Highest Graded Films from the 1940s

1. (99.5) Red River (1948) review
   
2. (99) Casablanca (1942) review
   
3. (97.7) Rebecca (1940) review
   
4. (97.3) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) review
   
5. (97.3) Citizen Kane (1941) review
   
6. (96.2) The Third Man (1949) review
   
7. (95.5) Dumbo (1941) review
   
8. (94.7) To Be or Not to Be (1942) review
   
9. (94.7) Hamlet (1948)
   
10. (94.5) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) review
    
11. (94) The Heiress (1949) review
    
12. (93.1) Children of Paradise (1945) review
    
13. (92.8) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) review
    
14. (92.3) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) review
    
15. (91.2) Double Indemnity (1944) review
    
16. (91) The Lost Weekend (1945) review
    
17. (91) The Song of Bernadette (1943) review
    
18. (90.8) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) review
    
19. (90.2) White Heat (1949) review
    
20. (90) Suspicion (1941) review
    
21. (88.7) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) review
    
22. (88.1) His Girl Friday (1940) review
    
23. (88) Angel on My Shoulder (1946) review
    
24. (87) Mildred Pierce (1945) review
    
25. (86) Stray Dog (1949) review
    
26. (85) The Maltese Falcon (1941) review
    
27. (85) The Fugitive (1947)
    
28. (83.4) Jane Eyre (1944) review
    
29. (83) Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) review
    
30. (82.7) Laura (1944) review
    
31. (82.7) Pinocchio (1940) review
    
32. (82.5) Gentleman's Agreement (1947) review
    
33. (82.1) I Was a Male War Bride (1949) review
    
34. (82.1) Notorious (1946) review
    
35. (81.7) Champion (1949) review
    
36. (81.6) Odd Man Out (1947) review
    
37. (81.2) Ministry of Fear (1944) review
    
38. (80.5) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) review
    
39. (80) It's A Wonderful Life (1946) review
    
40. (79.5) How Green Was My Valley (1941) review
    
41. (79.3) Cat People (1942) review
    
42. (78.4) Angel and the Badman (1947) review
    
43. (78) Oliver Twist (1948) review
    
44. (77.4) Now, Voyager (1942) review
    
45. (77) The Stranger (1946) review
    
46. (77) Ride the Pink Horse (1947) review
    
47. (77) The House on 92nd Street (1945) review
    
48. (77) Great Expectations (1946) review
    
49. (77) The Enchanted Cottage (1945) review
    
50. (77) The Human Comedy (1943) review
    
51. (77) H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) review
    
52. (76.6) To Have and Have Not (1944) review
    
53. (76.3) The Great Dictator (1940) review
    
54. (76) Welcome Stranger (1947) review
    
55. (76) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) review
    
56. (76) Portrait of Jennie (1948) review
    
57. (76) Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945) review
    
58. (75) National Velvet (1944) review
    
59. (75) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) review
    
60. (74.9) Fantasia (1940) review
    
61. (74) The Mark of Zorro (1940) review
    
62. (74) Holiday Inn (1942) review
    
63. (74) Phantom Lady (1944)
    
64. (73.1) My Darling Clementine (1946) review
    
65. (73) Brief Encounter (1946) review
    
66. (73) Pride and Prejudice (1940)
    
67. (73) Drunken Angel (1948)
    
68. (72.3) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) review
    
69. (72) Waterloo Bridge (1940) review
    
70. (72) The Spiral Staircase (1946) review
    
71. (72) The Bank Dick (1940) review
    
72. (72) The Lodger (1944) review
    
73. (72) Deception (1946) review
    
74. (72) A Matter of Life and Death (1946) review
    
75. (72) Open City (1945) review
    
76. (71.8) The Fighting Seabees (1944) review
    
77. (71.5) Sergeant York (1941) review
    
78. (71) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) review
    
79. (71) The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
    
80. (71) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) review
    
81. (70.8) Ossessione (1943)
    
82. (70.7) Anna and the King of Siam (1946) review
    
83. (70.6) Back Street (1941) review
    
84. (70) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) review
    
85. (70) The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) review
    
86. (69.8) The Palm Beach Story (1942) review
    
87. (69) The Big Sleep (1946) review
    
88. (69) The Long Voyage Home (1940) review
    
89. (69) Scarlet Street (1945) review
    
90. (69) The Talk of the Town (1942) review
    
91. (69) The Mummy's Hand (1940) review
    
92. (69) The Lady Eve (1941)
    
93. (69) Fort Apache (1948) review
    
94. (69) He Walked by Night (1948) review
    
95. (68) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) review
    
96. (68) The Uninvited (1944)
    
97. (68) Sister Kenny (1946) review
    
98. (68) Going My Way (1944) review
    
99. (67) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) review
    
100. (67) Love Letters (1945) review
     
101. (67) On the Town (1949) review
     
102. (67) The Woman in the Window (1944) review
     
103. (67) The Bicycle Thief (1948) review
     
104. (67) Hangover Square (1945) review
     
105. (67) Penny Serenade (1941) review
     
106. (67) The Immortal Batallion (1944)
     
107. (67) The Sea Wolf (1941) review
     
108. (67) The Body Snatcher (1945) review
     
109. (66) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) review
     
110. (66) Sullivan's Travels (1942) review
     
111. (66) Adam's Rib (1949) review
     
112. (66) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) review
     
113. (66) Miracle on 34th Street (1947) review
     
114. (66) Sitting Pretty (1948)
     
