10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1940-х по версии Vadim Rizov:

1940.
1. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
2. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (George Cukor)
3. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (Ernst Lubitsch)
4. FANTASIA (James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norm Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen)
5. THE GREAT MCGINTY (Preston Sturges)
6. REMEMBER THE NIGHT (Mitchell Leisen)
7. TRAIL OF THE VIGILANTES (Allan Dwan)
8. STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR (Boris Ingster)
9. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. THE GREAT DICTATOR (Charles Chaplin)

1941.
1. THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston)
2. NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK (Edward F. Cline)
3. BALL OF FIRE (Howard Hawks)
4. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
5. HIGH SIERRA (Raoul Walsh)
6. SUSPICION (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. H.M. PULHAM, ESQ. (King Vidor)
8. MEET JOHN DOE (Frank Capra)
9. REMORQUES (Jean Gremillon)

1942.
1. THE PALM BEACH STORY (Preston Sturges)
2. OSSESSIONE (Luchino Visconti)
3. CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz)
4. WOMAN OF THE YEAR (George Stevens)
5. SABOTEUR (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. THE MURDERER LIVES AT NUMBER 21 (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
7. THERE WAS A FATHER (Yasujiro Ozu)
8. CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur)

1943.
1. DAY OF WRATH (Carl Dreyer)
2. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
3. THE GANG'S ALL HERE (Busby Berkeley)
4. ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC (Lloyd Bacon)
5. SOMEONE TO REMEMBER (Robert Siodmak)
6. HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Ernst Lubitsch)
7. HOLY MATRIMONY (John M. Stahl)
8. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. JOURNEY INTO FEAR (Norman Foster)

1944.
1. LAURA (Otto Preminger)
2. THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (Preston Sturges)
3. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder)
4. THE SUSPECT (Robert Siodmak)
5. PHANTOM LADY (Robert Siodmak)
6. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (Fritz Lang)
7. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)

1945.
1. CHILDREN OF PARADISE (Marcel Carné)
2. OPEN CITY (Roberto Rossellini)
3. BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean)
4. WANDERING WITH THE MOON (Hasse Ekman)
5. MILDRED PIERCE (Michael Curtiz)
6. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Albert Lewin)
7. IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART ONE (Sergei Eisenstein)
8. I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
9. DEAD OF NIGHT (Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer)

1946.
1. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
3. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra)
4. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (John Ford)
5. CLUNY BROWN (Ernst Lubitsch)
6. THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (Jean Renoir)
7. THE KILLERS (Robert Siodmak)
8. GREAT EXPECTATIONS (David Lean)
9. SHOESHINE (Vittorio De Sica)
10. SO DARK THE NIGHT (Joseph H. Lewis)
Also: DESIRE (Roberto Rossellini, Marcello Pagliero), MYSTERIOUS INTRUDER (William Castle)

1947.
1. DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger)
2. OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur)
3. QUAI DES ORFEVRES (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
4. THEY MADE ME A FUGITIVE (Alberto Cavalcanti)
5. BRIGHTON ROCK (John Boulting)
6. MONSIEUR VERDOUX (Charles Chaplin)
7. RECORD OF A TENEMENT GENTLEMAN (Yasujiro Ozu)
8. HIGH TIDE (John Reinhardt)
9. CROSSFIRE (Edward Dmytryk)
10. BLACK NARCISSUS (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)

1948.
1. A FOREIGN AFFAIR (Billy Wilder)
2. THE BICYCLE THIEF (Vittorio De Sica)
3. THE NAKED CITY (Jules Dassin)
4. OLIVER TWIST (David Lean)
5. THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (Orson Welles)
6. BERLIN EXPRESS (Jacques Tourneur)
7. PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (William Dieterle)
8. THE FALLEN IDOL (Carol Reed)
9. RED RIVER (Howard Hawks)
10. ROAD HOUSE (Jean Negulesco)
Also: THE PIRATE (Vincente Minnelli), YELLOW SKY (William Wellman), A SONG IS BORN (Howard Hawks), KEY LARGO (John Huston), RAW DEAL (Anthony Mann), THE RED SHOES (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger), THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (John Huston)

1949.
1. THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
2. THIEVES' HIGHWAY (Jules Dassin)
3. THE RECKLESS MOMENT (Max Ophuls)
4. THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (Nicholas Ray)
5. I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (Howard Hawks)
6. ON THE TOWN (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
7. ADAM'S RIB (George Cukor)
8. THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS (David Lean)
9. GUN CRAZY (Joseph H. Lewis)
10. WHITE HEAT (Raoul Walsh)
Also: HARDLY A CRIMINAL (Hugo Fregonese)

Лучшие французские ленты 1940-х годов по версии издания Frenchfilms.org:

Top:
* Volpone (1941)
* Romance de Paris (1941)
* Le Visiteurs du Soir (1942)
* Le Comte de Monte Cristo (1943)
* Le Colonel Chabert (1943)
* Goupi mains rouges (1943)
* Le Corbeau (1943)
* Douce (1943)
* L'Eternel retour (1943)
* La Ciel est a vous (1944)

* Les enfants du paradis (1945)
* Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
* La Bataille du Rail (1945)
* La Belle et la Bete (1946)
* Quai des Orfevres (1947)
* Orphee (1949)
* Le Sang de Betes (1949)

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)

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)