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. 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

192. 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.

193. 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

194. 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.

195. 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

196. 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

197. Music in Darkness aka Night is My Future ( Musik i mörker )

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Rune Andréasson, Marianne Gyllenhammar, Sven Lindberg, Bibi Skoglund

198. 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.

199. In This Our Life

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Huston
Actors: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan, Charles Coburn, Billie Burke
Plot: A young woman leaves her fiancee and runs off with her sister's husband. But the brief affair ends badly, and she is forced to return after his suicide. Her sister is just about to marry her former fiancee - and she will stop at nothing to get him back.

200. The Canterville Ghost

Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien, William Gargan, Reginald Owen, Frank Faylen

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