Best Romance Movies & TV Series of the 1940s

Looking for the best Romance movies and TV series of the 1940s? These 111 are the highest-rated on 3eyedraven, weighted by vote count so a handful of glowing reviews never beats a proven favourite.

Casablanca 1943 ★ 8.1
The Shop Around the Corner 1940 ★ 8.1
The Red Shoes 1948 ★ 8.0
Children of Paradise 1945 ★ 8.1
Rebecca 1940 ★ 7.9
To Be or Not to Be 1942 ★ 7.8
A Matter of Life and Death 1946 ★ 7.8
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
The Philadelphia Story 1940 ★ 7.6
Beauty and the Beast 1946 ★ 7.5
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 ★ 7.5
My Darling Clementine 1946 ★ 7.5
Gilda 1946 ★ 7.5
To Have and Have Not 1945 ★ 7.5
His Girl Friday 1940 ★ 7.4
Spellbound 1945 ★ 7.4
Leave Her to Heaven 1945 ★ 7.4
Waterloo Bridge 1940 ★ 7.5
The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 ★ 7.3
Ball of Fire 1941 ★ 7.4