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The Best Dramas of the 1940s
Global
Ranking |
Movie Title |
Release
Year |
Director |
MPAA
Rating |
Your
Ranking |
| 28197 |
En ny dag gryer |
1945 |
Poul Bang, Grete Frische |
NR |
- |
| 28199 |
East Side Kids |
1940 |
Robert F. Hill |
NR |
- |
| 28205 |
The Last Ride |
1944 |
D. Ross Lederman |
NR |
- |
| 28206 |
Killer McCoy |
1947 |
Roy Rowland |
NR |
- |
| 28210 |
Haaviston Leeni |
1948 |
Ville Salminen |
NR |
- |
| 28213 |
Dangerous Moonlight |
1941 |
Brian Desmond Hurst |
NR |
- |
| 28217 |
Dream |
1943 |
Mikhail Romm |
NR |
- |
| 28245 |
Twilight |
1945 |
Julio Bracho |
NR |
- |
| 28247 |
Captain Boycott |
1947 |
Frank Launder |
NR |
- |
| 28265 |
Along the Sungari River |
1947 |
Shan Jin |
NR |
- |
| 28282 |
The Secret Heart |
1946 |
Robert Z. Leonard |
NR |
- |
| 28297 |
Mens porten var lukket |
1948 |
Asbjørn Andersen |
NR |
- |
| 28335 |
Body Care and Grooming |
1947 |
Unknown |
NR |
- |
| 28340 |
Wake Up and Dream |
1946 |
Lloyd Bacon |
NR |
- |
| 28347 |
Between Two Women |
1945 |
Willis Goldbeck |
NR |
- |
| 28364 |
Blind Spot |
1947 |
Robert Gordon |
NR |
- |
| 28395 |
If Winter Comes |
1947 |
Victor Saville |
NR |
- |
| 28417 |
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine |
1946 |
Philip Ford |
NR |
- |
| 28446 |
The Wreck of the Hesperus |
1948 |
John Hoffman |
NR |
- |
| 28489 |
Anne of Windy Poplars |
1940 |
Jack Hively |
NR |
- |
| 28504 |
The Great Dan Patch |
1949 |
Joseph M. Newman |
NR |
- |
| 28522 |
The Proud Valley |
1940 |
Pen Tennyson |
NR |
- |
| 28523 |
The Man in Half Moon Street |
1945 |
Ralph Murphy |
NR |
- |
| 28536 |
Wings for the Eagle |
1942 |
Lloyd Bacon |
NR |
- |
| 28538 |
The Lady Is Willing |
1942 |
Mitchell Leisen |
NR |
- |
| 28579 |
Kungsgatan |
1943 |
Gösta Cederlund |
NR |
- |
| 28584 |
Hedelmätön puu |
1947 |
Hannu Leminen |
NR |
- |
| 28599 |
The War Against Mrs. Hadley |
1942 |
Harold S. Bucquet |
NR |
- |
| 28612 |
The Eagle Has Two Heads |
1948 |
Jean Cocteau |
NR |
- |
| 28662 |
Arctic Fury |
1949 |
Norman Dawn, Fred R. Feitshans Jr. |
NR |
- |
| 28680 |
Men of Texas |
1942 |
Ray Enright |
NR |
- |
| 28688 |
Underground |
1941 |
Vincent Sherman |
NR |
- |
| 28692 |
The Mark of the Whistler |
1944 |
William Castle |
NR |
- |
| 28696 |
The Hairy Ape |
1944 |
Alfred Santell |
NR |
- |
| 28702 |
No Exceptions |
1943 |
Robert D. Webb |
NR |
- |
| 28767 |
Voice of the Whistler |
1945 |
William Castle |
NR |
- |
| 28772 |
Gambling on the High Seas |
1940 |
George Amy |
NR |
- |
| 28781 |
Undertow |
1949 |
William Castle |
NR |
- |
| 28794 |
Love Letters |
1942 |
Claude Autant-Lara |
NR |
- |
| 28824 |
The Man Who Talked Too Much |
