Films released during the 1940s

Action Adventure Animation Biography Comedy Crime Documentary Drama Family Fantasy History Horror Mini-Series Music Musical Mystery Romance Science Fiction Short Sport Thriller War Western Abuse of Power Addiction Adult Afrofuturist Alcoholism Alien Invasion Alternate Dimensions Alternate History Anthology Anti-War Antihero Apartheid Apocalypse Artificial Intelligence Asian Stories Assassin/Hitman Assassination Plot B Movie Backwoods Horror Bank Robbery Based on a Book Based on a True Story Based on Comic/Graphic Novel Basketball Battle Royale Bawdy Humour Black Stories Blaxploitation Blockbuster Blood and Gore Body Horror Body Swap Boxing Bromance Buddy Buddy Cop Cannibalism Car Chases & Races Cat and Mouse Chick Flick Christmas Civil Rights Civil War Clash of Social Classes Clowns Cold War College Life Coming-of-age Cop Thriller Courtroom Creature Feature Crocodiles and Alligators Cult Classic Cults/Sects Culture Clash Curse Cyber Punk Dark Comedy Demonic Possession Detective Devil/Satan Dirty Cop Disaster Docudrama Drug Addiction Dystopic Epidemic/Pandemic Erotic Thriller Erotica Evil Children Experiments Gone Awry Extraterrestrial/Alien Fairy Tales & Folklore Fatal Accident Feel-Good Femme Fatale Folk Horror Forbidden Love Found Footage Fraternity/Sorority Gangsters/Mafia Generation Gap Giallo Gothic Horror Grief Gross Out Gulf War Haunted House Heist Held Hostage Hidden Agenda Hidden Camera High School Hijacking Holidays From Hell Holocaust Home Invasion Homicidal Maniac Horrors of War House Arrest Infidelity Investigation Invisibility Isolation Horror Isolation/Wilderness Kidnap Killer Doll/Toy LGBTQ Live-action Animation Lovable Losers Macho Rivalry Man vs Machine Man vs Monster Man vs Nature Man's Best Friend Manhunt Martial Arts Masked Killer Mental Health/Illness Miscarriage of Justice Mishaps and Misadventures Missing Person Mockumentary Mummy Murder Mystery Mysterious Stranger(s) Native American Stories Neo Noir Noir Obsession Odd Couple Offbeat On the Run One-Man Army Ordinary Heroes Origin Story Other Planetary Ozploitation Paranormal Parody Planetary Exploration Police Corruption Political Drama Political Thriller Possessed Person/Possession Post-Apocalyptic Prank Gone Wrong Prison Prison Escape Prisoner of War Psychic Ability Psychological Psychotronic Race Against Time Redemption Relationship Issues Religious Horror Revenge Road Movie Satanism Satire Screwball Secret Life Seduction Sentience Serial Killer Sex Comedy Sexploitation Shakespeare Shark/Shark Attack Sibling Rivalry Skateboarding Slapstick Slasher Snake South Asian Stories Space Space Opera Spies/Secret Agents Splatterpunk Spy Spoof Stoner Comedy Strong Female Character(s) Superhero Supernatural Surfing Survival Suspense Sword & Sorcery Tearjerker Tech Noir Techno-Horror Teen Terrorism Time Loop Time Travel Treasure Hunter True Crime Undercover Policeman Underdogs Vampire Vengeful Ghost Video Game Vietnam War Vigilante Voyeurism War on Terror Werewolf Witches & Witchcraft World War 1 World War 2 Zombie