1940-s in Films.

1949.
Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin) - 20 September 1949
The Third Man (Carol Reed) - 31 August 1949
White Heat (Raoul Walsh) - 2 September 1949

1948.
Big Clock (John Farrow) - 9 April 1948
Fallen Idol (Carol Reed) - 30 September 1948
Key Largo (John Huston) - 16 July 1948
Ladri di biciclette (Vittorio De Sica) - 24 November 1948
The Red Shoes (Powell, Pressburger) - 6 September 1948
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock) - 23 August 1948
Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak) - 1 September 1948
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston) - 24 January 1948

1947.
Brute Force (Jules Dassin) - 30 June 1947
The Dark Passage (Delmer Daves) - 5 September 1947
Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles) - 24 December 1947
Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery) - 23 January 1947
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin) - 11 April 1947
The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock) - 29 December 1947 
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur) - 13 November 1947
Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot) - 3 October 1947

1946.
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks) - 23 August 1946
Det regnar på vår kärlek (Ingmar Bergman) - 9 November 1946
It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra) - 20 December 1946
The Killers (Robert Siodmak) - 28 August 1946
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock) - 15 August 1946

1945.
Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti) - 4 September 1945
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer) - 7 November 1945
The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder) - 6 November 1945
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz) - 24 September 1945
Roma, città aperta (Roberto Rossellini) - 27 September 1945
Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock) - 31 October 1945
The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak) - December 1945

1944.
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder) - 24 April 1944
Gaslight (George Cukor) - 4 May 1944
Laura (Otto Preminger) - 11 October 1944
Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock) -  12 Januart 1944
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks) - 11 October 1944
Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang) - 3 November 1944

1943.
Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot) - 28 September 1943
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur) - 21 April 1943
The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman) - 8 May 1943
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock) - 12 January 1943
Vredens dag (Carl Theodor Dreyer) - 13 November 1943

1942.
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) - 26 November 1942

1941.
I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone) - 31 October 1941
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) - 1 May 1941
Lady Eve (Preston Sturges) - 25 February 1941
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock) - 31 January 1941
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston) - 3 October 1941

1940.
Fantasia (James Algar) - 13 November 1940
Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock) - 16 August 1940
The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin) - 15 October 1940
Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske) - 7 February 1940
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock) - 27 March 1940
Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch) - 12 January 1940