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Top 100 drama movies from the 1940s
Find the best Drama movies of the 1940s, from noir shadows to wartime heartbreak. Brew curates 100 essential films that defined a decade of cinematic depth.
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Great Expectations
movie•GB
1947
02
The Lost Weekend
movie•United States
1945
03
Monsieur Verdoux
movie•United States
1947
04
The Big Sleep
movie•United States
1946
05
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
movie•GB
1944
06
Sullivan's Travels
movie•United States
1942
07
Gaslight
movie•United States
1944
08
Rope
movie•United States
1948
09
The Little Foxes
movie•United States
1941
10
A Letter to Three Wives
movie•United States
1949
11
Miracle on 34th Street
movie•United States
1947
12
Notorious
movie•United States
1946
13
Key Largo
movie•United States
1948
14
Letter from an Unknown Woman
movie•United States
1948
15
Nightmare Alley
movie•United States
1947
16
A Matter of Life and Death
movie•GB
1946
17
Le Corbeau
movie•France
1943
18
Casablanca
movie•United States
1943
19
Shadow of a Doubt
movie•United States
1943
20
Now, Voyager
movie•United States
1942
21
Double Indemnity
movie•United States
1944
22
His Girl Friday
movie•United States
1940
23
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
movie•United States
1948
24
Gone with the Wind
movie•United States
1940
25
Red River
movie•United States
1948
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
Brief Encounter
movie•GB
1946
30
Rome, Open City
movie•Italy
1945
31
The Ox-Bow Incident
movie•United States
1943
32
The Shop Around the Corner
movie•United States
1940
33
Beauty and the Beast
movie•France
1947
34
Out of the Past
movie•United States
1947
35
Mildred Pierce
movie•United States
1945
36
Laura
movie•United States
1944
37
The Maltese Falcon
movie•United States
1941
38
Germany Year Zero
movie•Italy
1949
39
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
movie•United States
1947
40
To Have and Have Not
movie•United States
1945
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
The Grapes of Wrath
movie•United States
1940
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