Top Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.8Casablanca (1942)153,642
2.8.6It's a Wonderful Life (1946)92,019
3.8.6Citizen Kane (1941)128,043
4.8.6Double Indemnity (1944)33,272
5.8.5The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)29,861
6.8.5The Third Man (1949)46,447
7.8.4Ladri di biciclette (1948)23,956
8.8.4Rebecca (1940)32,014
9.8.4The Maltese Falcon (1941)47,084
10.8.4The Great Dictator (1940)32,677
11.8.3Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)11,627
12.8.3Notorious (1946)28,410
13.8.3The Big Sleep (1946)26,320
14.8.3Brief Encounter (1945)11,796
15.8.2The Grapes of Wrath (1940)21,078
16.8.2The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)15,686
17.8.2The Heiress (1949)3,949
18.8.2Roma, città aperta (1945)5,591
19.8.2The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)8,222
20.8.2The Lost Weekend (1945)10,928
21.8.2The Red Shoes (1948)7,218
22.8.2Great Expectations (1946)9,073
23.8.2Shadow of a Doubt (1943)19,107
24.8.1Sullivan's Travels (1941)8,215
25.8.1I Remember Mama (1948)2,084
26.8.1The Lady Eve (1941)6,507
27.8.1La belle et la bête (1946)8,759
28.8.1Laura (1944)12,973
29.8.1His Girl Friday (1940)18,808
30.8.1Black Narcissus (1947)6,094
31.8.1To Have and Have Not (1944)11,687
32.8.1Rope (1948)27,757
33.8.1The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)4,076
34.8.1The Philadelphia Story (1940)25,377
35.8.1The Little Foxes (1941)3,654
36.8.1Out of the Past (1947)9,825
37.8.0Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)27,126
38.8.0White Heat (1949)9,309
39.8.0The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)8,043
40.8.0Key Largo (1948)13,983
41.8.0The More the Merrier (1943)1,486
42.8.0The Palm Beach Story (1942)3,750
43.8.0Hamlet (1948)4,944
44.8.0Miracle on 34th Street (1947)11,876
45.8.0Sergeant York (1941)5,841
46.8.0Lifeboat (1944)8,790
47.8.0To Be or Not to Be (1942)8,399
48.8.0A Matter of Life and Death (1946)5,866
49.7.9Les enfants du paradis (1945)7,357
50.7.9The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)3,209

Bottom Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.1.6Jungle Goddess (1948)316
2.1.8Last of the Wild Horses (1948)306
3.1.8I Accuse My Parents (1944)1,342
4.2.2The White Gorilla (1945)245
5.2.3Test Tube Babies (1948)112
6.2.3Devil Monster (1946)88
7.2.5Delinquent Daughters (1944)175
8.2.5White Pongo (1945)278
9.2.6Wild Weed (1949)137
10.2.6Raza (1942)274

The formula for calculating the Top Rated 50 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate:

 weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C 
where:
  • R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
  • v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
  • m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 50 (currently 1000)
  • C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.8)

for the Top 50, only votes from regular voters are considered.

In order to appear in the Bottom 10 Titles chart the title must have received at least 50 votes.