Film Decades:1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- Across the Pacific – directed by John Huston and Vincent Sherman, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
- The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine, starring Dennis O’Keefe and Ruth Terry
- A-Haunting We Will Go, starring Laurel and Hardy
- Ala-Arriba! – (Portugal)
- Alias Boston Blackie, Starring Chester Morris, Adele Mara, and Richard Lane
- Alibi, starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason – (GB)
- All Through the Night – starring Humphrey Bogart
- American Empire, starring Richard Dix
- Andy Hardy’s Double Life, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
- Aniki-Bóbó – (Portugal)
- Arabian Nights, starring Sabu, Jon Hall, Maria Montez
- Attack on Baku, starring Willy Fritsch, René Deltgen (Germany)
- El Baisano Jalil – (Mexico)
- Bambi, directed by David Hand, starring Bobby Stewart, Donnie Dunagan, Hardie Albright and John Sutherland
- The Battle of Midway – directed by John Ford – documentary
- The Big Blockade, starring Leslie Banks, Michael Redgrave and Will Hay – (UK)
- The Big Shot – starring Humphrey Bogart
- The Big Street, starring Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball
- The Black Sheep of Whitehall, starring Will Hay and John Mills – (GB)
- The Black Swan – directed by Henry King, starring Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara
- Blue, White and Perfect, starring Lloyd Nolan
- Bullet Scars, starring Regis Toomey
- Captains of the Clouds – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring James Cagney
- Casablanca** – directed by Michael Curtiz (Oscar winner), starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
- Cat People, starring Simone Simon and Tom Conway
- China Girl – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen
- Commandos Strike at Dawn – directed by John Farrow, starring Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Coote
- The Corpse Vanishes – starring Bela Lugosi
- The Courtship of Andy Hardy, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
- Derailed (Afsporet) – (Denmark)
- Desperate Journey – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Errol Flynn & Ronald Reagan
- The Devil’s Envoys (Les Visiteurs du Soir), directed by Marcel Carné, starring Arletty – (France)
- Eagle Squadron, directed by Arthur Lubin
- Escape from Hong Kong, starring Marjorie Lord
- Eyes in the Night – directed by Fred Zinneman, starring Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed
- The Falcon Takes Over, starring George Sanders
- Fingers at the Window – directed by Charles Lederer, starring Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, & Basil Rathbone
- The First of the Few, directed by Leslie Howard, starring Howard and David Niven – (GB)
- The Fleet’s In – starring Dorothy Lamour and William Holden
- Flying Fortress, starring Richard Greene (GB)
- Flying Tigers – starring John Wayne
- The Foreman Went to France, starring Clifford Evans and Tommy Trinder – (GB)
- For Me and My Gal – directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly
- Four Steps in the Clouds (Quattro passi fra le nuvole) – (Italy)
- Un Garibaldino al Convento – directed by Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
- The Gaucho War (La guerra gaucha) – (Argentina)
- The Gay Sisters – directed by Irving Rapper, starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Gig Young
- Gentleman Jim – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, William Frawley, and Ward Bond
- George Washington Slept Here – directed by William Keighley, starring Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Percy Kilbride, and Hattie McDaniel
- The Ghost of Frankenstein – starring Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi
- The Glass Key, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
- The Goose Steps Out, starring Will Hay – (GB)
- The Great Impersonation, directed by John Rawlins, starring Ralph Bellamy
- The Great King (Der große König) – (Germany)
- The Great Man’s Lady – directed by William A. Wellman, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea
- The Great Mr. Handel, directed by Norman Walker, starring Wilfrid Lawson (GB)
- Hatter’s Castle, starring Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason – (GB)
- Her Cardboard Lover, starring Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer
- Holiday Inn – starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire
- Historia de un gran amor (A Great Love Story) – (Mexico)
- I Married an Angel, starring Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald
- I Married a Witch, starring Veronica Lake and Fredric March
- In Old California – starring John Wayne
- In This Our Life – directed by John Huston, starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland
- In Which We Serve – directed by David Lean and Noël Coward, starring Coward and John Mills – (GB)
- Invisible Agent, starring Jon Hall
- Jackass Mail, starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main
- Johnny Eager, starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner
- Journey for Margaret – directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce, & Margaret O’Brien
- Jungle Book, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Sabu
- Kid Glove Killer – the directorial debut of Fred Zinnemann
- The Kids Grow Up (Los Chicos crecen) – (Argentina)
- Kings Row, starring Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Claude Rains
- Kokoda Front Line!, an Academy Award winning documentary film – (Australia)
- Larceny, Inc., starring Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
- Listen to Britain, propaganda film directed by Humphrey Jennings – (GB)
- The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe, starring Linda Darnell
- The Magnificent Ambersons – directed by Orson Welles, starring Joseph Cotten and Dolores Costello
- The Major and the Minor – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland
- The Male Animal – starring Henry Fonda and Olivia De Havilland
- The Man Who Came to Dinner – directed by William Keighley, starring Bette Davis, Monty Woolley, Jimmy Durante
- The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself (El hombre que se quiso matar) – (Spain)
- Miss Annie Rooney, starring Shirley Temple
- Moontide, starring Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino
- Mrs. Miniver – directed by William Wyler, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
- The Mummy’s Tomb, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
- The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (L’Assassin habite au 21), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Pierre Fresnay – (France)
- My Favorite Blonde, starring Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll
- My Gal Sal – starring Rita Hayworth
- My Sister Eileen, starring Rosalind Russell
- ‘Neath Brooklyn Bridge, starring The East Side Kids
- The Next of Kin, starring Mervyn Johns – (GB)
- Northwest Rangers
- Now, Voyager, starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid
- One of Our Aircraft is Missing, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger – (GB)
- Overland Mail, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Noah Beery, Jr., Noah Beery, Sr.
