Movie Forums: Top 100 of the 1940s

1942

 1

  Casablanca

1949

 2

  The Third Man

1941

 3

  Citizen Kane

1941

 4

  The Maltese Falcon

1946

 5

  It's a Wonderful Life

1944

 6

  Double Indemnity

1948

 7

  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948

 8

  Rope

1948

 9

  Bicycle Thieves

1940

 10

  Rebecca

1940

 11

  The Great Dictator

1944

 12

  Laura

1940

 13

  The Grapes of Wrath

1940

 14

  His Girl Friday

1946

 15

  Notorious

1946

 16

  The Best Years of Our Lives

1943

 17

  Shadow of a Doubt

1944

 18

  Arsenic and Old Lace

1940

 19

  The Shop Around the Corner

1940

 20

  Fantasia

1945

 21

  Brief Encounter

1946

 22

  The Big Sleep

1940

 23

  Pinocchio

1945

 24

  The Lost Weekend

1949

 25

  Late Spring

1949

 26

  Kind Hearts and Coronets

1943

 27

  Day of Wrath

1948

 28

  Letter from an Unknown Woman

1946

 29

  The Killers

1945

 30

  Children of Paradise

1943

 31

  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

1947

 32

  Out of the Past

1947

 33

  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1946

 34

  A Matter of Life and Death

1942

 35

  Bambi

1941

 36

  Dumbo

1940

 37

  The Philadelphia Story

1948

 38

  The Red Shoes

1943

 39

  The Ox-Bow Incident

1941

 40

  How Green Was My Valley

1944

 41

  Gaslight

1949

 42

  White Heat

1941

 43

  The Little Foxes

1947

 44

  The Lady from Shanghai

1945

 45

  Mildred Pierce

1941

 46

  The Devil and Daniel Webster

1945

 47

  Leave Her to Heaven

1944

 48

  Meet Me in St. Louis

1942

 49

  Cat People

1941

 50

  Sergeant York

1943

 51

  I Walked with a Zombie

1945

 52

  The Picture of Dorian Gray

1947

 53

  Miracle on 34th Street

1948

 54

  Drunken Angel

1947

 55

  Odd Man Out

1948

 56

  Red River

1941

 57

  The Wolf Man

1946

 58

  My Darling Clementine

1942

 59

  The Pride of the Yankees

1945

 60

  Dead of Night

1948

 61

  Portrait of Jennie

1946

 62

  Beauty and the Beast

1943

 63

  Heaven Can Wait

1949

 64

  Stray Dog

1948

 65

  Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

1942

 66

  Yankee Doodle Dandy

1949

 67

  All the King's Men

1941

 68

  Sullivan's Travels

1943

 69

  Meshes of the Afternoon

1944

 70

  The Suspect

1941

 71

  Suspicion

1946

 72

  Gilda

1945

 73

  Scarlet Street

1945

 74

  Rome, Open City

1944

 75

  Lifeboat

1949

 76

  A Letter to Three Wives

1948

 77

  Key Largo

1942

 78

  Now, Voyager

1947

 79

  Black Narcissus

1947

 80

  Nightmare Alley

1947

 81

  Kiss of Death

1946

 82

  The Postman Always Rings Twice

1942

 83

  To Be or Not To Be

1948

 84

  The Naked City

1942

 85

  The Magnificent Ambersons

1946

 86

  Great Expectations

1949

 87

  Sands of Iwo Jima

1948

 88

  Easter Parade

1943

 89

  The Raven

1945

 90

  Blithe Spirit

1947

 91

  Ride the Pink Horse

1946

 92

  The Spiral Staircase

1940

 93

  Waterloo Bridge

1945

 94

  Detour

1943

 95

  Education for Death

1944

 96

  The Uninvited

1947

 97

  King-Size Canary

1940

 98

  The Letter

1941

 99

  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1945

 100

  The Body Snatcher