TSPDT Top 25 Films per Year: 1940s

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From They Shoot Pictures Don't They, 2015 edition. Top 25 films from each year 1940-49. Note that the years don't always correlate exactly with IMDB's years.

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  1. 26 new

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  2. 151 new

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  3. 51 new

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  4. 6 new

    Fantasia

    1940, in 20 top lists Check
  5. 56 new

    Bambi

    1942, in 13 top lists Check
  6. 7 new

    Pinocchio

    1940, in 16 top lists Check
  7. 31 new

    Dumbo

    1941, in 9 top lists Check
  8. 201 new

    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
  9. 29 new

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
  10. 2 new

    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940, in 24 top lists Check
  11. 3 new

    The Great Dictator

    1940, in 25 top lists Check
  12. 226 new

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  13. 160 new

    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  14. 110 new

    Arsenic and Old Lace

    1944, in 9 top lists Check
  15. 5 new

    The Philadelphia Story

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  16. 1 new

    His Girl Friday

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  17. 152 new

    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
  18. 102 new

    Meet Me in St. Louis

    1944, in 15 top lists Check
  19. 8 new

    Rebecca

    1940, in 23 top lists Check
  20. 206 new

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  21. 101 new

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  22. 77 new

    Meshes of the Afternoon

    1943, in 10 top lists Check
  23. 30 new

    How Green Was My Valley

    1941, in 11 top lists Check
  24. 204 new

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  25. 212 new

    Rope

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  26. 128 new

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  27. 52 new

    The Magnificent Ambersons

    1942, in 15 top lists Check
  28. 157 new

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  29. 155 new

    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  30. 198 new

    Miracle on 34th Street

    1947, in 7 top lists Check
  31. 11 new

    The Bank Dick

    1940, in 8 top lists Check
  32. 161 new

    Great Expectations

    1946, in 17 top lists Check
  33. 140 new

    Spellbound

    1945, in 8 top lists Check
  34. 27 new

    The Lady Eve

    1941, in 20 top lists Check
  35. 159 new

    La belle et la bête

    1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check
  36. 28 new

    Sullivan's Travels

    1941, in 24 top lists Check
  37. 61 new

    Yankee Doodle Dandy

    1942, in 12 top lists Check
  38. 164 new

    Duel in the Sun

    1946, in 7 top lists Check
  39. 126 new

    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
  40. 215 new

    Hamlet

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  41. 108 new

    The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth...

    1944 — a.k.a. Henry V, in 12 top lists Check
  42. 153 new

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 23 top lists Check
  43. 127 new

    Roma città aperta

    1945 — a.k.a. Rome, Open City, in 23 top lists Check
  44. 79 new

    Shadow of a Doubt

    1943, in 15 top lists Check
  45. 105 new

    Laura

    1944, in 21 top lists Check
  46. 242 new

    Adam's Rib

    1949, in 8 top lists Check
  47. 57 new

    Cat People

    1942, in 15 top lists Check
  48. 141 new

    The Lost Weekend

    1945, in 17 top lists Check
  49. 103 new

    Ivan Groznyy

    1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part I, in 19 top lists Check
  50. 114 new

    Going My Way

    1944, in 6 top lists Check
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