Top Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.8Casablanca (1942)153,804
2.8.6It's a Wonderful Life (1946)92,109
3.8.6Citizen Kane (1941)128,162
4.8.6Double Indemnity (1944)33,308
5.8.5The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)29,912
6.8.5The Third Man (1949)46,492
7.8.4Ladri di biciclette (1948)23,990
8.8.4Rebecca (1940)32,052
9.8.4The Maltese Falcon (1941)47,134
10.8.4The Great Dictator (1940)32,719
11.8.3Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)11,640
12.8.3Notorious (1946)28,437
13.8.3The Big Sleep (1946)26,351
14.8.3Brief Encounter (1945)11,815
15.8.2The Grapes of Wrath (1940)21,147
16.8.2The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)15,697
17.8.2The Heiress (1949)3,952
18.8.2Roma, città aperta (1945)5,599
19.8.2The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)8,234
20.8.2The Lost Weekend (1945)10,940
21.8.2The Red Shoes (1948)7,223
22.8.2Great Expectations (1946)9,085
23.8.2Shadow of a Doubt (1943)19,128
24.8.1Sullivan's Travels (1941)8,219
25.8.1I Remember Mama (1948)2,086
26.8.1The Lady Eve (1941)6,516
27.8.1Laura (1944)12,984
28.8.1His Girl Friday (1940)18,832
29.8.1La belle et la bête (1946)8,774
30.8.1Black Narcissus (1947)6,100
31.8.1To Have and Have Not (1944)11,695
32.8.1Rope (1948)27,793
33.8.1The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)4,082
34.8.1The Philadelphia Story (1940)25,398
35.8.1The Little Foxes (1941)3,660
36.8.1Out of the Past (1947)9,833
37.8.0White Heat (1949)9,326
38.8.0Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)27,158
39.8.0The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)8,058
40.8.0Key Largo (1948)13,995
41.8.0The More the Merrier (1943)1,489
42.8.0The Palm Beach Story (1942)3,752
43.8.0Hamlet (1948)4,948
44.8.0Miracle on 34th Street (1947)11,905
45.8.0Sergeant York (1941)5,849
46.8.0Lifeboat (1944)8,801
47.8.0A Matter of Life and Death (1946)5,872
48.8.0To Be or Not to Be (1942)8,403
49.7.9Les enfants du paradis (1945)7,367
50.7.9The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)3,210

Bottom Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.1.6Jungle Goddess (1948)316
2.1.8I Accuse My Parents (1944)1,345
3.1.8Last of the Wild Horses (1948)306
4.2.1The 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.