By decade
The 1940s on disc
The films of the 1940s worth owning, ranked by standing.
My Darling Clementine
1946 · John Ford
eBay from $37
Red River
1948 · Howard Hawks
eBay from $20
The Heiress
1949 · William Wyler
eBay from $39
White Heat
1949 · Raoul Walsh
eBay from $27
Jungle Book
1942 · Zoltan Korda
eBay from $21
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Stray Dog
1949 · Akira Kurosawa
eBay from $43
To Be or Not to Be
1942 · Ernst Lubitsch
eBay from $38
Key Largo
1948 · John Huston
eBay from $23
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 · Frank Capra
eBay from $31
Now, Voyager
1942 · Irving Rapper
eBay from $40
The Thief of Bagdad
1940 · Ludwig Berger
eBay from $17
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944 · Vincente Minnelli
eBay from $38
The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · Orson Welles
eBay from $29
Pride and Prejudice
1940 · Robert Z. Leonard
eBay from $31
Victory Through Air Power 1943
Victory Through Air Power
1943 · Clyde Geronimi
Sullivan's Travels 1942
Sullivan's Travels
1942 · Preston Sturges
Woman of the Year
1942 · George Stevens
eBay from $43
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949 · John Ford
eBay from $40
Drunken Angel 1948
Drunken Angel
1948 · Akira Kurosawa
Black Narcissus
1947 · Emeric Pressburger
eBay from $25
The Wolf Man
1941 · George Waggner
eBay from $15
Adam's Rib 1949
Adam's Rib
1949 · George Cukor
Lifeboat
1944 · Alfred Hitchcock
eBay from $85
Great Expectations
1946 · David Lean
eBay from $11
The Paradine Case
1947 · Alfred Hitchcock
eBay from $92
The Shop Around the Corner
1940 · Ernst Lubitsch
eBay from $46
Sergeant York
1941 · Howard Hawks
eBay from $34
The Little Foxes
1941 · William Wyler
eBay from $20
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 · William A. Wellman
eBay from $67
The Lady Eve
1941 · Preston Sturges
eBay from $49
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 · Orson Welles
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Ossessione 1943
Ossessione
1943 · Luchino Visconti
Bitter Rice
1949 · Giuseppe De Santis
eBay from $29
The Killers
1946 · Robert Siodmak
eBay from $84
Henry V
1944 · Laurence Olivier
eBay from $20
A Letter to Three Wives
1949 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
eBay from $44
Twelve O'Clock High
1949 · Henry King
eBay from $35
The Pride of the Yankees 1942
The Pride of the Yankees
1942 · Sam Wood
The Yearling
1946 · Clarence Brown
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Dark Passage
1947 · Delmer Daves
eBay from $39
Germany, Year Zero
1948 · Roberto Rossellini
eBay from $70
The Snake Pit
1948 · Anatole Litvak
eBay from $25
Fort Apache
1948 · John Ford
eBay from $27
Jud Süß 1940
Jud Süß
1940 · Veit Harlan
The Eternal Jew 1940
The Eternal Jew
1940 · Fritz Hippler
The Mark of Zorro
1940 · Rouben Mamoulian
eBay from $137
Leave Her to Heaven
1945 · John M. Stahl
eBay from $23
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948 · Charles Barton
eBay from $23