by decade: 1900s l 1910s l 1920s l 1930s l 1940s l 1950s l 1960s l 1970s l 1980s l 1990s l 2000s l reviews home Film Title; Year; Director; Country; Rating; Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra USA Belle et la Bete, la 1946 Jean Cocteau France Bicycle Thieves, the 1948 Vittorio de Sica Italy Big Sleep, the 1946 Howard Hawks USA Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell UK Brief Encounter 1946 David Lean UK Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles USA Cluny Brown 1946 Ernst Lubitsch USA Dumbo 1941 Ben Sharpsteen USA Great Expectations 1946 David Lean UK Great Dictator, the 1940 Charles Chaplin USA It's a Wonderful Life! 1946 Frank Capra USA Jour de Fete 1949 Jacques Tati France Kind Hearts and Coronets 1948 Robert Hamer UK Letters from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophuls USA Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Powell and Pressburger UK Love Happy 1949 David Miller USA Maltese Falcon, the 1941 John Huston USA Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin USA Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed UK Orphee 1949 Jean Cocteau France Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur USA Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges USA Pinocchio 1940 Sharpsteen and Luske USA Postman Always Rings Twice, the 1946 Tay Garnett USA Reckless Moment, the 1949 Max Ophuls USA Red River 1948 Howard Hawks USA Red Shoes, the 1948 Powell and Pressburger UK Rope 1948 Alfred Hithcock USA Saboteur 1942 Alfred Hitchcock USA Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges USA Stars Look Down, the 1940 Carol Reed UK Third Man, the 1949 Carol Reed UK Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges USA White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh USA