1946 Chronicle of The Cinema
by wijayaandik | created - 03 Jul 2016 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicAnnual looks at The Best Films from around the world.
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1. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
Directors: Jean Cocteau, René Clément | Stars: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély, Nane Germon
Votes: 28,094 | Gross: $0.30M
Criterion / OKRU
2. The Big Sleep (1946)
Passed | 114 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers
Votes: 90,556 | Gross: $6.54M
Film 103
3. Gilda (1946)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 35,300
OKRU
4. My Darling Clementine (1946)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Western
After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs
Votes: 25,770
Film 103
5. Notorious (1946)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern
Votes: 107,322 | Gross: $10.46M
Film 103
6. Paisan (1946)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, War
American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs, Robert Van Loon
Votes: 9,561
Criterion
7. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Unrated | 116 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Votes: 11,097
OKRU
8. The Killers (1946)
Passed | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker
Votes: 23,650
Film 103
9. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Passed | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A married woman and a drifter fall in love and then plot to murder her husband.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn
Votes: 22,895 | Gross: $8.33M
Film 103
10. The Stranger (1946)
Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Votes: 28,727
OKRU
11. Great Expectations (1946)
Approved | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Director: David Lean | Stars: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Jean Simmons
Votes: 26,422
OKRU
12. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
PG | 130 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 499,421
Film 103
13. The Yearling (1946)
Approved | 128 min | Drama, Family, Western
A boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills
Votes: 6,469 | Gross: $5.20M
OKRU
14. The Jolson Story (1946)
Approved | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Music
This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin
Votes: 1,768
OKRU
15. The Green Years (1946)
Passed | 127 min | Drama
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Hume Cronyn
Votes: 1,079
OKRU
16. The Razor's Edge (1946)
Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance
An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter
Votes: 6,794 | Gross: $5.00M
Film 103 / OKRU
17. Duel in the Sun (1946)
Passed | 129 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.
Directors: King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, David O. Selznick, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 9,489 | Gross: $20.41M
Los Movies / Film 103
18. Sister Kenny (1946)
Approved | 116 min | Biography, Drama
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Director: Dudley Nichols | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale
Votes: 1,263
OKRU
19. The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Votes: 11,277
Film 101
20. Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Passed | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,641
OKRU
21. Canyon Passage (1946)
Passed | 92 min | Western
Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, Patricia Roc
Votes: 2,653
Nova / Film 103
22. Blue Skies (1946)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An ex-dancer and New York radio star narrates his love story for a band singer who loved a self-centered man who was unable to commit to his nightclub business or his family.
Directors: Stuart Heisler, Mark Sandrich | Stars: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, Billy De Wolfe
Votes: 1,570
OKRU
23. The Harvey Girls (1946)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, History
On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women travelling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 4,864
Film 103
24. The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Passed | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
An ex-bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 9,669 | Gross: $2.70M
Film 103
25. The Dark Mirror (1946)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man is found murdered, and witnesses are sure about the woman they saw leaving his apartment. However, it becomes apparent that the woman has a twin, and finding out which one is the killer seems impossible.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long
Votes: 5,684
Film 103
26. Shoeshine (1946)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortensi
Votes: 8,117
You Tube
27. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Approved | 170 min | Drama, Romance, War
Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Teresa Wright
Votes: 70,596 | Gross: $23.65M
OKRU
28. The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A chambermaid plots to climb the social ladder by marrying a wealthy man.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer
Votes: 1,498
OKRU
29. The Overlanders (1946)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a... See full summary »
Director: Harry Watt | Stars: Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell, Jean Blue
Votes: 519
OKRU
30. Neecha Nagar (1946)
122 min | Drama
The film takes an expressionist look at the gulf between the rich and poor in society. The film centers on wealthy, capacious landlord Sarkar (Rafi Peer) who lives in a palatial estate high... See full summary »
Director: Chetan Anand | Stars: Rafiq Anwar, Uma Anand, Kamini Kaushal, Rafi Peer
Votes: 277
NYA
31. Dunia (1946)
Dunia's affair with Mohamed leads to tragic consequences for them and their child.
Director: Muhammad Karim | Stars: Dawlat Abiad, Faten Hamamah, Raqyah Ibrahim, Suleiman Naguib
Votes: 17
NYA
32. Make Mine Music (1946)
Passed | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Animation done to contemporary popular music.
Directors: Robert Cormack, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews
Votes: 4,959
OKRU
33. Nezbedný bakalár (1946)
96 min | Comedy
A bachelor is invited by the local alderman to improve the education in the Czech town of Rakovník.
Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Zdenek Stepánek, Vlasta Matulová, Otomar Korbelár, Frantisek Smolík
Votes: 37
NYA
34. Patrie (1946)
100 min | Drama
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against the ruthless Duke of Alba, is meant to... See full summary »
Director: Louis Daquin | Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Jean Desailly, Maria Mauban, Lucien Nat
Votes: 21
NYA
35. The Bandit (1946)
83 min | Crime, Drama
A contingent of Italian prisoners of war arrive on a train from Germany after World War II to Turin. The city where Ernesto lives has been bombed, his mother is dead and his sister has gone missing.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Anna Magnani, Amedeo Nazzari, Carla Del Poggio, Carlo Campanini
Votes: 490
You Tube
36. The Captive Heart (1946)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, War
In 1940, a concentration camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister, Mervyn Johns
Votes: 1,177
Film 103
37. The Lovers (1946)
85 min | Drama
After an astrologer has foretold him he will die at an early age if he does not avoid a romantic entanglement, Alessandro Stradella, a well-known composer decides to leave Rome for the ... See full summary »
Director: Giacomo Gentilomo | Stars: Gino Bechi, Annette Bach, Carlo Ninchi, Gualtiero Tumiati
NYA
38. Un giorno nella vita (1946)
95 min | Drama, War
Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the ... See full summary »
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Elisa Cegani, Massimo Girotti, Mariella Lotti, Amedeo Nazzari
Votes: 31
NYA
39. Un revenant (1946)
100 min | Drama
A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before.
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Louis Jouvet, Gaby Morlay, François Périer, Jean Brochard
Votes: 289
NYA
40. The Stone Flower (1946)
89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Obsessed with perfecting his craft, young gemcutter Danilo visits the mystical Copper Mountain to uncover the secret behind its infamous attraction - the Stone Flower, a stone carving so captivating that no one can leave after seeing it.
Director: Aleksandr Ptushko | Stars: Vladimir Druzhnikov, Yekaterina Derevshchikova, Tamara Makarova, Mikhail Troyanovskiy
Votes: 508
You Tube
41. The Magic Bow (1946)
Approved | 106 min | Biography, Musical, Romance
Biography of the famous--and notorious--Italian violinist Nicolo Paganini.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Stewart Granger, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Kent, Dennis Price
Votes: 238
OKRU
42. The Great Glinka (1946)
100 min | Biography, Drama
About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.
Director: Lev Arnshtam | Stars: Boris Chirkov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Mikhail Derzhavin, Vladimir Druzhnikov
Votes: 53
NYA
43. The Battle of the Rails (1946)
85 min | Drama, War
Recounts the courageous efforts by French railroad workers who were part of an organized resistance during German World War II occupation.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand, Lucien Desagneaux
Votes: 1,268
Nova
44. Mr. Orchid (1946)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In the Charente, during the Nazi occupation, Edouard Martin, a fifty-year-old man with apparently peaceful life is in fact the leader of a resistance network.
Directors: René Clément, Noël-Noël | Stars: Noël-Noël, Maurice Chevit, Alice Leitner, Georges Questau
Votes: 314
NYA
45. Brevet fra afdøde (1946)
78 min | Crime, Drama, War
A man and a woman meet in a shelter during an air raid. They feel strongly drawn to each other, but are separated without knowing exchanging names. A year later the two meet randomly. He now learns that she is addicted to morphine.
Director: Johan Jacobsen | Stars: Eyvind Johan-Svendsen, Gunnar Lauring, Sonja Wigert, Inge Hvid-Møller
Votes: 25
NYA
46. Camões (1946)
118 min | Biography, Drama
The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.
Director: José Leitão de Barros | Stars: Antonio Vilar, José Amaro, Igrejas Caeiro, Paiva Raposo
Votes: 210
You Tube
47. Pastoral Symphony (1946)
Approved | 110 min | Drama
A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Michèle Morgan, Line Noro, Jean Desailly
Votes: 609
NYA
48. Men Without Wings (1946)
79 min | Drama, War
The action takes place in occupied Czechoslovak Republic after assassination of Schutzstaffel (SS)-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich, acting Reichsprotektor of the... See full synopsis »
Director: Frantisek Cáp | Stars: Gustav Nezval, Ladislav H. Struna, Jaroslav Zrotal, Vladimír Hlavatý
Votes: 150
NYA
49. Iris and the Lieutenant (1946)
86 min | Drama
The officer Robert Motander is invited to a dinner with his upper-class relatives. During the dinner he observes the beautiful young house-maid, Iris. He suggests that the two of them go ... See full summary »
Director: Alf Sjöberg | Stars: Mai Zetterling, Alf Kjellin, Åke Claesson, Holger Löwenadler
Votes: 116
NYA
50. The Chase (1946)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Romance
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
Director: Arthur Ripley | Stars: Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan
Votes: 2,656
OKRU
51. Panique (1946)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama
After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Émile Drain
Votes: 2,575 | Gross: $0.04M
Criterion
52. Enamorada (1946)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the Mexican Revolution, a macho rebel general falls in love with the independent-minded daughter of an aristocrat in the town he is occupying.
