Best Movies of 1946 by Rank
57
1
Frank Capra
James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers
Drama / Fantasy / Family / Romance / Religion / Cult
USA
English
98
2
Jean Cocteau, René Clément
Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Paré, ly, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Romance
France / Luxembourg
French
100
3
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
110
4
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Mystery
USA
English
196
5
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan
Western
USA
English
208
6
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough
Fantasy / Romance / Comedy
UK
English
224
7
David Lean
John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Family
UK
English
236
8
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
390
9
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
658
11
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
687
12
Tay Garnett
Lana Turner, John Garfield
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
901
13
Robert Siodmak
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
1011
14
Sidney Gilliat
Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Rosamund John, Alastair Sim
Mystery / Detective / Crime
UK
English
1336
16
Clarence Brown
Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.
Drama / Family
USA
English
1391
17
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1401
18
John Cromwell
Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1629
19
Edmund Goulding
Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1733
20
Alfred E. Green
Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin, Ludwig Donath
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
1870
21
Harry Watt
Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell
Adventure / History / Drama
Australia / UK
English
1903
22
Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson
Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Luana Patten, Lucile Watson
Adventure / Family / Musical / Animation / Drama
USA
English
1994
23
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
2097
24
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
2099
25
Jean Negulesco
Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish, Joan Chandler
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2234
26
Ernst Lubitsch
Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2234
26
Wolfgang Staudte
Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi, Marlise Ludwig
Drama / War / Romance
Germany
German
2255
27
Jean Renoir
Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2323
28
George Marshall
Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
2327
29
Gabriel Pascal
Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
2327
29
Lewis Milestone
Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2327
29
Mitchell Leisen
Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, Phillip Terry, Bill Goodwin
Drama / War
USA
English
2342
30
Kenji Mizoguchi
Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Drama / Biography / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2381
31
Jean Delannoy
Michèle Morgan, Pierre Blanchar
Drama / Romance / Religion
France
French
2518
32
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser, Glen Vernon, Ian Wolfe
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2518
32
George Sidney
Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien
Musical / Western / Comedy
USA
English
2535
33
Michael Curtiz
Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Ginny Simms, Jane Wyman, Eve Arden
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA
English
2559
34
Arthur Ripley
Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Jack Holt
Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2611
36
Basil Dearden
Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister, Mervyn Johns, Rachel Thomas
War / Drama
UK
English
2611
36
Dudley Nichols
Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2611
36
Jean Negulesco
Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre, Robert Shayne
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2695
37
Robert Florey
Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, J. Carrol Naish
Horror
USA
English
2695
37
Ingmar Bergman
Wiktor Andersson, Anna-Lisa Baude, Allan Bohlin, Julia Cæsar
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2695
37
Marcel Carné
Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Saturnin Fabre
Drama / Romance
France
French
2695
37
Archie Mayo
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake, Lois Collier, Sig Ruman
Comedy / Family
USA
English
2695
37
Aldo Vergano
Elli Parvo, Massimo Serato, Lea Padovani, Vittorio Duse, Carlo Lizzani
War / Drama / Action
Italy
Italian
2695
37
Hal Walker
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille
Adventure / Family / Comedy
USA
English
2695
37
Gerhard Lamprecht
Charles Brauer, Hans Trinkaus, Siegfried Utecht, Harry Hindemith, Hedda Sarnow
Drama / War
Germany
German
2695
37
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes, John Shelton
Comedy / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
2697
38
Robert Siodmak
Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Charles Evans
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2697
38
Frank Launder
Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Norman Shelley
Drama / Thriller / Spy / Romance
UK
English
2761
39
George Stevens
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2761
39
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Gloria Blondell
Animation / Short / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2793
41
Lev Arnshtam
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Serova, Vasily Merkuryev, Katya Ivanova
Biography / Drama / Musical / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2795
42
Victor Saville
Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2797
43
John Berry
Joan Fontaine, Mark Stevens, Rosemary DeCamp, Harry Morgan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2805
44
René Clément
Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand
Drama / War
France
French
2812
45
Anthony Mann
Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Russell Wade, Iris Adrian, Richard Martin
Music / War / Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2812
45
Roy William Neill
Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling
Adventure / Crime / Film-Noir / Music / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2812
45
Henry Hathaway
Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens, Kurt Kreuger
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
2812
45
Jack Bernhard
Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Gangster
USA
English
2812
45
Derwin Abrahams
Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Linda Leighton, Riley Hill, John Merton
Romance / Western / Action
USA
English
2812
45
Oliver Drake
Jimmy Wakely, Lee 'Lasses' White, Jennifer Holt, Jack Ingram, Louise Arthur
Western / Musical
USA
English
2812
45
Aleksandr Andriyevsky
Pavel Kadochnikov, Yuri Lyubimov, Aleksandr Smiranin, E. Sanikidze, V. Pavlenko
Adventure / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2812
45
Douglas Sirk
George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart
Adventure / Crime / Romance / Comedy / Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2812
45
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta, Edgar Barrier
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2812
45
Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney
June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin
Biography / Musical
USA
English
2812
45
Irving Pichel
Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2812
45
Gunther von Fritsch
Charles Reineke, Ben Hall, Ralph Montgomery, Gil Perkins, Jason Robards Sr.
Short / Drama / Documentary
USA
English
