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Best Movies of 1941 by Rank

Rating
Rank
No
Title
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
5 Stars, Top 100
1
1
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins
Drama / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Film-Noir
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
76
2
The Maltese Falcon
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane
Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Detective
USA
English
5 Stars
114
3
The Lady Eve
Preston Sturges
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
151
4
Sullivan's Travels
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
5 Stars
312
5
How Green Was My Valley
John Ford
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
354
6
Dumbo
Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts
Edward Brophy, Herman Bing, Margaret Wright, Sterling Holloway, Cliff Edwards
Drama / Family / Animation / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
4.5 Stars
739
7
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Alexander Hall
Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
746
8
The Little Foxes
William Wyler
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall
Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
789
9
Sergeant York
Howard Hawks
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
4.5 Stars
934
10
High Sierra
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
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Rating
Rank
No
Title
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
4 Stars
1047
11
Major Barbara
Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean
Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton
Comedy
UK
English
4 Stars
1105
12
Suspicion
Alfred Hitchcock
Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Pre-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1158
13
49th Parallel
Michael Powell
Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook
Drama / War / Thriller
UK
English
4 Stars
1217
14
Ball of Fire
Howard Hawks
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers
Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
4 Stars
1282
15
Man Hunt
Fritz Lang
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine
Thriller
USA
English
4 Stars
1350
16
The Wolf Man
George Waggner
Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
4 Stars
1403
17
All that Money Can Buy
William Dieterle
Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon
Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
USA
English
4 Stars
1440
18
Meet John Doe
Frank Capra
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1518
19
Hold Back the Dawn
Mitchell Leisen
Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1679
20
One Foot in Heaven
Irving Rapper
Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Religion
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1692
21
Hellzapoppin'
H.C. Potter
Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1897
22
The Sea Wolf
Michael Curtiz
Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1997
23
Tobacco Road
John Ford
Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
3 Stars
2009
24
Kipps
Carol Reed
Philip Frost, Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Diana Calderwood, Phyllis Calvert
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
3 Stars
2093
25
Penny Serenade
George Stevens
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Eva Lee Kuney
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2305
26
Tom, Dick, and Harry
Garson Kanin
Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal, Burgess Meredith
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2320
27
Blood and Sand
Rouben Mamoulian
Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova, Anthony Quinn
Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2320
27
Johnny Eager
Mervyn LeRoy
Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin, Robert Sterling
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2329
28
Quiet Wedding
Anthony Asquith
Margaret Lockwood, Derek Farr, Marjorie Fielding, A.E. Matthews, Athene Seyler
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2340
29
Love on the Dole
John Baxter
Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Mary Merrall, Geoffrey Hibbert
Drama
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2356
30
The Great Lie
Edmund Goulding
Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2363
31
That Hamilton Woman
Alexander Korda
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
Drama / History / Romance / War / Biography
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2398
32
The 47 Ronin
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2511
33
Dive Bomber
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Alexis Smith, Robert Armstrong
Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2513
34
Western Union
Fritz Lang
Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine
History / Western
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2550
35
Blossoms in the Dust
Mervyn LeRoy
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2553
36
Two-Faced Woman
George Cukor
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Robert Sterling
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2603
37
Remorques
Jean Grémillon
Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Michèle Morgan, Charles Blavette, Jean Marchat
Drama / Romance
France
French
2.5 Stars
2605
38
The Devil and Miss Jones
Sam Wood
Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2605
38
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
King Vidor
Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Charles Coburn, Van Heflin, Fay Holden
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2605
38
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Edward F. Cline
W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Billy Lenhart, Kenneth Brown
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2605
38
Skylark
Mark Sandrich
Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2605
38
So Ends Our Night
John Cromwell
Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Glenn Ford, Anna Sten
War / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
39
Buck Privates
Arthur Lubin
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Laverne Andrews
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
39
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Victor Fleming
Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
39
I Wanted Wings
Mitchell Leisen
Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
39
Swineherd and Shepherd
Ivan Pyryev
Marina Ladynina, Vladimir Zeldin, Nikolai Kryuchkov, N. Kitayev, Grigori Alekseyev
Musical / Romance / Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2689
39
They Died with Their Boots On
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Romance / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
39
A Yank in the R.A.F.
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2691
40
Back Street
Robert Stevenson
Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson, Frank McHugh, Tim Holt
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2691
40
Love Crazy
Jack Conway
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson, Florence Bates
Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2740
41
The Road to Zanzibar
Victor Schertzinger
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel
Comedy / Adventure
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2746
42
The Strawberry Blonde
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2754
43
La Corona di ferro
Alessandro Blasetti
Elisa Cegani, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Gino Cervi
Fantasy / Drama / History / Action / Adventure
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2756
44
The Blood of Jesus
Spencer Williams
Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams, Juanita Riley
Drama / Fantasy / Religion
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2756
44
Kannapolis, NC
H. Lee Waters
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2771
45
Ohm Krüger
Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch
Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Ernst Schröder
Biography / War
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2792
46
The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2807
47
Adventures of Captain Marvel
John English, William Witney
Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William 'Billy' Benedict, Louise Currie
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Serial / Comic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
The Bride Came C.O.D.
William Keighley
James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Jack Carson
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
Bugville
Dave Fleischer, Shamus Culhane
Kenny Gardner, Gwen Williams, Jack Mercer, Tedd Pierce, Carl Meyer, Stan Freed
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
Charley's Aunt
Archie Mayo
Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, Anne Baxter, Edmund Gwenn
Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
Elmer's Pet Rabbit
Chuck Jones
Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
The Flame of New Orleans
René Clair
Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer, Andy Devine
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
The Great American Broadcast
Archie Mayo
Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Cesar Romero, James Newill
Comedy / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
Moon Over Miami
Walter Lang
Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Carole Landis, Jack Haley
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
Mr. District Attorney
William Morgan
Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
The Nifty Nineties
Riley Thomson
Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Thurl Ravenscroft
Family / Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
The Reluctant Dragon
Alfred L. Werker, Ford Beebe, Jasper Blystone, Jim Handley, Hamilton Luske, Erwin L. Verity
Robert Benchley, Frances Gifford, Buddy Pepper, Nana Bryant, Claud Allister
Animation / Family / Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
Rhapsody in Rivets
Friz Freleng
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
The Shepherd of the Hills
Henry Hathaway
John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi, James Barton
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
The Singing Hill
Lew Landers
Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Dale, Mary Lee, Spencer Charters
Western / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
Sleepers West
Eugene Forde
Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Louis Jean Heydt, Edward Brophy
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
Superman
Dave Fleischer
Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Julian Noa, Jack Mercer
Animation / Family / Short / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Comic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
Swamp Water
Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel
Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
47
That Night in Rio
Irving Cummings
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda, S.Z. Sakall, J. Carrol Naish
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
The Big Store
Charles Reisner
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
NR
-
Shadow of the Thin Man
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Sam Levene, Alan Baxter
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
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