By decade
The 1940s on disc
The films of the 1940s worth owning, ranked by standing.
Mr. Skeffington 1944
Mr. Skeffington
1944 · Vincent Sherman
Johnny Eager
1941 · Mervyn LeRoy
eBay from $21
The Fountainhead
1949 · King Vidor
eBay from $33
Oliver Twist 1948
Oliver Twist
1948 · David Lean
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943 · Michael Powell
eBay from $20
Cover Girl
1944 · Charles Vidor
eBay from $114
House of Frankenstein
1944 · Erle C. Kenton
eBay from $28
The Outlaw
1943 · Howard Hawks
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Kolberg 1945
Kolberg
1945 · Veit Harlan
Adventures of Don Juan
1948 · Vincent Sherman
eBay from $40
Jane Eyre
1943 · Robert Stevenson
eBay from $169
The Blue Dahlia
1946 · George Marshall
eBay from $28
A Night in Casablanca
1946 · Archie Mayo
eBay from $26
Santa Fe Trail
1940 · Michael Curtiz
eBay from $30
All This, and Heaven Too 1940
All This, and Heaven Too
1940 · Anatole Litvak
Our Town (1940 film)
1940 · Sam Wood
eBay from $23
49th Parallel
1941 · Michael Powell
eBay from $42
Mighty Joe Young
1949 · Ernest B. Schoedsack
eBay from $45
The Emperor Waltz
1948 · Billy Wilder
eBay from $29
Life with Father
1947 · Michael Curtiz
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Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · Busby Berkeley
eBay from $35
Macbeth
1948 · Orson Welles
eBay from $23
This Land Is Mine
1943 · Jean Renoir
eBay from $25
Secret Beyond the Door
1947 · Fritz Lang
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Western Union
1941 · Fritz Lang
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The Sea Hawk
1940 · Michael Curtiz
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Kiss of Death
1947 · Henry Hathaway
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They Live by Night
1948 · Nicholas Ray
eBay from $41
Son of Dracula
1943 · Robert Siodmak
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Sahara
1943 · Zoltan Korda
eBay from $61
Phantom of the Opera
1943 · Arthur Lubin
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The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942 · Erle C. Kenton
eBay from $28
Two-Faced Woman 1941
Two-Faced Woman
1941 · George Cukor
House of Dracula
1945 · Erle C. Kenton
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Criss Cross
1949 · Robert Siodmak
eBay from $19
Sanshiro Sugata Part II 1945
Sanshiro Sugata Part II
1945 · Akira Kurosawa
La Symphonie Pastorale 1946
La Symphonie Pastorale
1946 · Jean Delannoy
The Mummy's Hand
1940 · Christy Cabanne
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I Know Where I'm Going! 1945
I Know Where I'm Going!
1945 · Michael Powell
Dressed to Kill 1946
Dressed to Kill
1946 · Roy William Neill
Batman 1943
Batman
1943 · Lambert Hillyer
A Walk in the Sun 1945
A Walk in the Sun
1945 · Lewis Milestone
The Great McGinty 1940
The Great McGinty
1940 · Preston Sturges
The Palm Beach Story 1942
The Palm Beach Story
1942 · Preston Sturges
Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out 1947
Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out
1947 · Carol Reed
Hold Back the Dawn 1941
Hold Back the Dawn
1941 · Mitchell Leisen
Boom Town 1940
Boom Town
1940 · John Waters
The Major and the Minor 1942
The Major and the Minor
1942 · Billy Wilder