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Best Movies of 1943, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
76 films from 1943 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Casablanca ('1943), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Shadow of a Doubt, 7.8 on IMDb against 94 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Casablanca '1943 | Drama / Romance | 8.5 | 99% | 100 | 8.1 | Michael Curtiz |
| 2 | The Ox-Bow Incident '1943 | Western | 8.0 | 90% | - | 7.7 | William A. Wellman |
| 3 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp '1943 | War / Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 97% | - | 7.5 | Emeric Pressburger |
| 4 | Day of Wrath '1943 | Drama | 8.0 | 100% | - | 8.0 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 5 | Shadow of a Doubt '1943 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 7.8 | 100% | 94 | 7.5 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 6 | Meshes of the Afternoon '1943 | Mystery / Fantasy | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Maya Deren |
| 7 | Le Corbeau '1943 | Mystery / Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 97% | - | 7.5 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 8 | Obsession '1943 | Crime / Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Luchino Visconti |
| 9 | The Song of Bernadette '1943 | Drama | 7.6 | 87% | - | 7.1 | Henry King |
| 10 | The More the Merrier '1943 | Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | - | - | 6.9 | George Stevens |
| 11 | Sahara '1943 | War | 7.5 | 92% | - | 7.2 | Zoltan Korda |
| 12 | The Children Are Watching Us '1943 | Drama | 7.7 | - | - | 7.6 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 13 | Red Hot Riding Hood '1943 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.3 | Tex Avery |
| 14 | Jane Eyre '1943 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Robert Stevenson |
| 15 | Der Fuehrer's Face '1943 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.5 | - | - | 7.0 | Jack Kinney |
| 16 | Hangmen Also Die! '1943 | Drama / Thriller / War | 7.4 | 88% | - | 6.9 | Fritz Lang |
| 17 | The Yankee Doodle Mouse '1943 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.2 | William Hanna |
| 18 | This Land Is Mine '1943 | Drama / War | 7.5 | 86% | - | 7.1 | Jean Renoir |
| 19 | Heaven Can Wait '1943 | Comedy / Romance / Fantasy / Drama | 7.3 | 89% | - | 6.9 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 20 | Five Graves to Cairo '1943 | War / Thriller / Drama | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Billy Wilder |
| 21 | The Lonesome Mouse '1943 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.3 | Joseph Barbera |
| 22 | Stormy Weather '1943 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 95% | - | 6.8 | Andrew L. Stone |
| 23 | Dumb-Hounded '1943 | Animation / Comedy / Crime | 7.5 | - | - | 7.1 | Tex Avery |
| 24 | It Happened at the Inn '1943 | Drama / Mystery / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 6.7 | Jacques Becker |
| 25 | Carnival of Sinners '1943 | Fantasy / Drama / Horror | 7.3 | - | - | 6.7 | Maurice Tourneur |
| 26 | A Corny Concerto '1943 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.3 | - | - | 6.9 | Robert Clampett |
| 27 | Sufferin' Cats! '1943 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.1 | William Hanna |
| 28 | Madame Curie '1943 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 78% | - | 7.2 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 29 | Angels of Sin '1943 | Drama | 7.3 | 75% | - | 6.9 | Robert Bresson |
| 30 | Baby Puss '1943 | Animation / Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 6.8 | Joseph Barbera |
| 31 | Who Killed Who? '1943 | Animation / Comedy / Mystery / Crime | 7.4 | - | - | 7.1 | Tex Avery |
| 32 | Falling Hare '1943 | Animation / Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | Robert Clampett |
| 33 | Lassie Come Home '1943 | Drama | 7.1 | 94% | 78 | 6.7 | Fred M. Wilcox |
| 34 | Destination Tokyo '1943 | War / Drama | 7.1 | 67% | - | 6.9 | Delmer Daves |
| 35 | Watch on the Rhine '1943 | Drama / Thriller | 7.1 | 80% | - | 6.9 | Herman Shumlin |
| 36 | Chicken Little '1943 | Animation | 7.3 | - | - | 7.1 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 37 | Mr. Lucky '1943 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 7.1 | 100% | - | 7.2 | H. C. Potter |
| 38 | Cabin in the Sky '1943 | Musical / Fantasy / Comedy | 7.1 | 81% | - | 6.5 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 39 | Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi '1943 | Animation / Drama | 7.1 | - | - | 6.9 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 40 | I Walked with a Zombie '1943 | Mystery / Horror / Drama / Fantasy | 7.0 | 85% | - | 6.8 | Jacques Tourneur |
| 41 | The Spider Woman '1943 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 7.0 | - | - | 7.0 | Roy William Neill |
| 42 | Action in the North Atlantic '1943 | War | 7.0 | - | - | 7.1 | Lloyd Bacon |
| 43 | Air Force '1943 | Action / Drama / War | 7.0 | 82% | - | 6.5 | Howard Hawks |
| 44 | Münchhausen '1943 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.5 | Josef von Báky |
| 45 | The Circus '1943 | Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 7.9 | Miguel M. Delgado |
| 46 | Pigs in a Polka '1943 | Animation / Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.8 | Friz Freleng |
| 47 | Yankee Doodle Daffy '1943 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 6.8 | - | - | 6.5 | Friz Freleng |
| 48 | Sherlock Holmes Faces Death '1943 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 6.9 | - | - | 6.9 | Roy William Neill |
| 49 | Donald's Tire Trouble '1943 | Comedy / Animation | 6.6 | - | - | 6.4 | Dick Lundy |
| 50 | Jungle Drums '1943 | Animation / Action / Fantasy / Thriller / War | 6.3 | - | - | 6.0 | Dan Gordon |
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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