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The Top 250 Worst Dramas of the 1940s
Global
Ranking |
Movie Title |
Release
Year |
Director |
MPAA
Rating |
Your
Ranking |
| 58706 |
I Accuse My Parents |
1945 |
Sam Newfield |
NR |
- |
| 17206 |
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two |
1945 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
| 16463 |
The Dolly Sisters |
1945 |
Irving Cummings |
NR |
- |
| 16852 |
The Shepherd of the Hills |
1941 |
Henry Hathaway |
NR |
- |
| 10179 |
Tarzan and the Amazons |
1945 |
Kurt Neumann |
NR |
- |
| 10476 |
Tortilla Flat |
1942 |
Victor Fleming |
NR |
- |
| 13673 |
The Jolson Story |
1946 |
Alfred E. Green |
NR |
- |
| 15932 |
Dive Bomber |
1941 |
Michael Curtiz |
NR |
- |
| 41750 |
Jungle Goddess |
1948 |
Lewis D. Collins |
NR |
- |
| 19274 |
The Ape |
1940 |
William Nigh |
NR |
- |
| 5608 |
The Paradine Case |
1947 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 14260 |
Pittsburgh |
1942 |
Lewis Seiler |
NR |
- |
| 18559 |
Black Magic |
1949 |
Gregory Ratoff |
NR |
- |
| 17615 |
Courage of Lassie |
1946 |
Fred M. Wilcox |
G |
- |
| 15688 |
Uncertain Glory |
1944 |
Raoul Walsh |
NR |
- |
| 15361 |
My Friend Flicka |
1943 |
Harold D. Schuster |
NR |
- |
| 17086 |
Reunion in France |
1942 |
Jules Dassin |
NR |
- |
| 18042 |
The Mad Doctor of Market Street |
1942 |
Joseph H. Lewis |
NR |
- |
| 4355 |
Song of the South |
1946 |
Harve Foster |
NR |
- |
| 11880 |
The Great Moment |
1944 |
Preston Sturges |
NR |
- |
| 20501 |
The Babe Ruth Story |
1948 |
Roy Del Ruth |
NR |
- |
| 8577 |
Samson and Delilah |
1949 |
Cecil B. DeMille |
NR |
- |
| 17667 |
I Was a Fireman |
1943 |
Humphrey Jennings |
NR |
- |
| 6770 |
Under Capricorn |
1949 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 12409 |
Sleep, My Love |
1948 |
Douglas Sirk |
NR |
- |
| 9883 |
Ziegfeld Girl |
1941 |
Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley |
NR |
- |
| 25793 |
Mission to Moscow |
1943 |
Michael Curtiz |
NR |
- |
| 6402 |
Sanshiro Sugata |
1943 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
| 22055 |
They Caught the Ferry |
1948 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
NR |
- |
| 17329 |
Wilson |
1944 |
Henry King |
NR |
- |
| 9922 |
Crisis |
1946 |
Ingmar Bergman |
NR |
- |
| 14220 |
Charlie Chan in Panama |
1940 |
Norman Foster |
G |
- |
| 14760 |
Tarzan's Secret Treasure |
1941 |
Richard Thorpe |
NR |
- |
| 18308 |
It Rains on Our Love |
1946 |
Ingmar Bergman |
NR |
- |
| 19199 |
The Story of Seabiscuit |
1949 |
David Butler |
NR |
- |
| 17542 |
Behind Locked Doors |
1948 |
Budd Boetticher |
NR |
- |
| 7123 |
Lassie Come Home |
1943 |
Fred M. Wilcox |
NR |
- |
| 13368 |
