Year by Year Polls: 1945 Results
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1. Brief Encounter (1945)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey
Votes: 44,263
2. Children of Paradise (1945)
Not Rated | 189 min | Drama, Romance
The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir
Votes: 21,174
3. Rome, Open City (1945)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico
Votes: 28,992
4. The Lost Weekend (1945)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 40,216 | Gross: $9.46M
5. Scarlet Street (1945)
Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 19,208
6. Mildred Pierce (1945)
Approved | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
Votes: 28,690
7. I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie
Votes: 9,784
8. Detour (1945)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald
Votes: 19,730 | Gross: $0.02M
9. Spellbound (1945)
Approved | 111 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 52,265 | Gross: $7.00M
10. Dead of Night (1945)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror
Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality.
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
Votes: 14,224
11. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price
Votes: 14,787
12. The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (1945)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette, Lucienne Bogaert
Votes: 4,840
13. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
PG | 129 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 8,412
14. And Then There Were None (1945)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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: René Clair | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young
Votes: 16,651
15. Hangover Square (1945)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Glenn Langan
Votes: 4,139
16. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 14,455
17. Fallen Angel (1945)
Approved | 98 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford
Votes: 6,519
18. The Body Snatcher (1945)
Approved | 78 min | Horror, Thriller
A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater
Votes: 10,195
19. The Southerner (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Drama
The life of the poor Tucker family who worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature was against them.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 3,874
20. My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
Not Rated | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
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... See full summary »
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Nina Foch, May Whitty, George Macready, Roland Varno
Votes: 3,762
21. Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Approved | 108 min | Biography, Drama, War
At the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with the U.S. Army's Company C Division during their liberation of Italy.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell
Votes: 3,730
22. Paris Frills (1945)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is also a sharp picture of the fashion world.
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Raymond Rouleau, Micheline Presle, Jean Chevrier, Gabrielle Dorziat
Votes: 720
23. Johnny in the Clouds (1945)
87 min | Drama, Romance, War
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: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Douglass Montgomery
Votes: 1,647
24. San Pietro (1945)
Unrated | 32 min | Documentary, Short, War
Director John Huston documents the Battle of San Pietro Infine in December 1943.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Votes: 2,460
25. The Spanish Main (1945)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
After being wronged by the Caribbean authorities, a Dutch captain turns pirate to wage war.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 1,876
26. Blithe Spirit (1945)
96 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford
Votes: 8,023
27. Naïs (1945)
117 min | Drama, Romance
Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a hand to Micoulin, the farmer, thereby being able to spend more time close to Nais, ... See full summary »
Directors: Raymond Leboursier, Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Fernandel, Jacqueline Pagnol, Raymond Pellegrin, Henri Poupon
Votes: 256
28. They Were Expendable (1945)
Approved | 135 min | Drama, War
A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.
Directors: John Ford, Robert Montgomery | Stars: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Votes: 9,263
29. Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Passed | 140 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
Directors: George Sidney, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi
Votes: 9,437
30. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Unrated | 126 min | Drama
At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan
Votes: 9,372 | Gross: $21.30M
31. Love Letters (1945)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Allen Quinton writes a fellow soldier's love letters; tragedy results. Later, Allen meets a beautiful amnesiac who fears postmen...
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 1,788
32. The Clock (1945)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 4,048 | Gross: $2.78M
33. Twilight (1945)
108 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A brilliant surgeon is dazed and feels he can no longer operate. Told in flashback, we find his troubles began with a woman.
Director: Julio Bracho | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Gloria Marín, Julio Villarreal, Manuel Arvide
Votes: 161
34. The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A plain maid and a wounded war veteran are transformed by their love for each other while residing in an enchanted honeymoon cottage.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick
Votes: 3,530
35. The Bellman (1945)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The story begins with the murder of a horse trader, which sets free a black stallion that roams through the snow and the village terrifying the people as it gallops.
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Fernand Ledoux, Renée Faure, Madeleine Robinson, Roger Pigaut
Votes: 184
36. A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo (1945)
77 min | War
Tale of martial skill set in the Edo era, and completed with difficulty during the last months of WWII: the son of an archer ,who killed himself after losing a contest, takes up his father's former profession.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Senshô Ichikawa, Akitake Kôno
Votes: 143
37. Nazi Concentration Camps (1945)
Not Rated | 59 min | Documentary, History
Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, George S. Patton, Hayden Sears
Votes: 1,650
38. Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Bored with chasing Red Riding Hood, the Wolf decides to go after Cinderella, but her fairy godmother takes a shine to him instead - and has an arsenal of magical powers to help achieve her ends.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Sara Berner, Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Frank Graham
Votes: 913
39. Via Mala (1945)
108 min | Crime, Drama
A hated and bully patriarch is murdered. The investigating judge falls in love and marries the daughter, and then she confesses to have killed. Did she? Or she was protecting some one?