1940 |
Vincent Sherman |
NR |
- |
| 28833 |
Chicago Deadline |
1949 |
Lewis Allen |
NR |
- |
| 28839 |
Green Hell |
1940 |
James Whale |
NR |
- |
| 28905 |
You Can't Escape Forever |
1942 |
Jo Graham |
NR |
- |
| 28907 |
The Green Years |
1946 |
Victor Saville |
NR |
- |
| 28918 |
Dark Mountain |
1944 |
William Berke |
NR |
- |
| 28960 |
Oi, aika vanha, kultainen...! |
1942 |
Orvo Saarikivi |
NR |
- |
| 28966 |
Whispering City |
1947 |
Fyodor Otsep |
NR |
- |
| 28969 |
Yuwaku |
1948 |
Kôzaburô Yoshimura |
NR |
- |
| 28981 |
Stage Struck |
1948 |
William Nigh |
NR |
- |
| 29023 |
Zazà |
1944 |
Renato Castellani |
NR |
- |
| 29040 |
Her Kind of Man |
1946 |
Frederick De Cordova |
NR |
- |
| 29092 |
Diamond City |
1949 |
David MacDonald |
NR |
- |
| 29132 |
Magnificent Doll |
1946 |
Frank Borzage |
NR |
- |
| 29158 |
My Life for Ireland |
1941 |
Max W. Kimmich |
NR |
- |
| 29188 |
Juke Girl |
1942 |
Curtis Bernhardt |
NR |
- |
| 29190 |
Where Are Your Children? |
1943 |
William Nigh |
NR |
- |
| 29197 |
Cecile Is Dead |
1944 |
Maurice Tourneur |
NR |
- |
| 29202 |
Wildcat Bus |
1940 |
Frank Woodruff |
NR |
- |
| 29218 |
In Our Time |
1944 |
Vincent Sherman |
NR |
- |
| 29221 |
Bedelia |
1946 |
Lance Comfort |
NR |
- |
| 29224 |
Mary Ryan, Detective |
1949 |
Abby Berlin |
NR |
- |
| 29259 |
Truck Busters |
1943 |
B. Reeves Eason |
NR |
- |
| 29272 |
Scarred |
1948 |
Mario Mattoli |
NR |
- |
| 29285 |
The Earl of Chicago |
1940 |
Richard Thorpe |
NR |
- |
| 29293 |
A Really important Person |
1947 |
Basil Wrangell |
NR |
- |
| 29309 |
The Thirteenth Hour |
1947 |
William Clemens |
NR |
- |
| 29316 |
Anja tule kotiin |
1944 |
T.J. Särkkä |
NR |
- |
| 29334 |
Another Dawn |
1943 |
Julio Bracho |
NR |
- |
| 29336 |
Seven Journeys |
1947 |
Helmut Käutner |
NR |
- |
| 29338 |
An Orphan On The Streets |
1949 |
Gong Yan, Ming Zhao |
NR |
- |
| 29362 |
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo |
1945 |
Mikio Naruse |
NR |
- |
| 29378 |
Big City |
1948 |
Norman Taurog |
NR |
- |
| 29395 |
Washington Melodrama |
1941 |
S. Sylvan Simon |
NR |
- |
| 29409 |
Crows and Sparrows |
1949 |
Junli Zheng |
NR |
- |
| 29450 |
Magic On a Stick |
1946 |
Cy Endfield |
NR |
- |
| 29451 |
Youth Runs Wild |
1944 |
Mark Robson |
NR |
- |
| 29458 |
Waterloo Road |
1945 |
Sidney Gilliat |
NR |
- |
| 29473 |
Accomplice |
1946 |
Walter Colmes |
NR |
- |
| 29496 |
Destiny |
1944 |
Reginald Le Borg, Julien Duvivier |
NR |
- |
| 29498 |
Task Force |
1949 |
Delmer Daves |
NR |
- |
| 29500 |
China Nights |
1940 |
Osamu Fushimizu |
NR |
- |
| 29536 |
Port of Flowers |
1943 |
Keisuke Kinoshita |
NR |
- |
| 29548 |
I Cheated the Law |
1949 |
Edward L. Cahn |
NR |
- |
