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Criteria: These Greatest Movies of the 1940s are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.

Edited By: Tim, pauldrach, ManPerson, Bruno, Luuk

1. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941)
2. Casablanca - Michael Curtiz (1942)
3. Bicycle Thieves - Vittorio De Sica (1948)
4. It's a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra (1946)
5. The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949)
6. Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder (1944)
7. Rome, Open City - Roberto Rossellini (1945)
8. The Great Dictator - Charles Chaplin (1940)
9. The Maltese Falcon - John Huston (1941)
10. Fantasia - Ben Sharpsteen et al. (1940)
11. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston (1948)
12. The Best Years of Our Lives - William Wyler (1946)
13. Children of Paradise - Marcel Carné (1945)
14. Notorious - Alfred Hitchcock (1946)
15. The Grapes of Wrath - John Ford (1940)
16. The Red Shoes - Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1948)
17. Pinocchio - Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen (1940)
18. Rebecca - Alfred Hitchcock (1940)
19. His Girl Friday - Howard Hawks (1940)
20. The Philadelphia Story - George Cukor (1940)
21. Brief Encounter - David Lean (1945)
22. Out of the Past - Jacques Tourneur (1947)
23. Beauty and the Beast - Jean Cocteau (1946)
24. Meet Me in St. Louis - Vincente Minnelli (1944)
25. To Be or Not to Be - Ernst Lubitsch (1942)
26. Laura - Otto Preminger (1944)
27. My Darling Clementine - John Ford (1946)
28. A Matter of Life and Death - Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1946)
29. The Big Sleep - Howard Hawks (1946)
30. Red River - Howard Hawks (1948)
31. Kind Hearts and Coronets - Robert Hamer (1949)
32. Black Narcissus - Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1947)
33. White Heat - Raoul Walsh (1949)
34. Late Spring - Yasujirō Ozu (1949)
35. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1943)
36. Bambi - David Hand et al. (1942)
37. The Thief of Bagdad - Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger & Tim Whelan (1940)
38. The Ox-Bow Incident - William A. Wellman (1942)
39. The Lost Weekend - Billy Wilder (1945)
40. Cat People - Jacques Tourneur (1942)
41. Mildred Pierce - Michael Curtiz (1945)
42. Rope - Alfred Hitchcock (1948)
43. The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles (1942)
44. The Shop Around the Corner - Ernst Lubitsch (1940)
45. The Lady Eve - Preston Sturges (1941)
46. Letter from an Unknown Woman - Max Ophüls (1948)
47. Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 - Sergei M. Eisenstein (1944)
48. Shadow of a Doubt - Alfred Hitchcock (1943)
49. To Have and Have Not - Howard Hawks (1944)
50. How Green Was My Valley - John Ford (1941)
51. Meshes of the Afternoon - Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid (1943)
52. Sullivan's Travels - Preston Sturges (1941)
53. On the Town - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1949)
54. Detour - Edgar G. Ulmer (1945)
55. Hamlet - Laurence Olivier (1948)
56. Paisan - Roberto Rossellini (1946)
57. Day of Wrath - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1943)
58. Ossessione - Luchino Visconti (1943)
59. Arsenic and Old Lace - Frank Capra (1944)
60. Fort Apache - John Ford (1948)
61. Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 - Sergei M. Eisenstein (1946)
62. Henry V - Laurence Olivier (1944)
63. Dumbo - Ben Sharpsteen et al. (1941)
64. Gaslight - George Cukor (1944)
65. Sergeant York - Howard Hawks (1941)
66. Now, Voyager - Irving Rapper (1942)
67. Miracle on 34th Street - George Seaton​​​​​​​ (1947)
68. Adam's Rib - George Cukor (1949)
69. The Wolf Man - George Waggner (1941)
70. The Heiress - William Wyler (1949)
71. Gilda - Charles Vidor (1946)
72. Stray Dog - Akira Kurosawa (1949)
73. Samson and Delilah - Cecil B. DeMille (1948)
74. Dead of Night - Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer & Charles Crichton (1945)
75. The Lady from Shanghai - Orson Welles (1947)
76. Monsieur Verdoux - Charles Chaplin (1947)
77. Germany, Year Zero - Roberto Rossellini (1948)
