Top Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.8Casablanca (1942)152,874
2.8.6It's a Wonderful Life (1946)91,540
3.8.6Citizen Kane (1941)127,498
4.8.6Double Indemnity (1944)33,062
5.8.5The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)29,640
6.8.5The Third Man (1949)46,184
7.8.4Ladri di biciclette (1948)23,752
8.8.4Rebecca (1940)31,848
9.8.4The Maltese Falcon (1941)46,865
10.8.4The Great Dictator (1940)32,475
11.8.3Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)11,545
12.8.3Notorious (1946)28,228
13.8.3The Big Sleep (1946)26,187
14.8.3Brief Encounter (1945)11,696
15.8.2The Grapes of Wrath (1940)20,969
16.8.2The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)15,597
17.8.2Roma, città aperta (1945)5,551
18.8.2The Heiress (1949)3,930
19.8.2The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)8,174
20.8.2The Lost Weekend (1945)10,884
21.8.2The Red Shoes (1948)7,155
22.8.2Great Expectations (1946)9,036
23.8.2Shadow of a Doubt (1943)18,958
24.8.1Sullivan's Travels (1941)8,143
25.8.1I Remember Mama (1948)2,076
26.8.1The Lady Eve (1941)6,459
27.8.1Laura (1944)12,898
28.8.1La belle et la bête (1946)8,723
29.8.1His Girl Friday (1940)18,690
30.8.1Black Narcissus (1947)6,053
31.8.1To Have and Have Not (1944)11,634
32.8.1Rope (1948)27,558
33.8.1The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)4,044
34.8.1The Philadelphia Story (1940)25,249
35.8.1The Little Foxes (1941)3,635
36.8.1Out of the Past (1947)9,766
37.8.0Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)26,974
38.8.0White Heat (1949)9,224
39.8.0Key Largo (1948)13,928
40.8.0The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)8,017
41.8.0The Palm Beach Story (1942)3,727
42.8.0The More the Merrier (1943)1,479
43.8.0Hamlet (1948)4,926
44.8.0Miracle on 34th Street (1947)11,807
45.8.0Sergeant York (1941)5,811
46.8.0Good News (1947)1,236
47.8.0Lifeboat (1944)8,740
48.8.0To Be or Not to Be (1942)8,354
49.7.9Les enfants du paradis (1945)7,330
50.7.9A Matter of Life and Death (1946)5,809

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.