Essential Films of the 1940s
Twenty-five popular and acclaimed films that help define the 1940s.
25 films
- 1Casablanca1943
- 2It's a Wonderful Life1946
- 3Citizen Kane1941
- 4The Great Dictator1940
- 5Bicycle Thieves1948
- 6Rope1948
- 7Double Indemnity1944
- 8The Third Man1949
- 9Rebecca1940
- 10The Maltese Falcon1941
- 11Notorious1946
- 12The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948
- 13Rome, Open City1945
- 14The Grapes of Wrath1940
- 15The Shop Around the Corner1940
- 16The Big Sleep1946
- 17Arsenic and Old Lace1944
- 18The Red Shoes1948
- 19Shadow of a Doubt1943
- 20To Be or Not to Be1942
- 21The Philadelphia Story1940
- 22Laura1944
- 23The Best Years of Our Lives1946
- 24Brief Encounter1945
- 25Children of Paradise1945