| 29568 |
Swanee River |
1940 |
Sidney Lanfield |
NR |
- |
| 29583 |
Women in Bondage |
1943 |
Steve Sekely |
NR |
- |
| 29615 |
Orpopojan valssi |
1949 |
Ville Salminen |
NR |
- |
| 29645 |
The Rake's Progress |
1945 |
Sidney Gilliat |
NR |
- |
| 29648 |
The Fantastic Symphony |
1942 |
Christian-Jaque |
NR |
- |
| 29662 |
Swell Guy |
1946 |
Frank Tuttle |
NR |
- |
| 29721 |
Shadows in the Night |
1944 |
Eugene Forde |
NR |
- |
| 29726 |
White Shanks |
1949 |
Jean Grémillon |
NR |
- |
| 29773 |
Quelli della montagna |
1943 |
Aldo Vergano |
NR |
- |
| 29779 |
Stallion Road |
1947 |
James V. Kern |
NR |
- |
| 29800 |
Man with a Cross |
1943 |
Roberto Rossellini |
NR |
- |
| 29812 |
Ghost Town Law |
1942 |
Howard Bretherton |
NR |
- |
| 29821 |
Suopursu kukkii |
1947 |
T.J. Särkkä |
NR |
- |
| 29854 |
Convicted Woman |
1940 |
Nick Grinde |
NR |
- |
| 29879 |
Voice in the Wind |
1944 |
Arthur Ripley |
NR |
- |
| 29881 |
Film Without a Name |
1948 |
Rudolf Jugert |
NR |
- |
| 29891 |
The Tioga Kid |
1948 |
Ray Taylor |
NR |
- |
| 29939 |
The Vicious Circle |
1948 |
W. Lee Wilder |
NR |
- |
| 29946 |
Knockout |
1941 |
William Clemens |
NR |
- |
| 29948 |
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe |
1942 |
Harry Lachman |
NR |
- |
| 29967 |
The Desert Song |
1943 |
Robert Florey |
NR |
- |
| 29987 |
Desperate Cargo |
1941 |
William Beaudine |
NR |
- |
| 29988 |
City of Missing Girls |
1941 |
Elmer Clifton |
NR |
- |
| 29990 |
Maclovia |
1948 |
Emilio Fernández |
NR |
- |
| 29993 |
Palle Alone in the World |
1949 |
Astrid Henning-Jensen |
NR |
- |
| 29997 |
Hideout |
1949 |
Philip Ford |
NR |
- |
| 30071 |
Challenge to Lassie |
1949 |
Richard Thorpe |
NR |
- |
| 30097 |
The Secret of the Whistler |
1946 |
George Sherman |
NR |
- |
| 30125 |
Orchestra Wives |
1942 |
Archie Mayo |
NR |
- |
| 30152 |
To the Public Danger |
1948 |
Terence Fisher |
NR |
- |
| 30180 |
Dr. Gillespie’s New Assistant |
1942 |
Willis Goldbeck |
NR |
- |
| 30181 |
Tanya |
1940 |
Grigori Aleksandrov |
NR |
- |
| 30193 |
The Great Sacrifice |
1944 |
Veit Harlan |
NR |
- |
| 30194 |
A Yank in Libya |
1942 |
Albert Herman |
NR |
- |
| 30196 |
Dark Shadows |
1944 |
Walter Hart |
NR |
- |
| 30212 |
Thunder Over Paris |
1940 |
Dominique Bernard-Deschamps |
NR |
- |
| 30214 |
Gallant Sons |
1940 |
George B. Seitz |
NR |
- |
| 30258 |
The Flame that Never Dies |
1949 |
Vittorio Cottafavi |
NR |
- |
| 30312 |
Blonde Comet |
1941 |
William Beaudine |
NR |
- |
| 30319 |
Skirmish on the Home Front |
1944 |
Charles Brackett |
NR |
- |
| 30333 |
The Boss of Big Town |
1942 |
Arthur Dreifuss |
NR |
- |
| 30399 |
Oi, kallis Suomenmaa |
1940 |
Wilho Ilmari |
NR |
- |
| 30418 |
Deep Waters |