The Most Beautiful |
1944 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
| 16184 |
Ruthless |
1948 |
Edgar G. Ulmer |
NR |
- |
| 13348 |
Seven Sinners |
1940 |
Tay Garnett |
NR |
- |
| 11468 |
Till the Clouds Roll By |
1946 |
Richard Whorf |
G |
- |
| 11176 |
Blue Skies |
1946 |
Stuart Heisler |
NR |
- |
| 8680 |
The Human Comedy |
1943 |
Clarence Brown |
NR |
- |
| 14367 |
So Proudly We Hail! |
1943 |
Mark Sandrich |
NR |
- |
| 11046 |
The Undying Monster |
1942 |
John Brahm |
NR |
- |
| 14058 |
The Bribe |
1949 |
Robert Z. Leonard |
NR |
- |
| 6558 |
Terror by Night |
1946 |
Roy William Neill |
NR |
- |
| 12199 |
The Valley of Decision |
1945 |
Tay Garnett |
NR |
- |
| 19972 |
Lumière d'été |
1943 |
Jean Grémillon |
NR |
- |
| 22396 |
No, No, Nanette |
1940 |
Herbert Wilcox |
NR |
- |
| 13360 |
The Male Animal |
1942 |
Elliott Nugent |
NR |
- |
| 11397 |
Unconquered |
1947 |
Cecil B. DeMille |
NR |
- |
| 16586 |
The Sea of Grass |
1947 |
Elia Kazan |
NR |
- |
| 10900 |
One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing |
1942 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
NR |
- |
| 14006 |
The Man I Love |
1947 |
Raoul Walsh |
NR |
- |
| 5652 |
The Quiet Duel |
1949 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
| 18903 |
Tycoon |
1947 |
Richard Wallace |
NR |
- |
| 4646 |
The Song of Bernadette |
1943 |
Henry King |
NR |
- |
| 6469 |
Madame Curie |
1943 |
Mervyn LeRoy |
NR |
- |
| 8345 |
Tomorrow Is Forever |
1946 |
Irving Pichel |
NR |
- |
| 13475 |
Captain from Castile |
1947 |
Henry King |
NR |
- |
| 24458 |
Jolson Sings Again |
1949 |
Henry Levin |
NR |
- |
| 8637 |
Dance, Girl, Dance |
1940 |
Dorothy Arzner |
NR |
- |
| 14429 |
Rope of Sand |
1949 |
William Dieterle |
NR |
- |
| 5804 |
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail |
1945 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
| 10672 |
The Return of the Vampire |
1944 |
Lew Landers |
NR |
- |
| 12682 |
Nora Prentiss |
1947 |
Vincent Sherman |
NR |
- |
| 17835 |
Ghosts on the Loose |
1943 |
William Beaudine |
NR |
- |
| 12936 |
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet |
1940 |
William Dieterle |
NR |
- |
| 8928 |
The Woman on the Beach |
1947 |
Jean Renoir |
NR |
- |
| 25964 |
Hitler's Madman |
1943 |
Douglas Sirk |
NR |
- |
| 5712 |
Objective, Burma! |
1945 |
Raoul Walsh |
NR |
- |
| 12709 |
The Seventh Cross |
1944 |
Fred Zinnemann |
NR |
- |
| 13904 |
The North Star |
1943 |
Lewis Milestone |
NR |
- |
| 4209 |
Phantom of the Opera |
1943 |
Arthur Lubin |
NR |
- |
| 11605 |
Night and Day |
1946 |
Michael Curtiz |
NR |
- |
| 11227 |
Pinky |
1949 |
Elia Kazan |
NR |
- |
| 14349 |
The Fugitive |
1947 |
John Ford |
NR |
- |
| 8775 |
