Criterionforums List Project: The 1940s (2007)


  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. Day of Wrath (1943)
  3. The Third Man (1949)
  4. Notorious (1946)
  5. Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)
  6. Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946)
  7. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
  8. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  9. La Belle et la Bête (1946)
  10. Build My Gallows High (1947)
  11. The Lady Eve (1941)
  12. His Girl Friday (1940)
  13. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
  14. The Red Shoes (1948)
  15. My Darling Clementine (1946)
  16. White Heat (1949)
  17. Double Indemnity (1944)
  18. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
  19. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
  20. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
  21. Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
  22. Casablanca (1942)
  23. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
  24. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
  25. Brief Encounter (1945)
  26. Black Narcissus (1947)
  27. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
  28. Rome, Open City (1945)
  29. The Big Sleep (1946)
  30. To Have and Have Not (1944)
  31. Cat People (1942)
  32. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
  33. Fantasia (1940)
  34. Laura (1944)
  35. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
  36. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  37. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
  38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  39. Scarlet Street (1945)
  40. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  41. Thieves' Highway (1949)
  42. Stray Dog (1949)
  43. Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
  44. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
  45. I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
  46. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
  47. Force of Evil (1948)
  48. There Was a Father (1942)
  49. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
  50. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  51. La Terra Trema (1948)
  52. Rope (1948)
  53. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  54. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  55. Brute Force (1947)
  56. They Live by Night (1948)
  57. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
  58. Spring in a Small Town (1948)
  59. The Killers (1946)
  60. Ossessione (1943)
  61. Le Corbeau (1943)
  62. Rebecca (1940)
  63. Nightmare Alley (1947)
  64. The Leopard Man (1943)
  65. Germany Year Zero (1948)
  66. Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
  67. Pursued (1947)
  68. Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
  69. Fireworks (1947)
  70. Blood of the Beasts (1949)
  71. Pinocchio (1940)
  72. King-Size Canary (1947)
  73. Heaven Can Wait (1943)
  74. T-Men (1947)
  75. Begone Dull Care (1949)
  76. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  77. The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
  78. Louisiana Story (1948)
  79. Pattes Blanches (1949)
  80. At Land (1944)
  81. The Loyal 47 Ronin of the Genroku Era (1941)
  82. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
  83. The Fountainhead (1949)
  84. Jour de Fête (1949)
  85. Kiss of Death (1947)
  86. Fort Apache (1948)
  87. The Naked City (1948)
  88. The Seventh Victim (1943)
  89. Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
  90. Shoeshine (1946)
  91. Caught (1949)
  92. The Set-Up (1949)
  93. Bad Luck Blackie (1949)
  94. La Tempestaire (1947)
  95. Red River (1948)
  96. Christmas in July (1940)
  97. Detour (1945)
  98. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
  99. Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
  100. Le Silence de la Mer (1949)
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