- Pacific Rendezvous, starring Lee Bowman
- The Palm Beach Story – written & directed by Preston Sturges, starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Rudy Vallée
- Panama Hattie, starring Ann Sothern and Lena Horne
- Pardon My Sarong, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- O Pátio das Cantigas (The Courtyard of Songs) – (Portugal)
- People of the Mountains, directed by István Szőts – (Hungary)
- The Pied Piper, starring Monty Woolley and Roddy McDowall
- A Pilot Returns (Un pilota ritorna) – directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Massimo Girotti, Michela Belmonte and Piero Lulli – Italy
- A Pistol Shot, starring Assia Noris, Fosco Giachetti (Italy)
- Pittsburgh – directed by Lewis Seiler, starring Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, and John Wayne
- Pride of the Yankees – starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan, Babe Ruth
- Random Harvest, starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson
- Reap the Wild Wind – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring, John Wayne, Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, and Susan Hayward
- Reunion in France, starring Joan Crawford
- Ride ‘Em Cowboy, starring Abbott and Costello
- Rings on Her Fingers – starring Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney
- Rio Rita, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Road to Morocco, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope
- The Rock of the Souls (El Peñón de las Ánimas) – (Mexico)
- Roti (Bread) – (India)
- Roxie Hart – starring Ginger Rogers
- Saboteur – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings
- Saludos Amigos, a Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Goofy (released in South America in 1942 and in the U.S. in 1943)
- Somewhere I’ll Find You – starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake – starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney
- Song of the Islands, a Darryl F. Zanuck production starring Betty Grable and Victor Mature
- Sons of the Pioneers, starring Roy Rogers and George ‘Gabby’ Hayes
- The Spoilers – starring Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, and John Wayne
- Springtime in the Rockies, starring Betty Grable, John Payne, Carmen Miranda and Cesar Romero
- Star Spangled Rhythm, featuring an all-star cast
- Sweater Girl, starring Eddie Bracken, June Preisser, and Betty Jane Rhodes
- Syncopation, starring Adolphe Menjou
- Tales of Manhattan, directed by Julien Duvivier with an all-star cast
- The Talk of the Town – starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman
- Tarzan’s New York Adventure, starring Johnny Weissmuller
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring George Montgomery and Maureen O’Hara
- Tennessee Johnson, starring Van Heflin and Ruth Hussey
- There Was a Father (chichi ariki), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
- There’s One Born Every Minute, starring Hugh Herbert and Peggy Moran
- This Above All – directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine
- This Gun for Hire, starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd
- This Was Paris, starring Ann Dvorak (GB)
- Time to Kill, starring Lloyd Nolan
- Thunder Birds – starring Gene Tierney
- Thunder Rock, starring Michael Redgrave and James Mason – (GB)
- To Be or Not to Be, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Jack Benny and (in her last film) Carole Lombard
- Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die, starring Richard Dix
- Tortilla Flat – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield
- Uncensored, directed by Anthony Asquith – (GB)
- The Undying Monster, starring James Ellison
- Valentin the Good (Valentin Dobrotivý), directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia)
- Valley of the Sun, starring Lucille Ball and James Craig
- The Voice of Terror – starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
- Wake Island, starring Brian Donlevy and Robert Preston
- Went the Day Well?, directed by Cavalcanti, starring Leslie Banks and Mervyn Johns – (GB)
- Who Done It? – starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Whom the Gods Love, directed by Karl Hartl (Germany-Austria)
- Woman of the Year – starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
- A Yank at Eton, starring Mickey Rooney
- A Yank on the Burma Road (1942) – directed by George B. Seitz, starring Laraine Day & Barry Nelson – aka China Caravan and Yanks on the Burma Road
- Yankee Doodle Dandy – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, and Richard Whorf
- The Young Mr. Pitt, directed by Carol Reed, starring Robert Donat – biopic of William Pitt the Younger – (GB)
- You Were Never Lovelier – starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth