# List of fantasy films of the 1940s

A list of fantasy films released in the 1940s.

## List

* 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes |
| 1940 |||||
| The Blue Bird | Walter Lang | Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce | United States | |
| Fantasia | Various directors for Walt Disney | | United States | Animated film |
| Mr. Bug 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 | United Kingdom | |
| 1941 |||||
| 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 |||||
| 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 |||||
| 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 |||||
| 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 |||||
| 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 (US Title: Sylvie and the Phantom) | 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 |||||
| 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 |||||
| 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 |||||
| 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 |||||
| 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 | |