1940s
See also: 1940s in film
- 1940 - His Girl Friday, The Grapes of Wrath, The Philadelphia Story, The Great Dictator, Pinocchio
- 1941 - Citizen Kane, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Maltese Falcon, How Green Was My Valley, Sergeant York
- 1942 - Casablanca, The Magnificent Ambersons, To Be or Not to Be, The Palm Beach Story, Cat People
- 1943 - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Day of Wrath, Meshes of the Afternoon, Shadow of a Doubt, I Walked with a Zombie
- 1944 - Double Indemnity, Ivan the Terrible, Part One, Meet Me in St. Louis, To Have And To Have Not, Laura
- 1945 - Mom and Dad, Children of Paradise, Rome, Open City, Brief Encounter, I Know Where I'm Going!, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
- 1946 - It's a Wonderful Life, Notorious, My Darling Clementine, Paisà , A Matter of Life and Death; First Cannes Film Festival
- 1947 - Out of the Past, Monsieur Verdoux, Germany, Year Zero
- 1948 - Bicycle Thieves, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Red Shoes, Red River; 1st British Academy Film Awards
- 1949 - The Third Man, Late Spring, Kind Hearts and Coronets
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