IMDB - Top 50 - 1940s Movies

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

  1. 1.
    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  2. 2.
    It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Frank Capra

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  3. 3.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  4. 4.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

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  6. 7.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

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  7. 8.
    Rebecca - Criterion Collection

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  8. 9.
    Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  9. 11.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

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  10. 12.
    Kind Hearts and Coronets - Criterion Collection
    by Robert Hamer

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  11. 13.
    Notorious - Criterion Collection

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  12. 14.
    The Ox-Bow Incident
    by William A. Wellman

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  13. 15.
    Brief Encounter - Criterion Collection
    by David Lean

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  14. 17.
    Shadow of a Doubt

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  15. 18.
    Le Corbeau (The Raven) - Criterion Collection
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

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  16. 19.
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  17. 20.
    Out of the Past
    by Jacques Tourneur

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  18. 21.
    Day of Wrath - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  19. 22.
    Great Expectations - Criterion Collection
    by David Lean

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  20. 23.
    Open City
    by Roberto Rossellini

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  21. 24.
    The Lost Weekend
    by Billy Wilder

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  22. 25.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

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  23. 26.
    White Heat (1949)
    by Raoul Walsh

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  24. 27.
    The Best Years of Our Lives - Special Edition
    by William Wyler

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  25. 28.
    The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  26. 29.
    To Have and Have Not (Snap case)
    by Howard Hawks

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  27. 30.
    The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection
    by Preston Sturges

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  28. 31.
    Sergeant York
    by Howard Hawks

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  30. 33.
    Dead of Night
    by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer

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  31. 34.
    Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell

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  32. 35.
    Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 1
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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  33. 36.
    Miracle on 34th Street (Special Edition)
    by George Seaton

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  34. 37.
    The Set-Up
    by Robert Wise

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  35. 38.
    Nightmare Alley
    by Edmund Goulding

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  36. 39.
    The Philadelphia Story
    by George Cukor

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  37. 40.
    Laura
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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  38. 41.
    Key Largo
    by John Huston

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  39. 42.
    Stray Dog - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  40. 43.
    Rope

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  41. 44.
    His Girl Friday
    by Howard Hawks

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  42. 45.
    Germany Year Zero
    by Roberto Rossellini

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  43. 46.
    Arsenic and Old Lace
    by Frank Capra

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  44. 47.
    The Magnificent Ambersons

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  45. 48.
    Letter from an Unknown Woman
    by Max Ophüls

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  46. 49.
    My Darling Clementine
    by John Ford

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  47. 50.
    Shoe-Shine (1947)
    by Vittorio De Sica

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Created by IYG on Aug 24, 2007.
 

Comments

Untitled — 2 years ago

Well, most of the best are present + correct, and good to see Late Spring deservedly in the top 5. I’d like Letter from an Unknown Woman to be higher, and Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu) is a neglected masterpiece that should be in.