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Best Movies of 1948, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
89 films from 1948 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Bicycle Thieves ('1948), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.6. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Red River, 7.7 on IMDb against 96 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bicycle Thieves '1948 | Drama | 8.2 | 99% | - | 8.2 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 2 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre '1948 | Drama / Western | 8.2 | 100% | 98 | 8.0 | John Huston |
| 3 | The Red Shoes '1948 | Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 98% | - | 8.0 | Emeric Pressburger |
| 4 | Rope '1948 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.9 | 93% | 73 | 7.9 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 5 | Germany, Year Zero '1948 | Drama | 7.8 | 96% | - | 7.6 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 6 | Letter from an Unknown Woman '1948 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.8 | Max Ophüls |
| 7 | Oliver Twist '1948 | Drama | 7.8 | 100% | 84 | 7.6 | David Lean |
| 8 | Key Largo '1948 | Crime / Thriller | 7.7 | 97% | 74 | 7.5 | John Huston |
| 9 | Red River '1948 | Western / Drama | 7.7 | 100% | 96 | 7.3 | Howard Hawks |
| 10 | I Remember Mama '1948 | Drama | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.2 | George Stevens |
| 11 | The Search '1948 | Drama | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 12 | Drunken Angel '1948 | Drama | 7.6 | 94% | - | 7.6 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 13 | Johnny Belinda '1948 | Drama | 7.7 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Jean Negulesco |
| 14 | The Big Clock '1948 | Crime / Thriller | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.3 | John Farrow |
| 15 | The Fallen Idol '1948 | Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 100% | 88 | 7.2 | Carol Reed |
| 16 | Portrait of Jennie '1948 | Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Mystery | 7.6 | 93% | - | 7.2 | William Dieterle |
| 17 | Scaredy Cat '1948 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.6 | Chuck Jones |
| 18 | Hamlet '1948 | Drama | 7.5 | 96% | 82 | 7.4 | Laurence Olivier |
| 19 | The Naked City '1948 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.5 | 85% | 74 | 7.2 | Jules Dassin |
| 20 | Haredevil Hare '1948 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | - | - | 7.2 | Chuck Jones |
| 21 | The Snake Pit '1948 | Drama / Mystery | 7.5 | 100% | 76 | 7.1 | Anatole Litvak |
| 22 | The Truce Hurts '1948 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.5 | William Hanna |
| 23 | Buccaneer Bunny '1948 | Animation / Comedy | 7.8 | - | - | 7.2 | Friz Freleng |
| 24 | Los tres huastecos '1948 | Comedy / Drama | 8.1 | - | - | 8.3 | Ismael Rodríguez |
| 25 | Fort Apache '1948 | Western | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.0 | John Ford |
| 26 | We the Poor '1948 | Drama | 7.8 | - | - | 8.2 | Ismael Rodríguez |
| 27 | Old Rockin' Chair Tom '1948 | Comedy / Animation | 7.8 | - | - | 6.8 | William Hanna |
| 28 | Kitty Foiled '1948 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.1 | William Hanna |
| 29 | Bugs Bunny Rides Again '1948 | Animation / Comedy / Western | 7.8 | - | - | 6.7 | Friz Freleng |
| 30 | Call Northside 777 '1948 | Crime / Drama | 7.4 | 81% | - | 6.7 | Henry Hathaway |
| 31 | The Foghorn Leghorn '1948 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.0 | Robert McKimson |
| 32 | Macbeth '1948 | Drama | 7.4 | 86% | - | 7.3 | Orson Welles |
| 33 | Unfaithfully Yours '1948 | Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Preston Sturges |
| 34 | Yellow Sky '1948 | Western | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.0 | William A. Wellman |
| 35 | Mouse Cleaning '1948 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 6.9 | William Hanna |
| 36 | Professor Tom '1948 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 6.7 | William Hanna |
| 37 | Sitting Pretty '1948 | Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.1 | Walter Lang |
| 38 | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein '1948 | Horror / Comedy | 7.3 | 90% | 69 | 7.1 | Charles Barton |
| 39 | Sorry, Wrong Number '1948 | Thriller / Mystery | 7.3 | 86% | - | 6.8 | Anatole Litvak |
| 40 | Easter Parade '1948 | Romance / Musical | 7.3 | 91% | - | 7.0 | Charles Walters |
| 41 | A Hen in the Wind '1948 | Drama | 7.4 | - | - | 7.1 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 42 | A Foreign Affair '1948 | Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | 100% | 75 | 7.1 | Billy Wilder |
| 43 | Brighton Rock '1948 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.3 | 95% | - | 6.8 | John Boulting |
| 44 | You the Rich '1948 | Drama / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.8 | Ismael Rodríguez |
| 45 | Spring in a Small Town '1948 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Fei Mu |
| 46 | Black Angels '1948 | Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 8.0 | Joselito Rodríguez |
| 47 | Drip Dippy Donald '1948 | Animation / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 7.1 | Jack King |
| 48 | Tea for Two Hundred '1948 | Animation / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.5 | Jack Hannah |
| 49 | Road House '1948 | Thriller / Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 86% | - | 6.7 | Jean Negulesco |
| 50 | Cry of the City '1948 | Crime / Drama | 7.2 | 93% | - | 6.7 | Robert Siodmak |
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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