11. My Darling Clementine
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: John Ford
Actors: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt
Plot: The famous story of the feud between Wyatt Earp and the Clantons, and their showdown at the OK Corral, is masterfully retold by John Ford in this classic western.
12. The Killers
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Siodmak
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, William Conrad
Plot: A boxer is murdered to little resistance and an insurance investigator is hired to connect the dots uncovering a past robbery.
13. The Spiral Staircase
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Siodmak
Actors: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Rhonda Fleming, Elsa Lanchester, Rhys Williams
Plot: A killer is stalking women. There's a creepy house, a mute servant girl and some questionable residents.
14. Matter of Life and Death, A ( Stairway to Heaven )
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Actors: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough, Roger Livesey
Plot: A British aviator returning from a bombing run during WWII barely escapes the wreckage of his burning plane, but not before making contact with Juna, an USAAF radio operator. Waking up on the surf, he meets and falls in love with June only to learn that he was supposed to die, but was overlooked. Pleading for a chance at life, he is granted his wish and must present his case at a celestial trial that will determine his future.
15. Day in the Country, A ( Partie de campagne )
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Renoir
Actors: Sylvia Bataille, Georges D'Arnoux, Jane Marken, André Gabriello, Jacques B. Brunius, Paul Temps
Plot: The family of a Parisian shop owner spends a day in the countryside. The daughter comes across a man at an inn and falls in love with the two spending the day together.
16. Rome, Open City ( Roma, città aperta )
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno, Harry Feist
Plot: In 1944, resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Gestapo. Realizing his only chance for survival is to flee the city, he enlists the help of a friend - who in turn goes to a priest - in order to facilitate his escape. But a betrayal from someone close to him threatens everything.
17. Song of the South
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson
Actors: Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Hattie McDaniel, Luana Patten, Lucile Watson
Plot: During the southern reconstruction, A young boy’s father goes on a trip for a period of time leaving the boy and his mother on a large plantation. only the stories told by the kindly Uncle Remus and a pet dog are there to try and fill the hole were his father once was.
The stories that Uncle Remus tells are of a cast of characters including Br’er Rabbit, Br’er Bear and Br’er Fox. Br’er Bear and Br’er Fox are constantly trying to capture Br’er Rabbit, but Br’er Rabbit always gets away and learns a lesson along the way.
Soon the boy’s mother who is also trying to cope with her husbands leaving try’s to take both the dog and the stories away from him. It’s up to the boy and Uncle Remus that the stories can helpful rather then harmful.
18. The Blue Dahlia
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Marshall
Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Tom Powers
Plot: A husband returns home from the war and discovers that his wife has been less than faithful. When she's murdered, he becomes the prime suspect.
19. No Regrets for Our Youth ( Waga seishun ni kuinashi )
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Eiko Miyoshi, Kokuten Kodo, Akitake Kôno
20. Angel on My Shoulder
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Archie Mayo
Actors: Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains, Onslow Stevens, George Cleveland, Erskine Sanford
Plot: The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
