TCM Presents: The Essentials

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Every movie featured on the Turner Classic Movies series "The Essentials".

Movies are listed chronologically.

Last updated April 22, 2020. Now up to date through January 2021.

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  1. 1 -

    The General

    1926, in 33 top lists Check
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    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
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    Steamboat Bill, Jr.

    1928, in 13 top lists Check
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    The Wind

    1928, in 14 top lists Check
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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
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    The Champ

    1931, in 3 top lists Check
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    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
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    Freaks

    1932, in 18 top lists Check
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    Grand Hotel

    1932, in 4 top lists Check
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    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

    1932, in 14 top lists Check
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    Love Me Tonight

    1932, in 11 top lists Check
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    The Music Box

    1932, in 9 top lists Check
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    Dinner at Eight

    1933, in 4 top lists Check
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    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
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    Gold Diggers of 1933

    1933, in 11 top lists Check
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    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
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    Little Women

    1933, in 5 top lists Check
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    Sons of the Desert

    1933, in 7 top lists Check
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    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
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    The Merry Widow

    1934, in 4 top lists Check
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    The Thin Man

    1934, in 14 top lists Check
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    Twentieth Century

    1934, in 7 top lists Check
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    Alice Adams

    1935, in 2 top lists Check
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    Bride of Frankenstein

    1935, in 19 top lists Check
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    Mutiny on the Bounty

    1935, in 6 top lists Check
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    A Night at the Opera

    1935, in 17 top lists Check
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    Top Hat

    1935, in 13 top lists Check
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    Camille

    1936, in 6 top lists Check
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    Dodsworth

    1936, in 10 top lists Check
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    Libeled Lady

    1936, in 3 top lists Check
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    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    1936, in 11 top lists Check
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    Modern Times

    1936, in 30 top lists Check
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    San Francisco

    1936, in 3 top lists Check
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    Swing Time

    1936, in 13 top lists Check
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    The Awful Truth

    1937, in 15 top lists Check
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    Captains Courageous

    1937, in 6 top lists Check
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    La grande illusion

    1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion, in 30 top lists Check
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    The Prisoner of Zenda

    1937, in 3 top lists Check
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    Stage Door

    1937, in 6 top lists Check
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    Stella Dallas

    1937, in 4 top lists Check
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    Topper

    1937, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    1938, in 17 top lists Check
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    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
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    Jezebel

    1938, in 8 top lists Check
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    You Can't Take It with You

    1938, in 6 top lists Check
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    The Four Feathers

    1939, in 1 top list Check
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    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
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    Gunga Din

    1939, in 6 top lists Check
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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    1939, in 4 top lists Check