What are your 10 favourite films from the 1940s? You don't have to sort or rank them, but that's up to you. Short films count as well.

This might be a weekly thing, so be on the lookout :)

ive never seen a movie made before 2008

The Third Man
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Rope
Citizen Kane
The Lady Eve
Black Narcissus
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Maltese Falcon
Shadow of a Doubt
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

My top 10:

Casablanca
The Red Shoes
Black Narcissus
Shadow of a Doubt
Stray Dog
Brief Encounter
They Live by Night
Double Indemnity
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Detour

u havent seen Shrek

only shrek forever after

You gotta watch Titanic (1997) its a fun movie about a big boat

ive seen the sequel. Titanic II (2010)

you are missing out fam, the boat is way bigger in the first one (1997)

Disagree

1. A Matter of Life and Death
2. Sullivan’s Travels
3. How Green Was My Valley
4. The Magnificent Ambersons
5. Letter From an Unknown Woman
6. Late Spring
7. Brief Encounter
8. The Best Years of Our Lives
9. The Big Sleep
10. Day of Wrath
HM: The Treasure of Sierra Madre, Mildred Pierce, The Lady Eve, Foreign Correspondent, Out of the Past, Rome, Open City, The Grapes of Wrath

based and true

beauty and the beast

odd man out

le corbeau

foreign correspondent

day of wrath

out of the past

citizen kane

grapes of wrath

double indemnity

a matter of life and death

From the 5 40s movies I have on letterboxd

1. Drunken Angel

The Big Sleep
The Wolf Man
Stray Dog
The Maltese Falcon

AMOLAD

Pinocchio - 1940
Citizen Kane - 1941
Dumbo - 1941
Bambi - 1942
Meshes of the Afternoon - 1943
Notorious- 1946
Black Narcissius - 1947
The Lady From Shanghai - 1947

u gonna post a top 10? im curious bout your picks

A Matter Of Life And Death
Day Of Wrath
Letter From An Unknown Woman
Late Spring
To Have And Have Not
My Darling Clementine
Shop Around The Corner
Rebecca
Lady Eve
Red River
Great Expectations
Beauty And The Beast

1. Monsieur Verdoux
2. The Magnificent Ambersons
3. Meet Me in St. Louis
4. Day of Wrath
5. How Green Was My Valley
6. "Ritual in Transfigured Time"
7. Out of the Past
8. Foreign Correspondent
9. Late Spring
10. Germany Year Zero
11. Sullivan's Travels
12. The Grapes of Wrath
13. I Walked with a Zombie
14. The Red Shoes
15. My Darling Clementine
16. Hail the Conquering Hero
17. A Day in the Country
18. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
19. Canyon Passage
20. The Strawberry Blonde
21. They Died with Their Boots On
22. A Matter of Life and Death
23. "Meshes of the Afternoon"
24. Ivan the Terrible, Part I
25. Ornamental Hairpin
26. Gentleman Jim
27. The Woman on the Beach
28. The Letter
29. The 47 Ronin
30. Beauty and the Beast

Thought about Verdoux but it's been so long

The MBDTF of the 20th century

ok chief maybe I'll revisit tomorrow when laying around

Notorious

And i'll put a rewatch of To Have and Have Not on my list caise i been wanting to rewatch some Hawks stuff too

Lmfao this a film sxn thread if I ever seen it. Yall really into 1940's cinema huh