By decade
The 1940s on disc
The films of the 1940s worth owning, ranked by standing.
The Long Voyage Home
1940 · John Ford
eBay from $30
A Double Life
1947 · George Cukor
eBay from $18
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948 · Anatole Litvak
eBay from $80
The Naked City
1948 · Jules Dassin
eBay from $28
Since You Went Away
1944 · Tay Garnett
eBay from $69
To Each His Own 1946
To Each His Own
1946 · Mitchell Leisen
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946 · Lewis Milestone
eBay from $29
The Search 1948
The Search
1948 · Fred Zinnemann
Late Spring
1949 · Yasujirō Ozu
eBay from $38
Waterloo Bridge
1940 · Mervyn LeRoy
eBay from $39
Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur
eBay from $35
Paisà 1946
Paisà
1946 · Roberto Rossellini
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
eBay from $107
Heaven Can Wait
1943 · Ernst Lubitsch
eBay from $46
The Fallen Idol
1948 · Carol Reed
eBay from $20
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944 · John M. Stahl
eBay from $46
Champion
1949 · Mark Robson
eBay from $39
Blossoms in the Dust 1941
Blossoms in the Dust
1941 · Mervyn LeRoy
Sands of Iwo Jima
1949 · Allan Dwan
eBay from $63
Five Graves to Cairo
1943 · Billy Wilder
eBay from $25
Holiday Inn
1942 · Mark Sandrich
eBay from $36
The Three Musketeers
1948 · George Sidney
eBay from $41
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945 · Elia Kazan
eBay from $20
I Walked with a Zombie
1943 · Jacques Tourneur
eBay from $55
Detour
1945 · Edgar G. Ulmer
eBay from $38
One Wonderful Sunday
1947 · Akira Kurosawa
eBay from $46
And Then There Were None
1945 · René Clair
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Jour de Fête
1949 · Jacques Tati
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A Foreign Affair
1948 · Billy Wilder
eBay from $33
Anna Karenina
1948 · Julien Duvivier
eBay from $47
The Great Lie 1941
The Great Lie
1941 · Edmund Goulding
Anna and the King of Siam
1946 · John Cromwell
eBay from $24
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941 · Alexander Hall
eBay from $43
My Favorite Wife 1940
My Favorite Wife
1940 · Garson Kanin
The Human Comedy 1943
The Human Comedy
1943 · Clarence Brown
A Matter of Life and Death
1946 · Michael Powell
eBay from $17
Kings Row 1942
Kings Row
1942 · Sam Wood
Monsieur Vincent
1947 · Maurice Cloche
eBay from $33
That Hamilton Woman
1941 · Alexander Korda
eBay from $46
Joan of Arc
1948 · Victor Fleming
eBay from $21
Blood and Sand
1941 · Rouben Mamoulian
eBay from $77
The Most Beautiful 1944
The Most Beautiful
1944 · Akira Kurosawa
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942 · Roy William Neill
eBay from $46
The Farmer's Daughter
1947 · H. C. Potter
eBay from $236
Across the Pacific 1942
Across the Pacific
1942 · John Huston
The Black Swan
1942 · Henry King
eBay from $16
Crisis 1946
Crisis
1946 · Ingmar Bergman
In Which We Serve
1942 · David Lean
eBay from $46