IMDB - Top 50 - 1940s Movies

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The Top 50 1940s movies as voted by users of the Internet Movie Database.

Updated: December 28, 2010

  1. 1.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz
  2. 2.
    It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Frank Capra
  3. 3.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles
  4. 4.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder
  5. 5.
  6. 6.
    The Third Man (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carol Reed
  7. 7.
    Bicycle Thieves (The Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica
  8. 8.
    The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin
  9. 9.
    Rebecca
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  10. 10.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston
  11. 11.
    The Best Years of Our Lives - Special Edition
    by William Wyler
  12. 12.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford
  13. 13.
    Notorious (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  15. 15.
    The Big Sleep (Snap case)
    by Howard Hawks
  16. 16.
    Children of Paradise (The Criterion Collection)
    by Marcel Carné
  17. 17.
    The Heiress
    by William Wyler
  18. 18.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges
  19. 19.
    The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell
  21. 21.
    White Heat
    by Raoul Walsh
  22. 22.
    The Ox-Bow Incident
    by William A. Wellman
  24. 24.
    Laura (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger
  25. 25.
    The Lost Weekend
    by Billy Wilder
  26. 26.
    His Girl Friday

  27. 27.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  28. 28.
  29. 29.
    Great Expectations (The Criterion Collection)
    by David Lean
  30. 30.
    Shadow of a Doubt

  32. 32.
    The Philadelphia Story
    by George Cukor
  33. 33.
    Beauty and The Beast (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Cocteau
  34. 34.
    The Little Foxes
    by William Wyler
  35. 35.
    Arsenic and Old Lace
    by Frank Capra
  36. 36.
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger
  37. 37.
    I Remember Mama
    by George Stevens
  38. 38.
    Rope
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  39. 39.
    Out of the Past

  40. 40.
    The Shop Around the Corner
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  41. 41.
    To Have and Have Not (Snap Case)
    by Arthur Davis
  42. 42.
    Black Narcissus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger
  43. 43.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles
  44. 44.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    by Elia Kazan
  45. 45.
    Letter from an Unknown Woman
    by Max Ophüls
  46. 46.
    Key Largo (Snap Case)

  47. 47.
    Shoeshine (Sciuscia)
    by Vittorio de Sica
  48. 48.
    The Killers (1946)
    by Robert Siodmak
  49. 49.
    Hamlet (The Criterion Collection)

  50. 50.
    The Palm Beach Story

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Created by saucybetty on Sep 12, 2006.
 

Comments

greenfruit

Untitled — 2 years ago

No, Gilda came out in 1946.

But I agree, it’s a fantastic film.

I still think this is a pretty great list, though. There’s a lot of movies on it that are brilliant.

Aug 13, 12:29AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

allisoncm

Gilda — 4 years ago

I believe Gilda was ’39. such a great movie I agree.

Mar 18, 08:53PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

saucybetty

Untitled — 5 years ago

I can’t believe Gilda isn’t on this list. Those users over there at IMDB sure are tards.

Sep 13, 06:57PM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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