Top Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.7Casablanca (1942)219,860
2.8.7It's a Wonderful Life (1946)139,701
3.8.5Citizen Kane (1941)176,246
4.8.5Double Indemnity (1944)51,489
5.8.5The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)43,984
6.8.5The Third Man (1949)65,648
7.8.4The Great Dictator (1940)55,608
8.8.4Bicycle Thieves (1948)41,631
9.8.3Rebecca (1940)47,255
10.8.3The Maltese Falcon (1941)66,093
11.8.3Children of Paradise (1945)9,437
12.8.2The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)22,664
13.8.2The Grapes of Wrath (1940)32,288
14.8.2Notorious (1946)41,232
15.8.2White Heat (1949)12,570
16.8.2Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)17,654
17.8.2The Red Shoes (1948)11,680
18.8.2The Big Sleep (1946)37,725
19.8.2Sullivan's Travels (1941)11,145
20.8.2The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)10,813
21.8.2The Heiress (1949)5,871
22.8.1Rome, Open City (1945)8,628
23.8.1Brief Encounter (1945)16,911
24.8.1To Be or Not to Be (1942)11,435
25.8.1Laura (1944)18,064
26.8.1Late Spring (1949)4,159
27.8.1The Lost Weekend (1945)15,010
28.8.1Beauty and the Beast (1946)11,821
29.8.1Stairway to Heaven (1946)8,326
30.8.1Out of the Past (1947)13,551
31.8.1His Girl Friday (1940)26,771
32.8.1Shadow of a Doubt (1943)27,352
33.8.1Rope (1948)47,382
34.8.1Great Expectations (1946)11,910
35.8.1The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)5,959
36.8.0The Philadelphia Story (1940)33,970
37.8.0The Little Foxes (1941)4,717
38.8.0The Shop Around the Corner (1940)11,494
39.8.0Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)36,759
40.8.0The Lady Eve (1941)9,205
41.8.0Black Narcissus (1947)9,452
42.8.0Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)4,287
43.8.0To Have and Have Not (1944)15,002
44.8.0The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)10,765
45.8.0Shoeshine (1946)2,382
46.8.0Day of Wrath (1943)4,208
47.8.0A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)3,398
48.7.9Mildred Pierce (1945)9,750
49.7.9Germany Year Zero (1948)3,579
50.7.9Key Largo (1948)18,338

Bottom Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.1.7Jungle Goddess (1948)364
2.1.8Last of the Wild Horses (1948)328
3.2.0I Accuse My Parents (1944)1,512
4.2.2Raza (1942)388
5.2.3The White Gorilla (1945)267
6.2.5Test Tube Babies (1948)125
7.2.6White Pongo (1945)320
8.2.7Devil Monster (1946)139
9.2.8Delinquent Daughters (1944)172
10.2.9Omoo-Omoo the Shark God (1949)100

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 1000 votes.