, USA)
They Drive By Night (Raoul Walsh, USA)

1941

Among the Living (Stuart Heisler, USA)
Blues in the Night (Anatole Litvak, USA)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, USA)
The Face Behind the Mask (Robert Florey, USA)
High Sierra (Raoul Walsh, USA)
I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone, USA)
Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy, USA)
Ladies in Retirement (Charles Vidor, USA)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, USA)
Out of the Fog (Anatole Litvak, USA)
Rage in Heaven (W.S. Van Dyke, USA)
The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
A Woman's Face (George Cukor, USA)

1942

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, USA)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
Crossroads (Jack Conway, USA)
Fingers at the Window (Charles Lederer, USA)
The Glass Key (Stuart Heisler, USA)
Moontide (Archie Mayo, USA)
Street of Chance (Jack Hively, USA)
This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle, USA)

1943

Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France)
Distinto amanecer (Julio Bracho, Mexico)
The Fallen Sparrow (Richard Wallace, USA)
Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang, USA)
Journey Into Fear (Norman Foster, USA)
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman, USA)
The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, USA)
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
Whispering Footsteps (Howard Bretherton, USA)

1944

Bluebeard (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
Christmas Holiday (Robert Siodmak, USA)
Dark Waters (André de Toth, USA)
Destiny (Reginald Le Borg, USA)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, USA)
Experiment Perilous (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
Gaslight (George Cukor, USA)
Guest in the House (John Brahm, USA)
Lady in the Death House (Steve Sekely, USA)
Laura (Otto Preminger, USA)
The Lodger (John Brahm, USA)
The Mark of the Whistler (William Castle, USA)
The Mask of Dimitrios (Jean Negulesco, USA)
Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang, USA)
Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, USA)
Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak, USA)
Strangers in the Night (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Suspect (Robert Siodmak, USA)
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, USA)
Voice in the Wind (Arthur Ripley, USA)
When Strangers Marry (William Castle, USA)
The Whistler (William Castle, USA)
The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, USA)

1945

Apology for Murder (Sam Newfield, USA)
Bewitched (Arch Oboler, USA)
Circumstantial Evidence (John Larkin, USA)
Confidential Agent (Herman Shumlin, USA)
Conflict (Curtis Bernhardt, USA)
Cornered (Edward Dmytryk, USA)
Danger Signal (Robert Florey, USA)
Dangerous Intruder (Vernon Keays, USA)
Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer & Charles Crichton, UK)
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
Dillinger (Max Nosseck, USA)
Escape in the Fog (Budd Boetticher, USA)
Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger, USA)
The Great Flamarion (Anthony Mann, USA)
Hangover Square (John Brahm, USA)
The House on 92nd Street (Henry Hathaway, USA)
Jealousy (Gustav Machatý, USA)
Johnny Angel (Edwin L. Marin, USA)
The Lady Confesses (Sam Newfield, USA)
Lady on a Train (Charles David, USA)
Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, USA)
The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, USA)
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, USA)
My Name is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
Pink String and Sealing Wax (Robert Hamer, UK)
The Power of the Whistler (Lew Landers, USA)
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, USA)
Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
The Spider (Robert D. Webb, USA)
The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, USA)
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (Robert Siodmak, USA)
Strange Illusion (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
Two O'Clock Courage (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Unseen (Lewis Allen, USA)
Voice of the Whistler (William Castle, USA)

1946

Accomplice (Walter Colmes, USA)
Appointment with Crime (John Harlow, UK)
Bedelia (Lance Comfort, UK)
Behind Green Lights (Otto Brower, USA)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, USA)
Black Angel (Roy William Neill, USA)
The Blue Dahlia (George Marshall, USA)
The Chase (Arthur Ripley, USA)
Crack-Up (Irving Reis, USA)
Criminal Court (Robert Wise, USA)
The Dark Corner (Henry Hathaway, USA)
The Dark Mirror (Robert Siodmak, USA)
Deadline at Dawn (Harold Clurman, USA)
Deception (Irving Rapper, USA)
Decoy (Jack Bernhard, USA)
Dragonwyck (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
Fear (Alfred Zeisler, USA)
Gilda (Charles Vidor, USA)
The Glass Alibi (W. Lee Wilder, USA)
Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat, UK)
Her Kind of Man (Frederick De Cordova, USA)
Humoresque (Jean Negulesco, USA)
Inside Job (Jean Yarbrough, USA)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak, USA)
The Locket (John Brahm, USA)
The Man I Love (Raoul Walsh, USA)
The Mask of Diijon (Lew Landers, USA)
The Murderers Are Among Us (Wolfgang Staudte, Germany)
Mysterious Intruder (William Castle, USA)
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine (Philip Ford, USA)
Night Editor (Henry Levin, USA)
Nobody Lives Forever (Jean Negulesco, USA)
Nocturne (Edwin L. Marin, USA)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
La Otra (Roberto Gavaldón, Mexico)
Panique (Julien Duvivier, France)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, USA)
The Secret of the Whistler (George Sherman, USA)
Shadow of a Woman (Joseph Santley, USA)
Shock (Alfred L. Werker, USA)
So Dark the Night (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
Specter of the Rose (Ben Hecht, USA)
Somewhere in the Night (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
Strange Impersonation (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestone, USA)
Strange Triangle (Ray McCarey, USA)
The Strange Woman (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
The Stranger (Orson Welles, USA)
Suspense (Frank Tuttle, USA)
Temptation (Irving Pichel, USA)
They Made Me a Killer (William C. Thomas, USA)
Three Strangers (Jean Negulesco, USA)
Tomorrow is Forever (Irving Pichel, USA)
Undercurrent (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
The Verdict (Don Siegel, USA)
Wanted for Murder (Lawrence Huntington, UK)
Whistle Stop (Léonide Moguy, USA)