Secret Beyond the Door |
1947 |
Fritz Lang |
NR |
- |
| 19334 |
21 Days |
1940 |
Basil Dean |
NR |
- |
| 9531 |
Santa Fe Trail |
1940 |
Michael Curtiz |
NR |
- |
| 14009 |
Tobacco Road |
1941 |
John Ford |
NR |
- |
| 10813 |
Caesar and Cleopatra |
1945 |
Gabriel Pascal |
NR |
- |
| 12442 |
Obsession |
1949 |
Edward Dmytryk |
NR |
- |
| 13006 |
The Long Night |
1947 |
Anatole Litvak |
NR |
- |
| 14628 |
Shockproof |
1949 |
Douglas Sirk |
NR |
- |
| 12164 |
Swamp Water |
1941 |
Jean Renoir |
NR |
- |
| 17441 |
An Ideal Husband |
1947 |
Alexander Korda |
NR |
- |
| 6579 |
A Guy Named Joe |
1943 |
Victor Fleming |
NR |
- |
| 9164 |
Blossoms in the Dust |
1941 |
Mervyn LeRoy |
NR |
- |
| 11442 |
Keeper of the Flame |
1942 |
George Cukor |
NR |
- |
| 4437 |
National Velvet |
1944 |
Clarence Brown |
G |
- |
| 11849 |
Christmas Holiday |
1944 |
Robert Siodmak |
NR |
- |
| 16387 |
One Foot in Heaven |
1941 |
Irving Rapper |
NR |
- |
| 19613 |
The House I Live In |
1945 |
Albert Maltz |
NR |
- |
| 2808 |
They Were Expendable |
1945 |
John Ford |
NR |
- |
| 12993 |
The Man in Grey |
1943 |
Leslie Arliss |
NR |
- |
| 7057 |
Joan of Arc |
1948 |
Victor Fleming |
NR |
- |
| 18470 |
Trapped |
1949 |
Richard Fleischer |
NR |
- |
| 10609 |
Angels over Broadway |
1940 |
Ben Hecht |
NR |
- |
| 7203 |
Flying Tigers |
1942 |
David Miller |
NR |
- |
| 9009 |
Reap the Wild Wind |
1942 |
Cecil B. DeMille |
NR |
- |
| 9753 |
Thirst |
1949 |
Ingmar Bergman |
NR |
- |
| 16215 |
Flame of Barbary Coast |
1945 |
Joseph Kane |
NR |
- |
| 11785 |
Moontide |
1942 |
Fritz Lang, Archie Mayo |
NR |
- |
| 8327 |
Border Incident |
1949 |
Anthony Mann |
NR |
- |
| 8817 |
Action in the North Atlantic |
1943 |
Lloyd Bacon |
NR |
- |
| 17830 |
Mrs. Parkington |
1944 |
Tay Garnett |
NR |
- |
| 9591 |
Our Town |
1940 |
Sam Wood |
NR |
- |
| 9490 |
So Dear To My Heart |
1948 |
Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske |
G |
- |
| 5403 |
The Fountainhead |
1949 |
King Vidor |
NR |
- |
| 12266 |
Decoy |
1946 |
Jack Bernhard |
NR |
- |
| 16895 |
Among the Living |
1941 |
Stuart Heisler |
NR |
- |
| 11925 |
Wake Island |
1942 |
John Farrow |
NR |
- |
| 9334 |
This Land Is Mine |
1943 |
Jean Renoir |
NR |
- |
| 15968 |
Crossroads |
1942 |
Jack Conway |
NR |
- |
| 4107 |
No Regrets for Our Youth |
1946 |
Akira Kurosawa |
NR |
- |
| 5481 |
The Stratton Story |
1949 |
Sam Wood |
NR |
- |
| 9660 |
The Woman in Green |
1945 |
Roy William Neill |
NR |
- |
| 7029 |
Bataan |
1943 |
Tay Garnett |
NR |
- |
| 12813 |
None But the Lonely Heart |
1944 |
Clifford Odets |
NR |
- |
| 6983 |
The Two Mrs. Carrolls |
1947 |
Peter Godfrey |
NR |
- |
| 15601 |
The Rocking Horse Winner |
1949 |
Anthony Pelissier |
NR |
