Best English-Language Movies & TV Series of the 1940s

Looking for the best English-language movies and TV series of the 1940s? These 296 are the highest-rated on 3eyedraven, weighted by vote count so a handful of glowing reviews never beats a proven favourite.

It's a Wonderful Life 1946 ★ 8.3
The Great Dictator 1940 ★ 8.3
Casablanca 1943 ★ 8.1
Double Indemnity 1944 ★ 8.1
The Shop Around the Corner 1940 ★ 8.1
Citizen Kane 1941 ★ 8.0
The Red Shoes 1948 ★ 8.0
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 ★ 8.0
Rope 1948 ★ 7.9
Rebecca 1940 ★ 7.9
The Third Man 1949 ★ 7.9
The Grapes of Wrath 1940 ★ 7.8
To Be or Not to Be 1942 ★ 7.8
A Matter of Life and Death 1946 ★ 7.8
The Maltese Falcon 1941 ★ 7.7
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 ★ 7.7
Notorious 1946 ★ 7.7
Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 ★ 7.8
Brief Encounter 1945 ★ 7.7
The Heiress 1949 ★ 7.8
Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 ★ 7.6
Out of the Past 1947 ★ 7.7
The Big Sleep 1946 ★ 7.6
Laura 1944 ★ 7.6