1947

The Arnelo Affair (Arch Oboler, USA)
Backlash (Eugene Forde, USA)
Blind Spot (Robert Gordon, USA)
Blackmail (Lesley Selander, USA)
Body and Soul (Robert Rossen, USA)
Boomerang! (Elia Kazan, USA)
Born to Kill (Robert Wise, USA)
The Brasher Doubloon (John Brahm, USA)
Brighton Rock (John Boulting, UK)
Brute Force (Jules Dassin, USA)
Bury Me Dead (Bernard Vorhaus, USA)
Calcutta (John Farrow, USA)
Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, USA)
Cry Wolf (Peter Godfrey, USA)
Dancing with Crime (John Paddy Carstairs, UK)
Dark Passage (Delmer Daves, USA)
Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell, USA)
Dear Murderer (Arthur Crabtree, UK)
Deep Valley (Jean Negulesco, USA)
Desert Fury (Lewis Allen, USA)
Desperate (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Devil Thumbs a Ride (Felix E. Feist, USA)
A Double Life (George Cukor, USA)
Fall Guy (Reginald Le Borg, USA)
Fear in the Night (Maxwell Shane, USA)
The Flame (John H. Auer, USA)
For You I Die (John Reinhardt, USA)
Framed (Richard Wallace, USA)
The Gangster (Gordon Wiles, USA)
The Guilty (John Reinhardt, USA)
High Tide (John Reinhardt, USA)
High Wall (Curtis Bernhardt, USA)
It Always Rains on Sunday (Robert Hamer, UK)
Ivy (Sam Wood, USA)
Johnny O'Clock (Robert Rossen, USA)
Key Witness (D. Ross Lederman, USA)
Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway, USA)
Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery, USA)
The Long Night (Anatole Litvak, USA)
The Lost Moment (Martin Gabel, USA)
Love from a Stranger (Richard Whorf, USA)
Lured (Douglas Sirk, USA)
The Macomber Affair (Zoltan Korda, USA)
The Mark of Cain (Brian Desmond Hurst, UK)
Mine Own Executioner (Anthony Kimmins, UK)
Moss Rose (Gregory Ratoff, USA)
My Favorite Brunette (Elliott Nugent, USA)
Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, USA)
Nora Prentiss (Vincent Sherman, USA)
The October Man (Roy Ward Baker, UK)
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed, UK)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
Possessed (Curtis Bernhardt, USA)
The Pretender (W. Lee Wilder, USA)
Pursued (Raoul Walsh, USA)
Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France)
Railroaded! (Anthony Mann, USA)
Ramrod (André de Toth, USA)
The Red House (Delmer Daves, USA)
Repeat Performance (Alfred L. Werker, USA)
Ride the Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery, USA)
Riff-Raff (Ted Tetzlaff, USA)
Shoot to Kill (William Berke, USA)
Singapore (John Brahm, USA)
T-Men (Anthony Mann, USA)
Take My Life (Ronald Neame, UK)
They Made Me a Fugitive (Alberto Cavalcanti, UK)
They Won't Believe Me (Irving Pichel, USA)
The Two Mrs. Carrolls (Peter Godfrey, USA)
The Unfaithful (Vincent Sherman, USA)
The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz, USA)
The Upturned Glass (Lawrence Huntington, UK)
Violence (Jack Bernhard, USA)
The Web (Michael Gordon, USA)
Whispering City (Fyodor Otsep, Canada)
The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir, USA)