- |
| 8500 |
Berlin Express |
1948 |
Jacques Tourneur |
NR |
- |
| 10619 |
Men of Boys Town |
1941 |
Norman Taurog |
NR |
- |
| 6030 |
Destination Tokyo |
1943 |
Delmer Daves |
NR |
- |
| 20810 |
Fear |
1946 |
Alfred Zeisler |
NR |
- |
| 10780 |
Blood on the Sun |
1945 |
Frank Lloyd |
NR |
- |
| 3858 |
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
1943 |
Sam Wood |
NR |
- |
| 6786 |
The Fighting Seabees |
1944 |
Edward Ludwig |
NR |
- |
| 5749 |
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne |
1945 |
Robert Bresson |
NR |
- |
| 15510 |
The Boy with Green Hair |
1948 |
Joseph Losey |
NR |
- |
| 16860 |
The Christmas Carol |
1949 |
Arthur Pierson |
NR |
- |
| 10728 |
This Happy Breed |
1944 |
David Lean |
NR |
- |
| 13663 |
The Queen of Spades |
1949 |
Thorold Dickinson |
NR |
- |
| 13254 |
Out of the Fog |
1941 |
Anatole Litvak |
NR |
- |
| 4632 |
The Long Voyage Home |
1940 |
John Ford |
NR |
- |
| 9331 |
Desperate Journey |
1942 |
Raoul Walsh |
NR |
- |
| 4313 |
Mighty Joe Young |
1949 |
Ernest B. Schoedsack |
NR |
- |
| 14336 |
Days of Glory |
1944 |
Jacques Tourneur |
NR |
- |
| 5990 |
Lured |
1947 |
Douglas Sirk |
NR |
- |
| 6559 |
Anna and the King of Siam |
1946 |
John Cromwell |
NR |
- |
| 6262 |
Boomerang! |
1947 |
Elia Kazan |
NR |
- |
| 14142 |
Desert Fury |
1947 |
Lewis Allen |
NR |
- |
| 6059 |
Penny Serenade |
1941 |
George Stevens |
NR |
- |
| 7354 |
Undercurrent |
1946 |
Vincente Minnelli |
NR |
- |
| 14138 |
Captains of the Clouds |
1942 |
Michael Curtiz |
NR |
- |
| 13052 |
Stormy Waters |
1941 |
Jean Grémillon |
NR |
- |
| 7260 |
My Name is Julia Ross |
1945 |
Joseph H. Lewis |
NR |
- |
| 14144 |
Captain Kidd |
1945 |
Rowland V. Lee |
NR |
- |
| 4518 |
Little Women |
1949 |
Mervyn LeRoy |
NR |
- |
| 8631 |
Hold Back the Dawn |
1941 |
Mitchell Leisen |
NR |
- |
| 23007 |
Banketten |
1948 |
Hasse Ekman |
NR |
- |
| 2782 |
Sands of Iwo Jima |
1949 |
Allan Dwan |
NR |
- |
| 9828 |
The Unsuspected |
1947 |
Michael Curtiz |
NR |
- |
| 4943 |
The Invisible Man Returns |
1940 |
Joe May |
NR |
- |
| 14757 |
The Wicked Lady |
1945 |
Leslie Arliss |
NR |
- |
| 6336 |
The Children are Watching Us |
1944 |
Vittorio De Sica |
NR |
- |
| 1549 |
Hamlet |
1948 |
Laurence Olivier |
NR |
- |
| 13059 |
The Corn is Green |
1945 |
Irving Rapper |
NR |
- |
| 5532 |
Across the Pacific |
1942 |
John Huston |
NR |
- |
| 14046 |
Titanic |
1943 |
Herbert Selpin |
PG |
- |
| 8493 |
Moonrise |
1948 |
Frank Borzage |
NR |
- |
| 6767 |
Kings Row |
1942 |
Sam Wood |
NR |
- |
| 6721 |
Watch on the Rhine |
1943 |
Herman Shumlin |
NR |
- |
| 9348 |
Knock on Any Door |
1949 |
Nicholas Ray |
NR |
- |
| 1098 |
Great Expectations |
1946 |
David Lean |
NR |
- |
