Best Mystery Movies & TV Series of the 1940s

Looking for the best Mystery movies and TV series of the 1940s? These 46 are the highest-rated on 3eyedraven, weighted by vote count so a handful of glowing reviews never beats a proven favourite.

Citizen Kane 1941 ★ 8.0

Rebecca 1940 ★ 7.9

The Third Man 1949 ★ 7.9

The Maltese Falcon 1941 ★ 7.7

Notorious 1946 ★ 7.7

The Big Sleep 1946 ★ 7.6

Laura 1944 ★ 7.6

Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 ★ 7.6

Shadow of a Doubt 1943 ★ 7.5

Stray Dog 1949 ★ 7.6

Gaslight 1944 ★ 7.5

Spellbound 1945 ★ 7.4

Dark Passage 1947 ★ 7.3

The Naked City 1948 ★ 7.2

Suspicion 1941 ★ 7.1

A Letter to Three Wives 1949 ★ 7.2

And Then There Were None 1945 ★ 7.0

Foreign Correspondent 1940 ★ 7.0

The Snake Pit 1948 ★ 7.1

Cat People 1942 ★ 6.9

The Pearl of Death 1944 ★ 7.1

This Gun for Hire 1942 ★ 7.0

The Uninvited 1944 ★ 6.9

Shadow of the Thin Man 1941 ★ 7.0