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Top Films of the 1940s (#101-186)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1146
102 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 1148
103 Road to Morocco 1942 David Butler 1212
104 La Terra Trema 1948 Luchino Visconti 1220
105 Meet John Doe 1941 Frank Capra 1231
106 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Edward Dmytryk 1241
107 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 1248
108 The Set-Up 1949 Robert Wise 1275
109 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard 1277
110 Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 Alexander Hall 1283
111 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock 1289
112 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1307
113 Kiss of Death 1947 Henry Hathaway 1312
114 Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey 1314
115 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1341
116 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 1384
117 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford 1405
118 Saboteur 1942 Alfred Hitchcock 1416
119 Sands of Iwo Jima 1949 Allan Dwan 1418
120 Easter Parade 1948 Charles Walters 1437
121 Fires Were Started 1943 Humphrey Jennings 1456
122 Champion 1949 Mark Robson 1463
123 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1487
124 Heaven Can Wait 1943 Ernst Lubitsch 1499
125 Went the Day Well? 1942 Alberto Cavalcanti 1520
126 Louisiana Story 1948 Robert J. Flaherty 1523
127 Shoeshine 1946 Vittorio De Sica 1524
128 Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister 1559
129 The Spiral Staircase 1945 Robert Siodmak 1564
130 The Little Foxes 1941 William Wyler 1603
131 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges 1605
132 And Then There Were None 1945 René Clair 1613
133 A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1656
134 High Sierra 1941 Raoul Walsh 1666
135 Passport to Pimlico 1949 Henry Cornelius 1697
136 The Sea Hawk 1940 Michael Curtiz 1702
137 Battleground 1949 William A. Wellman 1707
138 The Mark of Zorro 1940 Rouben Mamoulian 1710
139 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 Dorothy Arzner 1764
140 Holiday Inn 1942 Mark Sandrich 1781
141 The Fallen Idol 1948 Carol Reed 1785
142 Lassie Come Home 1943 Fred M. Wilcox 1787
143 The Reckless Moment 1949 Max Ophüls 1799
144 Hellzapoppin' 1941 H.C. Potter 1811
145 Le Corbeau 1943 Henri-Georges Clouzot 1815
146 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock 1822
147 The Great McGinty 1940 Preston Sturges 1841
148 Scarlet Street 1945 Fritz Lang 1870
149 Story of G.I. Joe 1945 William A. Wellman 1907
150 Gentleman Jim 1942 Raoul Walsh 1916
151 The More the Merrier 1943 George Stevens 1945
152 For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 Sam Wood 1946
153 Knute Rockne, All American 1940 Lloyd Bacon 1988
154 The Woman in the Window 1944 Fritz Lang 1991
155 The Talk of the Town 1942 George Stevens 2015
156 The Pirate 1948 Vincente Minnelli 2027
157 The Southerner 1945 Jean Renoir 2049
158 A Walk in the Sun 1945 Lewis Milestone 2056
159 State of the Union 1948 Frank Capra 2081
160 Song of the South 1946 Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson 2091
161 Random Harvest 1942 Mervyn LeRoy 2097
162 My Little Chickadee 1940 Edward F. Cline 2130
163 Life with Father 1947 Michael Curtiz 2148
164 The Ladies of the Bois De Boulogne 1945 Robert Bresson 2151
165 Kings Row 1942 Sam Wood 2160
166 Jour de Fête 1949 Jacques Tati 2167
167 It Happens Every Spring 1949 Lloyd Bacon 2180
168 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 2194
169 Portrait of Jennie 1948 William Dieterle 2196
170 Germany, Year Zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini 2199
171 49th Parallel 1941 Michael Powell 2219
172 The Naked City 1948 Jules Dassin 2252
173 Samson and Delilah 1949 Cecil B. DeMille 2255
174 The Letter 1940 William Wyler 2259
175 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa 2264
176 Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 Mervyn LeRoy 2284
177 T-Men 1947 Anthony Mann 2286
178 The Curse of the Cat People 1944 Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch 2294
179 The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941 William Dieterle 2296
180 The Gang's All Here 1943 Busby Berkeley 2314
181 Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War 1942 Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak 2316
182 My Favorite Wife 1940 Garson Kanin 2332
183 Cabin in the Sky 1943 Vincente Minnelli 2344
184 Jane Eyre 1943 Robert Stevenson 2378
185 Major Barbara 1941 Gabriel Pascal 2380
186 The Search 1948 Fred Zinnemann 2385
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