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HumoresqueHumoresque (1946) Recommended
Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Joan Crawford, John Garfield
Elegant drama features Joan Crawford in a towering performance as wealthy patron who falls in love with a gifted musician. A masterpiece of the…
Locket, TheLocket, The (1946)
Dir. John Brahm
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Laraine Day, Brian Aherne
Film noir set during the day of a wedding, where a surprise guest tries to convince the groom that his bride–to–be is in fact a murderer…
Man I Love, TheMan I Love, The (1946)
Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett
Romantic drama about a New York lounge singer who becomes homesick and decides to visit her siblings on the West Coast, where she unexpectedly falls…
Matter of Life and Death, AMatter of Life and Death, A (1946) Recommended
Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. David Niven
By a miracle, RAF pilot David Niven escapes certain death, only to find he must argue for his right to live before a 'heavenly tribunal'. A…
PaisaPaisa (1946) Recommended
Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emmanuel
Six short films focusing on the minor victories and losses of ordinary folk during WW2. Pioneering the now–familiar use of documentary footage,…
Razor's Edge, TheRazor's Edge, The (1946)
Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter
Engrossing adaptation of Somerset Maugham's philosophical novel about an affluent war veteran's worldly search for spiritual fulfillment.
ShoeshineShoeshine (Sciuscia) (1946) Recommended
Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Perhaps Vittorio De Sica's first acknowledged masterpiece, concerns two young boys struggling to survive on the streets of post–WWII Rome by…
Years Between, TheYears Between, The (1946)
Dir. Compton Bennett
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Dame Flora Robson
Michael Redgrave plays a British MI6 officer who returns home after working for the French Resistance to find that his wife, who had presumed him…
A Bell For AdanoA Bell For Adano (1945)
Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix
Hodiak plays an army major assigned to restore order in a small Italian town in this gentle–natured drama. The luminous –and blonde…
A Tree Grows in BrooklynA Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn
Dir. Kazan's restrained debut, adapting Betty Smith's novel about a family of immigrants making do in the Brooklyn tenements of the early 20th…

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