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)