Top Rated "1940s" Titles
| Rank | Rating | Title | Votes |
| 1. | 8.7 | Casablanca (1942) | 219,860 |
| 2. | 8.7 | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | 139,701 |
| 3. | 8.5 | Citizen Kane (1941) | 176,246 |
| 4. | 8.5 | Double Indemnity (1944) | 51,489 |
| 5. | 8.5 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) | 43,984 |
| 6. | 8.5 | The Third Man (1949) | 65,648 |
| 7. | 8.4 | The Great Dictator (1940) | 55,608 |
| 8. | 8.4 | Bicycle Thieves (1948) | 41,631 |
| 9. | 8.3 | Rebecca (1940) | 47,255 |
| 10. | 8.3 | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | 66,093 |
| 11. | 8.3 | Children of Paradise (1945) | 9,437 |
| 12. | 8.2 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | 22,664 |
| 13. | 8.2 | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | 32,288 |
| 14. | 8.2 | Notorious (1946) | 41,232 |
| 15. | 8.2 | White Heat (1949) | 12,570 |
| 16. | 8.2 | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) | 17,654 |
| 17. | 8.2 | The Red Shoes (1948) | 11,680 |
| 18. | 8.2 | The Big Sleep (1946) | 37,725 |
| 19. | 8.2 | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | 11,145 |
| 20. | 8.2 | The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) | 10,813 |
| 21. | 8.2 | The Heiress (1949) | 5,871 |
| 22. | 8.1 | Rome, Open City (1945) | 8,628 |
| 23. | 8.1 | Brief Encounter (1945) | 16,911 |
| 24. | 8.1 | To Be or Not to Be (1942) | 11,435 |
| 25. | 8.1 | Laura (1944) | 18,064 |
| 26. | 8.1 | Late Spring (1949) | 4,159 |
| 27. | 8.1 | The Lost Weekend (1945) | 15,010 |
| 28. | 8.1 | Beauty and the Beast (1946) | 11,821 |
| 29. | 8.1 | Stairway to Heaven (1946) | 8,326 |
| 30. | 8.1 | Out of the Past (1947) | 13,551 |
| 31. | 8.1 | His Girl Friday (1940) | 26,771 |
| 32. | 8.1 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | 27,352 |
| 33. | 8.1 | Rope (1948) | 47,382 |
| 34. | 8.1 | Great Expectations (1946) | 11,910 |
| 35. | 8.1 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) | 5,959 |
| 36. | 8.0 | The Philadelphia Story (1940) | 33,970 |
| 37. | 8.0 | The Little Foxes (1941) | 4,717 |
| 38. | 8.0 | The Shop Around the Corner (1940) | 11,494 |
| 39. | 8.0 | Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | 36,759 |
| 40. | 8.0 | The Lady Eve (1941) | 9,205 |
| 41. | 8.0 | Black Narcissus (1947) | 9,452 |
| 42. | 8.0 | Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) | 4,287 |
| 43. | 8.0 | To Have and Have Not (1944) | 15,002 |
| 44. | 8.0 | The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) | 10,765 |
| 45. | 8.0 | Shoeshine (1946) | 2,382 |
| 46. | 8.0 | Day of Wrath (1943) | 4,208 |
| 47. | 8.0 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) | 3,398 |
| 48. | 7.9 | Mildred Pierce (1945) | 9,750 |
| 49. | 7.9 | Germany Year Zero (1948) | 3,579 |
| 50. | 7.9 | Key Largo (1948) | 18,338 |
Bottom Rated "1940s" Titles
| Rank | Rating | Title | Votes |
| 1. | 1.7 | Jungle Goddess (1948) | 364 |
| 2. | 1.8 | Last of the Wild Horses (1948) | 328 |
| 3. | 2.0 | I Accuse My Parents (1944) | 1,512 |
| 4. | 2.2 | Raza (1942) | 388 |
| 5. | 2.3 | The White Gorilla (1945) | 267 |
| 6. | 2.5 | Test Tube Babies (1948) | 125 |
| 7. | 2.6 | White Pongo (1945) | 320 |
| 8. | 2.7 | Devil Monster (1946) | 139 |
| 9. | 2.8 | Delinquent Daughters (1944) | 172 |
| 10. | 2.9 | Omoo-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:
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.
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