The Best Films Ever Made - 1945

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

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.

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.

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

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.

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

Londoner Dorian Gray stays young, but his portrait ages.

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.

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 promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.

A plain maid and a wounded war veteran are transformed by their love for each other while residing in an enchanted honeymoon cottage.

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

A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.

Ten people fleeing Rouen invaded by the Prussians, Rousset nicknamed ball of tallow among them, give to a Prussian to save other passengers who still despise. However, on later nobody could underestimate her being how brave .

A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.

An engineer kills his first Wife, then woos her sister.

Through a nosy employment agency, Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes, and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house, in different clothes, and with a new identity. She's told she is the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Hughes and has suffered a nervous breakdown. Is Julia really "Julia", or is it true that she's lost all memory of who she is?

A Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.

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.

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.

Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl, and the third describes a serious intellectual. Which one is the real Susan?

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 young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.

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.

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.