Best Movies of the '40s
Top 100 movies of the 40s decade rated on FilmAffinity
Charles Chaplin
- Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie ...
Ernst Lubitsch
- Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack ...
Billy Wilder
- Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson ...
Michael Curtiz
- Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid ...
John Ford
- Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine ...
Vittorio De Sica
- Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell ...
Alfred Hitchcock
- Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders ...
Carol Reed
- Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli ...
Frank Capra
- James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore ...
Fritz Lang
- Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea ...
William Wyler
- Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Myrna Loy ...
Orson Welles
- Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane ...
John Ford
- Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall ...
Roberto Rossellini
- Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero ...
John Huston
- Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt ...
William Wyler
- Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson ...
Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam ...
Raoul Walsh
- James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien ...
Marcel Carné
- Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir ...
Fritz Lang
- Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey ...
William Wyler
- Bette Davis, Teresa Wright, Herbert Marshall ...
Jacques Tourneur
- Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas ...
Otto Preminger
- Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb ...
Alfred Hitchcock
- Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains ...
Howard Hawks
- Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely ...
Alfred Hitchcock
- James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger ...
Yasujirō Ozu
- Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Hohi Aoki ...
David Lean
- Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway ...
George Cukor
- Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart ...
Roberto Rossellini
- Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Barbara Hintz ...
![The Great Dictator](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/the_great_dictator-416205081-mmed.jpg)
The Great Dictator (1940)
1
![To Be or Not to Be](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/to_be_or_not_to_be-104389643-msmall.jpg)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
2
![Double Indemnity](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/double_indemnity-575631064-mmed.jpg)
Double Indemnity (1944)
3
![Casablanca](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/casablanca-612211000-msmall.jpg)
Casablanca (1942)
4
![The Grapes of Wrath](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/the_grapes_of_wrath-283628957-msmall.jpg)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
5
![Bicycle Thieves](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/ladri_di_biciclette-629134933-mmed.jpg)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
6
![Rebecca](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/rebecca-109892780-msmall.jpg)
Rebecca (1940)
7
![The Third Man](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/the_third_man-366260443-mmed.jpg)
The Third Man (1949)
8
![It's a Wonderful Life](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/it_s_a_wonderful_life-564593017-msmall.jpg)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
9
![Scarlet Street](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/scarlet_street-813247084-mmed.jpg)
Scarlet Street (1945)
10
![The Best Years of Our Lives](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/the_best_years_of_our_lives-210643501-msmall.jpg)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
11
![Citizen Kane](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/citizen_kane-217208961-mmed.jpg)
Citizen Kane (1941)
12
![How Green Was My Valley](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/how_green_was_my_valley-901792506-msmall.jpg)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
13
![Rome, Open City](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/roma_citta_aperta-229814204-msmall.jpg)
Rome, Open City (1945)
14
![The Treasure of the Sierra Madre](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/the_treasure_of_the_sierra_madre-240833935-msmall.jpg)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
15
![The Heiress](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/the_heiress-734173418-mmed.jpg)
The Heiress (1949)
16
![Day of Wrath](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/vredens_dag-547750005-msmall.jpg)
Day of Wrath (1943)
17
![White Heat](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/white_heat-301821185-msmall.jpg)
White Heat (1949)
18
![Children of Paradise](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/les_enfants_du_paradis-157388263-msmall.jpg)
Children of Paradise (1945)
19
![The Woman in the Window](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/the_woman_in_the_window-939867653-msmall.jpg)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
20
![The Little Foxes](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/the_little_foxes-752428013-mmed.jpg)
The Little Foxes (1941)
21
![Out of the Past](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/out_of_the_past-955399232-mmed.jpg)
Out of the Past (1947)
22
![Laura](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/laura-654380969-mmed.jpg)
Laura (1944)
23
![Notorious](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/notorious-235569468-mmed.jpg)
Notorious (1946)
24
![The Big Sleep](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/the_big_sleep-406800782-msmall.jpg)
The Big Sleep (1946)
25
![Rope](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/rope-290931440-mmed.jpg)
Rope (1948)
26
![Late Spring](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/banshun_late_spring-429563919-msmall.jpg)
Late Spring (1949)
27
![Brief Encounter](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/brief_encounter-830826273-mmed.jpg)
Brief Encounter (1945)
28
![The Philadelphia Story](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/the_philadelphia_story-569220090-mmed.jpg)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
29
![Germany, Year Zero](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/germania_anno_zero_germany_year_zero-936873691-msmall.jpg)
Germany, Year Zero (1948)
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