Drama films
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This is a list of drama films of the 1940s.

• Brigham Young
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Great Dictator
• Kitty Foyle
• Knute Rockne, All American
• Lillian Russell
• Rebecca
• The Letter

• Citizen Kane
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan
• How Green Was My Valley
• Meet John Doe
• Men of Boys Town
• Sergeant York
• Suspicion
• The Little Foxes

• Bambi
• Casablanca
• Joan of Paris
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• Mrs. Miniver
• The Pied Piper
• Pride of the Yankees
• Random Harvest

• Day of Wrath
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Jane Eyre
• Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• So Proudly We Hail!
• Song of Bernadette
• Watch on the Rhine

• The Children Are Watching Us
• Going My Way
• Lifeboat
• Mr. Skeffington
• Passage to Marseilles
• Secret Command
• Since You Went Away
• Till We Meet Again
• To Have and Have Not
• Wilson

• The Bells of St. Mary's
• Brief Encounter
• Children of Paradise
• Corn Is Green
• I Know Where I'm Going!
• Leave Her to Heaven
• Lost Weekend
• Mildred Pierce
• Rome Open City
• The Southerner
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Week-End at the Waldorf

• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Dragonwyck
• Gilda
• Great Expectations
• Humoresque
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Minshū no Teki^[1]
• No Regrets for Our Youth
• Paisà
• Utamaro and His Five Women

• The Bishop's Wife
• Black Narcissus
• A Double Life
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Monsieur Verdoux^[2]
• Mourning Becomes Electra
• Sea of Grass
• Shoeshine

• Another Part of the Forest
• Bicycle Thieves
• Corridor of Mirrors
• Drunken Angel
• The Fallen Idol
• Germany Year Zero
• Hamlet
• I Remember Mama
• Johnny Belinda
• Letter from an Unknown Woman
• Oliver Twist
• The Red Shoes
• The Snake Pit
• State of the Union

• All the King's Men
• The Blue Lagoon
• Daleká cesta
• Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc.
• The File on Thelma Jordon
• The Heiress
• Intruder in the Dust
• Late Spring
• My Foolish Heart
• Ostani Etap
• They Live by Night
• Under Capricorn

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (September 2014)