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Karin Hardt, Carl Wery, Viktor Staal, Hilde Körber
Votes: 42
40. Isle of the Dead (1945)
Not Rated | 71 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery
Votes: 5,266
41. Lady on a Train (1945)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
In New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.
Director: Charles David | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, George Coulouris
Votes: 2,566
42. The Cheaters (1945)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Billie Burke, Eugene Pallette, Ona Munson
Votes: 910
43. A Diary for Timothy (1945)
40 min | Documentary, Short
This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration ... See full summary »
Director: Humphrey Jennings | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Myra Hess, John Gielgud, Frederick Allen
Votes: 752
44. La vida en un hilo (1945)
92 min | Comedy
Recent widow Mercedes nostalgically recalls her years of marriage with deadly-dull Ramón and concludes that she was unhappy. While traveling by train to Madrid, a psychic makes her see that... See full summary »
Director: Edgar Neville | Stars: Conchita Montes, Rafael Durán, Guillermo Marín, Julia Lajos
Votes: 353
45. Confidential Agent (1945)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Thriller
In 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts.
Director: Herman Shumlin | Stars: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou, Peter Lorre
Votes: 1,371
46. Le miserie del signor Travet (1945)
98 min | Comedy
The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.
Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Carlo Campanini, Vera Carmi, Paola Veneroni, Pierluigi Veraldo
Votes: 125
47. A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945)
4 min | Short, Fantasy, Music
A man dances in several locations, edited to have a fluent effect.
Director: Maya Deren | Star: Talley Beatty
Votes: 1,726
48. The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sara Allgood
Votes: 1,988
49. Draftee Daffy (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Daffy Duck is desperate to elude the draft board respresentative bearing his conscription order.
Director: Robert Clampett | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 881
50. A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Approved | 117 min | Drama, War
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: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland
Votes: 4,081
51. Two O'Clock Courage (1945)
Not Rated | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A confused man with a gash on his head stumbles into the taxi cab of Patty Mitchell. He says that he can't recall his own name, any facts about his life or even what he was doing before he got in the cab.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane, Lester Matthews
Votes: 1,375
52. The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 1,519
53. Två människor (1945)
78 min | Drama
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: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Wanda Rothgardt, Georg Rydeberg, Gabriel Alw, Stig Olin
Votes: 417
54. The House on 92nd Street (1945)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 3,296
55. Due lettere anonime (1945)
90 min | Drama, War
After years at the Russion front in WW II, the Italian soldier Bruno returns home. But he receives an anonymous letter warning him that during his absence, his fiancée Gina has begun an ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Clara Calamai, Andrea Checchi, Otello Toso, Carlo Ninchi
Votes: 93
56. The Last Chance (1945)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, War
Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a multi-national party of refugees for the Italian underground.
Director: Leopold Lindtberg | Stars: Ewart G. Morrison, John Hoy, Ray Reagan, Luisa Rossi
Votes: 485
57. Jealousy (1945)
Passed | 71 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
The wife of an alcoholic writer must take a job as a taxi driver to make ends meet. A young man she picks up as a fare befriends her, but after her husband is found murdered, the police suspect she and her new friend committed the murder.
Director: Gustav Machatý | Stars: John Loder, Karen Morley, Jane Randolph, Nils Asther
Votes: 235
58. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945)
Not Rated | 59 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
A Japanese general and his men disguise themselves as monks in order to pass an enemy border patrol.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ken'ichi Enomoto, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 4,372
59. The House I Live In (1945)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Drama, Music
Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Freddie Chapman, Vincent Graeff, Teddy Infuhr
Votes: 720
60. The Cummington Story (1945)
Not Rated | 19 min | Short, Documentary
War refugees begin new lives in a small Massachusetts town.
Directors: Helen Grayson, Larry Madison | Stars: Sidney Meyers, Clifton L. Sears
Votes: 51
61. The Vampire (1945)
9 min | Documentary, Short
A short look at the vampire bat sucking blood from a guinea pig.
Director: Jean Painlevé | Star: Max Schreck
Votes: 920
62. The Shooting of Dan McGoo (1945)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
This starts off as an adaptation of Robert Service's poem 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew', complete with a literal depiction of a man with one foot in the grave, but when Dan McGoo turns out ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Tex Avery, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner
Votes: 731
63. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
Approved | 108 min | Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing ... See full summary »
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Mildred Natwick
Votes: 1,122
64. Escape in the Fog (1945)
Approved | 63 min | Adventure, Film-Noir, Mystery
During WW2, an army nurse on R&R in San Francisco has a premonition about witnessing a murder attempt against a G-man by Nazi agents.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Otto Kruger, Nina Foch, William Wright, Konstantin Shayne
Votes: 1,142
65. Do Not Disturb (1945)
19 min | Short
Jealousies and tensions amongst young lovers are projected using every trick of the trade: multiple exposures, reverse motion, handheld camerawork, split screen, prism lenses, rapid motion, distortions and more.
