Best Movies of 1945 by Rank
70
1
Marcel Carné
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
90
2
Roberto Rossellini
Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
202
3
David Lean
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond
Romance / Drama
UK
English
367
5
Michael Curtiz
Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
378
6
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
586
8
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney, Pamela Brown
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English
701
9
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
718
10
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
747
11
Lewis Milestone
Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges
Drama / War
USA
English
764
12
Elia Kazan
Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Drama / Period Film / Family
USA
English
1135
13
John Ford, Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Drama / War
USA
English
1277
14
René Clair
Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez
Crime / Mystery / Drama
USA
English
1277
14
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford
Drama / Horror / Fantasy
USA
English
1285
15
William A. Wellman
Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell
War / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1292
16
Jean Renoir
Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi
Drama
USA
English
1367
17
David Lean
Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield
Comedy / Fantasy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
1377
18
Henry Hathaway
William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Drama / Spy / Thriller / War
USA
English
1428
19
Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann
Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn
Adventure / Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
1435
20
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
1617
21
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1678
22
Leo McCarey
Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan
Drama / Religion
USA
English
1789
23
John M. Stahl
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1818
24
Anthony Asquith
Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Stanley Holloway
Drama / War / Romance
UK
English
1897
25
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull
War / Drama
USA
English
1897
25
Delmer Daves
John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, John Ridgely, Rosemary DeCamp
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
1949
26
Walt Disney, Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Harold Young
Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz, Sterling Holloway
Animation / Family / Musical
USA
English
2040
27
John Huston
Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2133
28
George Marshall
Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather, Porter Hall
Comedy / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2133
28
Walter Lang, José Ferrer
Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Charles Winninger
Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2162
29
George Sidney
Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi
Adventure / Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2231
30
Roy Rowland
Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford
Drama / Family
USA
English
2231
30
Compton Bennett
James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott, Albert Lieven
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2320
31
H. Bruce Humberstone
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods, S.Z. Sakall, Allen Jenkins
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Gangster
USA
English
2333
32
Robert Bresson
Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2426
33
Irving Rapper
Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan, Mildred Dunnock
Drama
USA
English
2492
34
André Malraux, Boris Peskine
Andrés Mejuto, Julio Peña, Pedro Codina, Miguel Del Castillo
Documentary / Drama / War
Spain / France
French
2541
35
Leopold Lindtberg
Ewart G. Morrison, John Hoy, Ray Reagan
War / Drama
Switzerland
English
2553
36
Robert Siodmak
George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sara Allgood, Moyna MacGill
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2605
37
Henry King
Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Glenn Langan, Richard Conte
Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
2605
37
Irving Pichel
Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, J. Carrol Naish, Mikhail Rasumny
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2689
38
Edward Dmytryk
John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli, Richard Loo
Drama / War
USA
English
2689
38
Frank Lloyd
James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong
Action / Drama / War / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2689
38
Peter Godfrey
Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2689
38
John Cromwell
Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick, Spring Byington
Drama / Romance / Fantasy
USA
English
2689
38
Sam Newfield
Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan, Vivienne Osborne, George Meeker
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2689
38
William Dieterle
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2689
38
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers, Lois Collier
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2691
39
Allan Dwan
Dennis O'Keefe, Helen Walker, June Havoc, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Comedy
USA
English
2691
39
Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale, Morris Carnovsky
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / War / Mystery
USA
English
2691
39
Louis King
Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell, Patti Hale
Family / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2708
40
Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert Harris, Peter Ustinov
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA
English
2756
41
Mervyn LeRoy
Frank Sinatra, Harry McKim, Teddy Infuhr, Merrill Rodin, Axel Stordahl
Short / Family / Drama / Religion / Music
USA
English
2756
41
William Beaudine
June Carlson, Lois Austin, George Eldredge, Jimmy Clark, Hardie Albright
Drama
USA
English
2756
41
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Lloyd Nolan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2779
42
Lau Lauritzen, Bodil Ipsen
Poul Reichhardt, Lisbeth Movin, Per Buckhøj
War / Drama
Denmark
Danish
2779
42
Fridrikh Ermler
Mikhail Derzhavin, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Yuri Tolubeyev
Drama / War / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2797
43
Tay Garnett
Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore, Preston Foster
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2801
44
Charles Vidor
Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni, Nina Foch, George Coulouris
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2805
45
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Jerry Austin, John Warburton
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
2807
46
Wallace Fox
Joan Woodbury, Kane Richmond, Syd Saylor, Joe Devlin, George Meeker
Serial / Crime / Action / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2807
46
Jacques de Baroncelli
Josephine Baker, Micheline Presle, Georges Marchal, Raymond Aimos, Jean Tissier
Comedy / Romance / Musical
France
French
2807
46
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery, Helen Thimig
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2807
46
Arthur Crabtree
Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Peter Glenville, John Stuart
Drama / Mystery / Crime / Romance
UK
English
2807
46
Harold F. Kress
Byron Foulger, Dick Elliott, Morris Ankrum, Paul E. Burns, Edward Earle
Crime / Short
USA
English
2807
46
Oliver Drake
Jimmy Wakely, Dennis Moore, Lee 'Lasses' White, Marie Harmon, Rex Lease
Western / Musical
USA
English
2807
46
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Henry Stephenson
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2807
46
Frank Capra
George C. Marshall, Anthony Veiller
Documentary / War / History / Short
USA
English
2807
46
Alexander Korda
Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Ann Todd, Roland Culver, Elliott Mason
Drama / Romance / Comedy / War
UK
English
2807
46
Leslie Arliss
Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie
Adventure / Drama / Crime
UK
English
2807
46
Harold S. Bucquet
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Carl Esmond
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2824
47
Otto Preminger
Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere
Film-Noir / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Detective
USA
English
