Films1940s
The 1940s.
386 hand-scored films from the 1940s. Each carries a twelve-axis taste fingerprint and a cinematography palette.
The 200 most-watched of 386
Casablanca
1942 · romance · drama
It's a Wonderful Life
1946 · drama · family
Pinocchio (1940)
1940 · animation · family
Bambi (1942)
1942 · animation · family
Dumbo (1941)
1941 · animation · family
Key Largo
1948 · noir · gangster
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1949 · horror · fantasy
The Three Caballeros
1944 · animation · family
Citizen Kane
1941 · drama · mystery
The Third Man
1949 · noir · thriller
Fantasia (1940)
1940 · animation · family
Gaslight
1944 · thriller · drama
Spellbound
1945 · thriller · mystery
The Wolf Man
1941 · horror · fantasy
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 · drama
Going My Way
1944 · drama · musical
Suspicion
1941 · thriller · drama
Hamlet
1948 · shakespeare · drama
The Maltese Falcon
1941 · thriller · crime
Double Indemnity
1944 · noir · crime
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
1947 · comedy · drama
D.O.A.
1949 · noir · crime
High Sierra
1941 · crime · noir
Lifeboat
1944 · thriller · war
Foreign Correspondent
1940 · thriller · war
Mrs. Miniver
1942 · drama · war
Sergeant York
1941 · war · wwi
Holiday Inn
1942 · paramount · crosby
Anchors Aweigh
1945 · mgm · kelly-sinatra
The Little Foxes
1941 · drama · melodrama
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 · drama · horror
Sands of Iwo Jima
1949 · war · wwii
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948 · noir · telephone
Saboteur
1942 · thriller · chase
Stormy Weather
1943 · fox · all-black-cast
Brighton Rock
1948 · noir · crime
The Philadelphia Story
1940 · romance · comedy
Rebecca
1940 · thriller · romance
Notorious
1946 · thriller · romance
The Big Sleep
1946 · noir · thriller
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 · adventure · drama
His Girl Friday
1940 · comedy · romance
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · drama
The Great Dictator
1940 · comedy · drama
Brief Encounter
1945 · romance · drama
Ball of Fire
1941 · screwball · romantic-comedy
The Stranger
1946 · noir · nazi-hunter
Kiss of Death
1947 · noir · gangster
This Gun for Hire
1942 · noir · crime
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · drama · romance
Henry V
1944 · drama · war
The Heiress
1949 · drama · romance
Dark Passage
1947 · noir · fugitive
The Harvey Girls
1946 · mgm · garland
Cover Girl
1944 · columbia · kelly-hayworth
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947 · samuel-goldwyn · kaye
The Big Clock
1948 · noir · murder
Stray Dog
1949 · crime · noir
Criss Cross
1949 · noir · heist
Body and Soul
1947 · noir · boxing
Duel in the Sun
1946 · western · melodrama
Brute Force
1947 · noir · prison
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941 · comedy · romance
Blithe Spirit
1945 · comedy · supernatural
For Me and My Gal
1942 · mgm · garland-kelly
The Jolson Story
1946 · columbia · biopic
Laura
1944 · noir · mystery
Adam's Rib
1949 · comedy · romance
Bicycle Thieves
1948 · drama
Sullivan's Travels
1941 · comedy · drama
To Be or Not to Be
1942 · comedy · drama
Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · thriller · noir
Black Narcissus
1947 · drama
Rope
1948 · thriller
Whisky Galore!
