Tag: 1945

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Talley Beatty
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A man dances in several locations, edited to have a fluent effect.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ken’ichi Enomoto
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan

A Japanese general and his men disguise themselves as monks in order to pass an enemy border patrol.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

A pollster stumbles on a family of murderous hillbillies, and joins in their search for hidden treasure.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

An 18th century London wench gets involved with the nobility.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love.

Director: Compton Bennett
Stars: James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.

Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Wanda Rothgardt, Georg Rydeberg, Gabriel Alw
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

Set entirely in one room, an innocent young man is accused of plagiarizing the work of an old professor. Later, he will be blamed for the professor’s murder.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

Allen Quinton writes a fellow soldier’s love letters; tragedy results. Later, Allen meets a beautiful amnesiac who fears postmen.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature is against them.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.

Director: Albert Lewin
Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.

Director: Tay Garnett
Stars: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An Irish maid falls for the son of her wealthy boss, though their disapproving fathers and a bitter strike at the steel mill complicates matters.

Director: Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.

Director: Peter Godfrey
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it’s too late.

Director: Hans Burger, Billy Wilder
Stars: Anton Reimer
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder.

Director: Alexander Korda
Stars: Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A dull married couple, separated by their enlistment during World War II, reunite after three years to find that they have become very different people.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.

Director: Roy Rowland
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O’Brien, James Craig
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA

A Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.

Director: John Brahm
Stars: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer — and by the strange gaps in his memory.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

An engineer trapped in an unhappy marriage murders his wife in the hope of marrying her younger sister.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Stars: Nina Foch, May Whitty, George Macready
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather nosy employment agency, with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes, and goes to live at her house. 2 days later, she awakens – in a different house, in different clothes, and with a new identity.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK

The wartime daily routine on a British bomber base in southeastern England is revealed through the eyes of newly arrived Flying Officer Peter Penrose (Sir John Mills).

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Sugata returns to prove his judo mastery in a match against Western opponents.

Director: David Lean
Stars: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK

Charles and his second wife Ruth are haunted by the spirit of his first wife, Elvira. Medium Madame Arcati tries to help things out by contacting the ghost.