| 2896 |
Born to Kill |
1947 |
Robert Wise |
NR |
- |
| 4120 |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
1941 |
Victor Fleming |
NR |
- |
| 10128 |
Gung Ho! |
1943 |
Ray Enright |
NR |
- |
| 9372 |
The Devil's Envoys |
1942 |
Marcel Carné |
NR |
- |
| 12050 |
Cry Wolf |
1947 |
Peter Godfrey |
NR |
- |
| 7478 |
Since You Went Away |
1944 |
John Cromwell |
G |
- |
| 5064 |
The Yearling |
1946 |
Clarence Brown |
G |
- |
| 10171 |
Edison, the Man |
1940 |
Clarence Brown |
NR |
- |
| 14508 |
L'amore |
1948 |
Roberto Rossellini |
NR |
- |
| 13391 |
The Hucksters |
1947 |
Jack Conway |
NR |
- |
| 7690 |
Back to Bataan |
1945 |
Edward Dmytryk |
NR |
- |
| 6680 |
Stranger on the Third Floor |
1940 |
Boris Ingster |
NR |
- |
| 15588 |
The Great Man's Lady |
1942 |
William A. Wellman |
NR |
- |
| 10811 |
Anna Karenina |
1948 |
Julien Duvivier |
NR |
- |
| 7580 |
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo |
1944 |
Mervyn LeRoy |
NR |
- |
| 16530 |
Mourning Becomes Electra |
1947 |
Dudley Nichols |
NR |
- |
| 15724 |
Tulsa |
1949 |
Stuart Heisler |
NR |
- |
| 10576 |
Port of Call |
1948 |
Ingmar Bergman |
NR |
- |
| 16930 |
Experiment Perilous |
1944 |
Jacques Tourneur |
NR |
- |
| 10575 |
Flamingo Road |
1949 |
Michael Curtiz |
NR |
- |
| 9544 |
Women of the Night |
1948 |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
NR |
- |
| 5423 |
The Small Back Room |
1949 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
NR |
- |
| 2258 |
Gentleman's Agreement |
1947 |
Elia Kazan |
NR |
- |
| 4066 |
Angel and the Badman |
1947 |
James Edward Grant |
NR |
- |
| 9072 |
Whirlpool |
1949 |
Otto Preminger |
NR |
- |
| 6066 |
Fireworks |
1947 |
Kenneth Anger |
NR |
- |
| 2417 |
Criss Cross |
1949 |
Robert Siodmak |
NR |
- |
| 7796 |
A Double Life |
1947 |
George Cukor |
NR |
- |
| 4910 |
The Razor's Edge |
1946 |
Edmund Goulding |
NR |
- |
| 6366 |
Dragonwyck |
1946 |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
G |
- |
| 13010 |
The Seventh Veil |
1945 |
Compton Bennett |
NR |
- |
| 13507 |
Come to the Stable |
1949 |
Henry Koster |
NR |
- |
| 11536 |
A Ship Bound for India |
1947 |
Ingmar Bergman |
NR |
- |
| 8734 |
They Won't Believe Me |
1947 |
Irving Pichel |
NR |
- |
| 15345 |
The Woman in White |
1948 |
Peter Godfrey |
NR |
- |
| 7238 |
Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
1940 |
John Cromwell |
NR |
- |
| 1111 |
Yankee Doodle Dandy |
1942 |
Michael Curtiz |
NR |
- |
| 2941 |
Going My Way |
1944 |
Leo McCarey |
NR |
- |
| 7701 |
Knute Rockne All American |
1940 |
Lloyd Bacon |
NR |
- |
| 8235 |
Boom Town |
1940 |
Jack Conway |
NR |
- |
| 11274 |
Strange Cargo |
1940 |
Frank Borzage |
NR |
- |
| 11405 |
Utamaro and His Five Women |
