Top Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.8Casablanca (1942)153,326
2.8.6It's a Wonderful Life (1946)91,817
3.8.6Citizen Kane (1941)127,818
4.8.6Double Indemnity (1944)33,190
5.8.5The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)29,793
6.8.5The Third Man (1949)46,349
7.8.4Ladri di biciclette (1948)23,878
8.8.4Rebecca (1940)31,952
9.8.4The Maltese Falcon (1941)46,997
10.8.4The Great Dictator (1940)32,616
11.8.3Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)11,596
12.8.3Notorious (1946)28,336
13.8.3The Big Sleep (1946)26,259
14.8.3Brief Encounter (1945)11,759
15.8.2The Grapes of Wrath (1940)21,033
16.8.2The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)15,652
17.8.2The Heiress (1949)3,946
18.8.2Roma, città aperta (1945)5,580
19.8.2The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)8,204
20.8.2The Lost Weekend (1945)10,915
21.8.2The Red Shoes (1948)7,191
22.8.2Great Expectations (1946)9,056
23.8.2Shadow of a Doubt (1943)19,046
24.8.1Sullivan's Travels (1941)8,191
25.8.1I Remember Mama (1948)2,083
26.8.1The Lady Eve (1941)6,490
27.8.1La belle et la bête (1946)8,745
28.8.1Laura (1944)12,951
29.8.1His Girl Friday (1940)18,768
30.8.1Black Narcissus (1947)6,076
31.8.1To Have and Have Not (1944)11,671
32.8.1Rope (1948)27,679
33.8.1The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)4,064
34.8.1The Little Foxes (1941)3,650
35.8.1The Philadelphia Story (1940)25,325
36.8.1Out of the Past (1947)9,807
37.8.0Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)27,072
38.8.0White Heat (1949)9,287
39.8.0Key Largo (1948)13,970
40.8.0The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)8,034
41.8.0The More the Merrier (1943)1,485
42.8.0The Palm Beach Story (1942)3,743
43.8.0Hamlet (1948)4,938
44.8.0Miracle on 34th Street (1947)11,834
45.8.0Sergeant York (1941)5,835
46.8.0Lifeboat (1944)8,771
47.8.0Good News (1947)1,239
48.8.0To Be or Not to Be (1942)8,385
49.7.9Les enfants du paradis (1945)7,345
50.7.9A Matter of Life and Death (1946)5,845

Bottom Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.1.6Jungle Goddess (1948)313
2.1.8I Accuse My Parents (1944)1,340
3.1.8Last of the Wild Horses (1948)305
4.2.2The White Gorilla (1945)244
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
10.2.6Raza (1942)272

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.