Movies: Popular Movies of 1946

Movies in chronological context: 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade. ()

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It's a Wonderful Life(1946)

2h 10min | Drama, Kids & Family, Fantasy

4.1/5 (with 1,950 votes)

A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

Directed by Frank Capra - With James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell, Samuel S. Hinds, ...

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Notorious(1946)

| 1h 43min | Thriller, Romance / Love, Mystery

3.9/5 (with 653 votes)

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Reinhold Schünzel, Moroni Olsen, ...

The Big Sleep(1946)

| 1h 56min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 427 votes)

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

Directed by Howard Hawks - With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Malone, Martha Vickers, Regis Toomey, Bob Steele, ...

The Best Years of Our Lives(1946)

2h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.9/5 (with 258 votes)

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.

Directed by William Wyler - With Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, ...

Beauty and the Beast(1946)

1h 36min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 250 votes)

The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.

Directed by Jean Cocteau, René Clément - With Jean Marais, Michel Auclair, Josette Day, Mila Parély

The Stranger(1946)

1h 36min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 243 votes)

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.

Directed by Orson Welles - With Loretta Young, Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Richard Long, Konstantin Shayne, Billy House, ...

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Gilda(1946)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 235 votes)

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

Directed by Charles Vidor - With Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Eduardo Ciannelli, Steven Geray, ...

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My Darling Clementine(1946)

1h 37min | Western, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 170 votes)

Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.

Directed by John Ford - With Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Grant Withers, Ward Bond, ...

A Matter of Life and Death(1946)

1h 44min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love, Drama

3.9/5 (with 157 votes)

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.

Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger - With David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring, Abraham Sofaer, ...

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The Killers(1946)

1h 45min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 155 votes)

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

Directed by Robert Siodmak - With Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Sam Levene, Albert Dekker, Philip Brown, ...

Great Expectations(1946)

1h 58min | Romance / Love, Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 131 votes)

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Directed by David Lean - With John Mills, Anthony Wager, Jean Simmons, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt, ...

The Postman Always Rings Twice(1946)

1h 53min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 131 votes)

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

Directed by Tay Garnett - With Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Audrey Totter, Leon Ames, ...

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Paisan(1946)

2h 5min | History, Drama, War

3.8/5 (with 127 votes)

Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini - With Maria Michi, Renzo Avanzo, Gianfranco Corsini, William Tubbs, Giulietta Masina

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Song of the South(1946)

1h 31min | Kids & Family, Animation

3.2/5 (with 124 votes)

Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br'er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents' separation as well as his new life on the plantation.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Harve Foster - With Hattie McDaniel, Lucile Watson, Luana Patten, Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, ...

Shoeshine(1946)

1h 27min | Drama

4.0/5 (with 101 votes)

At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Franco Interlenghi, Emilio Cigoli, Leo Garavaglia, Gino Saltamerenda, Maria Campi, Antonio Nicotra, ...

The Spiral Staircase(1946)

1h 23min | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 97 votes)

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

Directed by Robert Siodmak - With Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming, Elsa Lanchester, ...

Make Mine Music(1946)

1h 15min | Music, Animation, Kids & Family

2.9/5 (with 96 votes)

In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of nine musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as "Peter And The Wolf", narrated by the beloved voice behind Winnie The Pooh. In addition, you'll enjoy such classic cartoon hits as "Casey At The Bat," "The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At The Met" and "Johnnie Fedora And Alice Bluebonnet.".

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador, Jack Kinney, Robert Cormack - With Tatiana Riabouchinska, David Lichine

A Day in the Country(1946)

41min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 79 votes)

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

Directed by Jean Renoir - With Sylvia Bataille, Jean Renoir, Jane Marken, Jacques Brunius, Alain Renoir, André Gabriello, ...

Duel in the Sun(1946)

2h 24min | Western, Romance / Love, Drama

3.2/5 (with 66 votes)

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

Directed by King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, David O. Selznick, ... - With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish, ...

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers(1946)

1h 55min | Drama, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 66 votes)

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

Directed by Lewis Milestone - With Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson, Ann Doran, ...

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The Blue Dahlia(1946)

1h 36min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

3.4/5 (with 62 votes)

Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

Directed by George Marshall - With Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling, Hugh Beaumont, ...

A Night in Casablanca(1946)

1h 25min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 51 votes)

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.

Directed by Archie Mayo - With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake, Sig Ruman, Dan Seymour, ...

Terror by Night(1946)

1h | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 47 votes)

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.

Directed by Roy William Neill - With Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey, Billy Bevan, Harry Cording, ...

Dragonwyck(1946)

1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 46 votes)

For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz - With Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Anne Revere, Spring Byington, Harry Morgan, ...

The Dark Mirror(1946)

1h 25min | Thriller, Mystery

3.5/5 (with 44 votes)

A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.

Directed by Robert Siodmak - With Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Bess Flowers, Lane Chandler, ...

Peter and the Wolf(1946)

15min | Animation, Kids & Family

3.4/5 (with 43 votes)

Disney's animated adaptation of Prokofiev's masterpiece, in which every character is represented musically by a different instrument. Young Peter decides to go hunting for the wolf that's been prowling around the village. Along the way, he is joined by his friends the bird, the duck and the cat. All the fun comes to end, however, when the wolf makes an appearance. Will Peter and his friends live to tell of their adventures?

Directed by Clyde Geronimi

Dressed to Kill(1946)

1h 12min | Crime

3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.

Directed by Roy William Neill - With Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison, Holmes Herbert, Harry Cording, Mary Gordon, ...

Crisis(1946)

1h 33min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 41 votes)

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.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Stig Olin, Ulf Johansson, Svea Holst, Dagny Lind, Siv Thulin, Signe Wirff, ...