Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Man I Love, The (1946)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett… - Romantic drama about a New York lounge singer who becomes homesick and decides to visit her siblings on the West Coast, where she unexpectedly falls…
Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. David Niven - By a miracle, RAF pilot David Niven escapes certain death, only to find he must argue for his right to live before a 'heavenly tribunal'. A…
Paisa (1946)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emmanuel - Six short films focusing on the minor victories and losses of ordinary folk during WW2. Pioneering the now–familiar use of documentary footage,…
Razor's Edge, The (1946)- Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter… - Engrossing adaptation of Somerset Maugham's philosophical novel about an affluent war veteran's worldly search for spiritual fulfillment.
Shoeshine (Sciuscia) (1946)- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
- Perhaps Vittorio De Sica's first acknowledged masterpiece, concerns two young boys struggling to survive on the streets of post–WWII Rome by…
Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Minosuke Bando, Kinuyo Tanaka - Biographical drama about the 18th century printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro, and the women (mostly brothel workers) who inspired his work.
Years Between, The (1946)- Dir. Compton Bennett
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Dame Flora Robson - Michael Redgrave plays a British MI6 officer who returns home after working for the French Resistance to find that his wife, who had presumed him…
A Bell For Adano (1945)- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix… - Hodiak plays an army major assigned to restore order in a small Italian town in this gentle–natured drama. The luminous –and blonde…
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn… - Dir. Kazan's restrained debut, adapting Betty Smith's novel about a family of immigrants making do in the Brooklyn tenements of the early 20th…
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)- Dir. Gabriel Pascal
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Claude Rains… - The oft–told tale of the First Roman Emperor and the Queen of Egpyt, here adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play. Stagey filming is offset by…
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