The Best Dramas of the 1940s

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The Best Dramas of the 1940s
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Movie Title Release
Year
Director MPAA
Rating
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7206 Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1940 John Cromwell NR -
7212 Flying Tigers 1942 David Miller NR -
7220 House of Strangers 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz NR -
7279 Road House 1948 Jean Negulesco NR -
7390 My Name is Julia Ross 1945 Joseph H. Lewis NR -
7498 Since You Went Away 1944 John Cromwell G -
7541 The Verdict 1946 Don Siegel NR -
7575 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 1944 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
7730 Dressed to Kill 1946 Roy William Neill NR -
7733 The Keys of the Kingdom 1944 John M. Stahl NR -
7767 Back to Bataan 1945 Edward Dmytryk NR -
7905 Knute Rockne All American 1940 Lloyd Bacon NR -
7935 A Double Life 1947 George Cukor NR -
7954 Undercurrent 1946 Vincente Minnelli NR -
8030 Tomorrow Is Forever 1946 Irving Pichel NR -
8075 Black Angel 1946 Roy William Neill NR -
8158 Boom Town 1940 Jack Conway NR -
8171 The Passionate Friends 1949 David Lean NR -
8190 The Red House 1947 Delmer Daves NR -
8191 The Enchanted Cottage 1945 John Cromwell NR -
8346 They Made Me a Fugitive 1947 Alberto Cavalcanti NR -
8354 Johnny Eager 1941 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
8402 The Record of a Tenement Gentleman 1947 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
8472 Berlin Express 1948 Jacques Tourneur NR -
8483 Border Incident 1949 Anthony Mann NR -
8541 Moonrise 1948 Frank Borzage NR -
8606 Hold Back the Dawn 1941 Mitchell Leisen NR -
8639 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 Dorothy Arzner NR -
8706 Samson and Delilah 1949 Cecil B. DeMille NR -
8714 The Human Comedy 1943 Clarence Brown NR -
8750 The Woman on the Beach 1947 Jean Renoir NR -
8775 They Won't Believe Me 1947 Irving Pichel NR -
8841 Action in the North Atlantic 1943 Lloyd Bacon NR -
8960 Secret Beyond the Door 1947 Fritz Lang NR -
8991 Reap the Wild Wind 1942 Cecil B. DeMille NR -
9056 Madame Bovary 1949 Vincente Minnelli NR -
9058 Whirlpool 1949 Otto Preminger NR -
9098 Panique 1946 Julien Duvivier NR -
9136 A Hen in the Wind 1948 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
9140 Blossoms in the Dust 1941 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
9200 Brother Orchid 1940 Lloyd Bacon NR -
9230 Torment 1944 Alf Sjöberg NR -
9308 This Land Is Mine 1943 Jean Renoir NR -
9319 Desperate Journey 1942 Raoul Walsh NR -
9337 The Devil's Envoys 1942 Marcel Carné NR -
9418 Santa Fe Trail 1940 Michael Curtiz NR -
9451 Our Town 1940 Sam Wood NR -
9524 The Great Lie 1941 Edmund Goulding NR -
9542 The Woman in Green 1945 Roy William Neill NR -
9563 So Dear To My Heart 1948 Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske G -
9567 Knock on Any Door 1949 Nicholas Ray NR -
9570 The Locket 1946 John Brahm NR -
9671 Reign of Terror 1949 Anthony Mann NR -
9744 Thirst 1949 Ingmar Bergman NR -
9752 Women of the Night 1948 Kenji Mizoguchi NR -
9907 Colorado Territory 1949 Raoul Walsh NR -
9918 Ziegfeld Girl 1941 Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley NR -
9920 A Stolen Life 1946 Curtis Bernhardt NR -
9921 The Unsuspected 1947 Michael Curtiz NR -
9923 My Friend Irma 1949 George Marshall NR -
10099 Gung Ho! 1943 Ray Enright NR -
10118 Tarzan and the Amazons 1945 Kurt Neumann NR -
10144 Edge of Darkness 1943 Lewis Milestone NR -
10146 Edison, the Man 1940 Clarence Brown NR -
10231 Old Acquaintance 1943 Vincent Sherman NR -
10295 Crisis 1946 Ingmar Bergman NR -
10398 Our Vines Have Tender Grapes 1945 Roy Rowland NR -
10446 Tortilla Flat 1942 Victor Fleming NR -
10540 Flamingo Road 1949 Michael Curtiz NR -
10557 Deception 1946 Irving Rapper NR -
10569 Men of Boys Town 1941 Norman Taurog NR -
10617 The Diary of a Chambermaid 1946 Jean Renoir NR -
10634 City For Conquest 1940 Anatole Litvak NR -
10642 The Return of the Vampire 1944 Lew Landers NR -
10688 Blood on the Sun 1945 Frank Lloyd NR -
10716 The Farmer's Daughter 1947 H.C. Potter NR -
10747 Anna Karenina 1948 Julien Duvivier NR -
10763 Angels over Broadway 1940 Ben Hecht NR -
10788 Three Strangers 1946 Jean Negulesco NR -
10823 I'll Be Seeing You 1944 William Dieterle, George Cukor NR -
10854 Port of Call 1948 Ingmar Bergman NR -
10878 Caesar and Cleopatra 1945 Gabriel Pascal NR -
10900 Roxie Hart 1942 William A. Wellman NR -
10913 This Happy Breed 1944 David Lean NR -
10947 Northwest Passage 1940 King Vidor NR -
10978 One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing 1942 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
11011 The Undying Monster 1942 John Brahm NR -
11035 Pinky 1949 Elia Kazan NR -
11068 The House of the Seven Gables 1940 Joe May NR -
11132 13 Rue Madeleine 1947 Henry Hathaway NR -
11201 Strange Cargo 1940 Frank Borzage NR -
11230 Daisy Kenyon 1947 Otto Preminger NR -
11252 Blue Skies 1946 Stuart Heisler NR -
11266 A Walk in the Sun 1945 Lewis Milestone NR -
11320 Utamaro and His Five Women 1946 Kenji Mizoguchi NR -
11387 Unconquered 1947 Cecil B. DeMille NR -
11458 Till the Clouds Roll By 1946 Richard Whorf G -
11460 Impact 1949 Arthur Lubin NR -
11474 East Side, West Side 1949 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
11565 The Shanghai Gesture 1941 Josef von Sternberg NR -

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