Лучшие фильмы 1940-х годов по версии Jonathan Rosenbaum:

1940.
Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock)
The Grapes of Wrath (Ford)
The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
The Long Voyage Home (Ford)
Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen/ Hamilton Luske)
Rebecca (Hitchcock)
The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch)
The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger / Michael Powell / Tim Whelan)

1941.
All that Money Can Buy (William Dieterle)
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Ozu)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Dumbo (Sharpsteen)
Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
Man Hunt (Lang)
The Strawberry Blonde (Walsh)
Suspicion (Hitchcock)

1942.
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
The 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)
Sullivan's Travels (Sturges)

1943.
La ciel est a vous (Jean Gremillon)
Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
Dumb-Hounded (Tex Avery)
Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch)
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
Red Hot Riding Hood (Avery)
The Seventh Victim (Robson)
This Land is Mine (Renoir)
Who Killed Who? (Avery)

1944.
At Land (Maya Deren)
Brief Encounter (David Lean)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
Les enfants du paradis (Carne)
Jammin' the Blues (Gjon Mili)
Laura (Otto Preminger)
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
Screwball Squirrel (Avery)
To Have and Have Not (Hawks)
The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (Edgar Neville)
When Strangers Marry (William Castle)

1944-1946.
Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 and 2 (Eisenstein)

1945.
The Clock (Minnelli)
Les dames du bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
Duel in the Sun (King Vidor)
Scarlet Street (Lang)
The Three Caballeros (Norman Ferguson)

1946.
La belle et la bete (Jean Cocteau)
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
Five Women around Utamaro (Mizoguchi)
From This Day Forward (John Berry)
Gilda (Charles Vidor)
The Man I Love (Walsh)
A Matter of Life and Death (Powell/ Emeric Pressburger)
My Darling Clementine (Ford)
Notorious (Hitchcock)
Paisa (Rossellini)
Sciuscia (Shoeshine) (De Sica)

1947.
Dark Passage (Delmer Daves)
Germany Year Zero (Rossellini)
I Know Where I'm Going (Powell/Pressburger)
King Size Canary (Avery)
Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin)
Motion Painting No. 1 (Oskar Fischinger)
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
Quai des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Woman on the Beach (Renoir)

1948.
The Argyle Secrets (Cy Endfield)
The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
Good Sam (McCarey)
A Hen in the Wind (Ozu)
The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)
The Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)
Moonrise (Borzage)
The Pirate (Minnelli)
The Red Shoes (Powell / Pressburger)
Rope (Hitchcock)
Spring in a Small City (Fei Mu)
La terra trema (Luchino Visconti)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray)

1949.
Adam's Rib (Cukor)
Bad Luck Blackie (Avery)
Begone Dull Care (Norman McLaren)
Blood of the Beast (Georges Franju)
Ecole des facteurs (Jacques Tati)
Les enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Intruder in the Dust (Clarence Brown)
Jour de fete (Tati)
Late Spring (Ozu)
Little Rural Riding Hood (Avery)
The Reckless Moment (Ophuls)
Samson and Delilah (DeMille)
Stromboli (Rossellini)
Thieves Highway (Jules Dassin)
The Third Man (Reed)
The Window (Ted Tatzlaff)

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)