Лучшие ленты 1940-х годов по версии издания WhatNerd:

Top-15:
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
4. The Third Man (1949)
5. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
6. The Great Dictator (1940)
7. The Red Shoes (1948)
8. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
9. Double Indemnity (1944)
10. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
11. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
12. Brief Encounter (1945)
13. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
14. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
15. Children of Paradise (1945)

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Foote&Friends:

Top-10:
1. THE FABELMANS
2. SHE SAID
3. TAR
4. WOMEN TALKING
5. BABYLON
6. AVATAR – THE WAY OF THE WATER
7. THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
8. EMANCIPATION
9. BLONDE
10. EMILY THE CRIMINAL

Лучшие ленты 1940-х годов по версии издания Foote&Friends:

Top-10:
1. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
2. CITIZEN KANE (1941)
3. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
4. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
5. RED RIVER (1948)
6. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
7. THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)
8. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
9. CASABLANCA (1943)
10. DUMBO (1941)

Лучшие ленты 1940-х годов по версии издания Slash Film:

Top-15:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Ball of Fire (1941)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Notorious (1946)
The Heiress (1949)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Casablanca (1942)

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)

Лучшие ленты 1940-х годов по версии издания Paste Magazine:

Top-10:
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
4. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
5. Double Indemnity (1944)
6. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
7. The Great Dictator (1940)
8. His Girl Friday (1940)
9. Gaslight (1946)
10. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

11-20:
11. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
12. Out of the Past (1947)
13. Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945)
14. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
15. Laura (1944)
16. Notorious (1946)
17. The Big Sleep (1946)
18. The Third Man (1949)
19. The Killers (1946)
20. Spellbound (1945)

21-30:
21. White Heat (1949)
22. Gilda (1946)
23. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
24. Rebecca (1940)
25. Red River (1948)
26. Cat People (1942)
27. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
28. Key Largo (1948)
29. The Stranger (1946)
30. All the King’s Men (1949)

31-40:
31. Stray Dog (1949)
32. To Have and Have Not (1944)
33. The Little Foxes (1941)
34. Adam’s Rib (1949)
35. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
36. Mildred Pierce (1945)
37. Drunken Angel (1948)
38. Rome, Open City (1945)
39. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
40. Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et Le Bête) (1946)

41-50:
41. Rope (1948)
42. Miracle On 34th St. (1947)
43. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
44. Le Corbeau (1943)
45. Day of Wrath (1943)
46. Fantasia (1940)
47. The Wolf Man (1941)
48. Late Spring (1949)
49. Black Narcissus (1947)
50. The Uninvited (1944)