Top Rated "1940s" Titles

Rank	Rating	Title	Votes
1.	8.7	Casablanca (1942)	202,830
2.	8.7	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	127,338
3.	8.6	Citizen Kane (1941)	164,484
4.	8.5	Double Indemnity (1944)	47,146
5.	8.5	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)	40,765
6.	8.5	The Third Man (1949)	61,104
7.	8.4	Bicycle Thieves (1948)	37,191
8.	8.4	The Great Dictator (1940)	49,372
9.	8.4	Rebecca (1940)	43,399
10.	8.3	The Maltese Falcon (1941)	61,767
11.	8.3	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	21,103
12.	8.3	Children of Paradise (1945)	8,886
13.	8.3	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)	29,401
14.	8.2	Notorious (1946)	38,266
15.	8.2	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)	16,392
16.	8.2	The Big Sleep (1946)	35,059
17.	8.2	White Heat (1949)	11,890
18.	8.2	The Red Shoes (1948)	10,655
19.	8.2	Sullivan's Travels (1941)	10,399
20.	8.2	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)	10,115
21.	8.2	The Heiress (1949)	5,444
22.	8.2	Rome, Open City (1945)	7,783
23.	8.1	Laura (1944)	16,692
24.	8.1	Brief Encounter (1945)	15,762
25.	8.1	To Be or Not to Be (1942)	10,668
26.	8.1	The Lost Weekend (1945)	13,804
27.	8.1	His Girl Friday (1940)	25,315
28.	8.1	Stairway to Heaven (1946)	7,735
29.	8.1	Beauty and the Beast (1946)	10,951
30.	8.1	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)	25,332
31.	8.1	Late Spring (1949)	3,723
32.	8.1	Out of the Past (1947)	12,689
33.	8.1	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)	5,460
34.	8.1	Great Expectations (1946)	11,182
35.	8.1	Rope (1948)	42,026
36.	8.1	The Lady Eve (1941)	8,545
37.	8.0	The Philadelphia Story (1940)	32,282
38.	8.0	The Little Foxes (1941)	4,446
39.	8.0	The Shop Around the Corner (1940)	10,391
40.	8.0	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)	35,200
41.	8.0	Black Narcissus (1947)	8,555
42.	8.0	Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)	3,918
43.	8.0	To Have and Have Not (1944)	14,274
44.	8.0	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)	9,982
45.	8.0	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)	3,225
46.	8.0	Shoeshine (1946)	2,179
47.	7.9	I Remember Mama (1948)	2,558
48.	7.9	Mildred Pierce (1945)	9,070
49.	7.9	Key Largo (1948)	17,093
50.	7.9	The Killers (1946)	7,212