Top Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.8Casablanca (1942)152,585
2.8.6It's a Wonderful Life (1946)91,359
3.8.6Citizen Kane (1941)127,259
4.8.6Double Indemnity (1944)32,976
5.8.5The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)29,565
6.8.5The Third Man (1949)46,082
7.8.4Ladri di biciclette (1948)23,665
8.8.4Rebecca (1940)31,773
9.8.4The Maltese Falcon (1941)46,749
10.8.4The Great Dictator (1940)32,377
11.8.3Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)11,511
12.8.3Notorious (1946)28,163
13.8.3The Big Sleep (1946)26,131
14.8.3Brief Encounter (1945)11,656
15.8.2The Grapes of Wrath (1940)20,909
16.8.2The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)15,567
17.8.2Roma, città aperta (1945)5,531
18.8.2The Heiress (1949)3,924
19.8.2The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)8,149
20.8.2The Lost Weekend (1945)10,867
21.8.2The Red Shoes (1948)7,117
22.8.2Great Expectations (1946)9,011
23.8.2Shadow of a Doubt (1943)18,894
24.8.1Sullivan's Travels (1941)8,127
25.8.1I Remember Mama (1948)2,072
26.8.1The Lady Eve (1941)6,445
27.8.1Laura (1944)12,868
28.8.1His Girl Friday (1940)18,646
29.8.1La belle et la bête (1946)8,711
30.8.1Black Narcissus (1947)6,043
31.8.1To Have and Have Not (1944)11,612
32.8.1Rope (1948)27,477
33.8.1The Philadelphia Story (1940)25,200
34.8.1The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)4,032
35.8.1The Little Foxes (1941)3,632
36.8.1Out of the Past (1947)9,735
37.8.0Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)26,902
38.8.0White Heat (1949)9,201
39.8.0Key Largo (1948)13,906
40.8.0The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)7,997
41.8.0The Palm Beach Story (1942)3,720
42.8.0The More the Merrier (1943)1,477
43.8.0Hamlet (1948)4,912
44.8.0Miracle on 34th Street (1947)11,792
45.8.0Sergeant York (1941)5,804
46.8.0Good News (1947)1,236
47.8.0Lifeboat (1944)8,710
48.8.0To Be or Not to Be (1942)8,333
49.7.9A Matter of Life and Death (1946)5,801
50.7.9The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)3,186

Bottom Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.1.6Jungle Goddess (1948)310
2.1.8I Accuse My Parents (1944)1,334
3.1.8Last of the Wild Horses (1948)305
4.2.2The White Gorilla (1945)243
5.2.3Test Tube Babies (1948)110
6.2.3Devil Monster (1946)87
7.2.5White Pongo (1945)275
8.2.5Delinquent Daughters (1944)173
9.2.6Wild Weed (1949)136
10.2.7Queen of the Amazons (1947)354

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.