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Best Movies of the 1940s
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4.0000
157
reviews
Not Rated
Drama, Mystery
$19.87
Newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies alone in his extravagant mansion, speaking a single word: ... more about Citizen Kane (1941) starring Agnes Moorehead and Dorothy Comingore
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3.9536
166
reviews
PG
Drama, Romance
$4.00
Expatriate and nightclub owner Rick Blaine is faced with the decision to help an old girlfriend's ... more about Casablanca (1942) starring Claude Rains and Ingrid Bergman
3

3.7262
86
reviews
Not Rated
Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir
$12.96
Phyllis Dietrichson and insurance salesman Walter Neff begin an affair and plot to kill her husband ... more about Double Indemnity (1944) starring Edward G. Robinson and Barbara Stanwyck
4

3.7191
64
reviews
Not Rated
Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Film-Noir
$79.49
Novelist Holly Martins goes to post-war Vienna on the invite of his friend, Harry Lime, who ... more about Third Man, The (1949) starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles
5

3.7094
43
reviews
Not Rated
Drama
$6.79
Based on the John Steinbeck novel, Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) is a man just released from prison, but ... more about Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) starring John Carradine and Jane Darwell
6

3.6888
45
reviews
Not Rated
Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir
$11.67
An Alfred Hitchcock film about a girl named Charlie who feels her life is becoming very mundane. ... more about Shadow of a Doubt (1943) starring Henry Travers and Joseph Cotten
7

3.6738
113
reviews
Not Rated
Drama, Christmas, Classic
$10.49
George Bailey is a selfless man in turmoil. When he misplaces $8000 he feels it's the end and ... more about It's a Wonderful Life (1946) starring James Stewart and Donna Reed
8

3.6614
19
reviews
Not Rated
Drama, Romance, Music
$19.58
Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) is a ballerina who must choose between her love of dancing and a new ... more about Red Shoes, The (1948) starring Bill Shine and Anton Walbrook
9

3.6061
32
reviews
Not Rated
Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Romance
$36.43
A young woman is haunted by her new husband's dead wife, Rebecca. After a quick courtship and world ... more about Rebecca (1940) starring George Sanders and Joan Fontaine
10

3.6021
28
reviews
Not Rated
Drama, Thriller, Romance, Film-Noir
$7.85
After her father is convicted of treason and commits suicide Alicia is asked by the U.S. government ... more about Notorious (1946) starring Louis Calhern and Claude Rains