1948 |
Henry King |
NR |
- |
| 30420 |
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad |
1948 |
Reginald Le Borg |
NR |
- |
| 30430 |
Three Russian Girls |
1944 |
Henry S. Kesler, Fyodor Otsep |
NR |
- |
| 30443 |
Irmeli, seitsentoistavuotias |
1948 |
Ville Salminen |
NR |
- |
| 30446 |
Star Without Light |
1946 |
Marcel Blistène |
NR |
- |
| 30451 |
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike |
1949 |
Ralph Smart |
NR |
- |
| 30469 |
Johnny Frenchman |
1945 |
Charles Frend |
NR |
- |
| 30482 |
Spring on the Korean Peninsula |
1941 |
Byung-il Lee |
NR |
- |
| 30494 |
The Battle of Stalingrad, Part I |
1949 |
Vladimir Petrov |
NR |
- |
| 30527 |
The Mayor of 44th Street |
1942 |
Alfred E. Green |
NR |
- |
| 30537 |
The Farm of Seven Sins |
1949 |
Jean-Devaivre |
NR |
- |
| 30539 |
Stairway to Light |
1945 |
Sammy Lee |
NR |
- |
| 30540 |
Forever and a Day |
1943 |
Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke |
NR |
- |
| 30593 |
Kuudes käsky |
1947 |
Orvo Saarikivi |
NR |
- |
| 30616 |
Terry and the Pirates |
1940 |
James W. Horne |
NR |
- |
| 30630 |
Adam and Evelyne |
1949 |
Harold French |
NR |
- |
| 30633 |
Submarine Base |
1943 |
Albert H. Kelley |
NR |
- |
| 30642 |
My Last Mistress |
1943 |
Sacha Guitry |
NR |
- |
| 30670 |
Anna Liisa |
1945 |
Orvo Saarikivi, T.J. Särkkä |
NR |
- |
| 30671 |
Lowly City |
1946 |
Chetan Anand |
NR |
- |
| 30680 |
My Own True Love |
1949 |
Compton Bennett |
NR |
- |
| 30684 |
Seven Were Saved |
1947 |
William H. Pine |
NR |
- |
| 30701 |
Test Tube Babies |
1948 |
W. Merle Connell |
NR |
- |
| 30710 |
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier |
1944 |
Lloyd Bacon |
NR |
- |
| 30711 |
Confessions of a Vice Baron |
1943 |
S. Roy Luby, William A. O'Connor |
NR |
- |
| 30716 |
We Meet at Tove's |
1946 |
Grete Frische, Alice O'Fredericks |
NR |
- |
| 30717 |
Tangier |
1946 |
George Waggner |
NR |
- |
| 30738 |
For the Common Defense! |
1942 |
Allen Kenward |
NR |
- |
| 30786 |
Slattery's Hurricane |
1949 |
André De Toth |
NR |
- |
| 30788 |
Corregidor |
1943 |
William Nigh |
NR |
- |
| 30798 |
While I Live |
1947 |
John Harlow |
NR |
- |
| 30799 |
A Face from the Past |
1941 |
Mikio Naruse |
NR |
- |
| 30820 |
Koskenkylän laulu |
1947 |
Ilmari Unho |
NR |
- |
| 30830 |
South of Suez |
1940 |
Lewis Seiler |
NR |
- |
| 30850 |
Travelling Actors |
1940 |
Mikio Naruse |
NR |
- |
| 30889 |
Flesh Will Surrender |
1947 |
Alberto Lattuada |
NR |
- |
| 30899 |
Joe Smith, American |
1942 |
Richard Thorpe |
NR |
- |
| 30927 |
Club Havana |
1945 |
Edgar G. Ulmer |
NR |
- |
| 30928 |
Tuomari Martta |
1943 |
Hannu Leminen |
NR |
- |
| 30934 |
Angel in Exile |
1948 |
