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 ...
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She Came to Me 
Vittorio De Sica- Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell ...
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders ...
Carol Reed- Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard ...
- 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 ...
Marcel Carné- Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir ...
Carl Theodor Dreyer- Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam ...
- Raoul Walsh
- James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien ...
- William Wyler
- Bette Davis, Teresa Wright, Herbert Marshall ...
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She Came to Me
- Fritz Lang
- Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey ...
- Howard Hawks
- Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely ...
- Jacques Tourneur
- Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas ...
- Otto Preminger
- Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb ...
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains ...
- 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 (1940)
1
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
2
Double Indemnity (1944)
3
Casablanca (1942)
4
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
5
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
6
Rebecca (1940)
7
The Third Man (1949)
8
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
9
Scarlet Street (1945)
10
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
11
Citizen Kane (1941)
12
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
13
Rome, Open City (1945)
14
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
15
The Heiress (1949)
16
Children of Paradise (1945)
17
Day of Wrath (1943)
18
White Heat (1949)
19
The Little Foxes (1941)
20
The Woman in the Window (1944)
21
The Big Sleep (1946)
22
Out of the Past (1947)
23
Laura (1944)
24
Notorious (1946)
25
Rope (1948)
26
Late Spring (1949)
27
Brief Encounter (1945)
28
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
29
Germany, Year Zero (1948)
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