1946 (Features/Shorts) Best to Worst
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1. 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: 90,533 | Gross: $6.54M
10/10
2. 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: 23,637
10/10*
3. 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: 24,913
10/10
4. Peter and the Wolf (1946)
TV-G | 15 min | Animation, Short, Family
Animated version of the fairy tale of the Russian boy Peter and his hunt for a raiding wolf, presented to the music of Sergei Prokofiev.
Director: Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Sterling Holloway, Ivan, Mischa, Peter
Votes: 3,250
10/10
5. The Big Snooze (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Elmer Fudd walks out of a typical Bugs cartoon, so Bugs gets back at him by disturbing Elmer's sleep using "nightmare paint."
Directors: Robert Clampett, Arthur Davis | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Votes: 1,252
10/10
6. Racketeer Rabbit (1946)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Edward G. Robinson and Peter Lorre make it home to their hideout only to find Bugs already settled down there for the night.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dick Nelson
Votes: 649
10/10
7. Northwest Hounded Police (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A wolf convict makes his escape, but is pursued by a diminutive Mountie who seems to be everywhere.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Tex Avery, Frank Graham, William Hanna
Votes: 1,314
10/10
8. Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A sneaker-wearing, hairy monster chases Bugs through a castle belonging to an evil scientist.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 3,147
10/10
9. Solid Serenade (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Tom's love song (Is You Is, or Is You Ain't My Baby) to his girlfriend Toots wakes up Jerry, so he unties Spike (Tom had tied him up).
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Frank Graham, Billy Bletcher, William Hanna, Earl Keen
Votes: 1,717
10/10
10. 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: 25,760
9/10
11. 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: 35,282
9/10
12. The Milky Waif (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Jerry finds himself in charge of a foundling mouse called Nibbles, who is eager to steal milk from Tom's bowl and oblivious to the danger.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Mel Blanc, William Hanna, Lillian Randolph
Votes: 1,323
9/10
13. Trap Happy (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Tom calls the exterminators, but they send a cat, who despite his various tools, doesn't fare much better than Tom usually does.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Frank Graham, William Hanna, Cal Howard, Dick Nelson
Votes: 1,358
9/10
14. 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: 11,090
8/10
15. 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: 15,232 | Gross: $63.72M
8/10*
16. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
After reading a Dick Tracy comic, Daffy Duck has a surreal dream in which he is a P.I. pursuing an army of grotesque villains who stole every piggy bank in town, including his own.
Director: Robert Clampett | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 2,284
8/10
17. All the Cats Join In (1946)
5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A cool cat teen hears a tune on the jukebox at the malt shop and calls his girl; she rounds up a crowd and soon the place is jumping. No dialogue, just the song lyrics. The pencil drawing everyone is shown throughout the first half.
Director: Jack Kinney | Star: Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
Votes: 309
8/10
18. Daffy Doodles (1946)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Daffy Duck is on the rampage, painting mustaches on every face, with Policeman Porky Pig in pursuit.
Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 438
8/10
19. Henpecked Hoboes (1946)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
George and Junior are two hungry bears who try to make a meal out of a not too bright barnyard chicken.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Dick Nelson
Votes: 385
8/10
20. 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: 28,719
7/10
21. Little Giant (1946)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Brenda Joyce, Jacqueline deWit
Votes: 1,408
7/10
22. 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: 107,293 | Gross: $10.46M
7/10
23. 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: 22,891 | Gross: $8.33M
7/10
24. Dead Reckoning (1946)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A soldier runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane
Votes: 8,732
7/10
25. Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
When Bugs attempts to perform Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, he is troubled by a mouse.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,473
7/10
26. Hollywood Daffy (1946)
TV-Y7 | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Daffy sneaks onto the Warmer Brothers lot, eventually posing as a tour guide. Daffy spoofs a number of contemporary stars, and others appear as "themselves". He also has a number of run-ins with a studio cop.
Directors: Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Richard Bickenbach
Votes: 529
7/10
27. Baseball Bugs (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bugs plays every defensive position against the Gashouse Gorillas.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Frank Graham, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 2,280
7/10
28. Kitty Kornered (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Porky puts his cats out in the snow, but then they put him out and have a party. Expelling them again, Porky goes to bed, only to be terrorized by the felines' mock Martian invasion.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert Clampett
Votes: 912
7/10
29. Walky Talky Hawky (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Young Henery Hawk's father regretfully admits their family's shame: they hunt and eat chickens. Henery set off to find one, and comes across Foghorn Leghorn, where the loudmouth rooster is ... See full summary »
Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 906
7/10
30. 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: 5,207
6/10
31. Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains, Onslow Stevens
Votes: 3,194
6/10
32. Springtime for Thomas (1946)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
It's spring, and Tom is much more interested in the female cat next door than in Jerry.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Sara Berner, Frank Graham, William Hanna, Hia Lamea
Votes: 1,351
6/10
33. Lonesome Lenny (1946)
8 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
Screwy Squirrel is bought in a pet shop to be the companion of a daft dog so strong that he squeezes his playmates to death.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Wally Maher
Votes: 578
6/10
34. The Reckless Driver (1946)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Driving down a U.S. highway, Woody passes a billboard which reminds him that he should renew his driver's license. He heads to the department of motor vehicles and asks Officer Wally Walrus... See full summary »
Director: Shamus Culhane | Stars: Mel Blanc, Hans Conried, Ben Hardaway, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 162
6/10
35. The Hick Chick (1946)
7 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
In this triangle drama a country chicken chooses between a country rooster and a city rooster.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Sara Berner, Frank Graham, Cal Howard, Harry Lang
Votes: 504
6/10
36. Casey at the Bat (1946)
9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Animated version of classic baseball poem.
Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Jerry Colonna, John Brown, Dessie Flynn, James MacDonald
Votes: 569
6/10
37. 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: 11,273
5/10
38. Dressed to Kill (1946)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison, Edmund Breon
Votes: 6,917
5/10
39. 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: 6,790 | Gross: $5.00M
5/10
40. Baby Bottleneck (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
It's the start of the Baby-Boom, and the overworked delivery system is full of glitches: Mother Goose gets a baby skunk, a Scotty dog gets a little hippo, and Mr. and Mrs. Mouse wind up ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner
Votes: 972
5/10
41. Hare Remover (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Elmer Fudd is a mad scientist who wants to turn Bugs Bunny into a fiend. Bugs tricks this ersatz Dr. Jekyll into drinking his own mixture; later, each thinks the other has changed into a bear.
Directors: Robert McKimson, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Votes: 753
5/10
42. A Night in Casablanca (1946)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Family
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake
Votes: 7,482
4/10
43. 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: 5,680
4/10
44. 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: 3,954
4/10
45. 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: 2,652
4/10
46. Bacall to Arms (1946)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The auditorium of a movie theater is crowded with animals in human clothes, eagerly waiting for the film to start. The show opens with a newsreel called Warmer News. It presents the ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Clampett, Arthur Davis, Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dave Barry, Sara Berner, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 759
4/10
47. Musical Moments from Chopin (1946)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Woody Woodpecker and Andy Panda give a piano performance for an audience of barnyard animals.
Director: Dick Lundy
Votes: 249
4/10
48. 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: 4,955
3/10
49. Bathing Buddies (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Woody and Wally share an apartment building. Woody's favorite pastime is playing golf... it's just a shame he plays inside the house instead of outside. Finally, Wally breaks his club and ... See full summary »
Director: Dick Lundy | Stars: Mel Blanc, Ben Hardaway, Jack Mather
Votes: 128
2/10
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