1948

All My Sons (Irving Reis, USA)
The Amazing Mr. X (Bernard Vorhaus, USA)
Behind Locked Doors (Budd Boetticher, USA)
Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
The Big Clock (John Farrow, USA)
Blonde Ice (Jack Bernhard, USA)
Blood on the Moon (Robert Wise, USA)
Bodyguard (Richard Fleischer, USA)
Call Northside 777 (Henry Hathaway, USA)
Canon City (Crane Wilbur, USA)
Corridor of Mirrors (Terence Young, UK)
Cry of the City (Robert Siodmak, USA)
The Dark Past (Rudolph Maté, USA)
Daughter of Darkness (Lance Comfort, UK)
Daybreak (Compton Bennett, UK)
Dédée d'Anvers (Yves Allégret, France)
Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
Escape (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, UK-USA)
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, UK)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, USA)
Good Time Girl (David MacDonald, UK)
He Walked by Night (Alfred L. Werker, USA)
Hollow Triumph (Steve Sekely, USA)
The Hunted (Jack Bernhard, USA)
I, Jane Doe (John H. Auer, USA)
I Love Trouble (S. Sylvan Simon, USA)
I Walk Alone (Byron Haskin, USA)
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (William Nigh, USA)
Incident (William Beaudine, USA)
Inner Sanctum (Lew Landers, USA)
Key Largo (John Huston, USA)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Norman Foster, USA)
The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, USA)
Larceny (George Sherman, USA)
Money Madness (Sam Newfield, USA)
Moonrise (Frank Borzage, USA)The Naked City (Jules Dassin, USA)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow, USA)
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (St. John Legh Clowes, UK)
Noose (Edmond T. Gréville, UK)
Open Secret (John Reinhardt, USA)
Parole, Inc. (Alfred Zeisler, USA)
Pitfall (André de Toth, USA)Race Street (Edwin L. Marin, USA)
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Return of the Whistler (D. Ross Lederman, USA)
Road House (Jean Negulesco, USA)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
Ruthless (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
Secret Beyond the Door… (Fritz Lang, USA)
Shed No Tears (Jean Yarbrough, USA)
The Sign of the Ram (John Sturges, USA)
Sleep, My Love (Douglas Sirk, USA)
So Evil My Love (Lewis Allen, USA-UK)
Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak, USA)Station West (Sidney Lanfield, USA)
The Street with No Name (William Keighley, USA)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, USA)
To the Ends of the Earth (Robert Stevenson, USA)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, USA)
Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, USA)
The Velvet Touch (Jack Gage, USA)
Walk a Crooked Mile (Gordon Douglas, USA)
Whiplash (Lewis Seiler, USA)

1949

Abandoned (Joseph M. Newman, USA)
The Accused (William Dieterle, USA)
Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann, USA)
Alias Nick Beal (John Farrow, USA)
All the King's Men (Robert Rossen, USA)
Beyond the Forest (King Vidor, USA)
The Big Steal (Don Siegel, USA)
Border Incident (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Bribe (Robert Z. Leonard, USA)
Caught (Max Ophüls, USA)
Champion (Mark Robson, USA)
Chicago Deadline (Lewis Allen, USA)
Chinatown at Midnight (Seymour Friedman, USA)
City Across the River (Maxwell Shane, USA)
The Clay Pigeon (Richard Fleischer, USA)
C-Man (Joseph Lerner, USA)
Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak, USA)
The Crooked Way (Robert Florey, USA)
A Dangerous Profession (Ted Tetzlaff, USA)
Flamingo Road (Michael Curtiz, USA)
Flaxy Martin (Richard L. Bare, USA)
Follow Me Quietly (Richard Fleischer, USA)
House of Strangers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
Illegal Entry (Frederick De Cordova, USA)
Impact (Arthur Lubin, USA)
Jigsaw (Fletcher Markle, USA)
Johnny Stool Pigeon (William Castle, USA)
Knock on Any Door (Nicholas Ray, USA)
The Lady Gambles (Michael Gordon, USA)
Manhandled (Lewis R. Foster, USA)
Obsession (Edward Dmytryk, UK)
Port of New York (Laszlo Benedek, USA)
The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls, USA)
Red Light (Roy Del Ruth, USA)
The Red Menace (R.G. Springsteen, USA)
Reign of Terror (Anthony Mann, USA)
Rope of Sand (William Dieterle, USA)
Scene of the Crime (Roy Rowland, USA)
The Set-Up (Robert Wise, USA)
Shockproof (Douglas Sirk, USA)
The Small Back Room (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK)
The Story of Molly X (Crane Wilbur, USA)
Strange Bargain (Will Price, USA)
Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
Such a Pretty Little Beach (Yves Allégret, France-Netherlands)
Take One False Step (Chester Erskine, USA)
Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin, USA)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, UK)
The Threat (Felix E. Feist, USA)
Too Late for Tears (Byron Haskin, USA)
Trapped (Richard Fleischer, USA)
The Undercover Man (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
Undertow (William Castle, USA)
Whirlpool (Otto Preminger, USA)
White Heat (Raoul Walsh, USA)
The Window (Ted Tetzlaff, USA)
Without Honor (Irving Pichel, USA)
The Woman on Pier 13 (Robert Stevenson, USA)
A Woman's Secret (Nicholas Ray, USA)