best movies of the 1940s

1     The Great Dictator    8.5  1940
2     The Sea Hawk    7.8  1940
3     The Shop Around the Corner    8.1  1940
4     The Philadelphia Story    8.1  1940
5     The Mark of Zorro    7.6  1940
6     Rebecca    8.2  1940
7     The Grapes of Wrath    8.1  1940
8     The Letter    7.7  1940
9     Foreign Correspondent    7.6  1940
10     The House of the Seven Gables    7.2  1940
11     The Great McGinty    7.5  1940
12     My Favorite Wife    7.4  1940
13     His Girl Friday    8  1940
14     The Ghost Breakers    7.3  1940
15     The Thief of Bagdad    7.6  1940
16     Fantasia    7.8  1940
17     Pinocchio    7.5  1940
18     The Wolf Man    7.4  1941
19     The Devil and Daniel Webster    7.8  1941
20     I Wake Up Screaming    7.3  1941
21     The Sea Wolf    7.6  1941
22     The Maltese Falcon    8.2  1941
23     High Sierra    7.6  1941
24     A Woman's Face    7.2  1941
25     How Green Was My Valley    7.8  1941
26     Ball of Fire    7.8  1941
27     Sullivan's Travels    8.1  1941
28     Penny Serenade    7.2  1941
29     In the Navy    7.2  1941
30     49th Parallel    7.5  1941
31     Saboteur    7.2  1942
32     This Gun for Hire    7.6  1942
33     The Talk of the Town    7.6  1942
34     Cat People    7.4  1942
35     Reap the Wild Wind    6.8  1942
36     To Be or Not to Be    8.2  1942
37     Mrs. Miniver    7.6  1942
38     Jane Eyre    7.6  1943
39     Action in the North Atlantic    7  1943
40     Sahara    7.6  1943
41     Heaven Can Wait    7.5  1943
42     The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp    8.2  1943
43     The Song of Bernadette    7.7  1943
44     Le Corbeau: The Raven    7.7  1943
45     I Walked with a Zombie    7.3  1943
46     Carnival of Sinners    7.6  1943
47     Double Indemnity    8.4  1944
48     Gaslight    7.9  1944
49     The Lodger    7.3  1944
50     Murder, My Sweet    7.6  1944
51     Passage to Marseille    6.9  1944
52     Lifeboat    7.8  1944
53     The Curse of the Cat People    7  1944
54     The Uninvited    7.4  1944
55     Laura    8.1  1944
56     The Woman in the Window    7.8  1944
57     Phantom Lady    7.4  1944
58     The Suspect    7.5  1944
59     Arsenic and Old Lace    8.1  1944
60     The Scarlet Claw    7.6  1944
61     The Keys of the Kingdom    7.5  1944
62     Between Two Worlds    7.3  1944
63     Mildred Pierce    8  1945
64     Dead of Night    7.7  1945
65     The Lost Weekend    8  1945
66     Detour    7.5  1945
67     Conflict    7.1  1945
68     Leave Her to Heaven    7.7  1945
69     The House of Fear    7.6  1945
70     Spellbound    7.7  1945
71     The Spiral Staircase    7.6  1945
72     The Picture of Dorian Gray    7.6  1945
73     Blood on the Sun    6.2  1945
74     Objective, Burma!    7.4  1945
75     Children of Paradise    8.4  1945
76     A Royal Scandal    6.9  1945
77     A Tree Grows in Brooklyn    8.2  1945
78     The Big Sleep    8.1  1946
79     The Best Years of Our Lives    8.2  1946
80     Notorious    8.1  1946
81     Deadline at Dawn    6.8  1946
82     Angel on My Shoulder    6.9  1946
83     Gilda    7.8  1946
84     The Killers    7.9  1946
85     Stairway to Heaven    8.1  1946
86     The Dark Corner    7.2  1946
87     Beauty and the Beast    8  1946
88     Great Expectations    8  1946
89     Green for Danger    7.7  1947
90     It's a Wonderful Life    8.6  1946
91     Shoeshine    8  1946
92     Black Narcissus    8  1947
93     The Lady from Shanghai    7.7  1947
94     Boomerang!    7.3  1947
95     Nightmare Alley    7.8  1947
96     Dark Passage    7.6  1947
97     Brute Force    7.7  1947
98     The Bishop's Wife    7.6  1947
99     The Ghost and Mrs. Muir    7.9  1947
100     Odd Man Out    7.8  1947