1946 |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
NR |
- |
| 10163 |
Edge of Darkness |
1943 |
Lewis Milestone |
NR |
- |
| 8102 |
The Passionate Friends |
1949 |
David Lean |
NR |
- |
| 4932 |
Johnny Belinda |
1948 |
Jean Negulesco |
NR |
- |
| 4610 |
Raw Deal |
1948 |
Anthony Mann |
NR |
- |
| 15236 |
Devotion |
1946 |
Curtis Bernhardt |
G |
- |
| 6369 |
Bitter Rice |
1949 |
Giuseppe De Santis |
NR |
- |
| 5491 |
Life with Father |
1947 |
Michael Curtiz |
NR |
- |
| 8428 |
The Record of a Tenement Gentleman |
1947 |
Yasujirô Ozu |
NR |
- |
| 6841 |
Broadway Melody of 1940 |
1940 |
Norman Taurog |
NR |
- |
| 14510 |
The Fighting 69th |
1940 |
William Keighley |
NR |
- |
| 9275 |
Brother Orchid |
1940 |
Lloyd Bacon |
NR |
- |
| 7735 |
Dressed to Kill |
1946 |
Roy William Neill |
NR |
- |
| 7769 |
The Keys of the Kingdom |
1944 |
John M. Stahl |
NR |
- |
| 10854 |
I'll Be Seeing You |
1944 |
William Dieterle, George Cukor |
NR |
- |
| 6592 |
In This Our Life |
1942 |
John Huston |
NR |
- |
| 6334 |
In Which We Serve |
1942 |
Noel Coward, David Lean |
NR |
- |
| 10699 |
The Farmer's Daughter |
1947 |
H.C. Potter |
NR |
- |
| 10969 |
Roxie Hart |
1942 |
William A. Wellman |
NR |
- |
| 1441 |
The Woman in the Window |
1944 |
Fritz Lang |
NR |
- |
| 5838 |
All Through The Night |
1942 |
Vincent Sherman |
NR |
- |
| 7124 |
The Earth Trembles |
1948 |
Luchino Visconti |
NR |
- |
| 2848 |
The Bells of St. Mary's |
1945 |
Leo McCarey |
NR |
- |
| 13307 |
Tokyo Joe |
1949 |
Stuart Heisler |
NR |
- |
| 17178 |
Summer Storm |
1944 |
Douglas Sirk |
NR |
- |
| 2474 |
Call Northside 777 |
1948 |
Henry Hathaway |
NR |
- |
| 611 |
Spellbound |
1945 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 10506 |
City For Conquest |
1940 |
Anatole Litvak |
NR |
- |
| 6873 |
Kitty Foyle |
1940 |
Sam Wood |
NR |
- |
| 11140 |
13 Rue Madeleine |
1947 |
Henry Hathaway |
NR |
- |
| 5843 |
Bedlam |
1946 |
Mark Robson |
NR |
- |
| 2145 |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
1945 |
Albert Lewin |
NR |
- |
| 14896 |
A Woman's Secret |
1949 |
Nicholas Ray |
NR |
- |
| 6711 |
A Woman's Face |
1941 |
George Cukor |
NR |
- |
| 7307 |
Road House |
1948 |
Jean Negulesco |
NR |
- |
| 8356 |
Johnny Eager |
1941 |
Mervyn LeRoy |
NR |
- |
| 6844 |
That Hamilton Woman |
1941 |
Alexander Korda |
NR |
- |
| 6804 |
To Each His Own |
1946 |
Mitchell Leisen |
NR |
- |
| 4011 |
The Curse of the Cat People |
1944 |
Gunther von Fritsch |
NR |
- |
| 11092 |
Daisy Kenyon |
1947 |
Otto Preminger |
NR |
- |
| 6006 |
The 47 Ronin |
1941 |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
NR |
- |
| 11593 |
The Shanghai Gesture |
1941 |
Josef von Sternberg |
NR |
- |
