101 Films: 1945

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.

During WW2, a Mexican stand-off ensues between a group of German soldiers and a team of Soviet fighters trapped together in the basement of a bombed-out Russian building.

The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.

A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.

A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.

The life of the poor Tucker family who worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature was against them.

A Japanese general and his men disguise themselves as monks in order to pass an enemy border patrol.

In 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.

A dull married couple, separated by their enlistment during World War II, reunite after three years to find that they have become very different people.

During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.

The directorial debut of K. Asif, best known for his Mughal-e-Azam (1960), is a big buget Amrohi drama set in a Muslim Joint family. Safdar loses his inheritance through his sister-in-law's machinations but he still had to honour his promise to complete the building of a mosque started by his father.

A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.

In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

At the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with, and reports on, the U.S. Army's 77th Infantry Division during their liberation of Italy.

A dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination.

Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.

A medical student who wants to be a crooner gets involved with a showgirl who has an ulterior motive.