Simon Dillon
1 min readJan 1, 2023

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How about these for a start (not a definitive list - Just off the top of my head)? I daresay you've seen several of these, but I reckon some will have passed you by.

Metropolis

The General

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Ninotchka

All Quiet on the Western Front

It Happened One Night

The Gold Rush

Bringing Up Baby

Citizen Kane

Gone with the Wind

The Wizard of Oz

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Top Hat

La Regle Du Jeu

La Grande Illusion

Double Indemnity

The Maltese Falcon

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Great Expectations

Brief Encounter

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Lady Eve

Laura

White Heat

Battleship Potemkin

Black Narcissus

A Matter of Life and Death

Whisky Galore

The Best Years of Our Lives

His Girl Friday

Bicycle Thieves

The Big Sleep

Arsenic and Old Lace

It's a Wonderful Life

Kind Hearts and Coronets

The Bank Dick

Bambi

Duck Soup

Les Enfants Du Paradis

The Thief of Bagdad

To Be Or Not To Be

Frankenstein

Nosferatu

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

The Grapes of Wrath

I Know Where I'm Going

The Lady Vanishes

The 39 Steps

Notorious

Rebecca

My Darling Clementine

Stagecoach

Napoleon

Oh, Mr Porter!

Pygmalion

Red River

The Red Shoes

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

Written by Simon Dillon

Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com

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