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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1421 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed NR -
1441 The Woman in the Window 1944 Fritz Lang NR -
1535 The Fallen Idol 1948 Carol Reed NR -
1549 Hamlet 1948 Laurence Olivier NR -
1618 Brute Force 1947 Jules Dassin NR -
1622 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray NR -
1725 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini NR -
1749 All the King's Men 1949 Robert Rossen NR -
1785 The Uninvited 1944 Lewis Allen NR -
2033 The Letter 1940 William Wyler NR -
2070 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz NR -
2145 The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 Albert Lewin NR -
2153 Oliver Twist 1948 David Lean NR -
2172 A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
2195 The Spiral Staircase 1945 Robert Siodmak NR -
2211 The Talk of the Town 1942 George Stevens NR -
2230 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 Henry King NR -
2258 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan NR -
2264 The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941 William Dieterle NR -
2265 Germany Year Zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini NR -
2309 Shoeshine 1946 Vittorio De Sica NR -
2338 Kiss of Death 1947 Henry Hathaway NR -
2400 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier NR -
2417 Criss Cross 1949 Robert Siodmak NR -
2474 Call Northside 777 1948 Henry Hathaway NR -
2504 Ministry of Fear 1944 Fritz Lang PG -
2526 Remember the Night 1940 Mitchell Leisen NR -
2570 The Big Clock 1948 John Farrow NR -
2579 Christmas in Connecticut 1945 Peter Godfrey NR -
2590 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky PG -
2666 Thieves' Highway 1949 Jules Dassin NR -
2699 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 1946 Lewis Milestone NR -
2709 Five Graves to Cairo 1943 Billy Wilder NR -
2782 Sands of Iwo Jima 1949 Allan Dwan NR -
2808 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford NR -
2839 They Drive By Night 1940 Raoul Walsh NR -
2848 The Bells of St. Mary's 1945 Leo McCarey NR -
2860 The Little Foxes 1941 William Wyler NR -
2896 Born to Kill 1947 Robert Wise NR -
2898 A Tree Grows In Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan NR -
2941 Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey NR -
2950 The Snake Pit 1948 Anatole Litvak NR -
2976 Macbeth 1948 Orson Welles NR -
2981 3 Godfathers 1948 John Ford NR -
3005 Crossfire 1947 Edward Dmytryk NR -
3006 Jane Eyre 1943 Robert Stevenson NR -
3058 The Blue Dahlia 1946 George Marshall NR -
3107 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti NR -
3209 Brighton Rock 1947 John Boulting NR -
3244 Dead Reckoning 1947 John Cromwell NR -

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