1940s dramas

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🎬 100 Drama Films of the 1940s

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31940Ginger Rogers Oscar-winning role
4Knute Rockne, All American1940Biographical sports drama
5The Letter1940Bette Davis courtroom drama
6Citizen Kane1941Orson Welles masterpiece
7How Green Was My Valley1941Welsh mining family saga
8Suspicion1941Hitchcock thriller-drama
9Sergeant York1941Gary Cooper war drama
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11Casablanca1942Bogart & Bergman wartime romance
12The Magnificent Ambersons1942Welles family drama
13Mrs. Miniver1942WWII homefront drama
14Pride of the Yankees1942Lou Gehrig biopic
15Random Harvest1942Romantic drama
16For Whom the Bell Tolls1943Hemingway adaptation
17Jane Eyre1943Gothic romance
18The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943British war drama
19Song of Bernadette1943Religious drama
20Watch on the Rhine1943Anti-fascist drama
21Going My Way1944Bing Crosby drama
22Lifeboat1944Hitchcock survival drama
23Since You Went Away1944WWII homefront
24To Have and Have Not1944Bogart & Bacall
25Brief Encounter1945British romantic drama
26Children of Paradise1945French classic
27The Lost Weekend1945Alcoholism drama
28Mildred Pierce1945Joan Crawford noir-drama
29The Best Years of Our Lives1946Postwar reintegration
30It’s a Wonderful Life1946Capra’s drama-fantasy
31Notorious1946Hitchcock espionage drama
32Great Expectations1946Dickens adaptation
33The Yearling1946Family drama
34Crossfire1947Social issue drama
35Gentleman’s Agreement1947Anti-Semitism drama
36Odd Man Out1947British noir-drama
37Out of the Past1947Noir with drama
38The Red Shoes1948Ballet drama
39Bicycle Thieves1948Italian neorealism
40Johnny Belinda1948Drama of disability
41Letter from an Unknown Woman1948Romantic drama
42The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948Greed and survival
43All the King’s Men1949Political drama
44The Heiress1949Olivia de Havilland drama
45On the Town1949Musical drama
46The Third Man1949Postwar noir-drama
47White Heat1949Gangster drama
48Home of the Brave1949Racial prejudice drama
49Battleground1949WWII drama
50Intruder in the Dust1949Faulkner adaptation

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