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The Top 100 Movies of the 1940s
Global Ranking |
Movie Title |
Release Year |
Director |
MPAA Rating |
Your Ranking |
25 |
Casablanca |
1942 |
Michael Curtiz |
PG |
- |
33 |
Double Indemnity |
1944 |
Billy Wilder |
NR |
- |
41 |
The Third Man |
1949 |
Carol Reed |
NR |
- |
42 |
Citizen Kane |
1941 |
Orson Welles |
NR |
- |
61 |
The Red Shoes |
1948 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
NR |
- |
70 |
Bicycle Thieves |
1948 |
Vittorio De Sica |
NR |
- |
78 |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
1948 |
John Huston |
NR |
- |
85 |
Notorious |
1946 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
105 |
The Philadelphia Story |
1940 |
George Cukor |
NR |
- |
112 |
A Matter of Life and Death |
1946 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
PG |
- |
116 |
Shadow of a Doubt |
1943 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
PG |
- |
117 |
His Girl Friday |
1940 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
121 |
Out of the Past |
1947 |
Jacques Tourneur |
NR |
- |
123 |
The Maltese Falcon |
1941 |
John Huston |
NR |
- |
125 |
The Big Sleep |
1946 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
134 |
The Great Dictator |
1940 |
Charles Chaplin |
G |
- |
139 |
Rope |
1948 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
150 |
It's a Wonderful Life |
1946 |
Frank Capra |
NR |
- |
151 |
Sullivan's Travels |
1941 |
Preston Sturges |
NR |
- |
162 |
Rebecca |
1940 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
163 |
Brief Encounter |
1945 |
David Lean |
NR |
- |
164 |
Laura |
1944 |
Otto Preminger |
NR |
- |
171 |
The Best Years of Our Lives |
1946 |
William Wyler |
NR |
- |
175 |
To Be or Not to Be |
1942 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
NR |
- |
197 |
The Shop Around the Corner |
1940 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
NR |
- |
209 |
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp |
1943 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
NR |
- |
228 |
Black Narcissus |
1947 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
NR |
- |
239 |
White Heat |
1949 |
Raoul Walsh |
NR |
- |
253 |
Late Spring |
1949 |
Yasujirô Ozu |
NR |
- |
260 |
Arsenic and Old Lace |
1944 |
Frank Capra |
NR |
- |
293 |
Children of Paradise |
1945 |
Marcel Carné |
NR |
- |
307 |
The Lady Eve |
1941 |
Preston Sturges |
NR |
- |
322 |
Key Largo |
1948 |
John Huston |
NR |
- |
326 |
Red River |
1948 |
Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson |
NR |
- |
340 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
1940 |
John Ford |
NR |
- |
364 |
Kind Hearts and Coronets |
1949 |
Robert Hamer |
NR |
- |
377 |
Gaslight |
1944 |
George Cukor |
NR |
- |
383 |
The Ox-Bow Incident |
1943 |
William A. Wellman |
NR |
- |
388 |
To Have and Have Not |
1944 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
396 |
The Lost Weekend |
1945 |
Billy Wilder |
NR |
- |
410 |
Stray Dog |
1949 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
417 |
Mildred Pierce |
1945 |
Michael Curtiz |
NR |
- |
433 |
The Magnificent Ambersons |
1942 |
Orson Welles |
PG |
- |
442 |
Rome, Open City |
1945 |
Roberto Rossellini |
NR |
- |
456 |
The Lady from Shanghai |
1947 |
Orson Welles |
NR |
- |
476 |
Beauty and the Beast |
1946 |
Jean Cocteau |
NR |
- |
514 |
Gilda |
1946 |
Charles Vidor |
NR |
- |
542 |
My Darling Clementine |
1946 |
John Ford |
NR |
- |
565 |
