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IMDB - Top 50 - 1940s Movies

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

(found at: http://www.imdb.com/chart/1940s)
1. Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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
  
7. The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)  
8. The Maltese Falcon
by John Huston
  
9. Rebecca - Criterion Collection  
10. Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
by Vittorio De Sica
  
11. The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition)  
12. The Big Sleep
by Howard Hawks
  
13. Kind Hearts and Coronets - Criterion Collection
by Robert Hamer
  
14. Notorious - Criterion Collection  
15. The Ox-Bow Incident
by William A. Wellman
  
16. Brief Encounter - Criterion Collection
by David Lean
  
17. Beauty and The Beast - Criterion Collection (Restored Edition)  
18. Shadow of a Doubt  
19. Le Corbeau (The Raven) - Criterion Collection
by Henri-Georges Clouzot
  
20. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Criterion Collection
by Emeric Pressburger
  
21. Out of the Past
by Jacques Tourneur
  
22.
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 Day of Wrath - Criterion Collection
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  
23. Great Expectations - Criterion Collection
by David Lean
  
24. Open City
by Roberto Rossellini
  
25. The Lost Weekend
by Billy Wilder
  
26. The Grapes of Wrath
by John Ford
  
27.
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 White Heat (1949)
by Raoul Walsh
  
28. The Best Years of Our Lives - Special Edition
by William Wyler
  
29. The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
by Emeric Pressburger
  
30. To Have and Have Not (Snap case)
by Howard Hawks
  
31. The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection
by Preston Sturges
  
32.
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 Sergeant York
by Howard Hawks
  
33. The Heiress (Universal Cinema Classics)  
34.
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 Dead of Night
by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
  
35. Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection
by Michael Powell
  
36. Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 1
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
37. Miracle on 34th Street (Special Edition)
by George Seaton
  
38. The Set-Up
by Robert Wise
  
39. Nightmare Alley
by Edmund Goulding
  
40. The Philadelphia Story
by George Cukor
  
41. Laura
by Rouben Mamoulian
  
42. Key Largo
by John Huston
  
43. Stray Dog - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
  
44. Rope  
45. His Girl Friday
by Howard Hawks
  
46. Germany Year Zero
by Roberto Rossellini
  
47. Arsenic and Old Lace
by Frank Capra
  
48. The Magnificent Ambersons  
49. Letter from an Unknown Woman
by Max Ophüls
  
50. My Darling Clementine
by John Ford
  
51.
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 Shoe-Shine (1947)
by Vittorio De Sica
  
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Created by IYG on Aug 24, 2007.