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Best Movies of the '40s

Top 100 movies of the 40s decade rated on FilmAffinity

- 1
- The Great Dictator
  
  1940
  
  Charles Chaplin
  
  Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell ...
- 8.6
  
  86,723
- 2
- To Be or Not to Be
  
  1942
  
  Ernst Lubitsch
  
  Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Stanley Ridges, Felix Bressart ...
- 8.5
  
  36,431
- 3
- Double Indemnity
  
  1944
  
  Billy Wilder
  
  Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Tom Powers, Porter Hall ...
- 8.4
  
  35,120
- 4
- Casablanca
  
  1942
  
  Michael Curtiz
  
  Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt ...
- 8.4
  
  99,864
- 5
- The Grapes of Wrath
  
  1940
  
  John Ford
  
  Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon ...
- 8.3
  
  24,253
- 6
- Bicycle Thieves
  
  1948
  
  Vittorio De Sica
  
  Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci ...
- 8.3
  
  36,894
- 7
- Rebecca
  
  1940
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce ...
- 8.2
  
  38,724
- 8
- The Third Man
  
  1949
  
  Carol Reed
  
  Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee ...
- 8.2
  
  45,925
- 9
- It's a Wonderful Life
  
  1946
  
  Frank Capra
  
  James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers ...
- 8.2
  
  55,775
- 10
- Scarlet Street
  
  1945
  
  Fritz Lang
  
  Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Jess Baker, Margaret Lindsay ...
- 8.2
  
  14,929
- 11
- The Best Years of Our Lives
  
  1946
  
  William Wyler
  
  Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Harold Russell, Teresa Wright ...
- 8.2
  
  9,218
- 12
- How Green Was My Valley
  
  1941
  
  John Ford
  
  Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, John Loder ...
- 8.2
  
  13,076
- 13
- Citizen Kane
  
  1941
  
  Orson Welles
  
  Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris, Dorothy Comingore ...
- 8.2
  
  80,881
- 14
- Rome, Open City
  
  1945
  
  Roberto Rossellini
  
  Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Maria Michi, Harry Feist ...
- 8.1
  
  17,765
- 15
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  
  1948
  
  John Huston
  
  Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane ...
- 8.1
  
  16,295
- 16
- The Heiress
  
  1949
  
  William Wyler
  
  Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Vanessa Brown ...
- 8.1
  
  7,412
- 17
- White Heat
  
  1949
  
  Raoul Walsh
  
  James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran ...
- 8.1
  
  11,395
- 18
- Day of Wrath
  
  1943
  
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
  
  Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Anna Svierkier, Albert Hoeberg
- 8.1
  
  6,604
- 19
- The Woman in the Window
  
  1944
  
  Fritz Lang
  
  Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea ...
- 8.1
  
  16,962
- 20
- The Little Foxes
  
  1941
  
  William Wyler
  
  Bette Davis, Teresa Wright, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Collinge, Carl Benton Reid ...
- 8.1
  
  7,016
- 21
- The Big Sleep
  
  1946
  
  Howard Hawks
  
  Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone ...
- 8.1
  
  24,626
- 22
- Children of Paradise
  
  1945
  
  Marcel Carné
  
  Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, Arletty, Marcel Herrand ...
- 8.1
  
  3,794
- 23
- Out of the Past
  
  1947
  
  Jacques Tourneur
  
  Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb ...
- 8.1
  
  13,932
- 24
- Laura
  
  1944
  
  Otto Preminger
  
  Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, Dorothy Adams
- 8.1
  
  19,069
- 25
- Notorious
  
  1946
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin ...
- 8.1
  
  21,485
- 26
- Rope
  
  1948
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Joan Chandler ...
- 8.1
  
  38,089
- 27
- Late Spring
  
  1949
  
  Yasujirō Ozu
  
  Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Hohi Aoki, Masao Mishima, Kuniko Miyake ...
- 8.0
  
  4,311
- 28
- Brief Encounter
  
  1945
  
  David Lean
  
  Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond ...
- 8.0
  
  13,498
- 29
- Germany, Year Zero
  
  1948
  
  Roberto Rossellini
  
  Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Barbara Hintz, Franz-Otto Krüger, Alexandra Manys, Erich Gühne
- 8.0
  
  8,487
- 30
- Letter from an Unknown Woman
  
  1948
  
  Max Ophüls
  
  Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith, Carol Yorke
- 8.0
  
  9,311

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