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)
- 13 Rue Madeleine – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring James Cagney
- Admiral Nakhimov – (USSR)
- Along the Sungari River (Songhua-jiang shang) – (China)
- Angel and the Badman – starring John Wayne and Gail Russell
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer – starring Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy
- Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, starring Hildegard Knef – (Germany)
- The Big Fix, starring Sheila Ryan
- The Bishop’s Wife – starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
- Black Narcissus, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons – (GB)
- Body and Soul – directed by Robert Rossen, starring John Garfield & Lilli Palmer
- Boomerang! – directed by Elia Kazan, starring Dana Andrews
- Born to Kill, starring Claire Trevor and Lawrence Tierney
- The Brasher Doubloon, starring George Montgomery
- Brighton Rock, a Boulting Brothers film, starring Richard Attenborough – (GB)
- Brute Force, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Burt Lancaster
- Buck Privates Come Home, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Bury Me Dead, starring June Lockhart and Hugh Beaumont
- California – directed by John Farrow, starring Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, & Barry Fitzgerald
- Captain Boycott, directed by Frank Launder, starring Stewart Granger – (GB)
- Captain from Castile, starring Tyrone Power
- Carnegie Hall, starring Marsha Hunt
- Cass Timberlane – starring Spencer Tracy & Lana Turner
- Cinderella (Zolushka) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Copacabana, starring Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda
- Crime Doctor’s Gamble – directed by William Castle
- Crossfire, starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
- Cry Wolf – directed by Peter Godfrey, starring Errol Flynn & Barbara Stanwyck
- Cynthia – starring Elizabeth Taylor & George Murphy
- Daisy Kenyon – directed by Otto Preminger, starring Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
- Dancing with Crime, starring Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim – (GB)
- Dark Passage – directed by Delmar Daves, starring Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall
- Dead Reckoning – directed by John Cromwell, starring Humphrey Bogart & Lizabeth Scott
- Deep Valley – directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Ida Lupino
- Desert Fury, starring John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott
- Desperate – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Steve Brodie and Raymond Burr
- Devil in the Flesh (Diable au corps) – (France)
- The Devil Thumbs a Ride, starring Lawrence Tierney
- Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, starring Boris Karloff and Ralph Byrd
- Driftwood, starring Walter Brennan and Natalie Wood
- A Double Life, starring Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters
- Down to Earth – starring Rita Hayworth & Larry Parks
- Dreams That Money Can Buy, directed by Hans Richter
- The Egg and I – starring Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray
- Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon (Ba qian li lu yun he yue) – (China)
- Escape Me Never – directed by Peter Godfrey, starring Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, & Gig Young
- The Exile, directed by Max Ophuls, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Maria Montez
- Fame is the Spur, a Boulting Brothers film, with Michael Redgrave – (GB)
- Far Away Love, directed by Chen Liting, starring Zhao Dan and Qin Yi – (China)
- The Farmer’s Daughter, starring Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten
- Fear in the Night, starring DeForest Kelley
- Fireworks, directed by Kenneth Anger
- The Flame, starring Vera Ralston and Broderick Crawford
- Flesh Will Surrender (Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo), starring Aldo Fabrizi – (Italy)
- Forever Amber – directed by Otto Preminger, starring Linda Darnell
- The Foxes of Harrow – directed by John M. Stahl, starring Rex Harrison & Maureen O’Hara – GB/US
- Framed, directed by Richard Wallace, starring Glenn Ford
- Frieda, directed by Basil Dearden, starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling – (GB)
- The Fugitive – directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda & Dolores del Río
- Fun and Fancy Free, an animated film from Disney and RKO
- The Garcias Return! (¡Vuelven los Garcia!), starring Pedro Infante – (Mexico)
- Gentleman’s Agreement – directed by Elia Kazan, starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, Celeste Holm, John Garfield
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Gene Tierney & Rex Harrison
- Golden Earrings – starring Ray Milland & Marlene Dietrich
- Good News, starring June Allyson and Peter Lawford
- Green Dolphin Street, starring Lana Turner and Donna Reed
- The Guilt of Janet Ames, starring Rosalind Russell
- The Guilty, starring Bonita Granville
- Heaven Only Knows, starring Robert Cummings
- Hi-De-Ho, starring Cab Calloway
- High Barbaree, starring Van Johnson and June Allyson
- High Wall, starring Robert Taylor
- Honeymoon – directed by William Keighley, starring Shirley Temple, Guy Madison and Franchot Tone
- The Hucksters – directed by Jack Conway, starring Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner, Keenan Wynn, Edward Arnold
- Hue and Cry, the first Ealing comedy, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alastair Sim – (GB)
- The Humpbacked Horse (Konyok Gorbunok) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Hungry Hill, starring Margaret Lockwood and Dennis Price – (GB)
- An Ideal Husband, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Michael Wilding and Paulette Goddard – (GB)
- If Winter Comes, starring Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Angela Lansbury
- In Those Days (In jenen Tagen) – (Germany)
- It Always Rains on Sunday, starring Googie Withers and Jack Warner – (GB)
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue, starring Victor Moore, Don DeFore, Gale Storm, Charlie Ruggles
- Jenny and the Soldier (Soldaten og Jenny) – (Denmark)
- Johnny O’Clock – directed by Robert Rossen, starring Dick Powell
- Killer Dill, starring Stuart Erwin and Anne Gwynne
- Kiss of Death, starring Victor Mature and Richard Widmark
- The Lady from Shanghai – directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Rita Hayworth
- Lady in the Lake, directed by and starring Robert Montgomery
- Last of the Redskins, starring Michael O’Shea
- The Last Stage (Ostatni etap) – (Poland)
- The Late George Apley, starring Ronald Colman
- Law of the Lash, starring Lash LaRue
