Top Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.8Casablanca (1942)152,842
2.8.6It's a Wonderful Life (1946)91,512
3.8.6Citizen Kane (1941)127,467
4.8.6Double Indemnity (1944)33,048
5.8.5The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)29,629
6.8.5The Third Man (1949)46,174
7.8.4Ladri di biciclette (1948)23,741
8.8.4Rebecca (1940)31,837
9.8.4The Maltese Falcon (1941)46,847
10.8.4The Great Dictator (1940)32,461
11.8.3Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)11,536
12.8.3Notorious (1946)28,214
13.8.3The Big Sleep (1946)26,181
14.8.3Brief Encounter (1945)11,690
15.8.2The Grapes of Wrath (1940)20,962
16.8.2The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)15,589
17.8.2Roma, città aperta (1945)5,548
18.8.2The Heiress (1949)3,928
19.8.2The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)8,169
20.8.2The Lost Weekend (1945)10,883
21.8.2The Red Shoes (1948)7,149
22.8.2Great Expectations (1946)9,034
23.8.2Shadow of a Doubt (1943)18,948
24.8.1Sullivan's Travels (1941)8,142
25.8.1I Remember Mama (1948)2,076
26.8.1The Lady Eve (1941)6,455
27.8.1Laura (1944)12,895
28.8.1La belle et la bête (1946)8,722
29.8.1His Girl Friday (1940)18,682
30.8.1Black Narcissus (1947)6,049
31.8.1To Have and Have Not (1944)11,629
32.8.1Rope (1948)27,545
33.8.1The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)4,042
34.8.1The Philadelphia Story (1940)25,236
35.8.1The Little Foxes (1941)3,634
36.8.1Out of the Past (1947)9,758
37.8.0Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)26,968
38.8.0White Heat (1949)9,220
39.8.0Key Largo (1948)13,925
40.8.0The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)8,010
41.8.0The Palm Beach Story (1942)3,724
42.8.0The More the Merrier (1943)1,478
43.8.0Hamlet (1948)4,923
44.8.0Miracle on 34th Street (1947)11,805
45.8.0Sergeant York (1941)5,809
46.8.0Good News (1947)1,236
47.8.0Lifeboat (1944)8,735
48.8.0To Be or Not to Be (1942)8,351
49.7.9Les enfants du paradis (1945)7,327
50.7.9A Matter of Life and Death (1946)5,807

Bottom Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.1.6Jungle Goddess (1948)312
2.1.8I Accuse My Parents (1944)1,336
3.1.8Last of the Wild Horses (1948)305
4.2.2The White Gorilla (1945)243
5.2.3Test Tube Babies (1948)111
6.2.3Devil Monster (1946)87
7.2.5White Pongo (1945)275
8.2.5Delinquent Daughters (1944)173
9.2.6Wild Weed (1949)136
10.2.7Raza (1942)271

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.