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IMDB's Top Rated "1940s" Titles

1. Casablanca (1942)
2. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
3. Citizen Kane (1941)
4. Double Indemnity (1944)
5. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
6. The Third Man (1949)
7. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
8. The Great Dictator (1940)
9. Rebecca (1940)
10. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
11. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
12. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
13. Notorious (1946)
14. The Big Sleep (1946)
15. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
16. The Red Shoes (1948)
17. Children of Paradise (1945)
18. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
19. The Heiress (1949)
20. Rome, Open City (1945)
21. White Heat (1949)
22. Brief Encounter (1945)
23. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
24. Laura (1944)
25. The Lost Weekend (1945)
26. His Girl Friday (1940)
27. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
28. Great Expectations (1946)
29. To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
30. The Lady Eve (1941)
31. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
32. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
33. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
34. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
35. I Remember Mama (1948)
36. Rope (1948)
37. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
38. The Little Foxes (1941)
39. Out of the Past (1947)
40. To Have and Have Not (1944)
41. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
42. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
43. Black Narcissus (1947)
44. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
45. Key Largo (1948)
46. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945)
47. Shoe-Shine (1946)
48. The Killers (1946)
49. Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
50. The Palm Beach Story (1942)