1940 Top Ten List

  • His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
  • Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen)
  • The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
  • Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske)
  • Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
  • Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
  • The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)

    • Additional 1940 Films By Rating

  • Fantasia (no director credited) [Various]
  • The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger & Michael Powell & Tim Whelan)
  • They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh)
  • The Bank Dick (Edward Cline)
  • The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
  • The Letter (William Wyler)
  • The Proud Valley (Pen Tennyson)
  • The Devil Bat (Jean Yarbrough)
  • The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
  • Saturday's Children (Vincent Sherman)
  • A Bill of Divorcement (John Farrow)