- Life with Father, starring William Powell and Elizabeth Taylor
- A Likely Story, starring Barbara Hale and Bill Williams
- Living in a Big Way – starring Gene Kelly & Marie McDonald
- The Long Night – directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
- Lost Honeymoon, starring Franchot Tone and Ann Richards
- The Lost Moment, starring Robert Cummings and Susan Hayward
- Lost Youth (Gioventù perduta), directed by Pietro Germi – (Italy)
- Love from a Stranger, starring John Hodiak
- Lured, starring George Sanders and Lucille Ball
- The Macomber Affair, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett
- The Man I Love, starring Ida Lupino and Robert Alda
- The Mark of Cain, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst (GB)
- Marriage in the Shadows (Ehe im Schatten) – (East Germany)
- Mine Own Executioner, starring Burgess Meredith – (GB)
- Miracle on 34th Street – directed by George Seaton, starring Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, Maureen O’Hara, & Natalie Wood
- Monsieur Verdoux – directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
- Monsieur Vincent, starring Pierre Fresnay – (France)
- Moss Rose – directed by Gregory Ratoff, starring Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Price
- Mother Wore Tights, starring Betty Grable
- Mourning Becomes Electra, starring Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave
- My Brother Talks to Horses – directed by Fred Zinnermann
- My Favourite Brunette, starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour
- My Wild Irish Rose, a biopic starring Dennis Morgan (as Chauncey Olcott)
- Nicholas Nickleby, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Stanley Holloway – (GB)
- Nightmare Alley, starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell
- Nora Prentiss, starring Ann Sheridan
- The October Man, starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood – (GB)
- Odd Man Out, directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason and Robert Newton – (GB)
- One Wonderful Sunday – directed by Akira Kurosawa – Japan
- L’onorevole Angelina (Parliamentarian Angelina), directed by Luigi Zampa, starring Anna Magnani – (Italy)
- The Other Love – directed by Andre DeToth, starring Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, & Richard Conte
- Out of the Blue, starring Virginia Mayo and George Brent
- Out of the Past, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas
- The Paradine Case – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan, Charles Laughton
- The Pearl (La Perla), starring Pedro Armendáriz – (Mexico)
- The Perils of Pauline, starring Betty Hutton
- Pirates of Monterey, starring Rod Cameron and Maria Montez
- Possessed, starring Joan Crawford and Van Heflin
- Pursued, starring Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright
- Quai des Orfèvres, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Louis Jouvet – (France)
- Railroaded! – directed by Anthony Mann, starring John Ireland & Hugh Beaumont
- Ramrod, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake
- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Nagaya shinshiroku), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
- The Red House – starring Edward G. Robinson & Judith Anderson
- Repeat Performance, starring Louis Hayward and Joan Leslie
- Ride the Pink Horse – directed by and starring Robert Montgomery
- Riffraff, starring Pat O’Brien and Anne Jeffreys
- Road to Rio, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope
- The Romance of Rosy Ridge, starring Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh
- The Root of All Evil, starring Phyllis Calvert and Michael Rennie – (GB)
- Roses Are Red, starring Peggy Knudsen
- Scared to Death – starring Bela Lugosi & George Zucco
- School for Postmen (L’École des facteurs), a comedy short directed by and starring Jacques Tati – (France)
- The Sea of Grass – directed by Elia Kazan, starring Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy
- Secret Agent (Podvig razvedchika), directed by Boris Barnet – (U.S.S.R.)
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, & Ann Rutherford
- The Senator Was Indiscreet, starring William Powell
- A Ship to India (Skepp till India land) – directed by Ingmar Bergman – (Sweden)
- The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, starring Betty Grable
- Sinbad the Sailor – directed by Richard Wallace, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak, and Anthony Quinn
- Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, starring Susan Hayward
- Snow Trail (Ginrei no hate) – starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
- So Well Remembered, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring John Mills and Martha Scott – (GB)
- Something in the Wind, starring Deanna Durbin and Donald O’Connor
- Song of Scheherazade, starring Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Brian Donlevy
- Song of the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
- The Spring River Flows East (Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu) – (China)
- Story of a Bad Woman (Historia de una mala mujer) – (Argentina)
- T-Men – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Dennis O’Keefe
- Temptation Harbour, starring Robert Newton and Simone Simon – (GB)
- That Way with Women – directed by Frederick de Cordova, starring Dane Clark, Martha Vickers, Sydney Greenstreet, Alan Hale, Sr., Craig Stevens, Barbara Brown
- They Made Me a Fugitive, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Trevor Howard – (GB)
- They Won’t Believe Me, starring Robert Young and Susan Hayward
- This Time for Keeps, starring Esther Williams and Jimmy Durante
- The Three Garcias (Los tres García), starring Pedro Infante – (Mexico)
- To Live in Peace (Vivere in pace) – (Italy)
- The Two Mrs. Carrolls – directed by Peter Godfrey, starring Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, & Alexis Smith
- Trail Street – starring Randolph Scott
- Uncle Silas, starring Jean Simmons – (GB)
- Unconquered – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Gary Cooper & Paulette Goddard
- The Unfaithful, starring Ann Sheridan and Lew Ayres
- The Unsuspected, starring Claude Rains and Joan Caulfield
- Variety Girl – directed by George Marshall
- The Voice of the Turtle, starring Ronald Reagan
- The Web – directed by Michael Gordon, starring Ella Raines, Edmond O’Brien, William Bendix, Vincent Price
- Welcome Stranger, starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald
- Whispering City, starring Paul Lukas – (Canada)
- The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- The Woman on the Beach, starring Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan
- Wyoming, starring Wild Bill Elliott