The Best Dramas of the 1940s

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The Best Dramas of the 1940s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
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11593 The Shanghai Gesture 1941 Josef von Sternberg NR -
11605 Night and Day 1946 Michael Curtiz NR -
11785 Moontide 1942 Fritz Lang, Archie Mayo NR -
11849 Christmas Holiday 1944 Robert Siodmak NR -
11880 The Great Moment 1944 Preston Sturges NR -
11881 East Side, West Side 1949 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
11925 Wake Island 1942 John Farrow NR -
12050 Cry Wolf 1947 Peter Godfrey NR -
12067 Blood and Sand 1941 Rouben Mamoulian NR -
12164 Swamp Water 1941 Jean Renoir NR -
12199 The Valley of Decision 1945 Tay Garnett NR -
12266 Decoy 1946 Jack Bernhard NR -
12409 Sleep, My Love 1948 Douglas Sirk NR -
12442 Obsession 1949 Edward Dmytryk NR -
12618 The Constant Nymph 1943 Edmund Goulding NR -
12667 It Always Rains on Sunday 1947 Robert Hamer NR -
12682 Nora Prentiss 1947 Vincent Sherman NR -
12709 The Seventh Cross 1944 Fred Zinnemann NR -
12813 None But the Lonely Heart 1944 Clifford Odets NR -
12843 The Web 1947 Michael Gordon NR -
12936 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet 1940 William Dieterle NR -
12981 The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family 1941 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
12993 The Man in Grey 1943 Leslie Arliss NR -
13006 The Long Night 1947 Anatole Litvak NR -
13010 The Seventh Veil 1945 Compton Bennett NR -
13051 Young Tom Edison 1940 Norman Taurog NR -
13052 Stormy Waters 1941 Jean Grémillon NR -
13059 The Corn is Green 1945 Irving Rapper NR -
13090 Intruder in the Dust 1949 Clarence Brown NR -
13184 Ornamental hairpin 1941 Hiroshi Shimizu NR -
13188 The Time of Your Life 1948 H.C. Potter NR -
13254 Out of the Fog 1941 Anatole Litvak NR -
13307 Tokyo Joe 1949 Stuart Heisler NR -
13348 Seven Sinners 1940 Tay Garnett NR -
13360 The Male Animal 1942 Elliott Nugent NR -
13368 The Most Beautiful 1944 Akira Kurosawa NR -
13391 The Hucksters 1947 Jack Conway NR -
13475 Captain from Castile 1947 Henry King NR -
13507 Come to the Stable 1949 Henry Koster NR -
13528 Daughter of Darkness 1948 Lance Comfort NR -
13536 Thousands Cheer 1943 George Sidney NR -
13596 Scott of the Antarctic 1948 Charles Frend PG -
13663 The Queen of Spades 1949 Thorold Dickinson NR -
13673 The Jolson Story 1946 Alfred E. Green NR -
13752 The Miracle of the Bells 1948 Irving Pichel NR -
13904 The North Star 1943 Lewis Milestone NR -
13963 Angels of Sin 1943 Robert Bresson NR -
13964 Lust For Gold 1949 S. Sylvan Simon, George Marshall NR -
13976 Prince of Foxes 1949 Henry King NR -
14006 The Man I Love 1947 Raoul Walsh NR -
14009 Tobacco Road 1941 John Ford NR -
14046 Titanic 1943 Herbert Selpin PG -
14058 The Bribe 1949 Robert Z. Leonard NR -
14063 The Big Street 1942 Irving Reis NR -
14138 Captains of the Clouds 1942 Michael Curtiz NR -
14142 Desert Fury 1947 Lewis Allen NR -
14144 Captain Kidd 1945 Rowland V. Lee NR -
14164 The Sullivans 1944 Lloyd Bacon NR -
14220 Charlie Chan in Panama 1940 Norman Foster G -
14260 Pittsburgh 1942 Lewis Seiler NR -
14336 Days of Glory 1944 Jacques Tourneur NR -
14349 The Fugitive 1947 John Ford NR -
14367 So Proudly We Hail! 1943 Mark Sandrich NR -
14369 The Big Shot 1942 Lewis Seiler NR -
14429 Rope of Sand 1949 William Dieterle NR -
14456 Beyond Tomorrow 1940 A. Edward Sutherland NR -
14508 L'amore 1948 Roberto Rossellini NR -
14510 The Fighting 69th 1940 William Keighley NR -
14543 The Pearl 1947 Emilio Fernández NR -
14560 Kiss the Blood Off My Hands 1948 Norman Foster NR -
14628 Shockproof 1949 Douglas Sirk NR -
14656 The Cheaters 1945 Joseph Kane NR -
14679 Rhapsody in Blue 1945 Irving Rapper NR -
14732 Incendiary Blonde 1945 George Marshall NR -
14757 The Wicked Lady 1945 Leslie Arliss NR -
14760 Tarzan's Secret Treasure 1941 Richard Thorpe NR -
14768 Beyond the Forest 1949 King Vidor NR -
14779 The Damned 1947 René Clément NR -
14827 Andy Hardy's Private Secretary 1941 George B. Seitz NR -
14880 Words and Music 1948 Norman Taurog NR -
14896 A Woman's Secret 1949 Nicholas Ray NR -
14933 Command Decision 1948 Sam Wood NR -
14996 Hello, Frisco, Hello 1943 H. Bruce Humberstone NR -
15030 Background to Danger 1943 Raoul Walsh NR -
15104 I've Always Loved You 1946 Frank Borzage NR -
15116 Sister Kenny 1946 Dudley Nichols NR -
15129 Portrait of Maria 1944 Emilio Fernández NR -
15163 The Dark Past 1948 Rudolph Maté NR -
15208 The Accused 1949 William Dieterle NR -
15236 Devotion 1946 Curtis Bernhardt G -
15282 Malaya 1949 Richard Thorpe NR -
15291 Between Two Worlds 1944 Edward A. Blatt NR -
15345 The Woman in White 1948 Peter Godfrey NR -
15361 My Friend Flicka 1943 Harold D. Schuster NR -
15403 The Murderers Among Us 1946 Wolfgang Staudte NR -
15406 The Face Behind the Mask 1941 Robert Florey NR -
15420 Johnny Apollo 1940 Henry Hathaway NR -
15487 'Til We Meet Again 1940 Edmund Goulding NR -
15510 The Boy with Green Hair 1948 Joseph Losey NR -
15515 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 1947 Alberto Cavalcanti NR -

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