The Greatest Films of the 1940s (alphabetically)

By: jsaez

not on the auteurs:

L’amore
Maria Candelaria
Mildred Pierce
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Les parents terribles
Phantom Lady
Roma Citta Libera
The Southerner
The Strange Woman

• 01
  Adam's Rib
  George Cukor
• 02
  At Land
  Maya Deren
• 03
  The Bank Dick
  Edward F. Cline
• 04
  Beauty and the Beast
  Jean Cocteau
• 05
  The Best Years of Our Lives
  William Wyler
• 06
  Bicycle Thieves
  Vittorio De Sica
• 07
  The Big Sleep
  Howard Hawks
• 08
  Black Narcissus
  Michael Powell
• 09
  Brief Encounter
  David Lean
• 10
  Brute Force
  Jules Dassin
• 11
  A Canterbury Tale
  Michael Powell
• 12
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 13
  Cat People
  Jacques Tourneur
• 14
  The Children Are Watching Us
  Vittorio De Sica
• 15
  Children of Paradise
  Marcel Carné
• 16
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 17
  Le corbeau
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 18
  Les dames du Bois de Boulogne
  Robert Bresson
• 19
  Day of Wrath
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 20
  Detour
  Edgar G. Ulmer
• 21
  The Devil and Daniel Webster
  William Dieterle
• 22
  Double Indemnity
  Billy Wilder
• 23
  La terra trema
  Luchino Visconti
• 24
  Les enfants terribles
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 25
  Fireworks
  Kenneth Anger
• 26
  Foreign Correspondent
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 27
  49th Parallel
  Michael Powell
• 28
  Gaslight
  George Cukor
• 29
  Germany Year Zero
  Roberto Rossellini
• 30
  The Grapes of Wrath
  John Ford
• 31
  The Great Dictator
  Charlie Chaplin
• 32
  Great Expectations
  David Lean
• 33
  Gun Crazy
  Joseph H. Lewis
• 34
  Hail the Conquering Hero
  Preston Sturges
• 35
  Hamlet
  Laurence Olivier
• 36
  Heaven Can Wait
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 37
  The Heiress
  William Wyler
• 38
  Henry V
  Laurence Olivier
• 39
  His Girl Friday
  Howard Hawks
• 40
  How Green Was My Valley
  John Ford
• 41
  I Know Where I'm Going!
  Michael Powell
• 42
  I Walked with a Zombie
  Jacques Tourneur
• 43
  Intruder in the Dust
  Clarence Brown
• 44
  It's a Wonderful Life
  Frank Capra
• 45
  Jour de fête
  Jacques Tati
• 46
  Kind Hearts and Coronets
  Robert Hamer
• 47
  The Lady Eve
  Preston Sturges
• 48
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 49
  Laura
  Otto Preminger
• 50
  The Leopard Man
  Jacques Tourneur
• 51
  The Letter
  William Wyler
• 52
  Letter from an Unknown Woman
  Max Ophüls
• 53
  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  Michael Powell
• 54
  The Little Foxes
  William Wyler
• 55
  The Long Voyage Home
  John Ford
• 56
  The Magnificent Ambersons
  Orson Welles
• 57
  The Maltese Falcon
  John Huston
• 58
  A Matter of Life and Death
  Michael Powell
• 59
  Meet Me in St. Louis
  Vincente Minnelli
• 60
  Meshes of the Afternoon
  Maya Deren
• 61
  The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
  Preston Sturges
• 62
  Monsieur Verdoux
  Charlie Chaplin
• 63
  Murder, My Sweet
  Edward Dmytryk
• 64
  My Darling Clementine
  John Ford
• 65
  Nightmare Alley
  Edmund Goulding
• 66
  Notorious
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 67
  Now, Voyager
  Irving Rapper
• 68
  Oliver Twist
  David Lean
• 69
  On the Town
  Gene Kelly
• 70
  Ossessione
  Luchino Visconti
• 71
  Orpheus
  Jean Cocteau
• 72
  Out of the Past
  Jacques Tourneur
• 73
  Paisan
  Roberto Rossellini
• 74
  The Palm Beach Story
  Preston Sturges
• 75
  The Philadelphia Story
  George Cukor
• 76
  Pinocchio
  Ben Sharpsteen
• 77
  Quai des Orfèvres
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 78
  Rebecca
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 79
  The Record of a Tenement Gentleman
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 80
  Red River
  Howard Hawks
• 81
  The Red Shoes
  Michael Powell
• 82
  Rome Open City
  Roberto Rossellini
• 83
  Scarlet Street
  Fritz Lang
• 84
  The Seventh Victim
  Mark Robson
• 85
  Shadow of a Doubt
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 86
  Shoeshine
  Vittorio De Sica
• 87
  The Shop Around the Corner
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 88
  Spring in a Small Town
  Fei Mu
• 89
  Sullivan's Travels
  Preston Sturges
• 90
  They Live by Night
  Nicholas Ray
• 91
  They Were Expendable
  John Ford
• 92
  Thieves' Highway
  Jules Dassin
• 93
  The Third Man
  Carol Reed
• 94
  To Be or Not to Be
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 95
  To Have and Have Not
  Howard Hawks
• 96
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  John Huston
• 97
  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  Elia Kazan
• 98
  Unfaithfully Yours
  Preston Sturges
• 99
  White Heat
  Raoul Walsh