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  • Anne Baxter, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Dolores Costello, and Tim Holt in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

    1. The Magnificent Ambersons

    19421h 28mApproved93Metascore
    7.6 (28K)
    The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
    DirectorsOrson WellesFred FleckRobert WiseStarsTim HoltJoseph CottenDolores Costello
  • Kitty Kornered (1946)

    2. Kitty Kornered

    19467mApprovedShort
    7.2 (960)
    Porky puts his cats out in the snow, but then they put him out and have a party. Expelling them again, Porky goes to bed, only to be terrorized by the felines' mock Martian invasion.
    DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancRobert Clampett
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    3. Raw Deal

    19481h 19mApproved
    7.2 (6K)
    Joe Sullivan (Dennis O'Keefe) has taken the rap for Rick (Raymond Burr), who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him.
    DirectorAnthony MannStarsDennis O'KeefeClaire TrevorMarsha Hunt
  • Gene Tierney, Jeanne Crain, and Cornel Wilde in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

    4. Leave Her to Heaven

    19451h 50mApproved
    7.6 (16K)
    A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
    DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsGene TierneyCornel WildeJeanne Crain
  • Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)

    5. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs

    19437mApprovedShort
    6.1 (1.9K)
    So White flees from the wicked Queenie, wins over the thugs from Murder Inc. and meets her overrated Prince Chawmin'.
    DirectorRobert ClampettStarsIvie AndersonMel BlancRuby Dandridge
  • The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)

    6. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

    19468mApprovedShort
    7.7 (2.4K)
    After reading a Dick Tracy comic, Daffy Duck has a surreal dream in which he is a P.I. pursuing an army of grotesque villains who stole every piggy bank in town, including his own.
    DirectorRobert ClampettStarMel Blanc
  • Baby Bottleneck (1946)

    7. Baby Bottleneck

    19467mApprovedShort
    7.2 (1K)
    It's the start of the Baby-Boom, and the overworked delivery system is full of glitches: Mother Goose gets a baby skunk, a Scotty dog gets a little hippo, and Mr. and Mrs. Mouse wind up with a kitten. Porky and Daffy take over the Baby Factory and get things straightened out until an unidentified egg comes rolling down the assembly line.
    DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancSara Berner
  • Jayne Meadows, Robert Montgomery, and Audrey Totter in Lady in the Lake (1946)

    8. Lady in the Lake

    19461h 45mApproved
    6.5 (6.7K)
    The female editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder.
    DirectorRobert MontgomeryStarsRobert MontgomeryAudrey TotterLloyd Nolan
  • Charles Laughton and Ray Milland in The Big Clock (1948)

    9. The Big Clock

    19481h 35mApproved
    7.6 (10K)
    A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.
    DirectorJohn FarrowStarsRay MillandMaureen O'SullivanCharles Laughton
  • John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., and Dorothy Ford in 3 Godfathers (1948)

    10. 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.
  • None Shall Escape (1944)

    11. None Shall Escape

    19441h 25mApproved
    7.0 (1.2K)
    The career of a German officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.
    DirectorAndré De TothStarsMarsha HuntAlexander KnoxHenry Travers
  • Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, Gloria Grahame, Sam Levene, and Robert Ryan in Crossfire (1947)

    12. Crossfire

    19471h 26mApproved
    7.3 (10K)
    A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?
    DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsRobert YoungRobert MitchumRobert Ryan
  • Robert Ryan in Berlin Express (1948)

    13. Berlin Express

    19481h 27mApproved
    6.8 (3.8K)
    A multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot.
    DirectorJacques TourneurStarsMerle OberonRobert RyanCharles Korvin
  • The Spiral Staircase (1946)

    14. The Spiral Staircase

    19461h 23mApproved
    7.3 (12K)
    In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
    DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsDorothy McGuireGeorge BrentEthel Barrymore
  • Margo and Dennis O'Keefe in The Leopard Man (1943)

    15. The Leopard Man

    19431h 6mApproved
    6.7 (6.3K)
    A seemingly-tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy New Mexico town.
    DirectorJacques TourneurStarsDennis O'KeefeMargoJean Brooks
  • The Seventh Victim (1943)

    16. The Seventh Victim

    19431h 11mApproved
    6.7 (8.4K)
    A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.
    DirectorMark RobsonStarsKim HunterTom ConwayJean Brooks
  • Maureen O'Hara in This Land Is Mine (1943)

    17. This Land Is Mine

    19431h 43mApproved
    7.5 (4K)
    A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.
    DirectorJean RenoirStarsCharles LaughtonMaureen O'HaraGeorge Sanders
  • I See a Dark Stranger (1946)

    18. I See a Dark Stranger

    19461h 38mApproved
    6.9 (1.9K)
    A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a spy for Germany.
    DirectorFrank LaunderStarsDeborah KerrTrevor HowardRaymond Huntley
  • Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, and Robert Montgomery in Ride the Pink Horse (1947)

    19. Ride the Pink Horse

    19471h 41mApproved
    7.2 (3.6K)
    WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.
    DirectorRobert MontgomeryStarsRobert MontgomeryThomas GomezWanda Hendrix
  • Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, and Conrad Veidt in Casablanca (1942)

    20. Casablanca

    19421h 42mPG100Metascore
    8.5 (634K)
    A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul Henreid
  • Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, and Brian Donlevy in Canyon Passage (1946)

    21. Canyon Passage

    19461h 32mApproved
    6.9 (2.8K)
    Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
    DirectorJacques TourneurStarsDana AndrewsBrian DonlevySusan Hayward
  • Veronica Lake in Sullivan's Travels (1941)

    22. Sullivan's Travels

    19411h 30mApproved89Metascore
    7.9 (30K)
    Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
    DirectorPreston SturgesStarsJoel McCreaVeronica LakeRobert Warwick
  • The Three Caballeros (1944)

    23. The Three Caballeros

    19441h 11mG85Metascore
    6.3 (16K)
    Donald receives his birthday gifts, which include traditional gifts and information about Brazil (hosted by Zé Carioca) and Mexico (by Panchito, a Mexican Charro Rooster).
    DirectorsNorman FergusonClyde GeronimiJack KinneyStarsAurora MirandaCarmen MolinaDora Luz
  • Danny Kaye, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Barnet, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Virginia Mayo, and Mel Powell in A Song Is Born (1948)

    24. 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
  • Bad Luck Blackie (1949)

    25. Bad Luck Blackie

    19497mApprovedShort
    7.6 (1.7K)
    A cute and very tormented kitten is bullied by an incomparably evil bulldog, who lives to know better after a black cat crosses his path.
    DirectorTex AveryStarsWilliam HannaHarry LangPat McGeehan

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