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. 160 new

    Act of Violence

    1948, in 4 top lists Check
  2. 92 new

    Air Force

    1943, in 2 top lists Check
  3. 68 new

    All That Money Can Buy

    1941 — a.k.a. The Devil and Daniel Webster, in 4 top lists Check
  4. 111 new

    All the King's Men

    1949, in 8 top lists Check
  5. 231 new

    Arsenic and Old Lace

    1944, in 9 top lists Check
  6. 243 new

    At Land

    1944, in 6 top lists Check
  7. 143 new

    Bad Luck Blackie

    1949, in 2 top lists Check
  8. 73 new

    Ball of Fire

    1941, in 6 top lists Check
  9. 114 new

    Bambi

    1942, in 13 top lists Check
  10. 212 new

    The Bank Dick

    1940, in 8 top lists Check
  11. 2 new

    Banshun

    1949 — a.k.a. Late Spring, in 16 top lists Check
  12. 52 new

    Begone Dull Care

    1950, in 7 top lists Check
  13. 10 new

    La belle et la bête

    1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check
  14. 17 new

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  15. 15 new

    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  16. 7 new

    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  17. 200 new

    Blood and Sand

    1941, in 1 top list Check
  18. 218 new

    Bluebeard

    1944, in 1 top list Check
  19. 146 new

    Body and Soul

    1947, in 6 top lists Check
  20. 23 new

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  21. 86 new

    Brute Force

    1947, in 6 top lists Check
  22. 27 new

    A Canterbury Tale

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  23. 129 new

    Canyon Passage

    1946, in 2 top lists Check
  24. 8 new

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  25. 56 new

    Cat People

    1942, in 15 top lists Check
  26. 101 new

    The Chase

    1946, in 3 top lists Check
  27. 96 new

    Chichi ariki

    1942 — a.k.a. There Was a Father, in 3 top lists Check
  28. 123 new

    Christmas in July

    1940, in 1 top list Check
  29. 163 new

    Le ciel est à vous

    1944 — a.k.a. The Woman Who Dared, in 4 top lists Check
  30. 1 new

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  31. 115 new

    Cluny Brown

    1946, in 3 top lists Check
  32. 249 new

    Cobra Woman

    1944, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 176 new

    Colorado Territory

    1949, in 3 top lists Check
  34. 44 new

    Le corbeau

    1943 — a.k.a. The Raven, in 9 top lists Check
  35. 203 new

    Criss Cross

    1949, in 6 top lists Check
  36. 250 new

    Crossfire

    1947, in 7 top lists Check
  37. 35 new

    The Curse of the Cat People

    1944, in 1 top list Check
  38. 215 new

    Daisy Kenyon

    1947, in 2 top lists Check
  39. 239 new

    Les dames du Bois de Boulogne

    1945 — a.k.a. The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne, in 7 top lists Check
  40. 103 new

    Dead of Night

    1945, in 9 top lists Check
  41. 147 new

    Detour

    1945, in 16 top lists Check
  42. 169 new

    The Devil and Miss Jones

    1941, in 1 top list Check
  43. 125 new

    A Diary for Timothy

    1945, in 5 top lists Check
  44. 85 new

    Die Mörder sind unter uns

    1946 — a.k.a. Murderers Among Us, in 5 top lists Check
  45. 25 new

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  46. 171 new

    The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The...

    1942, in 1 top list Check
  47. 210 new

    Dreams That Money Can Buy

    1947, in 2 top lists Check
  48. 79 new

    Dumbo

    1941, in 9 top lists Check
  49. 21 new

    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
  50. 64 new

    The Fallen Idol

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
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