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)
- The Abandoned (Las Abandonadas), starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz – (Mexico)
- Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Allotment Wives, starring Kay Francis
- Along Came Jones – starring Gary Cooper & Loretta Young
- Amok – (Mexico)
- Anchors Aweigh – starring Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra
- And Then There Were None – starring Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Judith Anderson
- Back to Bataan – directed by Edward Dmytryk, with John Wayne
- A Bell For Adano – starring Gene Tierney & John Hodiak
- The Bells of St. Mary’s – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Bing Crosby & Ingrid Bergman
- Blithe Spirit – directed by David Lean, starring Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings, based on the play by Noël Coward – (GB)
- Blood on the Sun, starring James Cagney
- The Body Snatcher, directed by Robert Wise, starring Boris Karloff
- Boule de suif (Angel and Sinner) – (France)
- Bougainvillea (Bugambilia), starring Pedro Armendariz and Dolores del Río – (Mexico)
- Brewster’s Millions, starring Dennis O’Keefe
- Brief Encounter – directed by David Lean, starring Celia Johnson & Trevor Howard- (GB)
- Caesar and Cleopatra – directed by Gabriel Pascal, starring Vivien Leigh & Claude Rains – (GB)
- Captain Kidd, starring Charles Laughton
- The Cheaters, starring Joseph Schildkraut and Billie Burke
- The Cherokee Flash, starring Sunset Carson and Linda Stirling
- Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), by Marcel Carné, starring Arletty, released following the liberation of France
- Christmas in Connecticut – directed by Peter Godfrey, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
- Circus Cavalcade (La cabalgata del circo) – (Argentina)
- The Clock – directed by Vincente Minnelli (taking over from Fred Zinnermann), starring Judy Garland
- Confidential Agent, starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall
- Conflict – directed by Curtis Bernhardt, starring Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet
- Counter-Attack, starring Paul Muni and Marguerite Chapman
- The Corn Is Green, starring Bette Davis and John Dall
- Cornered, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Dick Powell
- Crime Doctor’s Warning – directed by William Castle
- Dakota – starring John Wayne
- Les dames du Bois de Boulogne, directed by Robert Bresson – (France)
- Dead of Night, Ealing Studios chiller compendium starring Mervyn Johns and Googie Withers – (GB)
- Death Mills – directed by Billy Wilder
- Detour, starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage
- Diamond Horseshoe, starring Betty Grable
- Dick Tracy, starring Morgan Conway and Mike Mazurki
- Dillinger, starring Lawrence Tierney
- The Dolly Sisters, starring Betty Grable
- The Enchanted Cottage, starring Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young
- The Enchanted Forest, starring Harry Davenport
- Escape in the Fog, starring Otto Kruger and Nina Foch
- Fallen Angel – directed by Otto Preminger, starring Alice Faye in her last major film role, Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell
- Flame of Barbary Coast – starring John Wayne
- The Great Flamarion – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Erich von Stroheim
- Guest Wife – starring Claudette Colbert & Don Ameche
- Gun Smoke, starring Johnny Mack Brown and Jennifer Holt
- Hangover Square, starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell and George Sanders
- Here Come the Co-Eds, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- High Powered, starring Phyllis Brooks and Robert Lowery
- The Horn Blows at Midnight, starring Jack Benny
- Hotel Berlin, starring Faye Emerson and Raymond Massey
- The House I Live In, a short film starring Frank Sinatra
- House of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and John Carradine
- The House on 92nd Street, produced by Louis de Rochemont, starring Lloyd Nolan and Signe Hasso
- Humayun, starring Ashok Kumar – (India)
- I Know Where I’m Going!, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey – (GB)
- I Live in Grosvenor Square, starring Anna Neagle, Rex Harrison and Robert Morley – (GB)
- I’ll Be Your Sweetheart, directed by Val Guest, starring Margaret Lockwood (GB)
- Incendiary Blonde, starring Betty Hutton
- The Invisible Army (Den usynlige hær) – (Denmark)
- Isle of the Dead, starring Boris Karloff and Ellen Drew
- It’s in the Bag!, starring Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche
- Johnny Angel, starring George Raft and Claire Trevor
- Kiss and Tell, starring Shirley Temple
- Kitty, directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Paulette Goddard and Ray Milland
- Lady on a Train, starring Deanna Durbin and Ralph Bellamy
- The Last Chance (Die letzte Chance) – (Switzerland)
- Leave Her to Heaven – directed by John M. Stahl, starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price
- Life Begins Anew, directed by Mario Mattoli starring Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti (Italy)
- The Lost Letter (Propavshaya gramota) – (USSR)
