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TOP 10: 1940's

by zachcotteraschoff created 7 hours ago | last updated - 7 hours ago
these are the best of the 1940's..they carry entertainment value and importance...obviously every top movies list is carried with a bias, we can not truly define the "greatest"
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Image of The Red Shoes
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The Red Shoes (1948)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.2/10 X  
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina. (133 mins.)
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Stars: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Jean Short
 
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Citizen Kane (1941)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. (119 mins.)
Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
 
Image of Bicycle Thieves
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Bicycle Thieves (1948)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.4/10 X  
A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job. (93 mins.)
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda
 
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Brief Encounter (1945)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.1/10 X  
Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband. (86 mins.)
Director: David Lean
Stars: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey
 
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Black Narcissus (1947)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.0/10 X  
After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension - both with the natives and also within their own group - as they attempt to adapt to their remote, exotic surroundings. (100 mins.)
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Stars: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jenny Laird
 
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Children of Paradise (1945)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.2/10 X  
This tragic tale centers around the ill-fated love between Baptiste, a theater mime, and Claire Reine... (190 mins.)
Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir
 
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Brute Force (1947)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X  
At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard. (98 mins.)
Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo
 
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Beauty and the Beast (1946)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.0/10 X  
Adélaïde, Belle, Félicie and Ludovic are young adult siblings who once lived in grandeur until their father's merchant ships were lost at sea... (96 mins.)
Director: Jean Cocteau
Stars: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély, Nane Germon
 
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Double Indemnity (1944)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  
An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions. (107 mins.)
Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr
 
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Out of the Past (1947)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.1/10 X  
A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames. (97 mins.)
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
 

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