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Cinephile 101: 50 Popular Movies of the 1940s

Cinephile 101 is a cinephile/film buff list series, aiming to cover a diverse range of different areas that anyone who claims this distinction should really know their stuff in.
In this entry of the series, we continue looking at the kind of movies you need to watch to cover the basic groundwork of being a cinephile. Some may think they're clever for jumping in at the deep end, but no one will be impressed with you if you haven't seen the most basic of movie standards. Today we're looking at 50 well known movies from the 1940s, five from each year (data source: Rate Your Music, top 5 for each year, skipping any low rated movies), that will help you build up a basic knowledge of film.
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The Great Dictator (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
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Fantasia (1940)
Fantasia (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
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Pinocchio (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
4
Rebecca (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
5
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
6
Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
8
Dumbo (1941)
Dumbo (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
9
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
10
Suspicion (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
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Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
12
Bambi (1942)
Bambi (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
13
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
14
Cat People (1942)
Cat People (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
15
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
16
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
17
Day of Wrath (1943)
Day of Wrath (1943)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
18
I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
Rotten Tomatoes®   85%
19
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
20
Le Corbeau (1943)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
21
Double Indemnity (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
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Laura (1944)
Laura (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
23
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes®   85%
24
To Have and Have Not (1944)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
25
The Woman in the Window (1944)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
26
Rome, Open City (1945)
Rome, Open City (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
27
Children of Paradise (1945)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
28
Brief Encounter (1945)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
29
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
30
Spellbound (1945)
Spellbound (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes®   85%
31
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
32
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
33
Notorious (1946)
Notorious (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
34
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
35
The Stranger (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
36
The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes®   84%
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Out of the Past (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
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Black Narcissus (1947)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
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Odd Man Out (1947)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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