- The Lost Weekend – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Ray Milland & Jane Wyman
- Love Letters, starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten
- Madonna of the Seven Moons, starring Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger – (GB)
- The Man in Half Moon Street, starring Nils Asther
- A Medal for Benny, starring Dorothy Lamour
- The Men who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi) – directed by Akira Kurosawa – (Japan)
- Mildred Pierce – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
- Mom and Dad, a hygiene documentary
- Momotaro, Sacred Sailors (Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei), the first feature-length animated film from Japan
- My Name is Julia Ross, starring Nina Foch
- The Naughty Nineties, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Objective, Burma! – starring Errol Flynn
- Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, starring Edward G. Robinson & Margaret O’Brien
- Pardon My Past, starring Fred MacMurray and Marguerite Chapman
- Perfect Strangers, starring Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr – (GB)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring George Sanders and Hurd Hatfield
- Pillow to Post – directed by Vincent Sherman, starring Ida Lupino, Sydney Greenstreet, William Prince
- Pink String and Sealing Wax, starring Googie Withers and Mervyn Johns – (GB)
- La porta del cielo (The Gate of Heaven) – directed by Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
- Pride of the Marines, starring John Garfield
- Pursuit to Algiers – starring Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce
- The Rake’s Progress, starring Rex Harrison – (GB)
- The Red Meadows (De røde enge) – (Denmark)
- Rhapsody in Blue, a biopic of George Gershwin starring Robert Alda
- Rockin’ in the Rockies, starring the Three Stooges
- Roll Call in Heaven (Cuando en el cielo pasen lista) – (Argentina)
- Rome, Open City (Roma Città aperta) – directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi – Italy
- A Royal Scandal – directed by Otto Preminger & Ernst Lubitsch, starring Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, Vincent Price
- Rustlers’ Hideout, starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John
- Salome Where She Danced, starring Yvonne De Carlo
- San Antonio – starring Errol Flynn & Alexis Smith
- Saratoga Trunk – directed by Sam Wood, starring Gary Cooper & Ingrid Bergman
- Scarlet Street – directed by Fritz Lang, starring Edward G. Robinson & Joan Bennett
- La selva de fuego (The Forest Fire), starring Dolores del Río and Arturo de Córdova – (Mexico)
- The Seventh Veil, starring James Mason and Ann Todd – (GB)
- Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear – starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
- Son of Lassie, starring Peter Lawford
- A Song to Remember, a biopic of Frédéric Chopin starring Cornel Wilde
- The Southerner, starring Zachary Scott
- The Spanish Main – starring Maureen O’Hara & Paul Henreid
- Spellbound – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ingrid Bergman & Gregory Peck
- State Fair, starring Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain
- The Stork Club, starring Betty Hutton
- The Story of G.I. Joe, directed by William Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum
- The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, starring George Sanders
- That’s the Spirit, starring Jack Oakie
- They Were Expendable – directed by John Ford, starring Robert Montgomery & John Wayne
- The Thin Man Goes Home, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
- The Three Caballeros, a Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Dora Luz
- Thrill of a Romance, directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Esther Williams and Van Johnson
- Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, starring Roddy McDowall
- Tonight and Every Night – starring Rita Hayworth
- A Tree Grows In Brooklyn – directed by Elia Kazan, starring Dorothy McGuire
- Twice Blessed, starring Lee and Lyn Wilde
- Two O’Clock Courage, starring Ann Rutherford and Tom Conway
- The Unseen, starring Joel McCrea and Gail Russell
- The Valley of Decision, starring Greer Garson and Gregory Peck
- La vida en un hilo (Life on a Wire) – (Spain)
- Voice of the Whistler – directed by William Castle
- A Walk in the Sun, starring Dana Andrews
- War Comes to American – directed by Frank Capra & Anatole Litvak
- Waterloo Road, starring John Mills and Stewart Granger – (GB)
- The Way to the Stars, starring John Mills and Michael Redgrave, written by Terence Rattigan – (GB)
- The Wicked Lady, starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason – (GB)
- Without Love – starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball
- The Woman in Green – starring Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) & Nigel Bruce
- Wonder Man – directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, starring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, & S.Z Sakall
- Yolanda and the Thief – starring Fred Astaire & Lucille Bremer
- Ziegfeld Follies, with an MGM all-star cast