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)
- 3 Godfathers – directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, Harry Carey Jr., & Pedro Armendáriz
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Act of Violence – directed by Fred Zimmerman, starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
- Adventures of Don Juan – starring Errol Flynn
- Albuquerque – starring Randolph Scott & Barbara Britton
- The Amazing Mr. X, starring Turhan Bey and Lynn Bari
- Anna Karenina – starring Vivien Leigh & Ralph Richardson – UK
- Another Part of the Forest, starring Fredric March
- April Showers, starring Ann Sothern and Jack Carson
- Arch of Triumph – starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, Ruth Warrick
- B.F.’s Daughter – starring Barbara Stanwyck
- Berlin Express, starring Merle Oberon and Robert Ryan
- The Berliner (Berlin Balade), starring Gert Fröbe – (Germany)
- Bicycle Thieves – directed by Vittorio De Sica – Italy
- The Big Clock – directed by John Farrow, starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Maureen O’Sullivan
- Blanche Fury, starring Valerie Hobson and Stewart Granger – (GB)
- Blonde Ice, starring Leslie Brooks
- Blood on the Moon – directed by Robert Wise, starring Robert Mitchum
- Bodyguard – directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Lawrence Tierney and Priscilla Lane
- The Boy with Green Hair, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dean Stockwell and Robert Ryan
- The Bride Goes Wild, directed by Norman Taurog, starring June Allyson and Van Johnson
- Call Northside 777 – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring James Stewart
- La calle sin sol (The Sunless Street) – (Spain)
- Campus Honeymoon, starring Lee and Lyn Wilde
- Canon City, starring Scott Brady
- Command Decision – starring Clark Gable
- Counterblast, directed by Paul L. Stein, starring Mervyn Johns – (GB)
- Cry of the City, starring Victor Mature and Richard Conte
- The Dark Past – starring William Holden, Lee J. Cobb, Nina Foch
- A Date with Judy, starring Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor and Carmen Miranda
- Dédée d’Anvers, starring Simone Signoret – (France)
- Drunken Angel – directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Takashi Shimura & Toshiro Mifune – Japan
- The Eagle with Two Heads (L’Aigle à deux têtes), directed by Jean Cocteau – (France)
- Easter Parade** – starring Judy Garland & Fred Astaire
- The Emperor Waltz – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Bing Crosby
- Escape – directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Rex Harrison – (GB/U.S.)
- Eva- co-written by Ingmar Bergman – Sweden
- Every Girl Should Be Married – starring Cary Grant
- The Fallen Idol – written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed, starring Ralph Richardson – UK
- Fighter Squadron, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Edmond O’Brien and Robert Stack
- Force of Evil, starring John Garfield
- A Foreign Affair – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jean Arthur & Marlene Dietrich
- Fort Apache – directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
- Four Faces West, starring Joel McCrea and Frances Dee
- The Gentleman from Nowhere – directed by William Castle
- Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero) – directed by Roberto Rossellini – Italy
- God Reward You (Dios se lo pague), starring Arturo de Córdova – (Argentina)
- Good Sam – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Gary Cooper
- Good-Time Girl, starring Jean Kent and Dennis Price – (GB)
- Green Grass of Wyoming, starring Peggy Cummins and Charles Coburn
- The Green Promise, starring Marguerite Chapman and Walter Brennan
- The Guinea Pig, a Boulting Brothers film starring Richard Attenborough – (GB)
- Half Past Midnight, starring Kent Taylor and Peggy Knudsen
- Hamlet – directed by and starring Laurence Olivier, with Basil Sydney & Jean Simmons – UK
- He Walked by Night, starring Richard Basehart and Jack Webb
- A Hen in the Wind (Kaze no naka no mendori), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
- Hollow Triumph, starring Paul Henreid and Joan Bennett
- Homecoming – starring Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak
- I Remember Mama, directed by George Stevens, starring Irene Dunne
- I Walk Alone, starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas
- The Iron Curtain – directed by William Wellman, starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, June Havoc
- Isn’t It Romantic? – starring Veronica Lake
- Joan of Arc – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Ingrid Bergman
- Johnny Belinda, starring Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres
- June Bride, starring Bette Davis
- Key Largo – directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
- Kiss the Blood off My Hands – starring Joan Fontaine & Burt Lancaster
- The Kissing Bandit, starring Kathryn Grayson and Frank Sinatra
- Ladies of the Chorus – starring Marilyn Monroe
- The Lame Devil (Le Diable boiteux), directed by and starring Sacha Guitry – (France)
- Letter from an Unknown Woman – directed by Max Ophüls, starring Joan Fontaine & Louis Jourdan
- London Belongs to Me, starring Richard Attenborough and Alastair Sim – (GB)
- Louisiana Story, documentary by Robert J. Flaherty
- Love – directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Anna Magnani & Federico Fellini – anthology – Italy
- The Loves of Carmen – directed by Charles Vidor, starring Rita Hayworth & Glenn Ford
- The Luck of the Irish, starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter
- Luxury Liner, starring Jane Powell and George Brent
- Macbeth – directed by & starring Orson Welles
- The Mating of Millie, starring Evelyn Keyes and Glenn Ford
- Mela, starring Dilip Kumar – (India)
- Melody Time, starring Roy Rogers & Trigger and The Andrews Sisters
- Mexican Hayride, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Michurin, directed by Alexander Dovzhenko – (U.S.S.R.)
