Top Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.8Casablanca (1942)153,431
2.8.6It's a Wonderful Life (1946)91,882
3.8.6Citizen Kane (1941)127,878
4.8.6Double Indemnity (1944)33,210
5.8.5The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)29,821
6.8.5The Third Man (1949)46,378
7.8.4Ladri di biciclette (1948)23,896
8.8.4Rebecca (1940)31,974
9.8.4The Maltese Falcon (1941)47,027
10.8.4The Great Dictator (1940)32,633
11.8.3Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)11,606
12.8.3Notorious (1946)28,363
13.8.3The Big Sleep (1946)26,274
14.8.3Brief Encounter (1945)11,772
15.8.2The Grapes of Wrath (1940)21,048
16.8.2The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)15,658
17.8.2The Heiress (1949)3,947
18.8.2Roma, città aperta (1945)5,583
19.8.2The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)8,212
20.8.2The Lost Weekend (1945)10,922
21.8.2The Red Shoes (1948)7,200
22.8.2Great Expectations (1946)9,067
23.8.2Shadow of a Doubt (1943)19,070
24.8.1Sullivan's Travels (1941)8,197
25.8.1I Remember Mama (1948)2,084
26.8.1The Lady Eve (1941)6,494
27.8.1La belle et la bête (1946)8,752
28.8.1Laura (1944)12,958
29.8.1His Girl Friday (1940)18,777
30.8.1Black Narcissus (1947)6,080
31.8.1To Have and Have Not (1944)11,678
32.8.1The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)4,067
33.8.1Rope (1948)27,703
34.8.1The Philadelphia Story (1940)25,343
35.8.1The Little Foxes (1941)3,652
36.8.1Out of the Past (1947)9,811
37.8.0Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)27,098
38.8.0White Heat (1949)9,292
39.8.0The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)8,040
40.8.0Key Largo (1948)13,977
41.8.0The More the Merrier (1943)1,486
42.8.0The Palm Beach Story (1942)3,744
43.8.0Hamlet (1948)4,941
44.8.0Miracle on 34th Street (1947)11,846
45.8.0Sergeant York (1941)5,838
46.8.0Lifeboat (1944)8,776
47.8.0To Be or Not to Be (1942)8,391
48.8.0Les enfants du paradis (1945)7,350
49.7.9A Matter of Life and Death (1946)5,855
50.7.9The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)3,204

Bottom Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.1.6Jungle Goddess (1948)314
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
7.2.5White Pongo (1945)277
8.2.5Delinquent Daughters (1944)174
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.