1949 · comedy · british
Passport to Pimlico
1949 · comedy · british
Heaven Can Wait
1943 · comedy · fantasy
The Letter
1940 · drama · noir
They Were Expendable
1945 · war · wwii
Battleground
1949 · war · wwii
They Died with Their Boots On
1941 · western · cavalry
Quai des Orfèvres
1947 · crime · noir
Nosotros los Pobres
1948 · drama · melodrama
The Uninvited
1944 · ghost · haunted-house
Phantom Lady
1944 · noir · mystery
T-Men
1947 · noir · procedural
Act of Violence
1949 · noir · revenge
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946 · noir · guilt
Lady in the Lake
1947 · noir · detective
The Spiral Staircase
1946 · noir · thriller
The Paradine Case
1947 · courtroom · drama
The Gang's All Here
1943 · fox · berkeley
Girl Crazy
1943 · mgm · garland-rooney
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1949 · mgm · kelly-sinatra
Road to Morocco
1942 · paramount · hope-crosby
Cat People
1942 · horror · noir
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944 · satire · small-town
Three Godfathers
1948 · western · ford
Le Silence de la Mer
1949 · drama · war
The Children Are Watching Us
1944 · drama · family
The Seventh Victim
1943 · satanic · atmospheric
Cry of the City
1948 · noir · crime
The Glass Key
1942 · noir · crime
Dead Reckoning
1947 · noir · femme-fatale
The Window
1949 · noir · child
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944 · noir · intrigue
Hangover Square
1945 · noir · killer
This Is the Army
1943 · warner · berlin
Strike Up the Band
1940 · mgm · garland-rooney
The Long Voyage Home
1940 · drama · war
The Reckless Moment
1949 · noir · blackmail
Border Incident
1949 · noir · procedural
Cornered
1945 · noir · revenge
Too Late for Tears
1949 · noir · femme-fatale
Road to Utopia
1946 · paramount · hope-crosby
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · drama · war
The Lady Eve
1941 · comedy · romance
How Green Was My Valley
1941 · drama
To Have and Have Not
1944 · drama · romance
Great Expectations (1946)
1946 · drama
The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · noir · thriller
White Heat (1949)
1949 · crime · noir
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · comedy · crime
Drunken Angel
1948 · drama · crime
Murder, My Sweet
1944 · noir · crime
Thieves' Highway
1949 · noir · revenge
The Story of G.I. Joe
1945 · war · wwii
In Which We Serve
1942 · lean · war
Blood of the Beasts
1949 · documentary · short
Bitter Rice
1949 · drama · neorealism
Ustedes los Ricos
1948 · drama · melodrama
Torment
1944 · drama · thriller
Call Northside 777
1948 · noir · journalist
The Lodger
1944 · noir · ripper
A Double Life
1947 · noir · actor
Pitfall
1948 · noir · infidelity
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940 · noir · dream
Fallen Angel
1945 · noir · femme-fatale
The Big Steal
1949 · noir · chase
The Way to the Stars
1945 · war · drama
Ziegfeld Follies
1945 · mgm · freed-unit
The Barkleys of Broadway
1949 · mgm · astaire-rogers
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946 · mgm · kern
A Song Is Born
1948 · samuel-goldwyn · kaye
The File on Thelma Jordon
1949 · noir · femme-fatale
Ride the Pink Horse
1947 · noir · revenge
Caught
1949 · noir · melodrama
Night Train to Munich
1940 · thriller · espionage
Odd Man Out
1947 · noir · drama
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 · western · drama
Scarlet Street
1945 · noir · crime
The Westerner
1940 · western · frontier-justice
Sanshiro Sugata
1943 · drama · martial arts
El Gendarme Desconocido
1941 · comedy
The Blue Dahlia
1946 · noir · murder
Possessed
1947 · noir · obsession
He Walked by Night
1948 · noir · procedural
Whirlpool
1949 · noir · hypnosis
Moonrise
1948 · noir · rural
I Wake Up Screaming
1941 · noir · murder
Road House
1948 · noir · obsession
Black Angel
1946 · noir · murder
The Stars Look Down
1940 · drama · mining
This Happy Breed
1944 · drama · family
The Winslow Boy
1948 · drama · courtroom
Words and Music
1948 · mgm · biopic
New Moon
1940 · mgm · macdonald-eddy
Sun Valley Serenade
1941 · fox · miller
In the Good Old Summertime
1949 · mgm · garland
Out of the Past
1947 · noir
Rome, Open City
1945 · drama · war
Late Spring
1949 · drama
The Shop Around the Corner
1940 · romance · comedy
Red River
1948 · western
A Matter of Life and Death
1946 · romance · fantasy
The Red Shoes
1948 · drama · romance
Leave Her to Heaven
1945 · thriller · drama
Monsieur Verdoux
1947 · comedy · drama
All the King's Men (1949)
1949 · drama
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
1946 · fantasy · romance
Oliver Twist (1948)
1948 · drama · crime
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943 · drama · romance
Gilda (1946)
1946 · noir · drama
Mildred Pierce (1945)
1945 · noir · drama
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
1946 · noir · crime
The Lost Weekend (1945)
1945 · drama · noir
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
1944 · comedy · crime
The Fallen Idol
1948 · drama · thriller
The Woman in the Window
1944 · noir · crime
Crossfire
1947 · noir · crime
They Live by Night
1948 · noir · crime
Went the Day Well?
1942 · ealing · war
Les Parents Terribles
1948 · drama
The Humpbacked Horse
1947 · animation · fantasy
The Locket
1946 · noir · flashback
My Name Is Julia Ross
1945 · noir · gothic
They Drive by Night
1940 · noir · trucking
Champion
1949 · noir · boxing
Lady Be Good
1941 · mgm · powell
Down to Earth
1947 · columbia · hayworth