Лучшие ленты 1940-х годов по версии издания Far Out:

Top-10:
1. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
2. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
3. Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu, 1949)
4. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
5. To Be Or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
6. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1945)
7. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)
8. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
9. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
10. The Red Shoes (Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, 1948)

11-20:
11. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)
12. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
13. Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
14. The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, 1940)
15. Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
16. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
17. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)
18. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
19. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943)
20. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)

21-30:
21. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
22. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
23. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
24. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
25. White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949)
26. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
27. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
28. The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1941)
29. Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944)
30. Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944)

31-40:
31. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)
32. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
33. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
34. Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943)
35. Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, 1949)
36. A Hometown in Heart (Yong-Gyu Yoon, 1949)
37. Children of the Beehive (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1948)
38. Una familia de tantas (Alejandro Galindo, 1949)
39. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir, 1946)
40. Under the Bridges (Helmut Käutner, 1946)

41-50:
41. Aniki-Bóbó (Manoel de Oliveira, 1942)
42. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
43. The Pearl (Emilio Fernández, 1947)
44. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
45. The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
46. Fantasia (James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., 1940)
47. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948)
48. Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa, 1948)
49. I Walked With A Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
50. Pinocchio (Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, T. Hee, 1940)