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  • John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., and Dorothy Ford in 3 Godfathers (1948)

    1. 3 Godfathers

    19481h 46mApproved82Metascore
    7.0 (11K)
    Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WaynePedro ArmendárizHarry Carey Jr.
  • Wallace Beery in 20 Mule Team (1940)

    2. 20 Mule Team

    19401h 24mApproved
    6.4 (285)
    In California's Death Valley, in 1892, borax miners scratch a hard living until a map pinpointing the location of high-grade borax surfaces, sending prospectors and crooks alike into a gold-rush-like frenzy.
    DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsWallace BeeryLeo CarrilloMarjorie Rambeau
  • Groucho Marx, Lois Collier, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx in A Night in Casablanca (1946)

    3. A Night in Casablanca

    19461h 25mApproved
    6.9 (7.8K)
    The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
    DirectorArchie MayoStarsGroucho MarxHarpo MarxChico Marx
  • Danny Kaye, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Barnet, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Virginia Mayo, and Mel Powell in A Song Is Born (1948)

    4. A Song Is Born

    19481h 53mApproved
    6.9 (3K)
    With her gangster boyfriend under investigation by the police, a nightclub singer hides out in a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors - one of whom begins to fall for her.
    DirectorHoward HawksStarsDanny KayeVirginia MayoBenny Goodman
  • Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, and Cornel Wilde in A Song to Remember (1945)

    5. A Song to Remember

    19451h 53mApproved
    6.6 (1.7K)
    Biography of Frederic Chopin.
    DirectorCharles VidorStarsPaul MuniMerle OberonCornel Wilde
  • Bette Davis, Walter Brennan, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, and Charles Ruggles in A Stolen Life (1946)

    6. A Stolen Life

    19461h 49mApproved
    7.2 (4.5K)
    When a woman's twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels that her sister took from her years before.
    DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsBette DavisGlenn FordDane Clark
  • Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Ted Donaldson, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire, and Lloyd Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

    7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    19452h 9mPG
    8.0 (8.8K)
    Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
    DirectorElia KazanStarsDorothy McGuirePeggy Ann GarnerJoan Blondell
  • Joan Crawford in A Woman's Face (1941)

    8. A Woman's Face

    19411h 46mApproved
    7.2 (4.1K)
    A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
    DirectorGeorge CukorStarsJoan CrawfordMelvyn DouglasConrad Veidt
  • Tyrone Power and Betty Grable in A Yank in the RAF (1941)

    9. A Yank in the RAF

    19411h 38mApproved
    6.3 (1.6K)
    An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
    DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerBetty GrableJohn Sutton
  • Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Roland Got in Across the Pacific (1942)

    10. Across the Pacific

    19421h 37mApproved
    6.8 (5.6K)
    In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.
    DirectorsJohn HustonVincent ShermanStarsHumphrey BogartMary AstorSydney Greenstreet
  • Humphrey Bogart and Julie Bishop in Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

    11. Action in the North Atlantic

    19432h 6mApproved
    7.0 (4.8K)
    An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat, and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment - bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.
    DirectorsLloyd BaconByron HaskinRaoul WalshStarsHumphrey BogartRaymond MasseyAlan Hale
  • Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Adam's Rib (1949)

    12. Adam's Rib

    19491h 41mApproved87Metascore
    7.4 (24K)
    Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
    DirectorGeorge CukorStarsSpencer TracyKatharine HepburnJudy Holliday
  • Paul Lukas and K.T. Stevens in Address Unknown (1944)

    13. Address Unknown

    19441h 15mApproved
    6.9 (1.3K)
    A U.S.-based art dealer travels to his former homeland of Germany, where he becomes dangerously susceptible to Nazi propaganda.
    DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesStarsPaul LukasMady ChristiansMorris Carnovsky
  • John Garfield, John Ridgely, and Gig Young in Air Force (1943)

    14. Air Force

    19432h 4mApproved
    7.0 (4.1K)
    The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
    DirectorHoward HawksStarsJohn GarfieldJohn RidgelyGig Young
  • Bette Davis and Charles Boyer in All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

    15. All This, and Heaven Too

    19402h 21mApproved
    7.4 (5.7K)
    A duchess' irrational behavior toward her children's governess triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.
    DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsBette DavisCharles BoyerJeffrey Lynn
  • Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Edward Brophy, Martin Kosleck, Frank McHugh, Conrad Veidt, and Karen Verne in All Through the Night (1942)

    16. All Through the Night

    19421h 47mApproved
    7.1 (5.3K)
    Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
    DirectorVincent ShermanStarsHumphrey BogartConrad VeidtKaren Verne
  • Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and José Iturbi in Anchors Aweigh (1945)

    17. Anchors Aweigh

    19452h 20mApproved60Metascore
    7.0 (9.8K)
    A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
    DirectorsGeorge SidneyJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsFrank SinatraKathryn GraysonGene Kelly
  • John Wayne and Gail Russell in Angel and the Badman (1947)

    18. Angel and the Badman

    19471h 40mApproved
    6.8 (7.1K)
    Quirt Evans, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth, a Quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose between his world and the world Penelope lives in.
    DirectorJames Edward GrantStarsJohn WayneGail RussellHarry Carey
  • Ann Blyth, Dan Duryea, Florence Eldridge, Fredric March, and Edmond O'Brien in Another Part of the Forest (1948)

    19. Another Part of the Forest

    19481h 47mApproved
    7.2 (683)
    This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
    DirectorMichael GordonStarsFredric MarchDan DuryeaEdmond O'Brien
  • Leif Erickson, Jon Hall, Maria Montez, and Sabu in Arabian Nights (1942)

    20. Arabian Nights

    19421h 26mApproved
    6.1 (1.8K)
    The caliph of Baghdad must go into hiding with a group of traveling performers when his brother usurps the throne. Both brothers desire a beautiful dancing girl, who is torn between power and true love.
    DirectorJohn RawlinsStarsSabuJon HallMaria Montez
  • William Holden and Jean Arthur in Arizona (1940)

    21. Arizona

    19402h 5mApproved
    6.8 (1.6K)
    In Tucson of the 1860s, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging Indians.
    DirectorWesley RugglesStarsJean ArthurWilliam HoldenWarren William
  • Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

    22. Arsenic and Old Lace

    19441h 58mApproved
    7.9 (77K)
    Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murderers.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsCary GrantPriscilla LaneRaymond Massey
  • John Wayne in Back to Bataan (1945)

    23. Back to Bataan

    19451h 35mApproved
    6.6 (4.5K)
    In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.
    DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsJohn WayneAnthony QuinnBeulah Bondi
  • Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire (1941)

    24. Ball of Fire

    19411h 51mApproved78Metascore
    7.7 (15K)
    A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.
    DirectorHoward HawksStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckOscar Homolka
  • Bedlam (1946)

    25. Bedlam

    19461h 19mApproved
    6.8 (4.6K)
    Nell Bowen, the protégé of Lord Mortimer, wants to help change the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Though she tries to reform Bedlam, the cruel Master Sims who runs it has her committed there, but ultimately, it's the lunatics who've taken over the asylum.
    DirectorMark RobsonStarsBoris KarloffAnna LeeBilly House

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