Top Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.8Casablanca (1942)153,470
2.8.6It's a Wonderful Life (1946)91,907
3.8.6Citizen Kane (1941)127,910
4.8.6Double Indemnity (1944)33,224
5.8.5The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)29,833
6.8.5The Third Man (1949)46,396
7.8.4Ladri di biciclette (1948)23,909
8.8.4Rebecca (1940)31,984
9.8.4The Maltese Falcon (1941)47,045
10.8.4The Great Dictator (1940)32,639
11.8.3Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)11,610
12.8.3Notorious (1946)28,375
13.8.3The Big Sleep (1946)26,286
14.8.3Brief Encounter (1945)11,778
15.8.2The Grapes of Wrath (1940)21,056
16.8.2The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)15,664
17.8.2The Heiress (1949)3,947
18.8.2Roma, città aperta (1945)5,585
19.8.2The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)8,214
20.8.2The Lost Weekend (1945)10,924
21.8.2The Red Shoes (1948)7,203
22.8.2Great Expectations (1946)9,067
23.8.2Shadow of a Doubt (1943)19,076
24.8.1Sullivan's Travels (1941)8,200
25.8.1I Remember Mama (1948)2,084
26.8.1The Lady Eve (1941)6,496
27.8.1La belle et la bête (1946)8,753
28.8.1Laura (1944)12,962
29.8.1His Girl Friday (1940)18,783
30.8.1Black Narcissus (1947)6,081
31.8.1To Have and Have Not (1944)11,681
32.8.1The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)4,069
33.8.1Rope (1948)27,715
34.8.1The Philadelphia Story (1940)25,349
35.8.1The Little Foxes (1941)3,653
36.8.1Out of the Past (1947)9,813
37.8.0Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)27,100
38.8.0White Heat (1949)9,296
39.8.0The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)8,042
40.8.0Key Largo (1948)13,980
41.8.0The More the Merrier (1943)1,486
42.8.0The Palm Beach Story (1942)3,746
43.8.0Hamlet (1948)4,941
44.8.0Miracle on 34th Street (1947)11,851
45.8.0Sergeant York (1941)5,839
46.8.0Lifeboat (1944)8,777
47.8.0To Be or Not to Be (1942)8,391
48.8.0Les enfants du paradis (1945)7,352
49.7.9A Matter of Life and Death (1946)5,856
50.7.9The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)3,205

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)1,341
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)277
9.2.6Wild Weed (1949)137
10.2.6Raza (1942)273

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.