1945 Movies

The Lost Weekend

Directed by: Billy Wilder

Starring: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva

Country: United States of America

Outline: The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.

Leave Her to Heaven

Directed by: John M. Stahl

Starring: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price

Country: United States of America

Outline: A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they are married soon after, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of both them and everyone else around them.

Spellbound

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll

Country: United States of America

Outline: A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.

The Bells of St. Mary's

Directed by: Leo McCarey

Starring: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.

The Valley of Decision

Directed by: Tay Garnett

Starring: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore

Outline: 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.

Anchors Aweigh

Directed by: George Sidney

Starring: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two sailors, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the world, on liberty in Los Angeles, is the setting for this movie musical.

State Fair

Directed by: Walter Lang

Starring: Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine

Country: United States of America

Outline: The Frake family attends the annual Iowa State Fair; each member of the clan has their own reason for doing so.

Brief Encounter

Directed by: David Lean

Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey

Country: United States of America

Outline: Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

Mildred Pierce

Directed by: Michael Curtiz

Starring: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden

Country: United States of America

Outline: A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Scarlet Street

Directed by: Fritz Lang

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay

Country: United States of America

Outline: When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.

China's Little Devils

Directed by: Monta Bell

Starring: Harry Carey, Paul Kelly, 'Ducky' Louie, Gloria Ann Chew

Outline: This is a great picture about a group of Chinese boys led by an older boy named Butch. They rescue downed American pilots from the Japanese Army in WW II.

Murder, He Says

Directed by: George Marshall

Starring: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather

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

Humayun

Directed by: Mehboob Khan

Starring: Mohammad Afzal, Yusuf Effendi, Abdul Kader, Ashok Kumar

Outline: Badshah Babar arrives in India from Iran, drives out Ibrahim Lodhi, makes peace with the Hindus and rules Delhi. He also adopts Rajkumari as his daughter and treats like his very own child,...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Directed by: Albert Lewin

Starring: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury

Country: United States of America

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

And Then There Were None

Directed by: René Clair

Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young

Country: United States of America

Outline: Seven guests, a newly hired personal secretary and two staff are gathered on an isolated island by an absent host and someone begins killing them off one by one. They work together to determine who is the killer?

The Enchanted Cottage

Directed by: John Cromwell

Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick

Outline: 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 ...

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Directed by: Roy Rowland

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford

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

The House of Fear

Directed by: Roy William Neill

Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Dennis Hoey

Country: United States of America

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

Hangover Square

Directed by: John Brahm

Starring: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Glenn Langan

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

Road to Utopia

Directed by: Hal Walker

Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke

Outline: At the turn of the century, Duke and Chester, two vaudeville performers, go to Alaska to make their fortune. On the ship to Skagway, they find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been ...

Objective, Burma!

Directed by: Raoul Walsh

Starring: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.

The Body Snatcher

Directed by: Robert Wise

Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater

Country: United States of America

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

Christmas in Connecticut

Directed by: Peter Godfrey

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.

Detour

Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer

Starring: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald

Country: United States of America

Outline: Chance events trap hitch-hiker Al Roberts in a tightening net of film noir trouble.