115. (66) Our Town (1940) review
     
116. (65.2) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) review
     
117. (65) Saboteur (1942) review
     
118. (65) O.S.S. (1946) review
     
119. (65) Henry V (1944) review
     
120. (65) Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) review
     
121. (65) Torrid Zone (1940) review
     
122. (65) Cabin in the Sky (1943)
     
123. (65) Watch on the Rhine (1943)
     
124. (65) The Voice of the Turtle (1947)
     
125. (64) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) review
     
126. (64) Key Largo (1948) review
     
127. (64) Life with Father (1947) review
     
128. (64) Woman of the Year (1942)
     
129. (64) They Drive by Night (1940)
     
130. (64) The Fighting 69th (1940) review
     
131. (63) The Naked City (1948)
     
132. (63) The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) review
     
133. (62) Gaslight (1944) review
     
134. (62) Lifeboat (1944) review
     
135. (62) The Letter (1940)
     
136. (62) The Red Shoes (1948) review
     
137. (61) The Accused (1948) review
     
138. (61) Mrs. Miniver (1942) review
     
139. (61) 3 Godfathers (1948) review
     
140. (61) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) review
     
141. (61) Monsieur Verdoux (1947) review
     
142. (61) A Foreign Affair (1948)
     
143. (61) The Glass Key (1942) review
     
144. (61) Gentleman Jim (1942) review
     
145. (61) Gilda (1946) review
     
146. (61) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) review
     
147. (60) Body and Soul (1947) review
     
148. (60) The Shop Around the Corner (1940) review
     
149. (60) Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) (1945) review
     
150. (60) Easter Parade (1948) review
     
151. (60) Foreign Correspondent (1940) review
     
152. (60) Larceny, Inc. (1942) review
     
153. (59) The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
     
154. (59) The Stork Club (1945)
     
155. (59) Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
     
156. (58) Johnny Belinda (1948) review
     
157. (58) Little Women (1949) review
     
158. (58) The Philadelphia Story (1940) review
     
159. (57) The Egg and I (1947) review
     
160. (57) The Killers (1946) review
     
161. (57) The Little Foxes (1941) review
     
162. (57) To the Ends of the Earth (1948) review
     
163. (57) Lady of Burlesque (1943)
     
164. (57) The Mortal Storm (1940)
     
165. (57) Murder, My Sweet (1944) review
     
166. (57) In Which We Serve (1942) review
     
167. (57) Mighty Joe Young (1949) review
     
168. (56) Madame Bovary (1949) review
     
169. (56) The Westerner (1940) review
     
170. (55) Force of Evil (1948) review
     
171. (55) Blood on the Moon (1948)
     
172. (55) Humoresque (1946)
     
173. (55) Pride of the Marines (1945)
     
174. (55) Devil and Miss Jones (1941) review
     
175. (55) The 47 Ronin (1941) review
     
176. (54) Unfaithfully Yours (1948) review
     
177. (54) Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
     
178. (54) The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
     
179. (54) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) review
     
180. (54) Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) review
     
181. (54) The Pride of the Yankees (1942) review
     
182. (53) Out of the Past (1947) review
     
183. (53) Neptune's Daughter (1949)
     
184. (53) The Sea Hawk (1940)
     
185. (53) Kitty Foyle (1940)
     
186. (53) I Love You Again (1940)
     
187. (53) Beauty and the Beast (1946) review
     
188. (53) Meet John Doe (1941) review
     
189. (52) Bambi (1942) review
     
190. (52) The Major and the Minor (1942)
     
191. (52) Black Narcissus (1947) review
     
192. (52) Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) review
     
193. (51) When the Daltons Rode (1940) review
     
194. (51) A Double Life (1947) review
     
195. (51) The Stratton Story (1949)
     
196. (51) To Each His Own (1946)
     
197. (51) Girl Crazy (1943)
     
198. (51) The Farmer's Daughter (1947) review
     
199. (49) Brute Force (1947)
     
200. (49) Spellbound (1945) review
     
201. (48) The Corn Is Green (1945)
     
202. (48) Command Decision (1948)
     
203. (48) They Live by Night (1949) review
     
204. (48) The Bishop's Wife (1947) review
     
205. (47) The Yearling (1946)
     
206. (47) The Male Animal (1942) review
     
207. (47) Objective, Burma! (1945) review
     
208. (46) The Search (1948) review
     
209. (46) Paisan (1946)
     
210. (46) Random Harvest (1942)
     
211. (46) The Earth Trembles (1948)
     
212. (45) The Thief of Bagdad (1940) review
     
213. (45) Duel in the Sun (1946)
     
214. (45) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
     
215. (45) Edge of Darkness (1943) review
     
216. (45) Since You Went Away (1944) review
     
217. (44) Can't Help Singing (1944) review
     
218. (44) Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
     
219. (44) The Clock (1945) review
     
220. (43) The Outlaw (1943)
     
221. (43) 49th Parallel (1941) review
     
222. (42) The Black Swan (1942) review
     
223. (42) Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
     
224. (42) Crossfire (1947)
     
225. (41) One Foot in Heaven (1941) review
     
226. (41) Northwest Passage (1940) review
     
227. (40) Kings Row (1942)
     
228. (40) You Were Never Lovelier (1942) review
     
229. (40) They Were Expendable (1945) review
     
230. (39) Twelve O'Clock High (1949) review
     
231. (34) The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) review