1. It's a Wonderful Life
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Frank Capra
Actors: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi
Plot: A down and out man is shown the light by an Angel who treats him to life on earth without himself.
2. Notorious
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin, Reinhold Schünzel
Plot: A man asks woman to spy on a group of her friends who are Nazis. Located in South America, the girl is torn between what is right and wrong.
3. The Best Years of Our Lives
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright
Plot: Three WWII veteran return home to the towns they came from in which they realized that everything has changed while they were fighting for their country.
4. The Big Sleep
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Peggy Knudsen
Plot: A private detective witnesses murder and a serious of criminal events during his investigation - he is not sure who to believe or who to love.
5. Beauty and the Beast ( belle et la bête, La - 1946 )
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Cocteau
Actors: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair, Raoul Marco
Plot: The classic tale of an ugly man and a beautiful woman - but which is the beauty and which is the beast.
6. Brief Encounter
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: David Lean
Actors: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Marjorie Mars, Everley Gregg
Plot: A woman meets an interesting man at a train station, which tempts her to cheat on her husband.
7. Children of Paradise ( enfants du paradis, Les )
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marcel Carné
Actors: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares, Gaston Modot
Plot: Follows the loves in the life of mime Baptiste and Claire Reine - who calls herself Garance - while Garance only has love for Baptiste, she is pursued by three other men. Things are complicated by the simple Nathalie, who also loves Baptiste. Love and love lost - a classic story presented in an imaginative way that deftly blends theater, literature, music and design.
8. The Postman Always Rings Twice
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tay Garnett
Actors: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter
Plot: Frank Chambers hitchhikes to an out-of-the-way gas station/diner where he finds both a job and trouble.
9. The Stranger
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Orson Welles
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale, Richard Long, Konstantin Shayne
Plot: Edward G. Robinson plays a government agent who tracks an escaped Nazi, masquerading as a teacher, to a small New England town.
10. Gilda
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Vidor
Actors: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray, Joe Sawyer
Plot: Johnny Farrell, a small-time crook, arrives in Argentina and is saved by the equally crooked Ballin Mundson - who makes him his right-hand man. When Mundson returns from a trip with the sensuous Gilda - Farrell realizes he already knows her - and it's not a pleasant reunion.
