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

  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

  14. 15.
    The Big Sleep (Snap case)
    by Howard Hawks

  15. 17.
    The Heiress
    by William Wyler

  16. 18.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges

  17. 19.
    The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell

  18. 21.
    White Heat
    by Raoul Walsh

  19. 22.
    The Ox-Bow Incident
    by William A. Wellman

  20. 24.
    Laura (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger

  21. 25.
    The Lost Weekend
    by Billy Wilder

  22. 26.
    His Girl Friday

  23. 27.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  24. 28.

  25. 30.
    Shadow of a Doubt

  26. 32.
    The Philadelphia Story
    by George Cukor

  27. 33.
    Beauty and The Beast (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Cocteau

  28. 34.
    The Little Foxes
    by William Wyler

  29. 35.
    Arsenic and Old Lace
    by Frank Capra

  30. 37.
    I Remember Mama
    by George Stevens

  31. 38.
    Rope
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  32. 39.
    Out of the Past

  33. 40.
    The Shop Around the Corner
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  34. 41.
    To Have and Have Not (Snap Case)
    by Arthur Davis

  35. 42.
    Black Narcissus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger

  36. 43.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles

  37. 44.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    by Elia Kazan

  38. 45.
    Letter from an Unknown Woman
    by Max Ophüls

  39. 46.
    Key Largo (Snap Case)

  40. 47.
    Shoeshine (Sciuscia)
    by Vittorio de Sica

  41. 48.
    The Killers (1946)
    by Robert Siodmak

  42. 49.
    Hamlet (The Criterion Collection)

  43. 50.
    The Palm Beach Story

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Created by saucybetty on Sep 12, 2006.
 

Comments

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.


Gilda — 3 years ago

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


Untitled — 5 years ago

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




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