1945

Film Decades: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • The Abandoned (Las Abandonadas), starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz – (Mexico)
  • Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
  • Allotment Wives, starring Kay Francis
  • Along Came Jones – starring Gary Cooper & Loretta Young
  • Amok – (Mexico)
  • Anchors Aweigh – starring Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra
  • And Then There Were None – starring Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Judith Anderson
  • Back to Bataan – directed by Edward Dmytryk, with John Wayne
  • A Bell For Adano – starring Gene Tierney & John Hodiak
  • The Bells of St. Mary’s – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Bing Crosby & Ingrid Bergman
  • Blithe Spirit – directed by David Lean, starring Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings, based on the play by Noël Coward – (GB)
  • Blood on the Sun, starring James Cagney
  • The Body Snatcher, directed by Robert Wise, starring Boris Karloff
  • Boule de suif (Angel and Sinner) – (France)
  • Bougainvillea (Bugambilia), starring Pedro Armendariz and Dolores del Río – (Mexico)
  • Brewster’s Millions, starring Dennis O’Keefe
  • Brief Encounter – directed by David Lean, starring Celia Johnson & Trevor Howard- (GB)
  • Caesar and Cleopatra – directed by Gabriel Pascal, starring Vivien Leigh & Claude Rains – (GB)
  • Captain Kidd, starring Charles Laughton
  • The Cheaters, starring Joseph Schildkraut and Billie Burke
  • The Cherokee Flash, starring Sunset Carson and Linda Stirling
  • Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), by Marcel Carné, starring Arletty, released following the liberation of France
  • Christmas in Connecticut – directed by Peter Godfrey, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
  • Circus Cavalcade (La cabalgata del circo) – (Argentina)
  • The Clock – directed by Vincente Minnelli (taking over from Fred Zinnermann), starring Judy Garland
  • Confidential Agent, starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall
  • Conflict – directed by Curtis Bernhardt, starring Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet
  • Counter-Attack, starring Paul Muni and Marguerite Chapman
  • The Corn Is Green, starring Bette Davis and John Dall
  • Cornered, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Dick Powell
  • Crime Doctor’s Warning – directed by William Castle
  • Dakota – starring John Wayne
  • Les dames du Bois de Boulogne, directed by Robert Bresson – (France)
  • Dead of Night, Ealing Studios chiller compendium starring Mervyn Johns and Googie Withers – (GB)
  • Death Mills – directed by Billy Wilder
  • Detour, starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage
  • Diamond Horseshoe, starring Betty Grable
  • Dick Tracy, starring Morgan Conway and Mike Mazurki
  • Dillinger, starring Lawrence Tierney
  • The Dolly Sisters, starring Betty Grable
  • The Enchanted Cottage, starring Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young
  • The Enchanted Forest, starring Harry Davenport
  • Escape in the Fog, starring Otto Kruger and Nina Foch
  • Fallen Angel – directed by Otto Preminger, starring Alice Faye in her last major film role, Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell
  • Flame of Barbary Coast – starring John Wayne
  • The Great Flamarion – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Erich von Stroheim
  • Guest Wife – starring Claudette Colbert & Don Ameche
  • Gun Smoke, starring Johnny Mack Brown and Jennifer Holt
  • Hangover Square, starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell and George Sanders
  • Here Come the Co-Eds, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
  • High Powered, starring Phyllis Brooks and Robert Lowery
  • The Horn Blows at Midnight, starring Jack Benny
  • Hotel Berlin, starring Faye Emerson and Raymond Massey
  • The House I Live In, a short film starring Frank Sinatra
  • House of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and John Carradine
  • The House on 92nd Street, produced by Louis de Rochemont, starring Lloyd Nolan and Signe Hasso
  • Humayun, starring Ashok Kumar – (India)
  • I Know Where I’m Going!, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey – (GB)
  • I Live in Grosvenor Square, starring Anna Neagle, Rex Harrison and Robert Morley – (GB)
  • I’ll Be Your Sweetheart, directed by Val Guest, starring Margaret Lockwood (GB)
  • Incendiary Blonde, starring Betty Hutton
  • The Invisible Army (Den usynlige hær) – (Denmark)
  • Isle of the Dead, starring Boris Karloff and Ellen Drew
  • It’s in the Bag!, starring Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche
  • Johnny Angel, starring George Raft and Claire Trevor
  • Kiss and Tell, starring Shirley Temple
  • Kitty, directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Paulette Goddard and Ray Milland
  • Lady on a Train, starring Deanna Durbin and Ralph Bellamy
  • The Last Chance (Die letzte Chance) – (Switzerland)
  • Leave Her to Heaven – directed by John M. Stahl, starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price
  • Life Begins Anew, directed by Mario Mattoli starring Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti (Italy)
  • The Lost Letter (Propavshaya gramota) – (USSR)