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Fernando Fernández, José Morcillo
Votes: 944
You Tube
53. Three Strangers (1946)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Three strangers, each dealing with a serious problem, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Joan Lorring
Votes: 2,563
OKRU
54. Die Fledermaus (1946)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
The plot from the famous Johann Strauss operetta adapted as a comedy film with most of the songs left out.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Marte Harell, Johannes Heesters, Will Dohm, Willy Fritsch
Votes: 122
Film 101
55. Forgotten Faces (1946)
90 min | Drama
After an unsuccessful career in the United States, an unscrupulous former procurer reunites with his cabaret diva ex-lover. As he tries to take advantage of her daughter, her past threatens her future. For once, will she act like a mother?
Director: Giorgos Tzavellas | Stars: Miranta Myrat, Giorgos Pappas, Zinet Lakaz, Labros Konstadaras
Votes: 68
Rare Filmm
56. Victory of Women (1946)
84 min | Drama
A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her ... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Michiko Kuwano, Mitsuko Miura, Shin Tokudaiji
Votes: 174
Film 102 - The Victory of Women
57. The Crime of Bordadores Street (1946)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
On a dark night, the body of a well-known society woman is found; the investigators immediately suspect that the killer was the woman's maid. For her part, the maid demands that the woman's... See full summary »
Director: Edgar Neville | Stars: Manuel Luna, Mary Delgado, Antonia Plana, Julia Lajos
Votes: 300
Film 103
58. The Years Between (1946)
88 min | Drama
A Member of Parliament, who had been reportedly killed in action during World War II, unexpectedly returns to his family, only to find that his wife has been persuaded to take his seat in the House of Commons.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson, James McKechnie
Votes: 205
Film 103
59. To Each His Own (1946)
Approved | 122 min | Drama, Romance
An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver
Votes: 3,026
Film 103
60. Song of the South (1946)
G | 94 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.
Directors: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Luana Patten
Votes: 15,241 | Gross: $63.72M
Nova / Film 103
61. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron
Votes: 24,927
Film 103
62. One More Tomorrow (1946)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier meets photographer Christie Sage, takes over ownership of a liberal magazine, proposes to Christie but she declines. Scheming Cecelia Henry marries Tom.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Alexis Smith
Votes: 588
OKRU
63. The Imperfect Lady (1946)
Approved | 97 min | Drama, Romance
While touring with a dance troupe in 1892, Millicent Hopkins meets Clive Loring who is campaigning for Parliament in the English Midlands. They fall in love and Millie remains behind at her... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Cedric Hardwicke, Virginia Field
Votes: 94
OKRU
64. Dragonwyck (1946)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan
Votes: 5,402
65. Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Passed | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte
Votes: 3,524
66. Till the End of Time (1946)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Romance, War
Drama about former WW2 Marines readjusting to civilian life and dealing with their mental and physical traumas.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Mitchum, Guy Madison, Bill Williams
Votes: 1,606
67. Fear (1946)
Approved | 68 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
In this Americanized retelling of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, a medical student--broke, hungry and desperate for money--murders a loan shark to whom he owes money. After the killing,... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Zeisler | Stars: Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne, Francis Pierlot
Votes: 668
Nova
68. Without Reservations (1946)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
En route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten with a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don DeFore, Anne Triola
Votes: 1,929 | Gross: $3.00M
69. Nocturne (1946)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney
Votes: 1,667
70. The Locket (1946)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond
Votes: 3,064
71. Humoresque (1946)
Approved | 125 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 4,958 | Gross: $2.28M
72. The Man I Love (1946)
96 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Music
A homesick, no-nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Eventually she falls in love with a down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Martha Vickers
Votes: 1,329
73. The Man Who Dared (1946)
Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Leslie Brooks, George Macready, Forrest Tucker, Charles D. Brown
Votes: 89
Rare Filmm
74. The Dark Corner (1946)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A secretary tries to help her boss who's been framed for murder.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens
Votes: 5,210
75. A Day in the Country (1946)
Not Rated | 40 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'Arnoux, André Gabriello
Votes: 7,102
76. Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A high society Boston girl goes from the Bowery to the opera with the help of her sister.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante
Votes: 695
77. Green for Danger (1946)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
After the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder also dies, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Leo Genn
Votes: 5,621
78. Calcutta (1946)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. After their buddy Bill is murdered, they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, June Duprez
Votes: 728
79. Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
As a spate of leopard attacks causes panic, a sceptical Tarzan joins a hunting expedition, only to face a pagan cult of leopard-god worshippers and their fiendish high priestess. Can he escape the sharp claws of the savage Leopard Woman?
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta
Votes: 2,445
OKRU
80. Lady in the Lake (1946)
Passed | 105 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
The lady editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder.
Director: Robert Montgomery | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully
Votes: 6,374
81. Black Angel (1946)
Passed | 81 min | Adventure, Crime, Film-Noir
When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford
Votes: 3,956
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82. Undercurrent (1946)
Passed | 116 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Middle-aged bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 3,548
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