Best Drama Movies & TV Series of the 1940s

Our pick of the 580 best Drama movies and TV series of the 1940s to stream on 3eyedraven, sorted by weighted rating and refreshed as scores move. Cast, ratings, trailers and streaming options included.

It's a Wonderful Life 1946 ★ 8.3
Bicycle Thieves 1948 ★ 8.2
Casablanca 1943 ★ 8.1
The Shop Around the Corner 1940 ★ 8.1
Citizen Kane 1941 ★ 8.0
Rome, Open City 1945 ★ 8.0
Rope 1948 ★ 7.9
The Red Shoes 1948 ★ 8.0
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 ★ 8.0
Children of Paradise 1945 ★ 8.1
Late Spring 1949 ★ 8.0
Rebecca 1940 ★ 7.9
The Grapes of Wrath 1940 ★ 7.8
Day of Wrath 1943 ★ 8.0
Los tres huastecos 1948 ★ 8.3
Notorious 1946 ★ 7.7
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 ★ 7.7
A Matter of Life and Death 1946 ★ 7.8
Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 ★ 7.8
Brief Encounter 1945 ★ 7.7
We the Poor 1948 ★ 8.1
Monsieur Verdoux 1947 ★ 7.7
Shoeshine 1946 ★ 7.8
The Heiress 1949 ★ 7.8