1946 Chronicle of The Cinema

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1. Beauty and the Beast (1946)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

92 Metascore

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

86 Metascore

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

100 Metascore

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

84 Metascore

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

76 Metascore

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

90 Metascore

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

89 Metascore

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

89 Metascore

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

65 Metascore

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

93 Metascore

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

60 Metascore

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

67 Metascore

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

54 Metascore

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

65 Metascore

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

Los Movies

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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