List of fantasy films of the 1940s
A list of fantasy films released in the 1940s.
List
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes |
1940 in film| | - | - | - | - |
The Blue Bird | Walter Lang | Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce | United States | |
Fantasia | Various directors for Walt Disney | United States | Animated film | |
Hoppity Goes to Town | Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer | United States | Animated film | |
One Million B.C. | Hal Roach | Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr. | United States | |
Pinocchio | Various directors for Walt Disney | United States | Animated film | |
The Thief of Bagdad | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan | Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez | ||
1941 in film| | - | - | - | - |
The Devil and Daniel Webster | William Dieterle | Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, James Craig | United States | |
Dumbo | Various directors for Walt Disney | United States | Animated film | |
Here Comes Mr. Jordan | Alexander Hall | Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains | United States | |
The Iron Crown | Alessandro Blasetti | Elisa Cegani, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli | Italy | |
The Reluctant Dragon | Alfred L. Werker | United States | Animated film | |
1942 in film| | - | - | - | - |
Bambi | Various directors for Walt Disney | United States | Animated film | |
Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | United States | Horror film | |
I Married a Witch | René Clair | Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley | United States | |
Les Visiteurs du Soir | Marcel Carné | Arletty, Jules Berry, Marie Déa | France | |
1943 in film| | - | - | - | - |
A Guy Named Joe | Victor Fleming | Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson | United States | |
Happy Land | Irving Pichel | Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey | United States | |
Heaven Can Wait | Ernst Lubitsch | Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn | United States | |
Münchhausen | Josef von Báky | Hans Albers, Brigitte Horney, Wilhelm Bendow | Germany | |
1944 in film| | - | - | - | - |
The Canterville Ghost | Jules Dassin | Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien | United States | |
The Curse of the Cat People | Robert Wise | Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph | United States | |
It Happened Tomorrow | René Clair | Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie | United States | |
Kashchey the Deathless | Alexander Rou | Sergei Stolyarov, Georgy Millyar | Soviet Union | |
Kismet | William Dieterle | Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig | United States | |
Between Two Worlds | Edward A. Blatt | John Garfield, Sydney Greenstreet, Eleanor Parker | United States | |
1945 in film| | - | - | - | - |
Blithe Spirit | David Lean | Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond | United Kingdom | |
The Enchanted Cottage | John Cromwell | Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall | United States | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray | Albert Lewin | George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed | United States | |
Sylvie et le fantôme | Claude Autant-Lara | Odette Joyeux, Julien Carette, François Périer | France | |
A Thousand and One Nights | Alfred E. Green | Cornel Wilde, Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers | United States | |
Yolanda and the Thief | Vincente Minnelli | Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan | United States | |
1946 in film| | - | - | - | - |
Angel on My Shoulder | Archie Mayo | Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains | United States | |
Beauty and the Beast | Jean Cocteau | Josette Day, Jean Marais, Mila Parély | France | |
A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | David Niven, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring | United Kingdom | |
Make Mine Music | Various directors for Walt Disney | United States | Animated film | |
The Stone Flower | Alexander Ptushko | Vladimir Druzhnikov, Tamara Makarova, Mikhail Troyanovsky | Soviet Union | |
1947 in film| | - | - | - | - |
The Bishop's Wife | Henry Koster | Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven | United States | |
Cinderella | Nadezhda Kosheverova, Mikhail Shapiro | Yanina Zheymo, Erast Garin, Faina Ranevskaya | Soviet Union | |
Down to Earth | Alexander Hall | James Burke, Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks | United States | |
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders | United States | |
Heaven Only Knows | Robert Cummings, Brian Donlevy, Marjorie Reynolds | United States | ||
Miracle on 34th Street | George Seaton | Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn | United States | |
1948 in film| | - | - | - | - |
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid | Irving Pichel | Ann Blyth, William Powell, Irene Hervey | United States | |
One Touch of Venus | William A. Seiter, Gregory La Cava | Ava Gardner, Robert Walker, Eve Arden | United States | |
Portrait of Jennie | William Dieterle | Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Ethel Barrymore | United States | |
Vice Versa | Peter Ustinov | Frank Tickle, Kay Walsh, Harcourt Williams | United Kingdom | |
1949 in film| | - | - | - | - |
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad | James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney for Walt Disney | United States | Animated film | |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Tay Garnett | Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke | United States | |
Alice in Wonderland | Dallas Bower, Lou Bunin | Stephen Murray, Carol Marsh, Raymond Bussières | France |