- Miranda, directed by Ken Annakin, starring Glynis Johns – (GB)
- Miss Tatlock’s Millions, starring Wanda Hendrix, Barry Fitzgerald, John Lund
- The Monkey’s Paw, starring Milton Rosmer – (GB)
- Moonrise, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Gail Russell and Dane Clark
- Morituri – (Germany)
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House – starring Cary Grant & Myrna Loy
- My Dear Secretary – starring Kirk Douglas, Laraine Day
- Myriad of Lights (Wanjia denghuo) – (China)
- The Mysterious Apartment (Den hemmelighetsfulle leiligheten) – (Norway)
- The Naked City, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Barry Fitzgerald
- Night Has a Thousand Eyes – starring Edward G. Robinson
- No Orchids for Miss Blandish – (GB)
- No Room at the Inn, starring Freda Jackson and Hermione Baddeley – (GB)
- Noose, starring Carole Landis
- The Noose Hangs High, starring Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
- One Sunday Afternoon, starring Dennis Morgan
- One Touch of Venus – starring Robert Walker and Ava Gardner
- Oliver Twist – directed by David Lean, starring Alec Guinness & Robert Newton – UK
- On Our Own Land (Na svoji zemlji) – (Yugoslavia)
- The Paleface, starring Bob Hope and Jane Russell
- Les Parents terribles, directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais – (France)
- The Pirate – directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gene Kelly & Judy Garland
- Pitfall – starring Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr
- Port of Call – directed by Ingmar Bergman – Sweden
- Portrait of Jennie – directed by William Dieterle, starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish
- Quartet, starring Mai Zetterling – (GB)
- Race Street, starring George Raft and William Bendix
- Rachel and the Stranger – starring Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum
- Raw Deal – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, Raymond Burr
- Red River – directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, John Ireland
- The Red Shoes, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Moira Shearer and Anton Walbrook – (GB)
- Relentless, starring Robert Young
- The Return of October, starring Glenn Ford
- Road House – starring Ida Lupino
- Rogues’ Regiment – directed by Robert Florey and starring Dick Powell, Märta Torén, Vincent Price
- Romance on the High Seas – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Doris Day
- Rope – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart
- Ruthless – directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Raymond Burr
- Saigon – starring Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake
- The Sainted Sisters – starring Veronica Lake & Joan Caulfield
- Saraband for Dead Lovers, starring Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood – (GB)
- Scott of the Antarctic, starring John Mills – (GB)
- Sealed Verdict, starring Ray Milland
- The Search – directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Montgomery Clift – (US/Switzerland)
- Secret Beyond the Door – directed by Fritz Lang, starring Joan Bennett & Michael Redgrave
- Senza pietà – co-written by Federico Fellini – Italy
- Shaheed, starring Dilip Kumar – (India)
- Silver River – starring Errol Flynn & Ann Sheridan
- Sitting Pretty – starring Robert Young & Maureen O’Hara
- Sleep, My Love – starring Claudette Colbert
- Sleeping Car to Trieste, starring Jean Kent – (GB)
- Smart Girls Don’t Talk, starring Virginia Mayo
- The Snake Pit – starring Olivia de Havilland
- So Evil My Love, starring Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald – (GB)
- A Song Is Born – directed by Howard Hawks, co-written by Billy Wilder, starring Danny Kaye & Virginia Mayo
- Sorry, Wrong Number – starring Barbara Stanwyck & Burt Lancaster
- Spring in a Small Town (Xiǎochéng zhī chūn), directed by Fei Mu – (China)
- Spring in Park Lane, starring Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding – (GB)
- State of the Union – directed by Frank Capra, starring Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn
- Station West, starring Dick Powell and Jane Greer
- The Street with No Name – directed by William Keighley, starring Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan, Barbara Lawrence
- Tap Roots, starring Van Heflin and Susan Hayward
- La Terra Trema (The Earth Will Tremble), directed by Luchino Visconti – (Italy)
- Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven – directed by William Castle
- They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell
- The Three Muskteers – starring Lana Turner & Gene Kelly
- The Time of Your Life, starring James Cagney
- Tragic Hunt (Caccia tragica) – (Italy)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre** – directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, & Tim Holt
- Treasured Earth (Talpalatnyi föld) – (Hungary)
- Los tres huastecos, starring Pedro Infante – (Mexico)
- Under the Sun of Rome (Sotto il sole di Roma), directed by Renato Castellani – (Italy)
- Unfaithfully Yours – directed by Preston Sturges, starring Linda Darnell & Rex Harrison
- Up in Central Park – directed by William A. Seiter, starring Deanna Durbin & Vincent Price
- The Velvet Touch – directed by Jack Gage, starring Rosalind Russell, Leon Ames, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor, Sydney Greenstreet
- Vidya, starring Dev Anand – (India)
- Waverley Steps: A Visit to Edinburgh – (GB) documentary
- We the Poor – starring Pedro Infante – Mexico
- Western Heritage, starring Tim Holt
- When My Baby Smiles at Me, starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey
- When You Come Home
- Whiplash, starring Alexis Smith and Dane Clark
- Whispering Smith, starring Alan Ladd and Robert Preston
- The Winslow Boy, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Robert Donat and Margaret Leighton – UK
- The Woman in White – directed by Peter Godfrey, starring Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, Gig Young
- Yellow Sky, starring Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark
- You Gotta Stay Happy – starring Joan Fontaine & James Stewart
- You the Rich – starring Pedro Infante – Mexico
- The Young Guard – USSR