100 Most Acclaimed Films of the Decade: 1940s

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
4. The Third Man (1949)
5. Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
6. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
7. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
8. Notorious (1946)
9. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
10. Double Indemnity (1944)
11. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
12. My Darling Clementine (1946)
13. His Girl Friday (1940)
14. Rome Open City (1945)
15. The Lady Eve (1941)
16. Build My Gallows High (1947)
17. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
18. Black Narcissus (1947)
19. Brief Encounter (1945)
20. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
21. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
22. Paisan (1946)
23. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
24. Red River (1948)
25. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
26. The Red Shoes (1948)
27. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
28. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
29. Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)
30. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
31. Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946)
32. Late Spring (1949)
33. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
34. La Belle et la Bête (1946)
35. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
36. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
37. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
38. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
39. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
40. The Great Dictator (1940)
41. Laura (1944)
42. To Have and Have Not (1944)
43. Day of Wrath (1943)
44. Fantasia (1940)
45. The Big Sleep (1946)
46. Cat People (1942)
47. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
48. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
49. Pinocchio (1940)
50. Rebecca (1940)
51. Germany, Year Zero (1948)
52. Detour (1945)
53. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
54. White Heat (1949)
55. I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
56. Great Expectations (1946)
57. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
58. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
59. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
60. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
61. Listen to Britain (1942)
62. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
63. Dumbo (1941)
64. Henry V (1944)
65. Mildred Pierce (1945)
66. Spring in a Small Town (1948)
67. They Live by Night (1948)
68. Odd Man Out (1947)
69. Ossessione (1943)
70. On the Town (1949)
71. La Terra Trema (1948)
72. Now, Voyager (1942)
73. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
74. The Heiress (1949)
75. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
76. They Were Expendable (1945)
77. Duel in the Sun (1946)
78. Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
79. Hellzapoppin' (1941)
80. The Reckless Moment (1949)
81. Gilda (1946)
82. The Woman in the Window (1944)
83. Bambi (1942)
84. The Fallen Idol (1948)
85. The Killers (1946)
86. Fires Were Started (1943)
87. Jour de Fête (1949)
88. Portrait of Jennie (1948)
89. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
90. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
91. Fort Apache (1948)
92. Stray Dog (1949)
93. The Loyal 47 Ronin of the Genroku Era (1941)
94. Pursued (1947)
95. Scarlet Street (1945)
96. Shoeshine (1946)
97. A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
98. Rope (1948)
99. The Fountainhead (1949)
100. The Shanghai Gesture (1941)