Titles of the IMDb Top 250
Displaying all known titles from 1940 to 1949 that have been in the IMDb Top 250, there are 16 titles in the current Top 250, 22 titles have disappeared.| Title (Year) | Highest Rank | First entry | Recurrence | |
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| Citizen Kane (1941) | 3 |
100% |
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| Casablanca (1942) | 4 |
100% |
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| It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | 20 |
100% |
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| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | 24 |
100% |
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| The Third Man (1949) | 31 |
100% |
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| Double Indemnity (1944) | 41 |
100% |
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| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) | 48 |
100% |
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| Ladri di biciclette (1948) | 53 |
100% |
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| Rebecca (1940) | 72 |
100% |
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| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | 74 |
83% |
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| The Great Dictator (1940) | 75 |
100% |
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| Notorious (1946) | 77 |
100% |
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| The Philadelphia Story (1940) | 81 |
86% |
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| The Big Sleep (1946) | 90 |
100% |
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| The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | 96 |
100% |
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| The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | 103 |
100% |
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| Fantasia (1940) | 115 |
11% |
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| His Girl Friday (1940) | 119 |
73% |
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| Les Enfants du paradis (1945) | 122 |
10% |
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| Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) | 126 |
93% |
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| Brief Encounter (1945) | 140 |
59% |
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| To Be or Not to Be (1942) | 142 |
21% |
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| Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | 144 |
81% |
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| La Belle et la bête (1946) | 162 |
34% |
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| Laura (1944) | 169 |
39% |
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| Out of the Past (1947) | 178 |
23% |
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