Allan Dwan, Philip Ford |
NR |
- |
| 30977 |
Danny Boy |
1941 |
Oswald Mitchell |
NR |
- |
| 30989 |
Mine Own Executioner |
1947 |
Anthony Kimmins |
NR |
- |
| 31000 |
One More Tomorrow |
1946 |
Peter Godfrey |
NR |
- |
| 31018 |
The Biscuit Eater |
1940 |
Stuart Heisler |
NR |
- |
| 31026 |
Yrjänän emännän synti |
1943 |
Edvin Laine |
NR |
- |
| 31035 |
The Sacrifice |
1946 |
Gösta Werner |
NR |
- |
| 31057 |
The History of Mr. Polly |
1949 |
Anthony Pelissier |
NR |
- |
| 31078 |
Lucky Jordan |
1942 |
Frank Tuttle |
NR |
- |
| 31118 |
The Child |
1940 |
Benjamin Christensen |
NR |
- |
| 31121 |
While the Attorney Is Asleep |
1945 |
Johan Jacobsen |
NR |
- |
| 31159 |
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! |
1948 |
F. Hugh Herbert |
NR |
- |
| 31184 |
To the Victor |
1948 |
Delmer Daves |
NR |
- |
| 31206 |
Danger on Wheels |
1940 |
Christy Cabanne |
NR |
- |
| 31215 |
The Children |
1945 |
Rolf Husberg |
NR |
- |
| 31216 |
Gallant Bess |
1946 |
Andrew Marton |
NR |
- |
| 31247 |
The Last Crooked Mile |
1946 |
Philip Ford |
NR |
- |
| 31260 |
Lost Youth |
1948 |
Pietro Germi |
NR |
- |
| 31266 |
When the Bough Breaks |
1947 |
Lawrence Huntington |
NR |
- |
| 31279 |
Flowing Gold |
1940 |
Alfred E. Green |
NR |
- |
| 31285 |
The Return Of The Whistler |
1948 |
D. Ross Lederman |
NR |
- |
| 31286 |
Against the Wind |
1948 |
Charles Crichton |
NR |
- |
| 31299 |
Chandralekha |
1948 |
S.S. Vasan |
NR |
- |
| 31404 |
City of Pain |
1949 |
Mario Bonnard |
NR |
- |
| 31414 |
Ships with Wings |
1941 |
Sergei Nolbandov |
NR |
- |
| 31450 |
Lapseni on minun... |
1940 |
Jorma Nortimo |
NR |
- |
| 31460 |
Campeón sin Corona |
1946 |
Alejandro Galindo |
NR |
- |
| 31552 |
Waiting Room for Death |
1946 |
Hasse Ekman |
NR |
- |
| 31556 |
Drums of the Desert |
1940 |
George Waggner |
NR |
- |
| 31561 |
Dernier Atout |
1942 |
Jacques Becker |
NR |
- |
| 31592 |
The White Ship |
1941 |
Roberto Rossellini |
NR |
- |
| 31623 |
Confirm or Deny |
1941 |
Archie Mayo |
NR |
- |
| 31653 |
Girls' Town |
1942 |
Victor Halperin |
NR |
- |
| 31669 |
Good-Time Girl |
1948 |
David MacDonald |
NR |
- |
| 31679 |
The Fighting Frontiersman |
1946 |
Derwin Abrahams |
NR |
- |
| 31680 |
The Shop at Sly Corner |
1947 |
George King |
NR |
- |
| 31707 |
Open Secret |
1948 |
John Reinhardt |
NR |
- |
| 31710 |
There's Something About a Soldier |
1943 |
Alfred E. Green |
NR |
- |
| 31764 |
Arkansas Judge |
1941 |
Frank McDonald |
NR |
- |
| 31800 |
Johnny Allegro |
1949 |
Ted Tetzlaff |
NR |
- |
| 31810 |
The Kid from Cleveland |
1949 |
Herbert Kline |
NR |
- |
| 31827 |
Tsogt taij |
1945 |
T. Khurlee |
NR |
- |
| 31919 |
Elly Petersen |
1944 |
Jon Iversen, Alice O'Fredericks |
