Top Rated "1940s" Titles
| Rank | Rating | Title | Votes |
| 1. | 8.8 | Casablanca (1942) | 154,115 |
| 2. | 8.6 | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | 92,360 |
| 3. | 8.6 | Citizen Kane (1941) | 128,414 |
| 4. | 8.6 | Double Indemnity (1944) | 33,398 |
| 5. | 8.5 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) | 30,002 |
| 6. | 8.5 | The Third Man (1949) | 46,614 |
| 7. | 8.4 | Ladri di biciclette (1948) | 24,063 |
| 8. | 8.4 | Rebecca (1940) | 32,125 |
| 9. | 8.4 | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | 47,298 |
| 10. | 8.4 | The Great Dictator (1940) | 32,812 |
| 11. | 8.3 | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) | 11,673 |
| 12. | 8.3 | Notorious (1946) | 28,500 |
| 13. | 8.3 | The Big Sleep (1946) | 26,416 |
| 14. | 8.3 | Brief Encounter (1945) | 11,846 |
| 15. | 8.2 | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | 21,210 |
| 16. | 8.2 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | 15,727 |
| 17. | 8.2 | The Heiress (1949) | 3,960 |
| 18. | 8.2 | Roma, città aperta (1945) | 5,619 |
| 19. | 8.2 | The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) | 8,256 |
| 20. | 8.2 | The Lost Weekend (1945) | 10,959 |
| 21. | 8.2 | The Red Shoes (1948) | 7,260 |
| 22. | 8.2 | Great Expectations (1946) | 9,102 |
| 23. | 8.2 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | 19,195 |
| 24. | 8.1 | I Remember Mama (1948) | 2,089 |
| 25. | 8.1 | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | 8,239 |
| 26. | 8.1 | The Lady Eve (1941) | 6,535 |
| 27. | 8.1 | Laura (1944) | 13,018 |
| 28. | 8.1 | La belle et la bête (1946) | 8,794 |
| 29. | 8.1 | His Girl Friday (1940) | 18,884 |
| 30. | 8.1 | Black Narcissus (1947) | 6,116 |
| 31. | 8.1 | To Have and Have Not (1944) | 11,743 |
| 32. | 8.1 | Rope (1948) | 27,876 |
| 33. | 8.1 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) | 4,094 |
| 34. | 8.1 | The Philadelphia Story (1940) | 25,454 |
| 35. | 8.1 | Out of the Past (1947) | 9,851 |
| 36. | 8.1 | The Little Foxes (1941) | 3,671 |
| 37. | 8.1 | White Heat (1949) | 9,347 |
| 38. | 8.0 | Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | 27,233 |
| 39. | 8.0 | The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) | 8,070 |
| 40. | 8.0 | Key Largo (1948) | 14,026 |
| 41. | 8.0 | The More the Merrier (1943) | 1,492 |
| 42. | 8.0 | The Palm Beach Story (1942) | 3,759 |
| 43. | 8.0 | Hamlet (1948) | 4,968 |
| 44. | 8.0 | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) | 11,958 |
| 45. | 8.0 | Sergeant York (1941) | 5,861 |
| 46. | 8.0 | Lifeboat (1944) | 8,825 |
| 47. | 8.0 | A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | 5,881 |
| 48. | 8.0 | To Be or Not to Be (1942) | 8,423 |
| 49. | 7.9 | Les enfants du paradis (1945) | 7,379 |
| 50. | 7.9 | The Shop Around the Corner (1940) | 7,740 |
Bottom Rated "1940s" Titles
| Rank | Rating | Title | Votes |
| 1. | 1.6 | Jungle Goddess (1948) | 318 |
| 2. | 1.8 | Last of the Wild Horses (1948) | 307 |
| 3. | 1.8 | I Accuse My Parents (1944) | 1,346 |
| 4. | 2.1 | The White Gorilla (1945) | 246 |
| 5. | 2.2 | Devil Monster (1946) | 88 |
| 6. | 2.3 | Test Tube Babies (1948) | 112 |
| 7. | 2.4 | Delinquent Daughters (1944) | 175 |
| 8. | 2.5 | White Pongo (1945) | 278 |
| 9. | 2.6 | Wild Weed (1949) | 137 |
| 10. | 2.6 | Raza (1942) | 276 |
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:
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.
