Film Fatale’s 100 Best Films of The 40’s

https://www.filmsfatale.com/blog/2021/2/1/the-best-100-films-of-the-1940s

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Elio Perlman
100 titles
Laura
The Reckless Moment
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Obsession
Panic
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Le Corbeau
Pinocchio
White Heat
The Children Are Watching Us
The Maltese Falcon
There Was a Father
The Lost Weekend
Great Expectations
All the King's Men
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
A Canterbury Tale
Suspicion
Day of Wrath
Aniki-Bóbó
The Shop Around the Corner
Adam's Rib
Sullivan's Travels
Four Steps in the Clouds
The Lady from Shanghai
Gilda
La Terra Trema
Germany, Year Zero
Brief Encounter
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Death Is a Caress
Shadow of a Doubt
His Girl Friday
Spellbound
The Last Stage
The Grapes of Wrath
Henry V
Miracle on 34th Street
The Great Madcap
Detour
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
Enamorada
Shoeshine
Leave Her to Heaven
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Great Dictator
To Be or Not to Be
The Philadelphia Story
Pastoral Symphony
How Green Was My Valley
The Uninvited
Sorrows and Joys of a Middle-Aged Man
Jour de Fête
Red River
Bambi
A Letter to Three Wives
The Heiress
They Live by Night
Paisan
Rome, Open City
Monsieur Verdoux
The Best Years of Our Lives
I Walked with a Zombie
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Notorious
The Killers
Rainbow
Mrs. Miniver
The Red Shoes
Citizen Kane
Bicycle Thieves
Children of Paradise
The Third Man
Black Narcissus
Double Indemnity
Late Spring
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
The Magnificent Ambersons
Gaslight
A Matter of Life and Death
It's a Wonderful Life
The Silence of the Sea
Out of the Past
Rebecca
Drunken Angel
Fantasia
Dance, Girl, Dance
Stray Dog
The Big Sleep
Meet Me in St. Louis
Odd Man Out
The Lady Eve
Hamlet
The Woman in the Window
Beauty and the Beast
Cat People
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Spring in a Small Town
Casablanca