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IMDb's 1940s Top 50
50 films
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946
8.9
Casablanca
1942
8.7
The Great Dictator
1940
8.4
Double Indemnity
1944
8.5
Les enfants du paradis
1945
9.4
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
8.3
Citizen Kane
1941
8.9
Ladri di biciclette
1948
8.1
Banshun
1949
8.1
The Third Man
1949
8.2
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
7.7
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
8.4
The Red Shoes
1948
8.5
White Heat
1949
8.2
To Be or Not to Be
1942
8.7
The Heiress
1949
7.8
Rebecca
1940
8.2
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
8.4
Brief Encounter
1945
7.7
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
8.5