The Best Films According to Andrew Sarris's The American Cinema

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In Andrew Sarris's The American Cinema, every director in the book has their full filmography listed, and Sarris italicizes the best films of each director. Here is the full collection of every film italicized in the book (with the exception of Out of the Past, which remains unitalicized likely as an error as he calls it Jacques Torneur's masterpiece).

The book has multiple sections, with who Sarris viewed as the pantheon directors at the top, and slowly dwindling in quality as the list goes down. However, there is merit to be found towards the bottom, as he lists a series of oddities, one-shots, and, at the time, newcomers, as well as subjects for further research.

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  1. 19 new

    Monsieur Verdoux

    1947, in 11 top lists Check
  2. 179 new

    The Exile

    1947, in 0 top lists Check
  3. 200 new

    The Woman on the Beach

    1947, in 3 top lists Check
  4. 224 new

    The Lady from Shanghai

    1947, in 9 top lists Check
  5. 285 new

    A Double Life

    1947, in 1 top list Check
  6. 308 new

    Unconquered

    1947, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 347 new

    T-Men

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
  8. 391 new

    Daisy Kenyon

    1947, in 2 top lists Check
  9. 450 new

    The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

    1947, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 482 new

    The Man I Love

    1946, in 2 top lists Check
  11. 483 new

    Pursued

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
  12. 484 new

    Cheyenne

    1947, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 508 new

    Ramrod

    1947, in 3 top lists Check
  14. 639 new

    Out of the Past

    1947, in 16 top lists Check
  15. 689 new

    Le silence est d'or

    1947 — a.k.a. Man About Town, in 1 top list Check
  16. 692 new

    Les maudits

    1947 — a.k.a. The Damned, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 749 new

    Boomerang!

    1947, in 3 top lists Check
  18. 776 new

    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    1947, in 8 top lists Check
  19. 801 new

    Odd Man Out

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  20. 909 new

    The Red House

    1947, in 2 top lists Check
  21. 910 new

    Dark Passage

    1947, in 5 top lists Check
  22. 927 new

    Nightmare Alley

    1947, in 8 top lists Check
  23. 947 new

    13 Rue Madeleine

    1947, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 948 new

    Kiss of Death

    1947, in 5 top lists Check
  25. 979 new

    The Macomber Affair

    1947, in 1 top list Check
  26. 990 new

    Golden Earrings

    1947, in 0 top lists Check
  27. 1028 new

    Good News

    1947, in 0 top lists Check
  28. 1059 new

    Brute Force

    1947, in 6 top lists Check
  29. 1106 new

    Johnny O'Clock

    1947, in 1 top list Check
  30. 1107 new

    Body and Soul

    1947, in 6 top lists Check
  31. 1156 new

    Ride the Pink Horse

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
  32. 1297 new

    The Brasher Doubloon

    1947 — a.k.a. The High Window, in 1 top list Check
  33. 1332 new

    Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

    1947 — a.k.a. A Woman Destroyed, in 0 top lists Check
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    Deep Valley

    1947, in 1 top list Check
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