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Best Movies of 1946 by Rank

Rating
Rank
No
Title
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
5 Stars, Top 100
57
1
It's a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra
James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers
Drama / Fantasy / Family / Romance / Religion / Cult
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
98
2
Beauty and the Beast
Jean Cocteau, René Clément
Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Paré, ly, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Romance
France / Luxembourg
French
5 Stars, Top 100
100
3
The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
110
4
Notorious
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Mystery
USA
English
5 Stars
196
5
My Darling Clementine
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan
Western
USA
English
5 Stars
208
6
A Matter of Life and Death
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough
Fantasy / Romance / Comedy
UK
English
5 Stars
224
7
Great Expectations
David Lean
John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Family
UK
English
5 Stars
236
8
The Big Sleep
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
390
9
The Killers
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
459
10
Paisan
Roberto Rossellini
Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore
War / Drama
Italy
Italian
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Rating
Rank
No
Title
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
4.5 Stars
657
11
Gilda
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
4.5 Stars
686
12
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Tay Garnett
Lana Turner, John Garfield
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
4.5 Stars
901
13
The Spiral Staircase
Robert Siodmak
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
4 Stars
1009
14
Green for Danger
Sidney Gilliat
Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Rosamund John, Alastair Sim
Mystery / Detective / Crime
UK
English
4 Stars
1098
15
Shoe-Shine
Vittorio De Sica
Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni
Drama
Italy
Italian
4 Stars
1333
16
The Yearling
Clarence Brown
Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.
Drama / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1388
17
The Stranger
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1398
18
Anna and the King of Siam
John Cromwell
Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1625
19
The Razor's Edge
Edmund Goulding
Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1728
20
The Jolson Story
Alfred E. Green
Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin, Ludwig Donath
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1864
21
The Overlanders
Harry Watt
Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell
Adventure / History / Drama
Australia / UK
English
3.5 Stars
1897
22
Song of the South
Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson
Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Luana Patten, Lucile Watson
Adventure / Family / Musical / Animation / Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1988
23
Duel in the Sun
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
3 Stars
2091
24
Ziegfeld Follies
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
3 Stars
2093
25
Humoresque
Jean Negulesco
Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish, Joan Chandler
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2227
26
Cluny Brown
Ernst Lubitsch
Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2227
26
The Murderers Are Among Us
Wolfgang Staudte
Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi, Marlise Ludwig
Drama / War / Romance
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2248
27
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Jean Renoir
Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2316
28
The Blue Dahlia
George Marshall
Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2320
29
Caesar and Cleopatra
Gabriel Pascal
Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2320
29
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Lewis Milestone
Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2320
29
To Each His Own
Mitchell Leisen
Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, Phillip Terry, Bill Goodwin
Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2335
30
Utamaro and His Five Women
Kenji Mizoguchi
Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Drama / Biography / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2374
31
La Symphonie Pastorale
Jean Delannoy
Michèle Morgan, Pierre Blanchar
Drama / Romance / Religion
France
French
2.5 Stars
2511
32
Bedlam
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser, Glen Vernon, Ian Wolfe
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2511
32
The Harvey Girls
George Sidney
Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien
Musical / Western / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2528
33
Night and Day
Michael Curtiz
Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Ginny Simms, Jane Wyman, Eve Arden
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2553
34
The Chase
Arthur Ripley
Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Jack Holt
Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2601
35
Let There Be Light
John Huston
Walter Huston
Documentary / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2605
36
The Captive Heart
Basil Dearden
Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister, Mervyn Johns, Rachel Thomas
War / Drama
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2605
36
Sister Kenny
Dudley Nichols
Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2605
36
Three Strangers
Jean Negulesco
Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre, Robert Shayne
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
37
The Beast with Five Fingers
Robert Florey
Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, J. Carrol Naish
Horror
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
37
Crisis
Ingmar Bergman
Wiktor Andersson, Anna-Lisa Baude, Allan Bohlin, Julia Cæsar
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2.5 Stars
2689
37
Gates of the Night
Marcel Carné
Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Saturnin Fabre
Drama / Romance
France
French
2.5 Stars
2689
37
A Night in Casablanca
Archie Mayo
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake, Lois Collier, Sig Ruman
Comedy / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
37
Outcry
Aldo Vergano
Elli Parvo, Massimo Serato, Lea Padovani, Vittorio Duse, Carlo Lizzani
War / Drama / Action
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2689
37
Road to Utopia
Hal Walker
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille
Adventure / Family / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
37
Somewhere in Berlin
Gerhard Lamprecht
Charles Brauer, Hans Trinkaus, Siegfried Utecht, Harry Hindemith, Hedda Sarnow
Drama / War
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2689
37
The Time of Their Lives
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes, John Shelton
Comedy / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2691
38
The Dark Mirror
Robert Siodmak
Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Charles Evans
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2691
38
I See a Dark Stranger
Frank Launder
Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Norman Shelley
Drama / Thriller / Spy / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2756
39
George Stevens World War II Footage (1943-46)
George Stevens
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2756
39
John Henry and the Inky-Poo
George Pal
Rex Ingram
Animation / Short / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2756
39
The Story of Menstruation
unknown
Gloria Blondell
Animation / Short / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2779
40
Men Without Wings
Frantisek Cáp
Gustav Nezval
Drama
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2.5 Stars
2779
40
Neecha Nagar
Chetan Anand
Uma Anand, Kamini Kaushal
Drama
India
Hindi
2.5 Stars
2788
41
Glinka
Lev Arnshtam
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Serova, Vasily Merkuryev, Katya Ivanova
Biography / Drama / Musical / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2790
42
The Green Years
Victor Saville
Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2792
43
From This Day Forward
John Berry
Joan Fontaine, Mark Stevens, Rosemary DeCamp, Harry Morgan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2800
44
Battle of the Rails
René Clément
Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand
Drama / War
France
French
2.5 Stars
2807
45
The Bamboo Blonde
Anthony Mann
Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Russell Wade, Iris Adrian, Richard Martin
Music / War / Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
45
Black Angel
Roy William Neill
Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling
Adventure / Crime / Film-Noir / Music / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
45
The Dark Corner
Henry Hathaway
Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens, Kurt Kreuger
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
45
Decoy
Jack Bernhard
Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
45
The Haunted Mine
Derwin Abrahams
Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Linda Leighton, Riley Hill, John Merton
Romance / Western / Action
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
45
Moon Over Montana
Oliver Drake
Jimmy Wakely, Lee 'Lasses' White, Jennifer Holt, Jack Ingram, Louise Arthur
Western / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
45
Robinson Crusoe
Aleksandr Andriyevsky
Pavel Kadochnikov, Yuri Lyubimov, Aleksandr Smiranin, E. Sanikidze, V. Pavlenko
Adventure / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2807
45
A Scandal in Paris
Douglas Sirk
George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart
Adventure / Crime / Romance / Comedy / Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
45
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta, Edgar Barrier
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
45
Till the Clouds Roll By
Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney
June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin
Biography / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
45
Tomorrow is Forever
Irving Pichel
Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2807
45
Traffic with the Devil
Gunther von Fritsch
Charles Reineke, Ben Hall, Ralph Montgomery, Gil Perkins, Jason Robards Sr.
Short / Drama / Documentary
USA
English
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