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Subgenre Sampler
Isle of the Dead (1945)- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew - Boris Karloff stars in this Val Lewton "superstitious chiller" about a group of plague–ridden people quarantined on a tiny Greek…
Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne (1945)- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Maria Casares - Dir. Bresson and writer Jean Cocteau are strange bedfellows in this lush, stylish drama, well–removed from the director’s austere later…
Les Enfants Du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945)
- Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur… - This resplendent evocation of nineteeth century Paris street theatre follows the love of mime Jean–Louis Barrault for the highly–strung…
Lost Weekend, The (1945)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Howard da Silva… - Would–be novelist Ray Milland's personal frustrations bring on a three day drinking binge of desperate, terrifying proportions. Laced with a…
Mildred Pierce (1945)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Joan Crawford - Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her career–defining role as a stoical housewife–turned–waitress who finds success in business, but…
My Friend Flicka (1945)- Dir. Harold Schuster
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson - Rancher lad Roddy McDowall is finally allowed a horse of his own, but chooses a wild, unmanageable colt, whose trust he only slowly, and painfully,…
Objective, Burma (1945)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Errol Flynn, James Brown - A swift, gritty WW2 actioner in which Errol Flynn heads a paratroop mission to disable a Japanese radar station against considerable odds.
Place of One's Own, A (1945)- Dir. Bernard Knowles
Feat. James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price… - Elegant Victorian ghost story has an elderly couple James Mason and Margaret Lockwood buy a house possessed by a spirit who begins to fascinate their…
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)- Dir. Irving Rapper
Feat. Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith… - George Gershwin's life and work is given a good glossing over from Hollywood, but the magical music keeps things sprightly for over two hours.
Rome: Open City (1945)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi - Neo–realist war drama about resistance fighters in fascist Italy places the action right inside the everyday and humanises the heroic.…
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