78. Spellbound - Alfred Hitchcock (1945)
79. Great Expectations - David Lean (1946)
80. The Bank Dick - Edward F. Cline (1940)
81. Shoeshine - Vittorio De Sica (1946)
82. The Killers - Robert Siodmak (1946)
83. Twelve O'Clock High - Henry King (1949)
84. Oliver Twist - David Lean (1948)
85. Mrs. Miniver - William Wyler (1942)
86. They Live by Night - Nicholas Ray (1948)
87. Yankee Doodle Dandy - Michael Curtiz (1942)
88. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - John Ford (1949)
89. All the King's Men - Robert Rossen​​​​​​​ (1949)
90. Johnny Belinda - Jean Negulesco (1948)
91. Odd Man Out - Carol Reed (1947)
92. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - Joseph L. Mankiewicz​​​​​​​ (1947)
93. Leave Her to Heaven - John M. Stahl (1945)
94. The Set-Up - Robert Wise (1949)
95. Partie de campagne - Jean Renoir (1946)
96. Key Largo - John Huston (1948)
97. The Postman Always Rings Twice - Tay Garnett (1946)
98. The Little Foxes - William Wyler (1941)
99. Scarlet Street - Fritz Lang (1945)
100. Foreign Correspondent - Alfred Hitchcock (1940)
101. The Palm Beach Story - Preston Sturges (1942)
102. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek - Preston Sturges (1944)
103. The Woman in the Window - Fritz Lang (1944)
104. Heaven Can Wait - Ernst Lubitsch (1943)
105. I Walked with a Zombie - Jacques Tourneur (1943)
106. Going My Way - Leo McCarey (1944)
107. Meet John Doe - Frank Capra (1941)
108. A Letter to Three Wives - Joseph L. Mankiewicz​​​​​​​ (1949)
109. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Elia Kazan (1945)
110. Ball of Fire - Howard Hawks (1941)
111. The Letter - William Wyler (1940)
112. High Sierra - Raoul Walsh (1941)
113. Random Harvest - Mervyn LeRoy (1942)
114. La terra trema - Luchino Visconti (1948)
115. Le corbeau - Henri-Georges Clouzot (1943)
116. National Velvet - Clarence Brown (1944)
117. The Pride of the Yankees - Sam Wood (1942)
118. Woman of the Year - George Stevens (1942)
119. The Mortal Storm - Frank Borzage (1940)
120. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Sam Wood (1943)
121. The Song of Bernadette - Henry King (1943)
122. Lassie Come Home - Fred M. Wilcox (1943)
123. Murder, My Sweet - Edward Dmytryk (1944)
124. Duel in the Sun - King Vidor (1946)
125. Crossfire - Edward Dmytryk (1947)
126. The Uninvited - Lewis Allen (1944)
127. This Gun for Hire - Frank Tuttle (1942)
128. Drunken Angel - Akira Kurosawa (1948)
129. I Know Where I'm Going! - Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1945)
130. Gentleman's Agreement - Elia Kazan (1947)
131. Hellzapoppin' - H. C. Potter (1941)
132. Suspicion - Alfred Hitchcock (1941)
133. Cabin in the Sky - Vincente Minnelli (1943)
134. Holiday Inn - Mark Sandrich (1942)
135. The Mark of Zorro - Rouben Mamoulian (1940)
136. Jour de fête - Jacques Tati (1949)
137. Quai des Orfèvres - Henri-Georges Clouzot​​​​​​​ (1947)
138. Spring in a Small Town - Fei Mu (1948)
139. The Sea Hawk - Michael Curtiz (1940)
140. The Fallen Idol - Carol Reed (1948)
141. The Naked City - Jules Dassin (1948)
142. D.O.A. - Rudolph Maté (1949)
143. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein - Charles Barton​​​​​​​ (1948)
144. Battleground - William A. Wellman (1949)
145. Body and Soul - Robert Rossen​​​​​​​ (1947)
146. Nightmare Alley - Edmund Goulding (1947)
147. A Canterbury Tale - Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1944)
148. Hail the Conquering Hero - Preston Sturges (1944)
149. Lifeboat - Alfred Hitchcock (1944)
150. Since You Went Away - John Cromwell (1944)
151. The Spiral Staircase - Robert Siodmak (1946)
152. They Were Expendable - John Ford (1945)
153. The Bells of St. Mary's - Leo McCarey (1945)
154. The Seventh Victim - Mark Robson (1943)
155. Dark Passage - Delmer Daves (1947)
156. The Stranger - Orson Welles (1946)
157. Kiss of Death - Henry Hathaway (1947)
158. Force of Evil - Abraham Polonsky (1948)
159. The Snake Pit - Anatole Litvak (1948)
160. Easter Parade - Charles Walters (1948)
161. Anchors Aweigh - George Sidney (1945)
162. The Story of G.I. Joe - William A. Wellman (1945)
163. Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Alexander Hall (1941)
164. Gentleman Jim - Raoul Walsh (1942)