Director: László Moholy-Nagy
Votes: 6
66. Star in the Night (1945)
Not Rated | 22 min | Short, Drama, Family
Three cowboys riding across the desert with gifts for no particular recipient see a distant bright light, and find it comes from the Star Auto Court sign where the owners and guests work together to help a young expectant couple.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Donald Woods, Rosina Galli, Richard Erdman
Votes: 1,218
67. Pobeda na Pravoberezhnoy Ukraine i izgnanie nemetsikh zakhvatchikov za predely ukrainskikh sovietskikh zemel (1945)
73 min | Documentary, War
Describes the Russian attack against the Germans, which drove them away from the Dneiper river, and finally out of Ukraine.
Directors: Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva | Star: Leonid Khmara
Votes: 104
68. Fram för lilla Märta eller På livets ödesvägar: Ett biografdrama i prolog, epilog och ett antal tableauxer (1945)
86 min | Comedy
An out-of-work musician (Järrel) is desperate for work and when his best friend (Ekman) sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates ... See full summary »
Director: Hasse Ekman | Stars: Stig Järrel, Hasse Ekman, Elsie Albiin, Agneta Lagerfeldt
Votes: 229
69. Voice of the Whistler (1945)
Approved | 60 min | Drama, Film-Noir
The 4th film of the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, "The Whistler", finds wealthy John Sinclair, with no health or friends, being advised by his doctor to take a long ... See full summary »
Director: William Castle | Stars: Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell
Votes: 583
70. Wild and Woolfy (1945)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Wolf rides into town, terrorises it, kidnaps the girl, and is chased by the outraged townspeople, accompanied by Droopy, who despite introducing himself as "the hero" at the end, in ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Ann Pickard Rhea, Tex Avery, Sara Berner
Votes: 687
71. A Gruesome Twosome (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Two cats (one a caricature of Jimmy Durante) battle violently for the affections of a pretty girl cat, who'll dispense her favors on the one who brings her a little bird. Unfortunately for ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner
Votes: 613
72. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
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: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 12,032
73. Girl No. 217 (1945)
91 min | Drama, War
The story of one of the Soviet women transported to Germany after the Nazi invasion in World War II for forced labor, this one forced to become a household drudge.
Director: Mikhail Romm | Stars: Yelena Kuzmina, Anna Lisyanskaya, Vasiliy Zaychikov, Nikolai Komissarov
Votes: 112
74. Tiger Trouble (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Big game hunter Goofy is riding his trusty elephant in search of a tiger. Unfortunately, while they are stopped for lunch, the tiger finds them, and soon enough, Goofy is separated from his... See full summary »
Directors: Jack Kinney, Burt Gillett | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Milt Kahl, James MacDonald, Fred Shields
Votes: 574
75. Arshin Takes a Wife (1945)
96 min | Comedy, Musical
In XX century young merchant decides to marry. He wants to see the girl before the wedding. And his friend Suleiman helps him in this regard.
Directors: Nikolay Leshchenko, Rza Takhmasib | Stars: Rashid Behbudov, Leyla Badirbayli, Lütfäli Abdullayev, Munavar Kalantarli
Votes: 431
76. Conflict (1945)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
An engineer trapped in an unhappy marriage murders his wife in the hope of marrying her younger sister.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet, Rose Hobart
Votes: 4,613
77. Post War Inventions (1945)
7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Sourpuss the Cat and Gandy Goose share a dream about the post-war world with its crazy, and even dangerous, modern inventions.
Director: Connie Rasinski | Star: Tom Morrison
Votes: 42
78. The Eye & the Ear (1945)
11 min | Animation, Short
The images are synchronized to match the rhythm of five different traditional Polish songs in this early experimental musical short film.
Directors: Franciszka Themerson, Stefan Themerson | Star: James McKechnie
Votes: 95
79. Hockey Homicide (1945)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two hockey teams of Goofies play a game that quickly degenerates into a riot.
