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Best Movies of the '40s

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Top 100 movies of the 40s decade rated on FilmAffinity

1

The Great Dictator The Great Dictator

1940

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie ...

8.6

87,467
2

To Be or Not to Be To Be or Not to Be

1942

Ernst Lubitsch

Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack ...

8.5

37,073
3

Double Indemnity Double Indemnity

1944

Billy Wilder

Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson ...

8.4

35,834
4

Casablanca Casablanca

1942

Michael Curtiz

Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid ...

8.4

101,218
5

The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath

1940

John Ford

Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine ...

8.3

24,851
6

Bicycle Thieves Bicycle Thieves

1948

Vittorio De Sica

Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell ...

8.3

37,645
7

It's a Wonderful Life It's a Wonderful Life

1946

Frank Capra

James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore ...

8.2

56,776
8

Rebecca Rebecca

1940

Alfred Hitchcock

Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders ...

8.2

39,377
9

The Third Man The Third Man

1949

Carol Reed

Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli ...

8.2

46,812
10

Scarlet Street Scarlet Street

1945

Fritz Lang

Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea ...

8.2

15,405
11

The Best Years of Our Lives The Best Years of Our Lives

1946

William Wyler

Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Myrna Loy ...

8.2

9,558
12

Citizen Kane Citizen Kane

1941

Orson Welles

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane ...

8.2

81,734
13

How Green Was My Valley How Green Was My Valley

1941

John Ford

Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall ...

8.1

13,611
14

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948

John Huston

Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt ...

8.1

16,889
15

Rome, Open City Rome, Open City

1945

Roberto Rossellini

Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero ...

8.1

18,261
16

The Heiress The Heiress

1949

William Wyler

Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson ...

8.1

7,594
17

White Heat White Heat

1949

Raoul Walsh

James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien ...

8.1

11,607
18

Day of Wrath Day of Wrath

1943

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam ...

8.1

6,817
19

The Woman in the Window The Woman in the Window

1944

Fritz Lang

Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey ...

8.1

17,352
20

The Little Foxes The Little Foxes

1941

William Wyler

Bette Davis, Teresa Wright, Herbert Marshall ...

8.1

7,230
21

Laura Laura

1944

Otto Preminger

Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb ...

8.1

19,340
22

The Big Sleep The Big Sleep

1946

Howard Hawks

Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely ...

8.1

25,048
23

Out of the Past Out of the Past

1947

Jacques Tourneur

Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas ...

8.1

14,347
24

Notorious Notorious

1946

Alfred Hitchcock

Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains ...

8.1

22,092
25

Rope Rope

1948

Alfred Hitchcock

James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger ...

8.1

39,018
26

Children of Paradise Children of Paradise

1945

Marcel Carné

Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir ...

8.0

3,963
27

Late Spring Late Spring

1949

Yasujirō Ozu

Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Hohi Aoki ...

8.0

4,450
28

Brief Encounter Brief Encounter

1945

David Lean

Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway ...

8.0

14,073
29

The Philadelphia Story The Philadelphia Story

1940

George Cukor

Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart ...

8.0

28,261
30

Letter from an Unknown Woman Letter from an Unknown Woman

1948

Max Ophüls

Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians ...

8.0

9,510

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