By decade
The 1940s on disc
The films of the 1940s worth owning, ranked by standing.
The Last Chance 1945
The Last Chance
1945 · Leopold Lindtberg
Nightmare Alley 1947
Nightmare Alley
1947 · Edmund Goulding
Murderers Among Us 1946
Murderers Among Us
1946 · Wolfgang Staudte
Quai des Orfèvres 1947
Quai des Orfèvres
1947 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
Objective, Burma! 1945
Objective, Burma!
1945 · Raoul Walsh
The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941
The Devil and Daniel Webster
1941 · William Dieterle
The Hucksters 1947
The Hucksters
1947 · Jack Conway
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 1944
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944 · Mervyn LeRoy
Down Argentine Way 1940
Down Argentine Way
1940 · Irving Cummings
Ziegfeld Follies 1945
Ziegfeld Follies
1945 · Robert Lewis
Dead of Night 1945
Dead of Night
1945 · Charles Crichton
The House on 92nd Street 1945
The House on 92nd Street
1945 · Henry Hathaway
Back to Bataan 1945
Back to Bataan
1945 · Edward Dmytryk
Rainbow 1943
Rainbow
1943 · Mark Donskoy
The Young Guard 1948
The Young Guard
1948 · Sergei Gerasimov
Two Soldiers 1943
Two Soldiers
1943 · Leonid Lukov
Nasreddin in Bukhara 1943
Nasreddin in Bukhara
1943 · Yakov Protazanov
A Cage of Nightingales 1945
A Cage of Nightingales
1945 · Jean Dréville
The Bank Dick 1940
The Bank Dick
1940 · Edward F. Cline
The Fugitive 1947
The Fugitive
1947 · John Ford
The Mummy's Curse 1944
The Mummy's Curse
1944 · Leslie Goodwins
The Mummy's Ghost 1944
The Mummy's Ghost
1944
Tobacco Road 1941
Tobacco Road
1941 · John Ford
A Song to Remember 1945
A Song to Remember
1945 · Charles Vidor
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne 1945
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
1945 · Robert Bresson
The Spoilers 1942
The Spoilers
1942 · Ray Enright
None but the Lonely Heart 1944
None but the Lonely Heart
1944 · Clifford Odets
The Seventh Veil 1945
The Seventh Veil
1945 · Compton Bennett
The Seventh Victim 1943
The Seventh Victim
1943 · Mark Robson
A Canterbury Tale 1944
A Canterbury Tale
1944 · Emeric Pressburger
A Date with Judy 1948
A Date with Judy
1948 · Richard Thorpe
That Uncertain Feeling 1941
That Uncertain Feeling
1941 · Ernst Lubitsch
Road to Singapore 1940
Road to Singapore
1940 · Victor Schertzinger
The Big Store 1941
The Big Store
1941 · Charles Reisner
House of Strangers 1949
House of Strangers
1949 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Prison 1948
Prison
1948 · Ingmar Bergman
Tarzan's Secret Treasure 1941
Tarzan's Secret Treasure
1941 · Richard Thorpe
Virginia City 1940
Virginia City
1940 · Michael Curtiz
Mrs. Parkington 1944
Mrs. Parkington
1944 · Tay Garnett
A Stolen Life 1946
A Stolen Life
1946 · Curtis Bernhardt
Tales of Manhattan 1942
Tales of Manhattan
1942 · Julien Duvivier
Comrade X 1940
Comrade X
1940 · King Vidor
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1947
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947 · Norman Z. McLeod
Seven Sinners 1940
Seven Sinners
1940 · Phil Karlson
This Gun for Hire 1942
This Gun for Hire
1942 · Frank Tuttle
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942 · John Rawlins
The Sea of Grass 1947
The Sea of Grass
1947 · Elia Kazan
Air Force 1943
Air Force
1943 · Howard Hawks