Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "year-1946"

1. Godzilla Minus One (2023)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Post-war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.

Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Minami Hamabe, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Kagga Jayson, Sakura Andô

Votes: 97,525

2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

R | 142 min | Drama

Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.

Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler

Votes: 2,902,739 | Gross: $28.34M

3. Blonde (2022)

NC-17 | 167 min | Drama, History

The story of American actress Marilyn Monroe, covering her love and professional lives.

Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Ana de Armas, Lily Fisher, Julianne Nicholson, Tygh Runyan

Votes: 72,550

4. Maestro (I) (2023)

R | 129 min | Biography, Drama, History

This love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.

Director: Bradley Cooper | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Matt Bomer, Vincenzo Amato

Votes: 62,021

5. The Choice (I) (2016)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Romance

Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.

Director: Ross Katz | Stars: Benjamin Walker, Teresa Palmer, Alexandra Daddario, Maggie Grace

Votes: 46,127 | Gross: $18.71M

6. There's Still Tomorrow (2023)

118 min | Comedy, Drama

Set in postwar 1940s Italy, it follows Delia breaking traditional family patterns and aspiring to a different future, after receiving a mysterious letter.

Director: Paola Cortellesi | Stars: Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Emanuela Fanelli

Votes: 9,382

7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

TV-14 | 124 min | Drama, Romance, War

In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war. Then she learns the secret they are afraid to reveal.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay, Michiel Huisman, Katherine Parkinson

Votes: 53,008

8. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

In the Far East, Alex O'Connell, the son of famed mummy fighters Rick and Evy O'Connell, unearths the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a shape-shifting entity cursed by a witch centuries ago.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, Michelle Yeoh

Votes: 171,193 | Gross: $102.49M

9. Agent Carter (2015–2016)

TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

In 1946, Peggy Carter is relegated to secretarial duties in the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR). When Howard Stark is accused of treason, he secretly recruits Peggy to clear his name with the help of his butler, Edwin Jarvis.

Stars: Hayley Atwell, James D'Arcy, Enver Gjokaj, Chad Michael Murray

Votes: 89,412

10. Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

R | 116 min | Drama

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett

Votes: 46,691

11. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Approved | 179 min | Drama, War

In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich

Votes: 85,937

12. The Black Dahlia (2006)

R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short murder investigation.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank

Votes: 77,131 | Gross: $22.52M

13. La Storia (2024– )

Drama, War

Follows a single mother of two sons, who hides her Jewish heritage and fights against poverty and persecution during the end of World War II and post-war Rome.

Stars: Jasmine Trinca, Valerio Mastandrea, Mattia Basciani, Francesco Zenga

Votes: 251

14. Da 5 Bloods (2020)

R | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, War

Four black veterans battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Viet Nam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis

Votes: 55,271

15. The Defeated (2020)

TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, History, Thriller

Max McLaughlin is an American cop who arrives in Berlin in the summer of 1946 to help create a police force in the chaotic aftermath of the war.

Stars: Taylor Kitsch, Michael C. Hall, Logan Marshall-Green, Nina Hoss

Votes: 8,140

16. St. Vincent (2014)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.

Director: Theodore Melfi | Stars: Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, Jaeden Martell

Votes: 108,723 | Gross: $44.13M

17. Kon-Tiki (2012)

PG-13 | 118 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

In 1947, with five loyal friends in tow, explorer Thor Heyerdahl sails a fragile balsa wood raft along an ancient path some 4,300 miles across the Pacific.

Directors: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo, Gustaf Skarsgård, Odd-Magnus Williamson

Votes: 52,116 | Gross: $1.52M

18. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

R | 123 min | Drama, War

During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano

Votes: 20,126 | Gross: $2.31M

19. The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)

R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

65 years after a masked serial killer terrorized the small town of Texarkana, the so-called "moonlight murders" begin again. Is it a copycat or something even more sinister? A lonely high-school girl may be the key to catching him.

Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Stars: Addison Timlin, Veronica Cartwright, Anthony Anderson, Travis Tope

Votes: 16,769

20. The Two Jakes (1990)

R | 137 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The sequel to Chinatown (1974) finds J.J. "Jake" Gittes investigating adultery and murder, and the money that comes from oil.

Director: Jack Nicholson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe

Votes: 15,545 | Gross: $10.01M

21. The Secrets We Keep (I) (2020)

R | 97 min | Drama, Thriller

In post-WWII America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.

Director: Yuval Adler | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Chris Messina, Jackson Dean Vincent

Votes: 7,345

22. The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)

PG | 103 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

Young Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Jeni Courtney, Eileen Colgan, Mick Lally, Pat Slowey

Votes: 9,906 | Gross: $6.10M

23. The End of the Affair (1999)

R | 102 min | Drama, Romance

A desperate man tries to find out why his beloved left him years ago.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Heather-Jay Jones

Votes: 23,996 | Gross: $10.66M

24. The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

The story of a hooded, berserk killer who terrorized the border town of Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946--leaving no fewer than five murder victims in his wake. He was never caught. Based on one of America's most baffling murder cases.

Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells, Jimmy Clem

Votes: 9,840

25. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

R | 120 min | Drama

Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, Gisela Uhlen

Votes: 14,997

26. Red Joan (2018)

R | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy.

Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes

Votes: 14,490 | Gross: $1.58M

27. 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: 11,152

28. The East (2020)

TV-MA | 137 min | Drama, Thriller, War

A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands' colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander's elite squad.

Director: Jim Taihuttu | Stars: Martijn Lakemeier, Marwan Kenzari, Jonas Smulders, Abel van Gijlswijk

Votes: 6,887

29. Love the Coopers (2015)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

The intertwined stories of four generations of Coopers unfold right before the annual family reunion on Christmas Eve. Can they survive the most beautiful time of the year?

