Лучшие военные фильмы 1940-х годов по версии издания MovieWeb:

Top-13:
1. Casablanca (1942)
2. Rome, Open City (1945)
3. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
4. To Have and Have Not (1944)
5. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
6. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
7. The Great Dictator (1940)
8. Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
9. They Were Expendable (1945)
10. The Mortal Storm (1940)
11. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
12. Captains of the Clouds (1942)
13. Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

Лучшие мелодрамы 1940-х годов по версии BFI:

Top-10:
Kitty Foyle (1940) Director: Sam Wood
Penny Serenade (1941) Director: George Stevens
Now, Voyager (1942) Director: Irving Rapper
Mrs. Miniver (1942) Director: William Wyler
Gaslight (1944) Director: George Cukor
Mildred Pierce (1945) Director: Michael Curtiz
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) Director: John M. Stahl
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) Director: Lewis Milestone
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) Director: Max Ophüls
The Heiress (1949) Director: William Wyler

Лучшие ленты 1940-х годов по версии издания White City Cinema:

Top-10:
1. Late Spring (Ozu, Japan, 1949)
2. Letter From an Unknown Woman (Ophuls, USA, 1948)
3. How Green Was My Valley (Ford, USA, 1941)
4. The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger, UK, 1948)
5. Citizen Kane (Welles, USA, 1941)
6. Spring in a Small Town (Fei, China, 1948)
7. Casablanca (Curtiz, USA, 1942)
8. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, USA, 1946)
9. Day of Wrath (Dreyer, Denmark, 1943)
10. The Lady Eve (Sturges, USA, 1941)

11-25:
11. Detour (Ulmer, USA, 1945)
12. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, Italy, 1948)
13. The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, USA, 1940)
14. Germany Year Zero (Rossellini, Italy/Germany, 1948)
15. Out of the Past (Tourneur, USA, 1947)
16. Black Narcissus (Powell/Pressburger, UK, 1947)
17. Laura (Preminger, USA, 1944)
18. Brief Encounter (Lean, UK, 1945)
19. Notorious (Hitchcock, USA, 1946)
20. Children of Paradise (Carne, France, 1945)
21. Going My Way (McCarey, USA, 1944)
22. Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli, USA, 1944)
23. The Ornamental Hairpin (Shimizu, Japan, 1941)
24. Colorado Territory (Walsh, USA, 1949)
25. Utamaro and His Five Women (Mizoguchi, Japan, 1946)

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)