1940s

1949

1. UNDER CAPRICORN (Alfred Hitchcock) 
2. KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (Robert Hamer)
3. THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
4. WHITE HEAT (Raoul Walsh)
5. KNOCK ON ANY DOOR (Nicholas Ray)

1948

1. THE RED SHOES (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
2. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (John Huston)

3. THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (Nicholas Ray)

4. BICYCLE THIEVES (Vittorio De Sica)

1947

1. MONSIEUR VERDOUX (Charles Chaplin)

2. BLACK NARCISSUS (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

3. OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur)

1946

1. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE (Jean Cocteau)
3. A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

4. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (John Ford)

5. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)
6. THE KILLERS (Robert Siodmak)

1945

1. ROME, OPEN CITY (Roberto Rossellini)

1944

1. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder)

2. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (Howard Hawks)

1943

1. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

1942

1. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)

2. CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur)
3. GENTLEMAN JIM (Raoul Walsh)

4. CASABLANCA (Michael Curitz)

1941

1. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)

2. DUMBO (Ben Sharpsteen)

3. THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston)

1940

1. PINOCCHIO (Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske)

2. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (John Ford)

3. THE GREAT DICTATOR (Charles Chaplin)


Best of the '40s


1. THE RED SHOES (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
2. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
3. MONSIEUR VERDOUX (Charles Chaplin)
4. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (John Huston)
5. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. PINOCCHIO (Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske)