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Category: 1940s

  • 21. Brief Encounter (1945)

    21. Brief Encounter (1945)

    One of the world’s premier directors, David Lean is well-known for his critically acclaimed hits such as The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957), Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1962). Brief Encounter is one of his earlier movies, when he was not yet an established name. Running at just 86 minutes, it is…

  • 12. Out Of The Past (1947)

    12. Out Of The Past (1947)

    When you think of ‘Film Noir’, you think of classics such as ‘The Third Man‘, ‘Double Indemnity‘, or more recent ones (neo-noir) like ‘Chinatown‘. Big names like Orson Welles (‘The Lady from Shanghai‘, ‘The Third Man’, ‘Touch of Evil‘)and Humphry Bogart (‘The Big Sleep‘, ‘The Maltese Falcon‘, ‘Dark Passage‘) symbolize the golden era of ‘film…