Director: Jessie Nelson | Stars: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Ed Helms

Votes: 26,817 | Gross: $26.28M

30. Rebel in the Rye (2017)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye".

Director: Danny Strong | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Victor Garber, Hope Davis

Votes: 10,835 | Gross: $0.38M

31. Humongous (1982)

R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance

Woman is raped at cocktail party. Years later, her son grows up to be a big hairy murderous monster who stalks a group of teens shipwrecked on his island.

Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Janet Julian, David Wysocki, John Wildman, Janit Baldwin

Votes: 2,194

32. Kalank (2019)

Not Rated | 166 min | Drama, Romance

The lives of six enigmatic characters become entangled whilst in search of love, but separated by the dichotomy between the two worlds of Husnabad, a town in North India.

Director: Abhishek Varman | Stars: Kriti Sanon, Alia Bhatt, Sonakshi Sinha, Kiara Advani

Votes: 17,041 | Gross: $2.73M

33. Walking with the Enemy (2013)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Drama, History

A young man, separated from his family in World War II, disguises himself as a Nazi S.S. Officer and uncovers more than just his family whereabouts.

Director: Mark Schmidt | Stars: Jonas Armstrong, Ben Kingsley, Hannah Tointon, Simon Kunz

Votes: 2,671 | Gross: $0.36M

34. Superman: Red Son (2020 Video)

PG-13 | 84 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

What if baby Kal-El's rocket landed not in Kansas, but in the Soviet Union? That is the premise of this Elseworld's tale from DC Comics.

Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Jason Isaacs, Amy Acker, Diedrich Bader, Vanessa Marshall

Votes: 16,961

35. Zombie Lake (1981)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.

Directors: Jean Rollin, Julian de Laserna | Stars: Howard Vernon, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Anouchka, Antonio Mayans

Votes: 3,601

36. 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: 4,980

37. The Fox (2022)

118 min | Drama, History, War

At the dawn of WW2, a young soldier encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The story of an unlikely friendship.

Director: Adrian Goiginger | Stars: Simon Morzé, Karl Markovics, Adriane Gradziel, Joseph Stoisits

Votes: 842

38. Used People (1992)

PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice... See full summary »

Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Marcello Mastroianni

Votes: 1,725 | Gross: $17.96M

39. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)

88 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Director: Alexandra Dean | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Jennifer Hom, Anthony Loder

Votes: 4,323 | Gross: $0.82M

40. The Heart of Me (2002)

R | 96 min | Drama, Romance

1930's London. Two sisters - Madeleine and Dinah - One marries Rickie, the other falls in love with him. He begins an affair which is to have repercussions throughout their lives.

Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams, Paul Bettany, Eleanor Bron

Votes: 2,663 | Gross: $0.20M

41. Alcatraz (2018)

Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A group of prisoners, led by an armed robber and a gangster, attempt to escape from the infamous Alcatraz Island.

Director: Andrew Jones | Stars: Derek Nelson, Erick Hayden, Nicholas Anscombe, Mark Homer

Votes: 955

42. To the Ends of the World (2018)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, War

Indochina War, 1945: French soldier Robert is the only survivor of a massacre in which his brother has died. Blinded by revenge, he rejoins the forces in search of the assassins. But meeting the young Indochinese Maï disrupts his mission.

Director: Guillaume Nicloux | Stars: Gaspard Ulliel, Guillaume Gouix, Lang Khê Tran, Gérard Depardieu

Votes: 1,236

43. Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Thriller

A South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.

Director: Darrell Roodt | Stars: Richard Harris, James Earl Jones, Vusi Kunene, Charles S. Dutton

Votes: 2,045 | Gross: $0.68M

44. The Shortcut (2009)

PG-13 | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Two brothers come upon a rarely used shortcut in their new town.

Director: Nicholaus Goossen | Stars: Katrina Bowden, Jeremy Bastian, Cavan Cunningham, William B. Davis

Votes: 3,921

45. The Thief (1997)

R | 96 min | Crime, Drama

A woman meets a man who isn't the right man for her - but she hasn't realised it yet...

Director: Pavel Chukhray | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Yekaterina Rednikova, Mikhail Filipchuk, Dima Chigaryov

Votes: 5,643 | Gross: $1.13M

46. A Christmas Story 2 (2012 Video)

PG | 85 min | Comedy, Family

Six years later, Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.

Director: Brian Levant | Stars: Daniel Stern, Braeden Lemasters, Stacey Travis, Valin Shinyei

Votes: 2,996

47. The Children's Train (2024)

Drama, History | Post-production

A seven-year-old boy named Amerigo who in 1946 leaves his impoverished family in Naples and gets on a train to go live with a wealthier family in the north as part of a postwar initiative to rescue children from poverty.

Director: Cristina Comencini | Stars: Stefano Accorsi, Barbara Ronchi, Francesco Di Leva, Serena Rossi

48. Thunder Bay (1953)

Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Drama

Shrimpers and oilmen clash after an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oil rig.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Dan Duryea

Votes: 2,176

49. The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014)

Not Rated | 141 min | Action, Adventure, History

A story focusing on a conflict between a People's Liberation Army squad and a bandit gang in north-east China during the Chinese revolution.

Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Kenny Lin, Nan Yu

Votes: 3,362 | Gross: $0.23M

50. Saint Ange (2004)

R | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Anna is a servant who accepts a post at the St. Ange. She arrives to confront an unsettling lack of orphans, save for one. Then the bizarre sights and sounds begin, which seem to elude detection by the other servant or the gloomy director.

Director: Pascal Laugier | Stars: Virginie Ledoyen, Lou Doillon, Catriona MacColl, Dorina Lazar

Votes: 4,951