The Top 100 Movies of the 1940s

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The Top 100 Movies of the 1940s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
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26 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz PG -
35 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder NR -
42 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed NR -
44 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles NR -
63 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
73 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Vittorio De Sica NR -
79 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston NR -
87 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
110 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor NR -
111 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger PG -
117 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
122 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks NR -
125 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur NR -
133 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks NR -
138 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin G -
139 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston NR -
147 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
151 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra NR -
153 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean NR -
158 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
166 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
168 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges NR -
171 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler NR -
172 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger NR -
190 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
191 The Shop Around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
227 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
235 Late Spring 1949 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
242 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh NR -
280 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra NR -
292 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné NR -
322 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges NR -
328 Key Largo 1948 John Huston NR -
336 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford NR -
338 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson NR -
366 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer NR -
372 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks NR -
379 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman NR -
381 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor NR -
393 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz NR -
406 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder NR -
412 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa NR -
423 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles PG -
445 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini NR -
468 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles NR -
484 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau NR -
502 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford NR -
544 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor NR -
546 Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks NR -
605 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak NR -
625 Lifeboat 1944 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
634 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
640 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
669 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
744 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur NR -
799 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli NR -
826 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Edward Dmytryk NR -
853 Scarlet Street 1945 Fritz Lang NR -
870 The Stranger 1946 Orson Welles NR -
880 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett NR -
895 Letter From An Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls NR -
899 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler NR -
912 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer NR -
918 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper NR -
963 The Wolf Man 1941 George Waggner NR -
971 Fantasia 1940 James Algar G -
972 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin NR -
981 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges NR -
1004 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl NR -
1010 High Sierra 1941 Raoul Walsh NR -
1040 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor NR -
1057 Nightmare Alley 1947 Edmund Goulding NR -
1060 Dark Passage 1947 Delmer Daves NR -
1065 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean NR -
1094 Saboteur 1942 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
1099 Meet John Doe 1941 Frank Capra NR -
1107 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler NR -
1127 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford NR -
1133 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer NR -
1158 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz NR -
1172 The Set-Up 1949 Robert Wise NR -
1190 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood NR -
1192 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz NR -
1210 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford NR -
1229 Drunken Angel 1948 Akira Kurosawa PG13 -
1262 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur NR -
1290 The Naked City 1948 Jules Dassin NR -
1292 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer NR -
1331 And Then There Were None 1945 René Clair NR -
1339 I Know Where I'm Going! 1945 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
1359 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed NR -
1376 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks NR -
1402 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 Charles Barton NR -
1435 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford NR -
1456 Brute Force 1947 Jules Dassin NR -
1464 The Woman in the Window 1944 Fritz Lang NR -
1472 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton G -
1486 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid NR -
1495 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly NR -
1531 The Fallen Idol 1948 Carol Reed NR -

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