Best German-Language Movies & TV Series of the 1940s

Looking for the best German-language movies and TV series of the 1940s? These 81 are the highest-rated on 3eyedraven, weighted by vote count so a handful of glowing reviews never beats a proven favourite.

Casablanca 1943 ★ 8.1
Rome, Open City 1945 ★ 8.0
The Third Man 1949 ★ 7.9
To Be or Not to Be 1942 ★ 7.8
Germany, Year Zero 1948 ★ 7.6
Gilda 1946 ★ 7.5
Paisan 1946 ★ 7.5
Lifeboat 1944 ★ 7.4
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 ★ 7.4
The Silence of the Sea 1949 ★ 7.5
Nazi Concentration Camps 1945 ★ 7.7
Sergeant York 1941 ★ 7.2
Sahara 1943 ★ 7.2
The Punch Bowl 1944 ★ 7.2
Night Train to Munich 1940 ★ 7.3
Mrs. Miniver 1942 ★ 7.1
A Foreign Affair 1948 ★ 7.1
Foreign Correspondent 1940 ★ 7.0
Christmas in Connecticut 1945 ★ 7.0
This Land Is Mine 1943 ★ 7.1
Five Graves to Cairo 1943 ★ 7.0
I Was a Male War Bride 1949 ★ 7.0
The Search 1948 ★ 7.0
49th Parallel 1941 ★ 7.0