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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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
26 new
Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
101 new
Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
226 new
The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
201 new
Ladri di biciclette
1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check -
151 new
It's a Wonderful Life
1946, in 33 top lists Check -
157 new
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946, in 30 top lists Check -
29 new
The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 27 top lists Check -
204 new
The Red Shoes
1948, in 27 top lists Check -
159 new
La belle et la bête
1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check -
3 new
The Great Dictator
1940, in 25 top lists Check -
206 new
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948, in 25 top lists Check -
2 new
The Grapes of Wrath
1940, in 24 top lists Check -
152 new
Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
28 new
Sullivan's Travels
1941, in 24 top lists Check -
53 new
To Be or Not to Be
1942, in 24 top lists Check -
153 new
A Matter of Life and Death
1946, in 23 top lists Check -
8 new
Rebecca
1940, in 23 top lists Check -
127 new
Roma città aperta
1945 — a.k.a. Rome, Open City, in 23 top lists Check -
160 new
The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
128 new
Brief Encounter
1945, in 22 top lists Check -
1 new
His Girl Friday
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
5 new
The Philadelphia Story
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
126 new
Les enfants du paradis
1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check -
105 new
Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
6 new
Fantasia
1940, in 20 top lists Check -
228 new
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949, in 20 top lists Check -
27 new
The Lady Eve
1941, in 20 top lists Check -
154 new
My Darling Clementine
1946, in 20 top lists Check -
103 new
Ivan Groznyy
1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part I, in 19 top lists Check -
161 new
Great Expectations
1946, in 17 top lists Check -
231 new
Gun Crazy
1950, in 17 top lists Check -
141 new
The Lost Weekend
1945, in 17 top lists Check -
134 new
Mildred Pierce
1945, in 17 top lists Check -
227 new
Banshun
1949 — a.k.a. Late Spring, in 16 top lists Check -
130 new
Detour
1945, in 16 top lists Check -
76 new
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943, in 16 top lists Check -
176 new
Out of the Past
1947, in 16 top lists Check -
7 new
Pinocchio
1940, in 16 top lists Check -
205 new
Red River
1948, in 16 top lists Check -
106 new
To Have and Have Not
1944, in 16 top lists Check -
155 new
Black Narcissus
1947, in 15 top lists Check -
57 new
Cat People
1942, in 15 top lists Check -
158 new
Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor
1958 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot, in 15 top lists Check -
167 new
The Killers
1946, in 15 top lists Check -
202 new
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948, in 15 top lists Check -
52 new
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942, in 15 top lists Check -
102 new
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944, in 15 top lists Check -
180 new
Odd Man Out
1947, in 15 top lists Check -
79 new
Shadow of a Doubt
1943, in 15 top lists Check
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