By decade
The 1940s on disc
The films of the 1940s worth owning, ranked by standing.
The Spiral Staircase
1946 · Robert Siodmak
eBay from $69
The Letter
1940 · William Wyler
eBay from $31
Lassie Come Home 1943
Lassie Come Home
1943 · Fred M. Wilcox
Beauty and the Beast
1946 · René Clément
eBay from $38
The Bishop's Wife
1947 · Henry Koster
eBay from $77
Johnny Belinda 1948
Johnny Belinda
1948 · Jean Negulesco
On the Town
1949 · Stanley Donen
eBay from $27
4K 
Scarlet Street
1945 · Fritz Lang
eBay from $25
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 · Tay Garnett
eBay from $25
National Velvet
1944 · Clarence Brown
eBay from $40
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941 · Alfred Hitchcock
eBay from $40
High Sierra
1941 · Raoul Walsh
eBay from $30
Crossfire
1947 · Edward Dmytryk
eBay from $40
The Bells of St. Mary's
1945 · Leo McCarey
eBay from $38
Anchors Aweigh
1945 · George Sidney
eBay from $25
Out of the Past
1947 · Jacques Tourneur
eBay from $42
Kitty Foyle 1940
Kitty Foyle
1940 · Sam Wood
The Woman in the Window
1944 · Fritz Lang
eBay from $37
Meet John Doe
1941 · Frank Capra
eBay from $26
The Quiet Duel 1949
The Quiet Duel
1949 · Akira Kurosawa
So Dear to My Heart 1948
So Dear to My Heart
1948 · Harold D. Schuster
Under Capricorn
1949 · Alfred Hitchcock
eBay from $77
Ball of Fire 1941
Ball of Fire
1941 · Howard Hawks
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail 1945
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
1945 · Akira Kurosawa
The Walls of Malapaga 1949
The Walls of Malapaga
1949 · René Clément
Duel in the Sun
1946 · King Vidor
eBay from $33
Saboteur
1942 · Alfred Hitchcock
eBay from $21
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · Max Ophüls
eBay from $50
La Terra Trema
1948 · Luchino Visconti
eBay from $76
The Stranger
1946 · Orson Welles
eBay from $31
Little Women
1949 · Mervyn LeRoy
eBay from $46
The More the Merrier 1943
The More the Merrier
1943 · George Stevens
Wilson
1944 · Henry King
eBay from $40
The Westerner
1940 · William Wyler
eBay from $20
3 Godfathers
1948 · John Ford
eBay from $40
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941 · Victor Fleming
eBay from $29
Easter Parade
1948 · Charles Walters
eBay from $30
4K 
The Talk of the Town
1942 · George Stevens
eBay from $61
Random Harvest
1942 · Mervyn LeRoy
eBay from $12
4K 
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · Robert Hamer
eBay from $35
Madame Curie
1943 · Mervyn LeRoy
eBay from $44
Titanic
1943 · Herbert Selpin
eBay from $33
The Razor's Edge
1946 · Edmund Goulding
eBay from $38
Watch on the Rhine 1943
Watch on the Rhine
1943 · Hal Mohr
Sanshiro Sugata
1943 · Akira Kurosawa
eBay from $39
Le Corbeau
1943 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
eBay from $28
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 · Albert Lewin
eBay from $38
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946 · Akira Kurosawa
eBay from $61