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
  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 - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
    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 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  10. 10.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston
  12. 12.
    Notorious (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  13. 13.
    The Big Sleep [Region 2]
    by Howard Hawks
  14. 14.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford
  16. 16.
    The Best Years of Our Lives - Special Edition
    by William Wyler
  17. 17.
    Open City
    by Roberto Rossellini
  18. 18.
  19. 19.
    The Ox-Bow Incident
    by William A. Wellman
  20. 20.
    The Lost Weekend
    by Billy Wilder
  21. 21.
    The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell
  22. 22.
    Great Expectations (The Criterion Collection)
    by David Lean
  23. 23.
    Shadow of a Doubt

  24. 24.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges
  25. 25.
    I Remember Mama
    by George Stevens
  26. 26.
    Beauty and The Beast (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Cocteau
  27. 27.
  28. 28.
    Laura (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger
  29. 29.
    His Girl Friday

  30. 30.
    Rope

  31. 31.
    White Heat (1949)
    by Raoul Walsh
  32. 32.
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger
  33. 33.
    Out of the Past

  34. 34.
    To Have and Have Not (Snap Case)
    by Arthur Davis
  35. 35.
    The Little Foxes
    by William Wyler
  36. 36.
    The Philadelphia Story
    by George Cukor
  37. 37.
    Arsenic and Old Lace
    by Frank Capra
  38. 38.
    Black Narcissus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger
  39. 39.
    Key Largo
    by John Huston
  40. 40.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles
  41. 41.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  42. 42.
    Hamlet (The Criterion Collection)

  43. 43.
    Miracle on 34th Street (Special Edition)
    by George Seaton
  44. 44.
    Children of Paradise (The Criterion Collection)
    by Marcel Carné
  45. 45.
    The Palm Beach Story

  46. 46.
    Shoe-Shine (1947)
    by Vittorio De Sica
  47. 47.
    Sergeant York (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks
  48. 48.
    The More the Merrier
    by George Stevens
  50. 50.
    Lifeboat (Special Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
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Created by IYG on Aug 24, 2007.
 

Comments

mizoguchi

Untitled — 4 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.

Sep 16, 06:06AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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