Top 50 Movies of the Decade (1940-1949)

list in order.

Brief Encounter (1945) 98
Casablanca (1942) 98
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 98
The Red Shoes (1948) 98
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 93
Double Indemnity (1944) 90
Meet John Doe (1941) 90
Children of Paradise (1945) 88
The Great Dictator (1940) 88
Little Women (1949) 88
Penny Serenade (1941) 88
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) 88
Thieves’ Highway (1949) 87
Notorious (1946) 86
The Thief of Bagdad (1940) 86
Woman of the Year (1942) 85
The Maltese Falcon (1941) 84
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 84
The Third Man (1949) 84
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 84
The Fountainhead (1949) 83
The Talk of the Town (1942) 83
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 82
A Matter of Life and Death (1946) 82
Gaslight (1944) 81
Ivy (1947) 81
A Letter to Three Wives (1949) 81
Beauty and the Beast (1946) 80
Bitter Rice (1949) 80
Citizen Kane (1941) 80
Great Expectations (1946) 80
The Lost Weekend (1945) 80
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) 80
My Favorite Wife (1940) 80
Red River (1948) 80
Rope (1948) 80
Adam’s Rib (1949) 79
Ball of Fire (1941) 79
High Sierra (1941) 79
Saboteur (1942) 79
49th Parallel (1941) 78
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 78
Detour (1945) 78
Down to Earth (1947) 78
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) 78
The Mortal Storm (1940) 78
My Darling Clementine (1946) 78
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) 78
Suspicion (1941) 78
To Have and Have Not (1944) 78
White Heat (1949) 78
3 Godfathers (1948) 77
The Big Clock (1948) 77
The Big Sleep (1946) 77
Black Narcissus (1947) 77
Brighton Rock (1947) 77
Key Largo (1948) 77
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 77
Born to Kill (1947) 76
Hangover Square (1945) 76
His Girl Friday (1940) 76
Ladri Di Biciclette (1948) 76
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) 76