I found an old list I made for a friend... I have whittled it down a bit.
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Films of the 1930s France
L'age d'or (The Golden Age) Luis Bunuel (1930)
La Chienne (The Bitch) - Jean Renoir (1931) (remade in the US as Scarlet Street)
Marius Marcel Pagnol (this part one of a trilogy) (1931)
Fanny Marc Allegert (1932) (this is part two)
Cesar - Marcel Pagnol (1935) (this is part three)
Boudu sauvι des eaux (Boudu Saved from Drowning) Jean Renoir (remade as Down and out in Beverly Hills) (1931)
LAtalante Jean Vigo (1934) (one of the best films of all time)
Zouzou Marc Allegret (1934)
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange Jean Renoir (1936)
La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir (1937) (excellent prison break film)
Pιpι le Moko Julien Duvivier (1937) (its where Pepe Le Pew came from)
Hotel du Nord Marcel Carnι (1938)
Quai des Brumes Marcel Carnι (1938)
Le jour se lθve Marcel Carnι (1939)
La Rθgle du jeu Jean Renoir (1939) (also up there in the lists of all time greatest films)
Films of the 1930s USA
Morocco (1930) Josef von Sternberg
Animal Crackers (1930) (Marx Brothers)
Hells Angels (1930) Howard Hughes
Little Ceasar (1930) Mervyn LeRoy (Edward G Robinson)
Dracula (1931) Tod Browning
Frankenstein (1931) James Whale
Public Enemy (1931) William Wellman (James Cagney)
Blonde Venus (1932) Josef von Sternberg (Marlene Deitrich)
Freaks (1932) Tod Browning
Grand Hotel (1932) Edmund Golding (Garbo and many more!)
I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) Mervyn LeRoy
Shanghai Express (1932) Josef von Sternberg
Duck Soup (1933) (Marx Brothers)
The Invisible Man (1933) James Whale
King Kong (1933) Merian Cooper
Little Women (1933) George Cuckor
Imitation of Life (1934) John M. Stahl
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) James Whale
A Night at the Opera (1935) (Marx Brothers)
Fury (1936) Fritz Lang
Bringing up Baby (1938) Michael Curtiz
Destry Rides Again (1939) George Marshall
Gone with the Wind (1939) Fleming, Cuckor, Wood
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Frank Capra
Ninotchka (1939) Ernst Lubitsch
The Wizard of Oz (1939) Victor Fleming
Stagecoach (1939) John Ford
Films of the 1930s UK
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Alfred Hitchcock
39 Steps (1935) Alfred Hitchcock
The Four Feathers (1939) Zoltan Korda
Pygmalion (1938) Leslie Howard
Films of the 1940s USA
Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Ford
Rebecca (1940) Alfred Hitchcock
Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles
How Green Was My Valley (1941) John Ford
The Maltese Falcon (1941) John Huston
Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz
Cat People (1942) Jacques Tourner
This Gun for Hire (1942) Frank Tuttle
Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder
Laura (1944) Otto Preminger
National Velvet (1944) Clarence Brown (a young Elizabeth Taylor)
To Have and to Have Not (1944) Howard Hawkes
The Big Sleep (1946) Howard Hawkes
Detour (1945) Edgar Ulmer
Mildred Pierce (1945) Michael Curtiz
Murder, My Sweet (1945) Edward Dmytryk
Spellbound (1945) Alfred Hitchcock
The Best Years of our Lives (1946) William Wyler (all should see this film)
Duel in the Sun (1946) King Vidor
Gilda (1946) Charles Vidor
Its a Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra (see this or perish)
The Killers (1946) Robert Siodmak
Notorious (1946) Alfred Hitchcock (Cary Grant and Ingrid Berman at their best)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Ted Garnett
Crossfire (1946) Edward Dmytyk
Miracle on 34th Street (1946) George Seaton
Out of the Past (1946) Jacques Tourner (one of my favourites)
Lady From Shanghai (1948) Orson Welles
Letter from An Unknown Woman (1948) Max Ophuls
The Naked City (1948) Jules Dassin
The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948) John Huston (We dont need no stinking badges
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The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed
Films of the 1940s UK
In Which We Serve (1942) Noel Coward
The Life and Death if Colonel Blimp (1943) Michael Powell
Gaslight (1944) George Cuckor
Great Expectations (1946) David Lean
Henry V (1946) Laurence Olivier
Black Narcissus (1947) Michael Powell (very moody film)
Hamlet (1948) Laurence Olivier
The Red Shoes (1948) Michael Powell (if you dont like this film you should)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Robert Hamer
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