Directors: Jack Kinney, Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Doodles Weaver, Pinto Colvig
Votes: 713
80. Life Begins Anew (1945)
86 min | Drama
Life Begins Anew (Italian: La vita ricomincia) is a 1945 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti and Eduardo De Filippo. It was the second ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti, Eduardo De Filippo, Anna Haardt
Votes: 80
81. Blondine (1945)
61 min | Fantasy
Director: Henri Mahé | Stars: Georges Marchal, Nicole Maurey, Michèle Philippe, Piéral
Votes: 26
82. Club Havana (1945)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Mystery
Edgar G. Ulmer directed this film about a number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Tom Neal, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Douglas, Lita Baron
Votes: 188
83. La dama duende (1945)
101 min | Drama, Romance
Doña Ángelica - a young widow recently 18 years old - falls in love and wants to marry an army officer named Don Manuel, but to do so she must evade the vigilance of her sister-in-law who ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Saslavsky | Stars: Manuel Collado, Helena Cortesina, Alberto de Mendoza, Enrique Diosdado
Votes: 57
84. Las abandonadas (1945)
103 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-... See full summary »
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Pedro Armendáriz, Víctor Junco, Paco Fuentes
Votes: 186
85. Objective, Burma! (1945)
Approved | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias
Votes: 5,550
86. Kitty (1945)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, History, Romance
An 18th-century London wench gets involved with the nobility.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles, Reginald Owen
Votes: 791
87. Pampa bárbara (1945)
98 min | Drama, History, Western
In a pillbox in the middle of the Pampa, its commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for not deserting soldiers.
Directors: Lucas Demare, Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Francisco Petrone, Luisa Vehil, Domingo Sapelli, Froilán Varela
Votes: 125
88. La fiancée des ténèbres (1945)
100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Sylvie, a girl who believes she is cursed having seen her two lovers die in tragic circumstances, lives in the town of Carcassonne, in the South of France with her adoptive guardian, Mr. ... See full summary »
Director: Serge de Poligny | Stars: Pierre Richard-Willm, Jany Holt, Line Noro, Palau
Votes: 145
89. Strange Illusion (1945)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Paul dreams that his father's fatal accident actually was murder. When details of his dream repeat themselves in reality he seeks the help of psychiatrist Dr. Vincent, and they attempt to solve the riddle - with dangerous consequences.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Jimmy Lydon, Sally Eilers, Warren William, Regis Toomey
Votes: 1,131
90. Kashchei the Immortal (1945)
73 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An epic tale filmed during the Second World War. Russian heroes Nikita Kozhemyaka and Bulat Balagur save the Russian land from the enemy hordes of Kashchei the Immortal and free the beautiful Marya Morevna.
Director: Aleksandr Rou | Stars: Sergey Stolyarov, Aleksandr Shirshov, Galina Grigoreva, Georgiy Millyar
Votes: 501
91. Johnny Angel (1945)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After a New Orleans merchant ship captain finds his father's sister ship derelict at sea, he investigates the crew's mysterious disappearance amid rumors of a smuggled gold cargo.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, Lowell Gilmore
Votes: 1,233
92. Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Thriller
A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson, Jean Ireland
Votes: 685
93. El canto del cisne (1945)
109 min | Drama, Romance
A middle-age woman and a young composer live a tragic romance.
Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen | Stars: Mecha Ortiz, Roberto Escalada, Miguel Gómez Bao, Nicolás Fregues
Votes: 25
94. La barraca (1945)
110 min | Drama
In rural Spain, a new family arrives in town to work a parcel (barraca), the townsfolk are very hostile to the idea of "another" working the land that once belonged to one of them.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Domingo Soler, Anita Blanch, Amparo Morillo, José Baviera
Votes: 149
95. Back to Bataan (1945)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, War
In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli
Votes: 4,374
96. Bugambilia (1945)
105 min | Drama, Romance
A tragic love story between the daughter of a rich miner and a humble cockfight owner/trainer (gallero) puts filial love, defense of honour, and loyalty to the test.
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Pedro Armendáriz, Julio Villarreal, Alberto Galán
Votes: 134
97. Carnival Sunday (1945)
77 min | Crime
The story of a crime is unwound during carnival days in 1910s Madrid in this atmospheric Spanish film.
Director: Edgar Neville | Stars: Conchita Montes, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Guillermo Marín, Julia Lajos
Votes: 235
98. I'm a Civilian Here Myself (1945)
25 min | Short, Comedy
A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Robert Benchley, Hugh Beaumont, Ava Gardner
Votes: 20
99. Den allvarsamma leken (1945)
106 min | Drama
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the ... See full summary »
Director: Rune Carlsten | Stars: Viveca Lindfors, John Ekman, Olof Widgren, Åke Claesson
Votes: 91
100. Wagon Heels (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Western, Animation, Family
Porky leads a wagon train into "Injun Joe Territory," and finally comes up against the fearsome Superchief. But Sloppy Moe, a survivor of a previous Injun Joe attack, knows something about him he won't tell... until the very end.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce, Robert Clampett
Votes: 364
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