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Top 100 movies from the 1940s
Find the best 1940s movies, from noir classics to wartime epics, in this definitive century-spanning list. Uncover on Brew.
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01
Germany Year Zero
movie•Italy
1949
02
The Big Sleep
movie•United States
1946
03
The Maltese Falcon
movie•United States
1941
04
Out of the Past
movie•United States
1947
05
A Matter of Life and Death
movie•GB
1946
06
The Lost Weekend
movie•United States
1945
07
Letter from an Unknown Woman
movie•United States
1948
08
The Ox-Bow Incident
movie•United States
1943
09
Laura
movie•United States
1944
10
Gaslight
movie•United States
1944
11
Rope
movie•United States
1948
12
Miracle on 34th Street
movie•United States
1947
13
Shadow of a Doubt
movie•United States
1943
14
Sullivan's Travels
movie•United States
1942
15
Now, Voyager
movie•United States
1942
16
Kind Hearts and Coronets
movie•GB
1949
17
Monsieur Verdoux
movie•United States
1947
18
Casablanca
movie•United States
1943
19
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
movie•United States
1947
20
Great Expectations
movie•GB
1947
21
Double Indemnity
movie•United States
1944
22
To Have and Have Not
movie•United States
1945
23
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
movie•United States
1948
24
Gone with the Wind
movie•United States
1940
25
Le Corbeau
movie•France
1943
26
White Heat
movie•United States
1949
27
Day of Wrath
movie•Denmark
1948
28
The Best Years of Our Lives
movie•United States
1947
29
The Grapes of Wrath
movie•United States
1940
30
Brief Encounter
movie•GB
1946
31
Rome, Open City
movie•Italy
1945
32
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
movie•GB
1944
33
The Shop Around the Corner
movie•United States
1940
34
Beauty and the Beast
movie•France
1947
35
Notorious
movie•United States
1946
36
Mildred Pierce
movie•United States
1945
37
Arsenic and Old Lace
movie•United States
1944
38
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
movie•Germany
1943
39
The Little Foxes
movie•United States
1941
40
The Set-Up
movie•United States
1949
41
It's a Wonderful Life
movie•United States
1947
42
The Great Dictator
movie•United States
1941
43
Children of Paradise
movie•France
1946
44
Bicycle Thieves
movie•Italy
1949
45
Citizen Kane
movie•United States
1941
46
The Heiress
movie•United States
1949
47
The Red Shoes
movie•GB
1948
48
To Be or Not to Be
movie•United States
1942
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