1 Bicycle Thieves (Italy, DeSica 1948)
2 Citizen Kane (USA, Welles 1941)
3 The Grapes of Wrath (USA, Ford 1940)
4 Casablanca (USA, Curtiz 1942)
5 It’s A Wonderful Life (USA, Capra 1946)
6 The Third Man (GB, Reed 1949)
7 Day of Wrath (Denmark, Dreyer 1943)
8 Late Spring (Japan, Ozu 1949)
9 Les Enfants du Paradis (France, Carne 1945)
10 Double Indemnity (USA, Wilder 1944)
11 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (USA, Huston 1948)
12 The Maltese Falcon (USA, Huston 1941)
13 La Belle et la Bete (France, Cocteau 1946)
14 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (GB, Powell and Pressburger 1943)
15 How Green Was My Valley (USA, Ford 1941)
16 Out of the Past (USA, Tourneur 1947)
17 Brief Encounter (GB, Lean 1945)
18 Rebecca (USA, Hitchcock 1940)
19 Great Expectations (GB, Lean 1946)
20 Notorious (USA, Hitchcock 1946)
21 The Red Shoes (GB, Powell and Pressburger 1948)
22 Open City (Italy, Rossellini 1945)
23 Sullivan’s Travels (USA, Sturges 1941)
24 Kind Hearts and Coronets (GB, Hamer 1949)
25 Hamlet (GB, Olivier 1948)
These were the greatest movies of the 1940’s without a doubt.