The Films

Era
Mood

1900s

1 film
A Trip to the Moon 1902
1902 · Georges Méliès · 13 min
StrangeBeautiful

1920s

6 films
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920
1920 · Robert Wiene · 77 min
StrangeBleak
Sherlock Jr. 1924
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New note
1924 · Buster Keaton · 45 min
FunnyBeautiful
Battleship Potemkin 1925
1925 · Sergei Eisenstein · 75 min
TenseBleak
The General 1926
1926 · Buster Keaton · 78 min
Funny
Metropolis 1927
1927 · Fritz Lang · 153 min
StrangeBeautiful
Sunrise 1927
1927 · F. W. Murnau · 94 min
RomanticBeautiful
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1930s

5 films
M 1931
1931 · Fritz Lang · 117 min
TenseBleak
It Happened One Night 1934
1934 · Frank Capra · 105 min
FunnyRomantic
Modern Times 1936
1936 · Charlie Chaplin · 87 min
FunnyGentle
The Rules of the Game 1939
1939 · Jean Renoir · 106 min
FunnyStrange
The Wizard of Oz 1939
1939 · Victor Fleming · 102 min
GentleBeautiful

1940s

6 films
Citizen Kane 1941
1941 · Orson Welles · 119 min
MysteryBleak
Casablanca 1942
1942 · Michael Curtiz · 102 min
RomanticTense
Detour 1945
1945 · Edgar G. Ulmer · 68 min
BleakStrange
Bicycle Thieves 1948
1948 · Vittorio De Sica · 89 min
GentleBleak
The Set-Up 1949
1949 · Robert Wise · 73 min
TenseBleak
The Third Man 1949
1949 · Carol Reed · 104 min
MysteryTense

1950s

9 films
All About Eve 1950
1950 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 138 min
TenseFunny
Rashomon 1950
1950 · Akira Kurosawa · 88 min
StrangeMystery
Sunset Blvd. 1950
1950 · Billy Wilder · 110 min
BleakStrange
Tokyo Story 1953
1953 · Yasujirō Ozu · 137 min
GentleBleak
Seven Samurai 1954
1954 · Akira Kurosawa · 207 min
TenseGentle
12 Angry Men 1957
1957 · Sidney Lumet · 96 min
Tense
The Seventh Seal 1957
1957 · Ingmar Bergman · 96 min
BleakStrange
Some Like It Hot 1959
1959 · Billy Wilder · 121 min
FunnyRomantic
The 400 Blows 1959
1959 · François Truffaut · 99 min
GentleBleak

1960s

3 films
Breathless 1960
1960 · Jean-Luc Godard · 90 min
StrangeRomantic
La Dolce Vita 1960
1960 · Federico Fellini · 174 min
StrangeBeautiful
Psycho 1960
1960 · Alfred Hitchcock · 109 min
TenseMystery