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Top Films of the 1940s

My top 50 films from 1940 - 1949.

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  • Late Spring

    1

  • Citizen Kane

    2

  • The Third Man

    3

  • The Red Shoes

    4

  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    5

  • Casablanca

    6

  • Black Narcissus

    7

  • Odd Man Out

    8

  • Bicycle Thieves

    9

  • His Girl Friday

    10

  • The Grapes of Wrath

    11

  • To Be or Not to Be

    12

  • Paisan

    13

  • The Big Sleep

    14

  • Brief Encounter

    15

  • The Magnificent Ambersons

    16

  • Rome, Open City

    17

  • The Maltese Falcon

    18

  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    19

  • Nightmare Alley

    20

  • Double Indemnity

    21

  • Beauty and the Beast

    22

  • A Matter of Life and Death

    23

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    24

  • Stray Dog

    25

  • Notorious

    26

  • My Darling Clementine

    27

  • The Best Years of Our Lives

    28

  • Fantasia

    29

  • Bambi

    30

  • Drunken Angel

    31

  • A Hen in the Wind

    32

  • Shadow of a Doubt

    33

  • Rebecca

    34

  • Women of the Night

    35

  • Utamaro and His Five Women

    36

  • The Great Dictator

    37

  • Spring in a Small Town

    38

  • Great Expectations

    39

  • Detour

    40

  • A Canterbury Tale

    41

  • Dead of Night

    42

  • Germany, Year Zero

    43

  • One Wonderful Sunday

    44

  • The Passionate Friends

    45

  • Flame of My Love

    46

  • This Happy Breed

    47

  • Mildred Pierce

    48

  • White Heat

    49

  • Neecha Nagar

    50