Tag: 1946

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.

Director: John Brahm
Stars: Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After marrying her long lost love, a musician finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

When spy chief Bob Sharkey finds out one of his agents-in-training is actually a Nazi double agent, his strategic decision not to arrest him results in tragedy.

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Stars: Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

After the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder dies also, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich, young widow, but finds himself falling for her, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Three strangers, each with a serious problem in their lives, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Rita Christiani, Maya Deren, Anaïs Nin
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize an image.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Célestine (Paulette Goddard), the chambermaid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire (Reginald Owen) is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire (Dame Judith Anderson), helped by the strange valet Joseph (Francis Lederer).

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Mary Anderson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

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: Marcel Carné
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France

It’s Paris in the winter after its liberation. A tramp who may also be Destiny predicts that Jean Diego will fall in love with a beautiful girl. That same evening, Jean meets Malou.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.

Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Stars: Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Peggy Ann Garner, Randolph Scott, Lynn Bari
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.

Director: Fred C. Brannon, William Witney
Stars: Charles Quigley, Linda Stirling, Clayton Moore
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA

A criminal mastermind known as the Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical currents on the planet.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When a woman’s twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

An ex-bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France

This movie is a story about French railroad workers who were part of organized resistance during the German WW2 occupation.

Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

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: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward
Genre: Action, Drama, Music
Country: USA

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: Irving Pichel
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

An American World War I soldier, whose disfigured face is reconstructed by Austrian plastic surgeons, returns home after twenty years, but no one recognizes him, his widow is married to another man, and his son is a grown young man.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A secretary tries to help her boss, who is framed for a murder.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

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: Frank Launder
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK

A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a Nazi spy.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Film-Noir
Country: USA

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: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten, Gösta Cederlund
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

Young love confronts stupidity and boredom of society.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Jeanne Crain, Glenn Langan, Lynn Bari
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with “afflictions”; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

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: Emilio Fernández
Stars: María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Fernando Fernández
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Mexico

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: Don Siegel
Stars: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjirô Ôkôchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA

A free-spirited parlor maid and a Czech refugee surprise an English village with their unconventional ways.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Inga Landgré, Stig Olin, Marianne Löfgren
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter’s real mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA

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: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for lovers. And, occasionally, his art gets him into trouble.