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)
- Above Suspicion, starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray
- Action in the North Atlantic – starring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey
- The Adventures of Tartu, starring Robert Donat and Valerie Hobson – (GB)
- Air Force – directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Garfield
- Angels of the Streets (Les anges du peche), directed by Robert Bresson – (France)
- Background to Danger – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
- Bataan, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Taylor and Lloyd Nolan
- Behind the Rising Sun, starring Tom Neal, produced by Howard Hughes
- The Bells Go Down, starring Tommy Trinder and James Mason – (GB)
- Best Foot Forward, starring Lucille Ball, William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler
- Bombardier – starring Pat O’Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley
- Border Patrol, starring William Boyd, George Reeves, Robert Mitchum
- Cabin in the Sky – directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Ethel Waters
- Calling Dr. Death, first of the Inner Sanctum Mysteries, starring Lon Chaney, Jr.
- The Chance of a Lifetime – directed by William Castle
- Clancy Street Boys, starring The East Side Kids
- Coney Island, starring Betty Grable
- The Constant Nymph – starring Joan Fontaine
- Le Corbeau (The Raven), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Pierre Fresnay – (France)
- Corvette K-225 – starring Randolph Scott
- O Costa do Castelo (The Costa from the Castle) – (Portugal)
- Cowboy in Manhattan
- Crash Dive, starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter
- Crazy House, starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson
- The Crew of the Dora (Besatzung Dora) – (Germany)
- Crime Doctor, starring Warner Baxter
- Cry ‘Havoc’, starring Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell
- The Dancing Masters, starring Laurel and Hardy
- Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark)
- The Demi-Paradise, starring Laurence Olivier – (GB)
- Desert Victory, a propaganda documentary – (GB)
- Destination Tokyo – starring Cary Grant and John Garfield
- Destroyer, starring Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson
- Doña Bárbara, directed by Fernando de Fuentes – (Mexico)
- Du Barry Was a Lady – directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, Gene Kelly, Zero Mostel
- Edge of Darkness – starring Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston
- L’Éternel retour (The Eternal Return), directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais – (France)
- Fires Were Started, directed by Humphrey Jennings – (GB)
- Five Graves to Cairo – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter
- Flesh and Fantasy – directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Robert Cummings, & Barbara Stanwyck
- Flor Silvestre, starring Dolores del Río – (Mexico)
- Forces Occultes, directed by Jean Marny, starring Maurice Rémy, Marcel Vibert, Auguste Bovério, Giséle Parry – (France)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls – directed by Sam Wood, starring Gary Cooper & Ingrid Bergman
- Forever and a Day, featuring an all-star cast
- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man – starring Lon Chaney Jr. & Bela Lugosi
- Der Fuehrer’s Face, Donald Duck’s Academy Award-winning short
- The Gang’s All Here, directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda
- The Ghost Ship, starring Richard Dix
- Girl Crazy – starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
- Guadalcanal Diary, starring Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Preston Foster, William Bendix, Anthony Quinn
- A Guy Named Joe – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne
- Hangmen Also Die!, starring Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan
- Happy Land, starring Don Ameche and Frances Dee
- The Hard Way, starring Ida Lupino
- Harlem, directed by Carmine Gallone, starring Massimo Girotti and Amedeo Nazzari (Italy)
- Heaven Can Wait – directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Gene Tierney & Don Ameche
- Hello, Frisco, Hello, starring Alice Faye
- Hi Diddle Diddle, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pola Negri
- Hit the Ice, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Hitler’s Children, directed by Edward Dmytryk
- Holy Matrimony, starring Monty Woolley and Gracie Fields
- Huella de luz (A Sight of Light) – (Spain)
- The Human Comedy, starring Mickey Rooney
- I Walked with a Zombie, starring Frances Dee
- Immensee (aka Immensee: A German Folksong) – (Germany)
- It Ain’t Hay, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- It Comes Up Love, starring Gloria Jean and Donald O’Connor
- Jack London, starring Michael O’Shea and Susan Hayward
- Jane Eyre – directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Orson Welles & Joan Fontaine
- Journey into Fear – starring Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Río, Orson Welles
- The Kansan, starring Richard Dix and Jane Wyatt
- Kismet, starring Ashok Kumar – (India)
- Klondike Kate – directed by William Castle
- Lady of Burlesque – directed by William A. Wellman, starring Barbara Stanwyck & Michael O’Shea
- Lassie Come Home, starring Roddy McDowall and Donald Crisp
- The Leopard Man, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dennis O’Keefe
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook – (GB)
- The Mad Ghoul, starring George Zucco
- Madame Curie, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
- The Man in Grey, the first of the Gainsborough melodramas starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason – (GB)
- The Man with a Cross (L’uomo dalla croce) – directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Alberto Tavazzi, Roswita Schmidt and Attilio Dottesio – Italy
- Margin for Error – directed by Otto Preminger
- María Candelaria, starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz – (Mexico)
- Millions Like Us, directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder – (GB)
- Mission to Moscow, directed by Michael Curtiz – starring Walter Huston
- Mister Big, starring Donald O’Connor and Gloria Jean
- The More the Merrier, directed by George Stevens, starring Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea
- Mr. Lucky – directed by H.C. Potter, starring Cary Grant & Laraine Day
- Münchhausen – (Germany)
- My Learned Friend, starring Will Hay – (GB)
- Nasreddin in Bukhara – (U.S.S.R.)
