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| 1 |  | Bells of St. Mary's, The (1945) |  3.3992 14 reviews | NA | Christmas |
$9.99
| Father O'Malley the unconventional priest from 'Going My Way' continues his work for the Catholic ...more about Bells of St. Mary's starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman |
| 2 |  | Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945) | 3.3429 18 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Based on Betty Smith’s 1943 novel, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, is the story of a brave young girl ...more about Tree Grows in Brooklyn starring Dorothy McGuire and Joan Blondell |
| 3 |  | Brief Encounter (1945) |  3.1559 47 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$23.99
| On a cafe at a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson meets doctor Alec Harvey. Although they are ...more about Brief Encounter starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard |
| 4 |  | Detour (1945) | 3.1323 41 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$4.99
| In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl Sue. ...more about Detour starring Esther Howard and Ann Savage |
| 5 |  | And Then There Were None (1945) | 3.1173 17 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery |
$3.00
| Ten people are invited for a weekend on an island by a Mr U. N. Own, but he isn't on the island. At ...more about And Then There Were None starring Barry Fitzgerald and Walter Huston |
| 6 |  | Mildred Pierce (1945) | 3.1115 45 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Film-Noir |
$12.71
| Mildred Pierce dotes on her daughters while husband Bert looks to Maggie Binderhof for affection. ...more about Mildred Pierce starring Joan Crawford and Jack Carson |
| 7 |  | Dead of Night (1945) | 3.0715 31 reviews | NA | Horror, Mystery |
$19.91
| Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds ...more about Dead of Night starring Mervyn Johns and Roland Culver |
| 8 |  | Scarlet Street (1945) | 3.0507 22 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$5.00
| Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues ...more about Scarlet Street starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett |
| 9 |  | Clock, The (1945) | 3.0318 14 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$8.68
| Soldier Joe Allen is on a two-day leave in New York, and there he meets Alice. She agrees to show ...more about Clock starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker |
| 10 |  | Lost Weekend, The (1945) | 3.0014 32 reviews | PG | Drama, Film-Noir |
$5.89
| Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the ...more about Lost Weekend starring Jane Wyman and Phillip Terry |
| 11 |  | Southerner, The (1945) | 3.0014 14 reviews | NA | Drama |
$6.98
| Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own ...more about Southerner starring Zachary Scott and Betty Field |
| 12 | | My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) | 2.9823 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir | N/A | Some sources cite this as an early example of British film noir, which is rather interesting since ...more about My Name Is Julia Ross starring Nina Foch and Dame May Whitty |
| 13 |  | Anchors Aweigh (1945) | 2.9575 20 reviews | NA | Adventure, Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$9.76
| Two sailors, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the world, on liberty in Los Angeles, ...more about Anchors Aweigh starring Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly |
| 14 |  | Story of G.I. Joe (1945) | 2.9569 5 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Biography |
$21.99
| War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its ...more about Story of G.I. Joe starring Freddie Steele and Wally Cassell |
| 15 |  | They Were Expendable (1945) | 2.9542 19 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$6.62
| The fall of the Phillippines to the Japanese in World War II, and the heroism and tragedy of the ...more about They Were Expendable starring John Wayne and Donna Reed |
| 16 |  | 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945) | 2.9492 33 reviews | G | Drama, Romance |
$27.95
| Young middle-class Englishwoman Joan Webster is determined to have the finer things in life, and to ...more about 'I Know Where I'm Going!' starring George Carney |
| 17 |  | Woman in the Window, The (1945) | 2.9259 13 reviews | NA | Thriller, Film-Noir | N/A | Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the ...more about Woman in the Window starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett |
| 18 |  | Body Snatcher, The (1945) | 2.9157 20 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror |
$12.71
| In Edinburgh, renowned surgeon and now teacher of anatomy Dr. MacFarlane, has been paying John ...more about Body Snatcher starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi |
| 19 |  | Blithe Spirit (1945) | 2.9131 18 reviews | NA | Drama, Fantasy, Comedy | N/A | Adapted from a play by Noel Coward, Charles and his second wife Constance, are haunted by the ghost ...more about Blithe Spirit starring Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings |
| 20 |  | Leave Her to Heaven (1945) | 2.8369 33 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir |
$4.86
| Richard Harland, a young writer, meets a beautiful woman, Ellen, on a train. They fall in love and ...more about Leave Her to Heaven starring Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde |
| 21 |  | Christmas in Connecticut (1945) | 2.8167 22 reviews | NA | Christmas, Romance, Comedy |
$7.95
| Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writer. In her columns, she ...more about Christmas in Connecticut starring Barbara Stanwyck and S.Z. Sakall |
| 22 |  | House on 92nd Street, The (1945) | 2.7725 20 reviews | NA | Drama, Film-Noir |
$5.99
| Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. One ...more about House on 92nd Street starring William Eythe and Signe Hasso |
| 23 |  | Isle of the Dead (1945) |  2.7363 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Mystery |
$12.71
| On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If ...more about Isle of the Dead starring Boris Karloff and Ellen Drew |
| 24 |  | Woman in Green, The (1945) | 2.6894 12 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror, Crime, Mystery |
$4.99
| Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death ...more about Woman in Green starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce |
| 25 |  | Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945) | 2.6886 20 reviews | NA | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | N/A | Handsome, young, but morally corrupt Dorian Gray has his portrait made. As the years pass, he does ...more about Picture of Dorian Gray starring George Sanders and Hurd Hatfield |
