Top Rated "1940s" Titles| Rank | Rating | Title | Votes | | 1. | 8.8 | Casablanca (1942) | 72,291 | | 2. | 8.7 | Citizen Kane (1941) | 66,392 | | 3. | 8.6 | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | 44,489 | | 4. | 8.5 | Double Indemnity (1944) | 12,879 | | 5. | 8.5 | The Third Man (1949) | 20,252 | | 6. | 8.4 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) | 11,586 | | 7. | 8.4 | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | 21,279 | | 8. | 8.3 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | 6,859 | | 9. | 8.3 | The Great Dictator (1940) | 11,872 | | 10. | 8.3 | Ladri di biciclette (1948) | 8,329 | | 11. | 8.3 | Rebecca (1940) | 12,595 | | 12. | 8.3 | Brief Encounter (1945) | 3,079 | | 13. | 8.2 | The Big Sleep (1946) | 11,056 | | 14. | 8.2 | Notorious (1946) | 11,755 | | 15. | 8.2 | Corbeau, Le (1943) | 586 | | 16. | 8.2 | White Heat (1949) | 3,154 | | 17. | 8.2 | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) | 4,017 | | 18. | 8.2 | Belle et la bête, La (1946) | 2,620 | | 19. | 8.2 | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | 3,367 | | 20. | 8.1 | The Philadelphia Story (1940) | 11,572 | | 21. | 8.1 | To Be or Not to Be (1942) | 4,113 | | 22. | 8.1 | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | 8,663 | | 23. | 8.1 | His Girl Friday (1940) | 7,467 | | 24. | 8.1 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | 6,442 | | 25. | 8.1 | Laura (1944) | 5,279 | | 26. | 8.1 | Enfants du paradis, Les (1945) | 3,674 | | 27. | 8.1 | The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) | 2,185 | | 28. | 8.1 | Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | 12,489 | | 29. | 8.1 | A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | 2,394 | | 30. | 8.1 | Out of the Past (1947) | 2,926 | | 31. | 8.1 | Nightmare Alley (1947) | 535 | | 32. | 8.1 | Germania anno zero (1948) | 612 | | 33. | 8.1 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) | 1,270 | | 34. | 8.0 | The Red Shoes (1948) | 2,329 | | 35. | 8.0 | Red River (1948) | 4,254 | | 36. | 8.0 | The Lost Weekend (1945) | 2,968 | | 37. | 8.0 | The Shop Around the Corner (1940) | 3,207 | | 38. | 8.0 | The Set-Up (1949) | 770 | | 39. | 8.0 | The Lady Eve (1941) | 2,363 | | 40. | 8.0 | Great Expectations (1946) | 2,548 | | 41. | 8.0 | The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) | 3,745 | | 42. | 8.0 | Body and Soul (1947) | 586 | | 43. | 8.0 | My Darling Clementine (1946) | 2,764 | | 44. | 7.9 | Roma, città aperta (1945) | 2,035 | | 45. | 7.9 | Ossessione (1943) | 616 | | 46. | 7.9 | To Have and Have Not (1944) | 4,507 | | 47. | 7.9 | A Walk in the Sun (1945) | 615 | | 48. | 7.9 | The Heiress (1949) | 1,378 | | 49. | 7.9 | Black Narcissus (1947) | 1,959 | | 50. | 7.9 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) | 2,276 |
Bottom Rated "1940s" TitlesThe formula for calculating the Top Rated 50 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate:weighted rank (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C
where:
R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 50 (currently 500)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.7) 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 50 votes.
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