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IMDB - Top 50 - 1940s Movies

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

Updated: October 31, 2009

(found at: http://www.imdb.com/chart/1940s)
1. Casablanca
by Michael Curtiz
  
2. It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
by Frank Capra
  
3. Citizen Kane
by Orson Welles
  
4. Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
by Billy Wilder
  
5. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by John Huston
  
6. The Third Man (50th Anniversary Edition) - Criterion Collection  
7. Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
by Vittorio De Sica
  
8. Rebecca  
9. The Maltese Falcon
by John Huston
  
10. The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition)  
11. Kind Hearts and Coronets - Criterion Collection
by Robert Hamer
  
12. Notorious - Criterion Collection  
13. The Big Sleep (Snap case)
by Howard Hawks
  
14. Brief Encounter - Criterion Collection
by David Lean
  
15. The Grapes of Wrath
by John Ford
  
16. The Best Years of Our Lives - Special Edition
by William Wyler
  
17. Roma, Città Aperta (Open City) in Original Italian
by Roberto Rossellini
  
18. The Heiress
by William Wyler
  
19. The Ox-Bow Incident
by William A. Wellman
  
20. The Lost Weekend
by Billy Wilder
  
21. The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
by Emeric Pressburger
  
22. Great Expectations - Criterion Collection
by David Lean
  
23. Shadow of a Doubt  
24. Sullivan's Travels - Criterion Collection  
25. I Remember Mama
by George Stevens
  
26. The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection
by Preston Sturges
  
27. Laura
by Rouben Mamoulian
  
28. His Girl Friday
by Howard Hawks
  
29. Beauty and The Beast - Criterion Collection (Restored Edition)  
30. Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection
by Michael Powell
  
31. To Have and Have Not (Snap case)
by Howard Hawks
  
32. Rope
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
33. The Philadelphia Story
by George Cukor
  
34. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Criterion Collection
by Emeric Pressburger
  
35. The Little Foxes
by William Wyler
  
36. Out of the Past
by Jacques Tourneur
  
37. Arsenic and Old Lace
by Frank Capra
  
38. White Heat
by Raoul Walsh
  
39. Key Largo (Snap Case)
by John Huston
  
40. The Magnificent Ambersons  
41. The Palm Beach Story
by Preston Sturges
  
42. The More the Merrier
by George Stevens
  
43. Hamlet - Criterion Collection  
44. Miracle on 34th Street
by George Seaton
  
45.
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 Sergeant York
by Howard Hawks
  
46. Good News
by Charles Walters
  
47. Lifeboat (Special Edition)
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
48. To Be or Not to Be
by Ernst Lubitsch
  
49.
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 The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek  
50. A Matter of Life and Death (AKA Stairway to Heaven)
by Emeric Pressburger
  
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Created by saucybetty on Sep 12, 2006.