| 26 |  | Along Came Jones (1945) | 2.6506 9 reviews | NA | Western, Comedy |
$4.86
| Riding into Payneville, easy-going cowboy Melody Jones is mistaken by the townsfolk for notorious ...more about Along Came Jones starring Gary Cooper and Loretta Young |
| 27 |  | Zombies on Broadway (1945) | 2.6026 4 reviews | NA | Fantasy, Horror, Comedy | N/A | Two inept press agents are ordered to the island of St. Sebastian to get a zombie for an opening ...more about Zombies on Broadway starring Wally Brown and Alan Carney |
| 28 |  | Captain Kidd (1945) | 2.5874 8 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama |
$4.99
| In this unhistorical account, Capt. William Kidd is already a clever, ruthless pirate when, in ...more about Captain Kidd starring Charles Laughton and Randolph Scott |
| 29 |  | Blood on the Sun (1945) | 2.5844 16 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Thriller, Romance |
$5.84
| Nick Condon is a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo who refuses to toe the Japanese line on the ...more about Blood on the Sun starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney |
| 30 |  | Kitty (1945) | 2.5844 1 reviews | NA | Drama, History | N/A | London, 1783: Kitty, a saucy wench of the slums, meets the painter Gainsborough by stealing his ...more about Kitty starring Paulette Goddard and Patric Knowles |
| 31 |  | Dolly Sisters, The (1945) | 2.5661 2 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance |
$9.99
| In 1904, Uncle Latsie comes to New York from Hungary with two little nieces, who immediately take ...more about Dolly Sisters starring Betty Grable and June Haver |
| 32 |  | Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) | 2.5615 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy | N/A | Cleopatra hasn't been on the throne of the pharoahs of Egypt very long when Julius Caesar pays a ...more about Caesar and Cleopatra starring Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh |
| 33 | | House of Dracula (1945) | 2.5554 13 reviews | NA | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$21.99
| Dracula arrives at Dr. Edelman's office asking for a cure to his vampirism. However, this is a ruse ...more about House of Dracula starring John Carradine and Martha O'Driscoll |
| 34 |  | Hangover Square (1945) | 2.5533 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime | N/A | George Harvey Bone is a composer in early 20th century London, who is under stress because he is ...more about Hangover Square starring Laird Cregar and Linda Darnell |
| 35 |  | Thin Man Goes Home, The (1945) | 2.5376 11 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Comedy, Family |
$37.01
| Nick and Nora Charles return home to spend time with Nick's family. But Daddy isn't pround of Nick ...more about Thin Man Goes Home starring William Powell and Myrna Loy |
| 36 |  | Dillinger (1945) | 2.5186 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography, Crime |
$6.81
| The rise of John Dillinger from petty criminal (including, unforgiveably, holding up a cinema) via ...more about Dillinger starring Edmund Lowe and Anne Jeffreys |
| 37 | | Cornered (1945) | 2.5143 5 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Thriller, Film-Noir | N/A | On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to ...more about Cornered starring Dick Powell and Walter Slezak |
| 38 |  | State Fair (1945) | 2.5058 9 reviews | NA | Musical, Romance |
$12.99
| Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter Margy, head for the Iowa State Fair. On the first ...more about State Fair starring Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews |
| 39 | | Spanish Main, The (1945) | 2.4857 7 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | ...more about Spanish Main starring Maureen O'Hara and Paul Henreid |
| 40 |  | Jade Mask, The (1945) | 2.4766 5 reviews | NA | Mystery |
$4.86
| Eccentric scientist Harper lives in a spooky mansion with all the trimmings: hidden lab, secret ...more about Jade Mask starring Sidney Toler and Edwin Luke |
| 41 | | Horn Blows at Midnight, The (1945) | 2.4711 5 reviews | NA | Fantasy, Comedy | N/A | Falling asleep during the Paradise Coffee ("The Coffee that Makes You Sleep") Program, the band's ...more about Horn Blows at Midnight starring Jack Benny and Alexis Smith |
| 42 |  | Enchanted Cottage, The (1945) | 2.4413 11 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance | N/A | A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his ...more about Enchanted Cottage starring Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young |
| 43 |  | Fallen Angel (1945) | 2.4218 7 reviews | NA | Mystery, Film-Noir |
$6.59
| Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), thrown off a bus for not having the fare, begins to frequent a diner ...more about Fallen Angel starring Alice Faye and Dana Andrews |
| 44 | | Confidential Agent (1945) | 2.4169 3 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller | N/A | During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier travels to England to try and buy coal. He meets ...more about Confidential Agent starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall |
| 45 |  | Flame of Barbary Coast (1945) | 2.3908 5 reviews | NA | Western |
$9.99
| Duke falls for Flaxen in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to ...more about Flame of Barbary Coast starring John Wayne and Ann Dvorak |
| 46 |  | Strange Illusion (1945) | 2.3634 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir |
$5.16
| Paul (James Lydon), a young man whose father was once lieutenant Governor of California before his ...more about Strange Illusion starring Warren William and Sally Eilers |
| 47 |  | Scarlet Clue, The (1945) | 2.3579 5 reviews | NA | Mystery |
$7.49
| Charlie Chan investigates the theft of government radar papers (the laboratory is located in the ...more about Scarlet Clue starring Sidney Toler and Ben Carter |
| 48 |  | Yolanda and the Thief (1945) | 2.3561 9 reviews | NA | Fantasy, Musical | N/A | Johnny Riggs (Fred Astaire), a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named ...more about Yolanda and the Thief starring Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer |
| 49 |  | Valley of Decision, The (1945) | 2.3515 3 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family ...more about Valley of Decision starring Greer Garson and Gregory Peck |
| 50 |  | Pursuit to Algiers (1945) | 2.3500 3 reviews | NA | Crime, Mystery |
$15.96
| Holmes and Watson on a transatlantic ocean liner escorting Nikolas, heir to a foreign throne. Also ...more about Pursuit to Algiers starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce |
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