- No Place for a Lady, starring William Gargan and Phyllis Brooks
- No Time for Love – directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray
- The North Star, starring Anne Baxter and Dana Andrews
- Northern Pursuit – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Errol Flynn
- Old Acquaintance, starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins
- Ossessione (Obsession), directed by Luchino Visconti – (Italy)
- The Outlaw, controversial western directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jane Russell
- The Ox-Bow Incident, directed by William Wellman, starring Henry Fonda, Harry Morgan, Dana Andrews
- Phantom of the Opera, starring Claude Rains
- Prelude to War – directed by Frank Capra
- Princess O’Rourke – starring Olivia de Havilland and Robert Cummings
- The Return of the Vampire – starring Bela Lugosi
- Revenge of the Zombies, starring John Carradine
- Riding High, starring Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell
- Sahara – starring Humphrey Bogart
- Saludos Amigos, a Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Goofy
- Sanshiro Sugata – directed by Akira Kurosawa – (Japan)
- The Seventh Victim, starring Tom Conway
- Shadow of a Doubt – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Teresa Wright & Joseph Cotten
- Sherlock Holmes Faces Death – starring Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce
- Sherlock Holmes in Washington – starring Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce
- The Shipbuilders, directed by John Baxter – (GB)
- The Silver Fleet, starring Ralph Richardson and Googie Withers – (GB)
- The Sky’s the Limit – starring Fred Astaire & Joan Leslie
- So Proudly We Hail! – starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake
- Son of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
- The Song of Bernadette – directed by Henry King, starring Jennifer Jones, with Vincent Price
- Squadron Leader X, starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak – (GB)
- Stormy Weather, starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers
- A Stranger in Town, starring Frank Morgan
- Tender Comrade – starring Ginger Rogers & Robert Ryan
- Thank Your Lucky Stars, starring Eddie Cantor
- Theatre Royal, starring Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen – (GB)
- They Came to Blow Up America, starring George Sanders
- This is the Army – directed by Michael Curtiz
- This Land Is Mine – directed by Jean Renoir, starring Charles Laughton & Maureen O’Hara
- Thousands Cheer – starring Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Mary Astor
- Titanic – (Germany)
- Top Man – directed by Charles Lamont, starring Donald O’Connor, Susanna Foster, Lillian Gish, Richard Dix, & Peggy Ryan
- Ukraine in Flames (Bitva za nashu Sovetskuyu Ukrainu) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Victory Through Air Power, a propaganda film by Disney
- Le Voyageur de la Toussaint – (France)
- War of the Wildcats (a.k.a. In Old Oklahoma) – starring John Wayne
- Watch on the Rhine, starring Paul Lukas and Bette Davis
- We Dive at Dawn, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring John Mills – (GB)
- We’ve Never Been Licked, starring Richard Quine and Noah Beery, Jr.
- Whistling in Brooklyn, starring Red Skelton
- The Woman of the Town, starring Claire Trevor and Albert Dekker
- Yellow Canary, starring Anna Neagle and Richard Greene – (GB)