165. The Talk of the Town - George Stevens (1942)
166. Whisky Galore! - Alexander Mackendrick (1949)
167. Cluny Brown - Ernst Lubitsch (1946)
168. The Yearling - Clarence Brown (1946)
169. The Bishop's Wife - Henry Koster (1947)
170. Sands of Iwo Jima - Allan Dwan (1949)
171. The More the Merrier - George Stevens (1943)
172. In Which We Serve - Noël Coward & David Lean (1942)
173. 49th Parallel - Michael Powell (1941)
174. Sahara - Zoltan Korda (1943)
175. Pride and Prejudice - Robert Z. Leonard (1940)
176. They Died with Their Boots On - Raoul Walsh (1941)
177. Road to Morocco - David Butler (1942)
178. Stormy Weather - Andrew L. Stone (1943)
179. Torment - Alf Sjöberg (1944)
180. The Devil and Daniel Webster - William Dieterle (1941)
181. Thirty Seconds over Tokyo - Mervyn LeRoy (1944)
182. Kings Row - Sam Wood (1942)
183. Destination Tokyo - Delmer Daves (1943)
184. Red Hot Riding Hood - Tex Avery (1943)
185. Waterloo Bridge - Mervyn LeRoy (1940)
186. Brute Force - Jules Dassin (1947)
187. The Westerner - William Wyler (1940)
188. The Outlaw - Howard Hughes (1943)
189. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Albert Lewin (1945)
190. And Then There Were None - René Clair (1945)
191. It Always Rains on Sunday - Robert Hamer (1947)
192. The Spring River Flows East - Cai Chusheng & Zheng Junli​​​​​​​ (1947)
193. The Clock - Vincente Minnelli (1945)
194. Objective, Burma! - Raoul Walsh (1945)
195. Criss Cross - Robert Siodmak (1949)
196. Man Hunt - Fritz Lang (1941)
197. Buck Privates - Arthur Lubin (1941)
198. Five Graves to Cairo - Billy Wilder (1943)
199. Jane Eyre - Robert Stevenson (1943)
200. Superman - Dave Fleischer (1941)
201. Cover Girl - Charles Vidor (1944)
202. The Man Who Came to Dinner - William Keighley (1942)
203. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Lewis Milestone (1946)
204. The Razor's Edge - Edmund Goulding (1946)
205. Boomerang! - Elia Kazan (1947)
206. The Cat Concerto - William Hanna​​​​​​​ & Joseph Barbera​​​​​​​ (1947)
207. Pursued - Raoul Walsh (1947)
208. The Major and the Minor - Billy Wilder (1942)
209. Hold That Ghost - Arthur Lubin (1941)
210. Portrait of Jennie - William Dieterle (1948)
211. Dance, Girl, Dance - Dorothy Arzner (1940)
212. The Great McGinty - Preston Sturges (1940)
213. Road to Singapore - Victor Schertzinger (1940)
214. Passport to Pimlico - Henry Cornelius (1949)
215. Fireworks - Kenneth Anger​​​​​​​ (1947)
216. State Fair - Walter Lang (1945)
217. Life with Father - Michael Curtiz (1947)
218. Boom Town - Jack Conway (1940)
219. Saboteur - Alfred Hitchcock (1942)
220. Watch on the Rhine - Herman Shumlin (1943)
221. Ministry of Fear - Fritz Lang (1944)
222. The Glass Key - Stuart Heisler (1942)
223. The Big Clock - John Farrow (1948)
224. Brighton Rock - John Boulting (1948)
225. Andaz - Mehboob Khan (1949)
226. Hangmen Also Die! - Fritz Lang (1943)
227. All This, and Heaven Too - Anatole Litvak (1940)
228. The Devil and Miss Jones - Sam Wood (1941)
229. Le silence de la mer - Jean-Pierre Melville (1949)
230. Bitter Rice - Giuseppe De Santis (1949)
231. Unfaithfully Yours - Preston Sturges (1948)
232. The Curse of the Cat People - Robert Wise & Gunther von Fritsch (1944)
233. The Three Caballeros - Norm Ferguson et al. (1944)
234. A Walk in the Sun - Lewis Milestone (1945)
235. The Body Snatcher - Robert Wise (1945)
236. The Blue Dahlia - George Marshall (1946)
237. Les dames du bois de Boulogne - Robert Bresson (1945)
238. The Egg and I - Chester Erskine​​​​​​​ (1947)
239. King-Size Canary - Tex Avery (1947)
240. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery - Bob Clampett (1946)
241. Listen to Britain - Humphrey Jennings & Stewart McAllister (1942)
242. Blood of the Beasts - Georges Franju (1949)
243. I Was a Male War Bride - Howard Hawks (1949)
244. The Long Voyage Home - John Ford (1940)
245. Air Force - Howard Hawks (1943)
246. Remember the Night - Mitchell Leisen (1940)
247. The Black Swan - Henry King (1942)
248. The Leopard Man - Jacques Tourneur (1943)
249. Hold Back the Dawn - Mitchell Leisen (1941)
250. Green for Danger - Sidney Gilliat (1946)

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