NR |
- |
| 31928 |
Bad Eggs |
1946 |
Arne Mattsson |
NR |
- |
| 31936 |
That's My Man |
1947 |
Frank Borzage |
NR |
- |
| 31971 |
Because of Eve |
1948 |
Howard Bretherton |
NR |
- |
| 31996 |
Bride by Mistake |
1944 |
Richard Wallace |
NR |
- |
| 32003 |
Pirates of Monterey |
1947 |
Alfred Werker |
NR |
- |
| 32008 |
White Tie and Tails |
1946 |
Charles Barton |
NR |
- |
| 32034 |
Golden Hoofs |
1941 |
Lynn Shores |
NR |
- |
| 32046 |
Joe Palooka, Champ |
1946 |
Reginald Le Borg |
NR |
- |
| 32065 |
Night In New Orleans |
1942 |
William Clemens |
NR |
- |
| 32085 |
Lady with the Light Gloves |
1942 |
Benjamin Christensen |
NR |
- |
| 32150 |
Once There Was a Girl |
1944 |
Viktor Eysymont |
NR |
- |
| 32168 |
The Guinea Pig |
1949 |
Roy Boulting |
NR |
- |
| 32204 |
No Alternative |
1944 |
Unknown |
NR |
- |
| 32212 |
Fanny by Gaslight |
1944 |
Anthony Asquith |
PG |
- |
| 32228 |
Thunder in the Valley |
1947 |
Louis King |
NR |
- |
| 32239 |
Boule de suif |
1945 |
Christian-Jaque |
NR |
- |
| 32287 |
Andaz |
1949 |
Mehboob Khan |
PG |
- |
| 32303 |
Una familia de tantas |
1949 |
Alejandro Galindo |
NR |
- |
| 32331 |
Ringside |
1949 |
Frank McDonald |
NR |
- |
| 32341 |
Pikku-Matti maailmalla |
1947 |
Edvin Laine |
NR |
- |
| 32408 |
Photographic Intelligence for Bombardment Aviation |
1943 |
Unknown |
NR |
- |
| 32433 |
Three Wise Fools |
1946 |
Edward Buzzell |
NR |
- |
| 32451 |
Doomed to Die |
1940 |
William Nigh |
NR |
- |
| 32471 |
3 Men in White |
1944 |
Willis Goldbeck |
NR |
- |
| 32476 |
Beyond Our Own |
1947 |
Sammy Lee |
NR |
- |
| 32483 |
Marie-Louise |
1944 |
Leopold Lindtberg |
NR |
- |
| 32541 |
Angels' Alley |
1948 |
William Beaudine |
G |
- |
| 32553 |
Counter-Attack |
1945 |
Zoltan Korda |
NR |
- |
| 32605 |
Uuteen elämään |
1942 |
T.J. Särkkä |
NR |
- |
| 32630 |
Jack London |
1943 |
Alfred Santell |
NR |
- |
| 32645 |
You, John Jones! |
1943 |
Mervyn LeRoy |
NR |
- |
| 32654 |
People in the Summer Night |
1948 |
Valentin Vaala |
NR |
- |
| 32665 |
Sign of the Wolf |
1941 |
Howard Bretherton |
NR |
- |
| 32714 |
Mokey |
1942 |
Wells Root |
NR |
- |
| 32727 |
The Gentle Sex |
1943 |
Leslie Howard |
NR |
- |
| 32745 |
For the Love of Rusty |
1947 |
John Sturges |
NR |
- |
| 32758 |
The Master Race |
1944 |
Herbert J. Biberman |
NR |
- |
| 32768 |
Singapore Woman |
1941 |
Jean Negulesco |
NR |
- |
| 32769 |
Men Against the Sky |
1940 |
Leslie Goodwins |
NR |
- |
| 32793 |
Salute to the Marines |
1943 |
S. Sylvan Simon |
G |
- |
| 32847 |
They Dare Not Love |
1941 |
James Whale |
NR |
- |
| 32860 |
Solistin Anna Alt |
1945 |
Werner Klingler |
NR |
- |
| 32864 |
Sorensen and Rasmussen |
1940 |
Emanuel Gregers |
NR |
- |
