CriterionForum Lists Project - 1940s (Version 3.0)

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Every five years or so the film fans at Criterionforum.org spend half a year discussing the films of a certain decade - viewing and reviewing classics, championing favorites, and highlighting overlooked/underrated films. At the end of the discussion period they each submit lists of their fifty favorite films from the decade, and those lists are then compiled into a top 100, as well as a list of "also-rans" (the films which received more than one vote, but not enough to make the top 100.) This list includes both the top 100 and the "also-rans."

These are the results of the poll conducted from August 2011 to February 2012.

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  1. 87 new

    Ossessione

    1943, in 12 top lists Check
  2. 88 new

    Monsieur Verdoux

    1947, in 11 top lists Check
  3. 57 new

    Nora inu

    1949 — a.k.a. Stray Dog, in 9 top lists Check
  4. 231 new

    Arsenic and Old Lace

    1944, in 9 top lists Check
  5. 194 new

    Under Capricorn

    1949, in 3 top lists Check
  6. 76 new

    Odd Man Out

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  7. 208 new

    Oliver Twist

    1948, in 6 top lists Check
  8. 15 new

    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  9. 134 new

    Gaslight

    1944, in 12 top lists Check
  10. 39 new

    White Heat

    1949, in 15 top lists Check
  11. 237 new

    The Postman Always Rings Twice

    1946, in 9 top lists Check
  12. 104 new

    Mildred Pierce

    1945, in 17 top lists Check
  13. 25 new

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  14. 99 new

    The Woman in the Window

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  15. 32 new

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    1949, in 21 top lists Check
  16. 135 new

    Quai des Orfèvres

    1947 — a.k.a. Jenny Lamour, in 7 top lists Check
  17. 107 new

    The Killers

    1946, in 15 top lists Check
  18. 113 new

    They Made Me a Fugitive

    1947 — a.k.a. I Became a Criminal, in 3 top lists Check
  19. 127 new

    High Sierra

    1941, in 8 top lists Check
  20. 136 new

    Key Largo

    1948, in 7 top lists Check
  21. 42 new

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
  22. 247 new

    Manon

    1949, in 2 top lists Check
  23. 178 new

    Kiss of Death

    1947, in 5 top lists Check
  24. 86 new

    Brute Force

    1947, in 6 top lists Check
  25. 128 new

    Whirlpool

    1950, in 1 top list Check
  26. 122 new

    Yellow Sky

    1948, in 2 top lists Check
  27. 187 new

    Yoidore tenshi

    1948 — a.k.a. Drunken Angel, in 7 top lists Check
  28. 232 new

    The Naked City

    1948, in 9 top lists Check
  29. 75 new

    The Shanghai Gesture

    1941, in 3 top lists Check
  30. 201 new

    The Stranger

    1946, in 3 top lists Check
  31. 137 new

    They Live by Night

    1948, in 13 top lists Check
  32. 44 new

    Le corbeau

    1943 — a.k.a. The Raven, in 9 top lists Check
  33. 158 new

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
  34. 130 new

    T-Men

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
  35. 154 new

    Moonrise

    1948, in 4 top lists Check
  36. 241 new

    The Upturned Glass

    1947, in 1 top list Check
  37. 30 new

    Laura

    1944, in 21 top lists Check
  38. 14 new

    The Lady from Shanghai

    1947, in 9 top lists Check
  39. 242 new

    Phantom Lady

    1944, in 5 top lists Check
  40. 250 new

    Crossfire

    1947, in 7 top lists Check
  41. 203 new

    Criss Cross

    1949, in 6 top lists Check
  42. 170 new

    Rope

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  43. 41 new

    Force of Evil

    1948, in 13 top lists Check
  44. 177 new

    He Walked by Night

    1948, in 2 top lists Check
  45. 70 new

    Raw Deal

    1948, in 5 top lists Check
  46. 89 new

    Hangover Square

    1945, in 3 top lists Check
  47. 218 new

    Bluebeard

    1944, in 1 top list Check
  48. 147 new

    Detour

    1945, in 16 top lists Check
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Last updated on Mar 3, 2012; source