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1940-1949

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  • James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

    1. Yankee Doodle Dandy

    19422h 6mApproved89Metascore
    7.6 (18K)
    The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyJoan LeslieWalter Huston
    A-135
  • James Stewart and Donna Reed in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

    2. It's a Wonderful Life

    19462h 10mPG89Metascore
    8.6 (532K)
    An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel Barrymore
    A-136
  • Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Madeleine Carroll, and Robert Preston in North West Mounted Police (1940)

    3. North West Mounted Police

    19402h 6mApproved
    6.3 (2K)
    In 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.
    DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGary CooperMadeleine CarrollPaulette Goddard
    A-137
  • Bette Davis in The Letter (1940)

    4. The Letter

    19401h 35mApproved84Metascore
    7.5 (15K)
    The wife of a rubber-plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter written in her own hand might prove her undoing.
    DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHerbert MarshallJames Stephenson
    A-138
  • Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland in Arise, My Love (1940)

    5. Arise, My Love

    19401h 50mApproved
    6.8 (1.1K)
    A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
    DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsClaudette ColbertRay MillandDennis O'Keefe
    A-139
  • Veronica Lake and Fredric March in I Married a Witch (1942)

    6. I Married a Witch

    19421h 17mApproved
    7.1 (10K)
    A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.
    DirectorRené ClairStarsFredric MarchVeronica LakeRobert Benchley
    A-140
  • Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck in Spellbound (1945)

    7. Spellbound

    19451h 51mApproved78Metascore
    7.5 (55K)
    A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsIngrid BergmanGregory PeckMichael Chekhov
    A-141
  • Gene Tierney, Jeanne Crain, and Cornel Wilde in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

    8. 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
    A-142
  • Errol Flynn, Patti Brady, Eleanor Parker, S.Z. Sakall, and Lucile Watson in Never Say Goodbye (1946)

    9. Never Say Goodbye

    19461h 37mApproved
    6.7 (1.4K)
    After divorce, 7-year-old Flip is unhappy. She begins corresponding with a Marine, sending him a photo of Ellen pretending she wrote the flirtatious letters. When the Marine arrives to meet his pen pal, Ellen uses it to make Phil jealous.
    DirectorJames V. KernStarsErrol FlynnEleanor ParkerLucile Watson
    A-143
  • Bette Davis and Claude Rains in Now, Voyager (1942)

    10. Now, Voyager

    19421h 57mApproved70Metascore
    7.8 (20K)
    A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
    DirectorIrving RapperStarsBette DavisPaul HenreidClaude Rains
    A-144
  • Errol Flynn and Julie Bishop in Northern Pursuit (1943)

    11. Northern Pursuit

    19431h 33mApproved
    6.6 (1.7K)
    A Canadian Mountie of German descent feigns disaffection with his homeland in hopes of infiltrating and thwarting a Nazi sabotage plot.
    DirectorRaoul WalshStarsErrol FlynnJulie BishopHelmut Dantine
    A-145
  • Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

    12. Unfaithfully Yours

    19481h 45mApproved
    7.4 (6.1K)
    A man dreams of revenge when he suspects his wife is unfaithful.
    DirectorPreston SturgesStarsRex HarrisonLinda DarnellRudy Vallee
    A-146
  • Mrs. Miniver (1942)

    13. Mrs. Miniver

    19422h 14mApproved77Metascore
    7.6 (21K)
    A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
    DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonTeresa Wright
    A-147
  • Bette Davis in Mr. Skeffington (1944)

    14. Mr. Skeffington

    19442h 26mApproved
    7.6 (7K)
    Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis enters into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.
    DirectorVincent ShermanStarsBette DavisClaude RainsWalter Abel
    A-148
  • Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire in The Enchanted Cottage (1945)

    15. The Enchanted Cottage

    19451h 31mApproved
    7.5 (3.7K)
    A plain maid and a wounded war veteran are transformed by their love for each other while residing in an enchanted honeymoon cottage.
    DirectorJohn CromwellStarsDorothy McGuireRobert YoungHerbert Marshall
    A-150
  • Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

    16. The Philadelphia Story

    19401h 52mApproved96Metascore
    7.8 (77K)
    After a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
    DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCary GrantKatharine HepburnJames Stewart
    A-151
  • Obsession (1943)

    17. Obsession

    19432h 20mTV-14
    7.6 (8.8K)
    Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.
    DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsClara CalamaiMassimo GirottiDhia Cristiani
    A-152
  • Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Virginia Mayo, and Teresa Wright in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

    18. The Best Years of Our Lives

    19462h 50mApproved93Metascore
    8.1 (75K)
    Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American Midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
    DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric March
    A-153
  • John Garfield and Ida Lupino in Out of the Fog (1941)

    19. Out of the Fog

    19411h 25mApproved
    6.7 (2.5K)
    A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
    DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsIda LupinoJohn GarfieldThomas Mitchell
    A-154
  • Jean Arthur in The More the Merrier (1943)

    20. The More the Merrier

    19431h 44mApproved
    7.6 (8K)
    During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.
    DirectorGeorge StevensStarsJean ArthurJoel McCreaCharles Coburn
    A-157
  • Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift in The Heiress (1949)

    21. The Heiress

    19491h 55mApproved
    8.1 (18K)
    A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.
    DirectorWilliam WylerStarsOlivia de HavillandMontgomery CliftRalph Richardson
    A-158
  • Clark Gable and Joan Crawford in Strange Cargo (1940)

    22. Strange Cargo

    19401h 53mApproved
    6.9 (3.2K)
    Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
    DirectorFrank BorzageStarsClark GableJoan CrawfordIan Hunter
    A-159
  • Joan Crawford in A Woman's Face (1941)

    23. 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
    A-160
  • Robert Taylor, Thomas Mitchell, George Murphy, and Lloyd Nolan in Bataan (1943)

    24. Bataan

    19431h 54mApproved
    6.9 (2.9K)
    In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.
    DirectorTay GarnettStarsRobert TaylorGeorge MurphyLloyd Nolan
    A-161
  • Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in Meet John Doe (1941)

    25. Meet John Doe

    19412h 2mApproved63Metascore
    7.6 (16K)
    A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckEdward Arnold
    A-162

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