1946 Movies

The Best Years of Our Lives

Directed by: William Wyler

Starring: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Teresa Wright

Country: United States of America

Outline: Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

Notorious

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern

Country: United States of America

Outline: A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?

The Razor's Edge

Directed by: Edmund Goulding

Starring: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.

The Yearling

Directed by: Clarence Brown

Starring: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills

Country: United States of America

Outline: A boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?

Blue Skies

Directed by: Stuart Heisler, Mark Sandrich

Starring: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, Billy De Wolfe

Country: United States of America

Outline: Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who ...

It's a Wonderful Life

Directed by: Frank Capra

Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell

Country: United States of America

Outline: An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

Shoeshine

Directed by: Vittorio De Sica

Starring: Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy, save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison where the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.

The Big Sleep

Directed by: Howard Hawks

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers

Country: United States of America

Outline: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.

The Time of Their Lives

Directed by: Charles Barton

Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their ...

Great Expectations

Directed by: David Lean

Starring: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Jean Simmons

Country: United States of America

Outline: A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Enamorada

Directed by: Emilio Fernández

Starring: María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Fernando Fernández, José Morcillo

Outline: 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.

My Darling Clementine

Directed by: John Ford

Starring: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs

Country: United States of America

Outline: The Earps battle the Clantons at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.

Gilda

Directed by: Charles Vidor

Starring: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia

Country: United States of America

Outline: A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino learns that his ex-lover is married to his employer.

Paisan

Directed by: Roberto Rossellini

Starring: Carmela Sazio, Joseph Garland Moore Jr., William Tubbs, Robert Van Loon

Country: United States of America

Outline: The language barrier has tragic consequences in a series of unrelated stories set during the Italian Campaign of WWII.

Green for Danger

Directed by: Sidney Gilliat

Starring: Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Leo Genn

Country: United States of America

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

Humoresque

Directed by: Jean Negulesco

Starring: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish

Country: United States of America

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

Tomorrow Is Forever

Directed by: Irving Pichel

Starring: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.

The Spiral Staircase

Directed by: Robert Siodmak

Starring: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith

Country: United States of America

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

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Directed by: Tay Garnett

Starring: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn

Country: United States of America

Outline: A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband. Once the deed is done, they must live with the consequences of their actions.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Directed by: Lewis Milestone

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas

Country: United States of America

Outline: A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband, who believe he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.

Neecha Nagar

Directed by: Chetan Anand

Starring: Rafiq Anwar, Uma Anand, Kamini Kaushal, Rafi Peer

Outline: The films takes an expressionist look at the gulf between the rich and poor in the society. The film centers on a wealthy and capacious landlord, Sarkar (Rafi Peer) who lives in a palatial ...

A Stolen Life

Directed by: Curtis Bernhardt

Starring: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Walter Brennan

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.

The Stranger

Directed by: Orson Welles

Starring: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale

Country: United States of America

Outline: An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.

Little Giant

Directed by: William A. Seiter

Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Brenda Joyce, Jacqueline deWit

Outline: Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's ...

Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani

Directed by: Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre

Starring: Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, Jayashree, Keshavrao Date, Pratima Devi

Outline: During the Japanese invasion of China, a young Indian doctor joins the Chinese resistance, meets and courts a Chinese girl, cures a virulent plague, and is captured by a Japanese platoon...