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Best Movies of 1941, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
76 films from 1941 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Citizen Kane ('1941), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Dumbo, 7.2 on IMDb against 96 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Citizen Kane '1941 | Mystery / Drama | 8.2 | 99% | 100 | 8.0 | Orson Welles |
| 2 | The Maltese Falcon '1941 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 7.9 | 99% | 97 | 7.7 | John Huston |
| 3 | Sullivan's Travels '1941 | Comedy / Romance | 7.9 | 100% | 89 | 7.4 | Preston Sturges |
| 4 | The Little Foxes '1941 | Drama | 7.9 | - | - | 7.5 | William Wyler |
| 5 | How Green Was My Valley '1941 | Drama | 7.7 | 93% | 88 | 7.3 | John Ford |
| 6 | The Lady Eve '1941 | Comedy / Romance | 7.7 | 99% | 96 | 7.3 | Preston Sturges |
| 7 | Sergeant York '1941 | War / Drama | 7.7 | 81% | - | 7.2 | Howard Hawks |
| 8 | Ball of Fire '1941 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 7.7 | 100% | 78 | 7.4 | Howard Hawks |
| 9 | Meet John Doe '1941 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | 92% | 63 | 7.3 | Frank Capra |
| 10 | High Sierra '1941 | Crime / Drama / Action / Thriller | 7.5 | 92% | - | 7.1 | Raoul Walsh |
| 11 | The Night Before Christmas '1941 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.4 | Joseph Barbera |
| 12 | The Devil and Miss Jones '1941 | Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | 90% | - | 7.6 | Sam Wood |
| 13 | The Man Who Came to Dinner '1941 | Comedy | 7.5 | 88% | 71 | 7.0 | William Keighley |
| 14 | Here Comes Mr. Jordan '1941 | Comedy / Fantasy / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Alexander Hall |
| 15 | All That Money Can Buy '1941 | Drama / Fantasy | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.0 | William Dieterle |
| 16 | The Sea Wolf '1941 | Drama | 7.5 | 100% | 73 | 7.2 | Michael Curtiz |
| 17 | The Midnight Snack '1941 | Comedy / Animation | 7.7 | - | - | 7.4 | William Hanna |
| 18 | Tortoise Beats Hare '1941 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.1 | Tex Avery |
| 19 | Hellzapoppin' '1941 | Musical / Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | - | - | 7.2 | H. C. Potter |
| 20 | Wabbit Twouble '1941 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.3 | Robert Clampett |
| 21 | 49th Parallel '1941 | War / Thriller | 7.3 | 88% | - | 7.0 | Michael Powell |
| 22 | The Tale of the Fox '1941 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Władysław Starewicz |
| 23 | Dumbo '1941 | Animation | 7.2 | 95% | 96 | 7.0 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 24 | Suspicion '1941 | Mystery / Romance / Thriller | 7.2 | 97% | 74 | 7.1 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 25 | Superman '1941 | Action / Animation / Sci-Fi / Fantasy | 7.3 | - | - | 6.9 | Dave Fleischer |
| 26 | The Wolf Man '1941 | Horror / Drama | 7.2 | 91% | 72 | 7.0 | George Waggner |
| 27 | The Mechanical Monsters '1941 | Action / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | - | - | 6.9 | Dave Fleischer |
| 28 | Hold Back the Dawn '1941 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 100% | 79 | 6.7 | Mitchell Leisen |
| 29 | They Died with Their Boots On '1941 | Western / War / Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 71% | 75 | 6.7 | Raoul Walsh |
| 30 | Shadow of the Thin Man '1941 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 7.2 | 88% | 63 | 7.0 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 31 | Man Hunt '1941 | Thriller / War | 7.2 | 87% | - | 6.9 | Fritz Lang |
| 32 | I Wake Up Screaming '1941 | Mystery / Crime | 7.2 | 86% | - | 6.9 | H. Bruce Humberstone |
| 33 | That Hamilton Woman '1941 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Alexander Korda |
| 34 | Hold That Ghost '1941 | Comedy / Horror | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Arthur Lubin |
| 35 | The Strawberry Blonde '1941 | Romance / Comedy | 7.2 | 100% | 86 | 6.9 | Raoul Walsh |
| 36 | A Woman's Face '1941 | Drama / Thriller | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.8 | George Cukor |
| 37 | The 47 Ronin '1941 | Drama | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 38 | Stormy Waters '1941 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | - | - | 6.7 | Jean Grémillon |
| 39 | The Unknown Policeman '1941 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 7.5 | - | - | 8.0 | Miguel M. Delgado |
| 40 | Truant Officer Donald '1941 | Animation / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.6 | Jack King |
| 41 | Penny Serenade '1941 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 94% | - | 6.6 | George Stevens |
| 42 | The Art of Skiing '1941 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Jack Kinney |
| 43 | The Face Behind the Mask '1941 | Crime / Drama / Horror | 7.1 | - | - | 6.5 | Robert Florey |
| 44 | Chef Donald '1941 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.9 | Jack King |
| 45 | Timber '1941 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.6 | Jack King |
| 46 | Hollywood Steps Out '1941 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.5 | Tex Avery |
| 47 | Early to Bed '1941 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Jack King |
| 48 | Swamp Water '1941 | Crime / Drama | 7.0 | - | - | 6.4 | Jean Renoir |
| 49 | Johnny Eager '1941 | Crime / Drama | 7.0 | - | - | 6.2 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 50 | The Great Lie '1941 | Drama | 7.0 | 60% | - | 7.0 | Edmund Goulding |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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