Best Movies of 1946 by Rank
61
1
Frank Capra
James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers
Drama / Fantasy / Family / Romance / Religion / Cult
USA
English
96
2
Jean Cocteau, René Clément
Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Paré, ly, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Romance
France / Luxembourg
French
101
3
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
118
4
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Mystery
USA
English
216
5
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan
Western
USA
English
217
6
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough
Fantasy / Romance / Comedy
UK
English
226
7
David Lean
John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Family
UK
English
251
8
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
420
9
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
715
11
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
797
12
Tay Garnett
Lana Turner, John Garfield
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
971
13
Robert Siodmak
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
1057
14
Sidney Gilliat
Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Rosamund John, Alastair Sim
Mystery / Detective / Crime
UK
English
1322
16
Clarence Brown
Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.
Drama / Family
USA
English
1388
17
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1409
18
John Cromwell
Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1643
19
Edmund Goulding
Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1763
20
Alfred E. Green
Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin, Ludwig Donath
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
1838
21
Harry Watt
Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell
Adventure / History / Drama
Australia / UK
English
1958
22
Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson
Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Luana Patten, Lucile Watson
Adventure / Family / Musical / Animation / Drama
USA
English
2056
23
Vincente Minnelli, Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Eugene Loring, George Sidney, Charles Walters, Norman Taurog
Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
2070
24
King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, David O. Selznick, Josef von Sternberg
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
Western / Drama / Epic / Romance
USA
English
2162
25
Jean Negulesco
Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish, Joan Chandler
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2233
26
Jean Renoir
Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2266
27
Ernst Lubitsch
Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2266
27
Wolfgang Staudte
Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi, Marlise Ludwig
Drama / War / Romance
Germany
German
2325
28
Jean Delannoy
Michèle Morgan, Pierre Blanchar
Drama / Romance / Religion
France
French
2332
29
Gabriel Pascal
Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
2332
29
Lewis Milestone
Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2332
29
Mitchell Leisen
Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, Phillip Terry, Bill Goodwin
Drama / War
USA
English
2360
30
George Marshall
Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
2400
31
Kenji Mizoguchi
Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Drama / Biography / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2456
32
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser, Glen Vernon, Ian Wolfe
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2456
32
George Sidney
Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien
Musical / Western / Comedy
USA
English
2471
33
Michael Curtiz
Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Ginny Simms, Jane Wyman, Eve Arden
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA
English
2541
35
Arthur Ripley
Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Jack Holt
Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2591
36
Basil Dearden
Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister, Mervyn Johns, Rachel Thomas
War / Drama
UK
English
2591
36
Dudley Nichols
Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2591
36
Jean Negulesco
Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre, Robert Shayne
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2628
37
Robert Florey
Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, J. Carrol Naish
Horror
USA
English
2628
37
Ingmar Bergman
Wiktor Andersson, Anna-Lisa Baude, Allan Bohlin, Julia Cæsar
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2628
37
Marcel Carné
Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Saturnin Fabre
Drama / Romance
France
French
2628
37
Archie Mayo
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake, Lois Collier, Sig Ruman
Comedy / Family
USA
English
2628
37
Aldo Vergano
Elli Parvo, Massimo Serato, Lea Padovani, Vittorio Duse, Carlo Lizzani
War / Drama / Action
Italy
Italian
2628
37
Hal Walker
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille
Adventure / Family / Comedy
USA
English
2628
37
Gerhard Lamprecht
Charles Brauer, Hans Trinkaus, Siegfried Utecht, Harry Hindemith, Hedda Sarnow
Drama / War
Germany
German
2628
37
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes, John Shelton
Comedy / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
2635
38
Robert Siodmak
Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Charles Evans
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2635
38
Frank Launder
Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Norman Shelley
Drama / Thriller / Spy / Romance
UK
English
2661
39
George Stevens
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2661
39
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Gloria Blondell
Animation / Short / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2681
41
René Clément
Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand
Drama / War
France
French
2699
42
Lev Arnshtam
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Serova, Vasily Merkuryev, Katya Ivanova
Biography / Drama / Musical / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2702
43
Victor Saville
Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2719
44
Anthony Mann
Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Russell Wade, Iris Adrian, Richard Martin
Music / War / Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2719
44
Roy William Neill
Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling
Adventure / Crime / Film-Noir / Music / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2719
44
Henry Hathaway
Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens, Kurt Kreuger
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
2719
44
Jack Bernhard
Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Gangster
USA
English
2719
44
Derwin Abrahams
Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Linda Leighton, Riley Hill, John Merton
Romance / Western / Action
USA
English
2719
44
Oliver Drake
Jimmy Wakely, Lee 'Lasses' White, Jennifer Holt, Jack Ingram, Louise Arthur
Western / Musical
USA
English
2719
44
Aleksandr Andriyevsky
Pavel Kadochnikov, Yuri Lyubimov, Aleksandr Smiranin, E. Sanikidze, V. Pavlenko
Adventure / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2719
44
Douglas Sirk
George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart
Adventure / Crime / Romance / Comedy / Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2719
44
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta, Edgar Barrier
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2719
44
Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney
June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin
Biography / Musical
USA
English
2719
44
Irving Pichel
Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2719
44
Gunther von Fritsch
Charles Reineke, Ben Hall, Ralph Montgomery, Gil Perkins, Jason Robards Sr.
Short / Drama / Documentary
USA
English
2751
45
John Berry
Joan Fontaine, Mark Stevens, Rosemary DeCamp, Harry Morgan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
