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Best Movies of 1949, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
107 films from 1949 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Third Man ('1949), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.6. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Third Man, 8.1 on IMDb against 97 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Third Man '1949 | Thriller / Mystery | 8.1 | 99% | 97 | 7.9 | Carol Reed |
| 2 | Late Spring '1949 | Drama | 8.2 | 100% | 93 | 8.0 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 3 | White Heat '1949 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 8.1 | 94% | 89 | 7.7 | Raoul Walsh |
| 4 | The Heiress '1949 | Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 100% | - | 7.8 | William Wyler |
| 5 | Kind Hearts and Coronets '1949 | Comedy / Crime | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Robert Hamer |
| 6 | Stray Dog '1949 | Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 7 | The Set-Up '1949 | Drama / Crime | 7.8 | 85% | - | 7.4 | Robert Wise |
| 8 | Long-Haired Hare '1949 | Animation / Comedy | 8.1 | - | - | 7.1 | Chuck Jones |
| 9 | Twelve O'Clock High '1949 | War / Action / Drama | 7.7 | 96% | - | 7.2 | Henry King |
| 10 | La Terra Trema '1949 | Drama | 7.8 | 82% | - | 7.8 | Luchino Visconti |
| 11 | Heavenly Puss '1949 | Animation / Comedy / Drama | 8.2 | - | - | 7.5 | Joseph Barbera |
| 12 | A Letter to Three Wives '1949 | Romance / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 13 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow '1949 | Animation / Horror / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.4 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 14 | Fast and Furry-ous '1949 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.1 | Chuck Jones |
| 15 | The Silence of the Sea '1949 | Drama / War | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 16 | Bitter Rice '1949 | Drama / Crime | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Giuseppe De Santis |
| 17 | High Diving Hare '1949 | Animation / Comedy / Western | 7.9 | - | - | 7.4 | Friz Freleng |
| 18 | Thieves' Highway '1949 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Jules Dassin |
| 19 | Blood of the Beasts '1949 | Documentary | 7.7 | - | - | 7.5 | Georges Franju |
| 20 | Adam's Rib '1949 | Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | 96% | 87 | 7.1 | George Cukor |
| 21 | All the King's Men '1949 | Drama | 7.4 | 97% | - | 7.0 | Robert Rossen |
| 22 | The Little Orphan '1949 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.0 | William Hanna |
| 23 | Intruder in the Dust '1949 | Drama / Crime / Mystery | 7.6 | 93% | - | 7.3 | Clarence Brown |
| 24 | Criss Cross '1949 | Crime / Thriller | 7.4 | 86% | - | 7.1 | Robert Siodmak |
| 25 | They Live by Night '1949 | Crime / Romance / Drama | 7.4 | 96% | 82 | 6.8 | Nicholas Ray |
| 26 | Rabbit Hood '1949 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 6.8 | Chuck Jones |
| 27 | Battleground '1949 | Action / Drama / War | 7.4 | 78% | - | 6.7 | William A. Wellman |
| 28 | Act of Violence '1949 | Thriller / Drama | 7.4 | 94% | - | 6.9 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 29 | The Window '1949 | Thriller / Crime | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Ted Tetzlaff |
| 30 | Bad Luck Blackie '1949 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.1 | Tex Avery |
| 31 | On the Town '1949 | Comedy / Romance | 7.3 | 94% | 71 | 7.0 | Gene Kelly |
| 32 | Love That Pup '1949 | Comedy / Animation | 7.7 | - | - | 7.3 | William Hanna |
| 33 | Toy Tinkers '1949 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 6.9 | Jack Hannah |
| 34 | Too Late for Tears '1949 | Crime / Thriller | 7.3 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Byron Haskin |
| 35 | Champion '1949 | Drama | 7.3 | 94% | - | 6.7 | Mark Robson |
| 36 | The Quiet Duel '1949 | Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 7.3 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 37 | The Cat and the Mermouse '1949 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 6.7 | William Hanna |
| 38 | House of Strangers '1949 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.3 | 71% | - | 7.0 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 39 | Tension '1949 | Thriller / Crime | 7.3 | - | - | 6.8 | John Berry |
| 40 | Obsession '1949 | Thriller / Crime | 7.3 | - | - | 6.8 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 41 | The Black Sheep '1949 | Drama | 7.9 | - | - | 7.8 | Ismael Rodríguez |
| 42 | Hatch Up Your Troubles '1949 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.0 | Joseph Barbera |
| 43 | Begone Dull Care '1949 | Animation / Musical | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | Norman McLaren |
| 44 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon '1949 | Drama / Western | 7.2 | 91% | 87 | 6.9 | John Ford |
| 45 | D.O.A. '1949 | Mystery / Thriller / Crime | 7.2 | 89% | - | 6.9 | Rudolph Maté |
| 46 | Inspiration '1949 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.0 | Karel Zeman |
| 47 | Out-Foxed '1949 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 6.8 | Tex Avery |
| 48 | Jour de fête '1949 | Comedy | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Jacques Tati |
| 49 | Little Women '1949 | Romance / Drama | 7.2 | 75% | 61 | 7.4 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 50 | Pinky '1949 | Drama | 7.2 | 67% | - | 7.1 | Elia Kazan |
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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