The best movies of the 1940s
The top 3 according to 28 votes from people: Citizen Kane (1941) · Paisan (1946) · Casablanca (1942). (Updated Aug 12, 2020.)
From Citizen Kane and Casablanca to the Neorealism of Bicycle Thieves and Rome, Open City: the 1940s films at the top of Bastardi per la Gloria's ranking and among the decade's best Italian films according to Il Sorpasso.
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Top 12
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1
Citizen Kane (1941)
Orson Welles: the life of tycoon Kane and the mystery of 'Rosebud'.
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2
Paisan (1946)
Roberto Rossellini: six episodes of the Allied advance through Italy.
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3
Casablanca (1942)
Michael Curtiz: Rick, Ilsa and a Moroccan nightclub in wartime.
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4
The Third Man (1949)
Carol Reed: Orson Welles in post-war Vienna.
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5
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Frank Capra: an angel shows George Bailey the world without him.
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6
Rome, Open City (1945)
Roberto Rossellini: the Resistance in occupied Rome, with Anna Magnani.
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7
The Great Dictator (1940)
Charlie Chaplin: a Jewish barber mistaken for the dictator Hynkel.
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8
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Vittorio De Sica: a father and son search Rome for a stolen bicycle.
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9
Bitter Rice (1949)
Giuseppe De Santis: rice weeders, paddies and Silvana Mangano.
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10
Double Indemnity (1944)
Billy Wilder: an insurance man and a wife who wants rid of her husband.
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11
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Ernst Lubitsch: a Polish theatre company against the Nazis.
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12
Germany, Year Zero (1948)
Roberto Rossellini: a boy among the ruins of Berlin.
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13
Ossessione (1943)
Luchino Visconti: a drifter, an innkeeper's wife and a murder in the Po valley.
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14
La Terra Trema (1948)
Luchino Visconti: Sicilian fishermen in Aci Trezza.
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15
Shoeshine (1946)
Vittorio De Sica: two shoeshine boys sent to a reformatory.
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