Ball of Fire |
1941 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
578 |
The Killers |
1946 |
Robert Siodmak |
NR |
- |
597 |
Lifeboat |
1944 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
611 |
Spellbound |
1945 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
612 |
Suspicion |
1941 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
656 |
Foreign Correspondent |
1940 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
687 |
Cat People |
1942 |
Jacques Tourneur |
NR |
- |
771 |
Meet Me in St. Louis |
1944 |
Vincente Minnelli |
NR |
- |
858 |
Murder, My Sweet |
1944 |
Edward Dmytryk |
NR |
- |
861 |
The Postman Always Rings Twice |
1946 |
Tay Garnett |
NR |
- |
883 |
The Heiress |
1949 |
William Wyler |
NR |
- |
890 |
Scarlet Street |
1945 |
Fritz Lang |
NR |
- |
893 |
Fantasia |
1940 |
James Algar |
G |
- |
901 |
Detour |
1945 |
Edgar G. Ulmer |
NR |
- |
921 |
The Stranger |
1946 |
Orson Welles |
NR |
- |
931 |
Letter From An Unknown Woman |
1948 |
Max Ophüls |
NR |
- |
946 |
The Wolf Man |
1941 |
George Waggner |
NR |
- |
970 |
The Palm Beach Story |
1942 |
Preston Sturges |
NR |
- |
974 |
Now, Voyager |
1942 |
Irving Rapper |
NR |
- |
977 |
Adam's Rib |
1949 |
George Cukor |
NR |
- |
986 |
Monsieur Verdoux |
1947 |
Charles Chaplin |
NR |
- |
1047 |
High Sierra |
1941 |
Raoul Walsh |
NR |
- |
1050 |
Dark Passage |
1947 |
Delmer Daves |
NR |
- |
1057 |
Nightmare Alley |
1947 |
Edmund Goulding |
NR |
- |
1073 |
Saboteur |
1942 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
PG |
- |
1075 |
Leave Her to Heaven |
1945 |
John M. Stahl |
NR |
- |
1098 |
Great Expectations |
1946 |
David Lean |
NR |
- |
1111 |
Yankee Doodle Dandy |
1942 |
Michael Curtiz |
NR |
- |
1119 |
Mrs. Miniver |
1942 |
William Wyler |
NR |
- |
1122 |
Meet John Doe |
1941 |
Frank Capra |
NR |
- |
1129 |
The Pride of the Yankees |
1942 |
Sam Wood |
NR |
- |
1141 |
Day of Wrath |
1943 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
NR |
- |
1161 |
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
1947 |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
NR |
- |
1164 |
Drunken Angel |
1948 |
Akira Kurosawa |
PG13 |
- |
1188 |
How Green Was My Valley |
1941 |
John Ford |
NR |
- |
1210 |
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon |
1949 |
John Ford |
NR |
- |
1223 |
The Set-Up |
1949 |
Robert Wise |
NR |
- |
1254 |
The Naked City |
1948 |
Jules Dassin |
NR |
- |
1271 |
I Walked with a Zombie |
1943 |
Jacques Tourneur |
NR |
- |
1308 |
And Then There Were None |
1945 |
René Clair |
NR |
- |
1349 |
I Know Where I'm Going! |
1945 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
NR |
- |
1372 |
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein |
1948 |
Charles Barton |
NR |
- |
1408 |
Dead of Night |
1945 |
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer |
NR |
- |
1418 |
Sergeant York |
1941 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
1419 |
Miracle on 34th Street |
1947 |
George Seaton |
G |
- |
1421 |
Odd Man Out |
1947 |
Carol Reed |
NR |
- |
1430 |
Fort Apache |
1948 |
John Ford |
NR |
- |
1441 |
The Woman in the Window |
1944 |
Fritz Lang |
NR |
- |
1446 |
On the Town |
1949 |
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly |
NR |
- |
1458 |
Pinocchio |
1940 |
Hamilton Luske |
G |
- |
1462 |
Unfaithfully Yours |
1948 |
Preston Sturges |
NR |
- |
1512 |
Heaven Can Wait |
1943 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
NR |
- |