  • The Lost Weekend – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Ray Milland & Jane Wyman
  • Love Letters, starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten
  • Madonna of the Seven Moons, starring Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger – (GB)
  • The Man in Half Moon Street, starring Nils Asther
  • A Medal for Benny, starring Dorothy Lamour
  • The Men who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi) – directed by Akira Kurosawa – (Japan)
  • Mildred Pierce – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
  • Mom and Dad, a hygiene documentary
  • Momotaro, Sacred Sailors (Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei), the first feature-length animated film from Japan
  • My Name is Julia Ross, starring Nina Foch
  • The Naughty Nineties, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
  • Objective, Burma! – starring Errol Flynn
  • Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, starring Edward G. Robinson & Margaret O’Brien
  • Pardon My Past, starring Fred MacMurray and Marguerite Chapman
  • Perfect Strangers, starring Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr – (GB)
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring George Sanders and Hurd Hatfield
  • Pillow to Post – directed by Vincent Sherman, starring Ida Lupino, Sydney Greenstreet, William Prince
  • Pink String and Sealing Wax, starring Googie Withers and Mervyn Johns – (GB)
  • La porta del cielo (The Gate of Heaven) – directed by Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
  • Pride of the Marines, starring John Garfield
  • Pursuit to Algiers – starring Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce
  • The Rake’s Progress, starring Rex Harrison – (GB)
  • The Red Meadows (De røde enge) – (Denmark)
  • Rhapsody in Blue, a biopic of George Gershwin starring Robert Alda
  • Rockin’ in the Rockies, starring the Three Stooges
  • Roll Call in Heaven (Cuando en el cielo pasen lista) – (Argentina)
  • Rome, Open City (Roma Città aperta) – directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi – Italy
  • A Royal Scandal – directed by Otto Preminger & Ernst Lubitsch, starring Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, Vincent Price
  • Rustlers’ Hideout, starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John
  • Salome Where She Danced, starring Yvonne De Carlo
  • San Antonio – starring Errol Flynn & Alexis Smith
  • Saratoga Trunk – directed by Sam Wood, starring Gary Cooper & Ingrid Bergman
  • Scarlet Street – directed by Fritz Lang, starring Edward G. Robinson & Joan Bennett
  • La selva de fuego (The Forest Fire), starring Dolores del Río and Arturo de Córdova – (Mexico)
  • The Seventh Veil, starring James Mason and Ann Todd – (GB)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear – starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
  • Son of Lassie, starring Peter Lawford
  • A Song to Remember, a biopic of Frédéric Chopin starring Cornel Wilde
  • The Southerner, starring Zachary Scott
  • The Spanish Main – starring Maureen O’Hara & Paul Henreid
  • Spellbound – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ingrid Bergman & Gregory Peck
  • State Fair, starring Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain
  • The Stork Club, starring Betty Hutton
  • The Story of G.I. Joe, directed by William Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum
  • The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, starring George Sanders
  • That’s the Spirit, starring Jack Oakie
  • They Were Expendable – directed by John Ford, starring Robert Montgomery & John Wayne
  • The Thin Man Goes Home, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
  • The Three Caballeros, a Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Dora Luz
  • Thrill of a Romance, directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Esther Williams and Van Johnson
  • Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, starring Roddy McDowall
  • Tonight and Every Night – starring Rita Hayworth
  • A Tree Grows In Brooklyn – directed by Elia Kazan, starring Dorothy McGuire
  • Twice Blessed, starring Lee and Lyn Wilde
  • Two O’Clock Courage, starring Ann Rutherford and Tom Conway
  • The Unseen, starring Joel McCrea and Gail Russell
  • The Valley of Decision, starring Greer Garson and Gregory Peck
  • La vida en un hilo (Life on a Wire) – (Spain)
  • Voice of the Whistler – directed by William Castle
  • A Walk in the Sun, starring Dana Andrews
  • War Comes to American – directed by Frank Capra & Anatole Litvak
  • Waterloo Road, starring John Mills and Stewart Granger – (GB)
  • The Way to the Stars, starring John Mills and Michael Redgrave, written by Terence Rattigan – (GB)
  • The Wicked Lady, starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason – (GB)
  • Without Love – starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball
  • The Woman in Green – starring Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) & Nigel Bruce
  • Wonder Man – directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, starring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, & S.Z Sakall
  • Yolanda and the Thief – starring Fred Astaire & Lucille Bremer
  • Ziegfeld Follies, with an MGM all-star cast