Top Movies of 1940s


The top movies of 1940s list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

191. terra trema: Episodio del mare, La

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luchino Visconti
Actors: Rosario Galvagno, Lorenzo Valastro, Luchino Visconti, Alfio Fichera, Antonino Valastro, Agnese Giammona

192. I Love You Again

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh, Edmund Lowe, Donald Douglas, Nella Walker

193. Tales of Manhattan

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Julien Duvivier
Actors: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson
Plot: A formal coat, "tails" are followed in this film from one owner to next, we see how this item of clothing impacts each person's life.

194. Anna and the King of Siam

Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Cromwell
Actors: Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, Gale Sondergaard, Richard Lyon

195. The Song of Bernadette

Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry King
Actors: William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb, Gladys Cooper, Anne Revere
Plot: A young peasant girl in 1858 France begins to see visions of a "beautiful lady" in the city dump. Although both church and government want nothing to do with her - the common people rally around her - thinking her vision is of the Virgin Mary herself. As she gains wider acclaim, she will transform lives.

196. Adventures of Don Juan

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vincent Sherman
Actors: Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Alan Hale, Romney Brent, Ann Rutherford

197. Ornamental Hairpin ( Kanzashi )

Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Actors: Shinichi Himori, Masayoshi Otsuka, Hiroko Kawasaki, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuo Saito, Jun Yokoyama
Plot: Two friends, Emi Ota and Okiku, have a brief visit at a mountain inn before returning to Tokyo. Later, a soldier on leave, Nanmura visits the same inn and, in the public bath, happens to step on an ornamental hairpin. Emi writes to the inn asking about the very same hairpin and, when she learns it injured a soldier, returns to apologize, setting up a potential romance between the two thanks to some of the long-term visitors to the inn.

198. Keeper of the Flame

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker, Frank Craven

199. Sanshiro Sugata Part Two ( Zoku Sugata Sanshiro )

Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ryunosuke Tsukigata, Akitake Kôno, Yukiko Todoroki, Shôji Kiyokawa

200. Tight Little Island ( Whisky Galore! )

Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Actors: Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Wylie Watson, Gabrielle Blunt
Plot: When a ship laden with whiskey (250,000 bottles to be exact) gets shipwrecked off the Scottish coasts, locals rush collect as many bottles as they can before the proper authorities arrive.

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