Best Movies of 1941 by Rank
1
1
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins
Drama / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Film-Noir
USA
English
84
2
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane
Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Detective
USA
English
120
3
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
160
4
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
354
6
Edward Brophy, Herman Bing, Margaret Wright, Sterling Holloway, Cliff Edwards
Drama / Family / Animation / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
744
7
Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
982
10
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
1092
11
Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton
Comedy
UK
English
1141
12
Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Pre-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1181
13
Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook
Drama / War / Thriller
UK
English
1261
14
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers
Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
1354
15
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine
Thriller
USA
English
1419
16
George Waggner
Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
1443
17
Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon
Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
USA
English
1448
18
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1560
19
Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1628
20
Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Religion
USA
English
1647
21
Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1956
22
Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
1991
23
Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2001
24
Philip Frost, Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Diana Calderwood, Phyllis Calvert
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2163
25
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Eva Lee Kuney
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2285
26
Margaret Lockwood, Derek Farr, Marjorie Fielding, A.E. Matthews, Athene Seyler
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2287
27
Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal, Burgess Meredith
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2297
28
John Baxter
Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Mary Merrall, Geoffrey Hibbert
Drama
UK
English
2315
29
Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2335
30
Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova, Anthony Quinn
Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2335
30
Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin, Robert Sterling
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
2355
31
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
Drama / History / Romance / War / Biography
UK
English
2443
32
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2457
33
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2459
34
Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Alexis Smith, Robert Armstrong
Drama / War
USA
English
2464
35
Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine
History / Western
USA
English
2546
36
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Robert Sterling
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2549
37
Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Michèle Morgan, Charles Blavette, Jean Marchat
Drama / Romance
France
French
2599
38
Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2599
38
Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Charles Coburn, Van Heflin, Fay Holden
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2599
38
W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Billy Lenhart, Kenneth Brown
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2599
38
Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2599
38
Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Glenn Ford, Anna Sten
War / Drama
USA
English
2638
39
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Laverne Andrews
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2638
39
Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2638
39
Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2638
39
Marina Ladynina, Vladimir Zeldin, Nikolai Kryuchkov, N. Kitayev, Grigori Alekseyev
Musical / Romance / Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian
2638
39
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Romance / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
2638
39
Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
2645
40
Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson, Frank McHugh, Tim Holt
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2645
40
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson, Florence Bates
Comedy
USA
English
2655
41
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel
Comedy / Adventure
USA
English
2671
42
Spencer Williams
Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams, Juanita Riley
Drama / Fantasy / Religion
USA
English
2683
43
James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2696
44
Elisa Cegani, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Gino Cervi
Fantasy / Drama / History / Action / Adventure
Italy
Italian
2707
45
Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch
Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Ernst Schröder
Biography / War
Germany
German
2733
46
Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William 'Billy' Benedict, Louise Currie
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Serial / Comic
USA
English
2733
46
James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Jack Carson
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2733
46
Dave Fleischer, Shamus Culhane
Kenny Gardner, Gwen Williams, Jack Mercer, Tedd Pierce, Carl Meyer, Stan Freed
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
2733
46
Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, Anne Baxter, Edmund Gwenn
Comedy
USA
English
2733
46
Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2733
46
Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer, Andy Devine
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2733
46
Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Cesar Romero, James Newill
Comedy / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
2733
46
Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Carole Landis, Jack Haley
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2733
46
William Morgan
Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2733
46
Riley Thomson
Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Thurl Ravenscroft
Family / Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2733
46
Robert Benchley, Frances Gifford, Buddy Pepper, Nana Bryant, Claud Allister
Animation / Family / Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
2733
46
John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi, James Barton
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2733
46
Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Dale, Mary Lee, Spencer Charters
Western / Musical
USA
English
2733
46
Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Louis Jean Heydt, Edward Brophy
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2733
46
Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Julian Noa, Jack Mercer
Animation / Family / Short / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Comic
USA
English
2733
46
Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2733
46
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda, S.Z. Sakall, J. Carrol Naish
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2766
47
Tatsuo Saito, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Drama
Japan
Japanese
NR
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Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
NR
-
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Sam Levene, Alan Baxter
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English