Top Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.8Casablanca (1942)153,712
2.8.6It's a Wonderful Life (1946)92,058
3.8.6Citizen Kane (1941)128,087
4.8.6Double Indemnity (1944)33,290
5.8.5The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)29,879
6.8.5The Third Man (1949)46,467
7.8.4Ladri di biciclette (1948)23,969
8.8.4Rebecca (1940)32,028
9.8.4The Maltese Falcon (1941)47,102
10.8.4The Great Dictator (1940)32,690
11.8.3Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)11,628
12.8.3Notorious (1946)28,419
13.8.3The Big Sleep (1946)26,328
14.8.3Brief Encounter (1945)11,804
15.8.2The Grapes of Wrath (1940)21,085
16.8.2The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)15,690
17.8.2The Heiress (1949)3,950
18.8.2Roma, città aperta (1945)5,592
19.8.2The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)8,227
20.8.2The Lost Weekend (1945)10,931
21.8.2The Red Shoes (1948)7,220
22.8.2Great Expectations (1946)9,077
23.8.2Shadow of a Doubt (1943)19,115
24.8.1Sullivan's Travels (1941)8,216
25.8.1I Remember Mama (1948)2,085
26.8.1The Lady Eve (1941)6,508
27.8.1La belle et la bête (1946)8,766
28.8.1Laura (1944)12,977
29.8.1His Girl Friday (1940)18,816
30.8.1Black Narcissus (1947)6,096
31.8.1To Have and Have Not (1944)11,689
32.8.1Rope (1948)27,767
33.8.1The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)4,077
34.8.1The Philadelphia Story (1940)25,382
35.8.1The Little Foxes (1941)3,656
36.8.1Out of the Past (1947)9,827
37.8.0Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)27,139
38.8.0White Heat (1949)9,312
39.8.0The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)8,045
40.8.0Key Largo (1948)13,987
41.8.0The More the Merrier (1943)1,488
42.8.0The Palm Beach Story (1942)3,750
43.8.0Hamlet (1948)4,946
44.8.0Miracle on 34th Street (1947)11,885
45.8.0Sergeant York (1941)5,843
46.8.0Lifeboat (1944)8,792
47.8.0To Be or Not to Be (1942)8,399
48.8.0A Matter of Life and Death (1946)5,868
49.7.9Les enfants du paradis (1945)7,358
50.7.9The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)3,209

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)1,343
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)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.