Best Movies of 1945 by Rank
72
1
Marcel Carné
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
94
2
Roberto Rossellini
Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
214
4
David Lean
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond
Romance / Drama
UK
English
402
5
Michael Curtiz
Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
410
6
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
648
8
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney, Pamela Brown
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English
747
9
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
755
10
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
760
11
Lewis Milestone
Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges
Drama / War
USA
English
777
12
Elia Kazan
Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Drama / Period Film / Family
USA
English
1208
13
John Ford, Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Drama / War
USA
English
1266
14
William A. Wellman
Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell
War / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1307
15
Jean Renoir
Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi
Drama
USA
English
1317
16
René Clair
Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez
Crime / Mystery / Drama
USA
English
1331
17
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford
Drama / Horror / Fantasy
USA
English
1395
18
David Lean
Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield
Comedy / Fantasy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
1410
19
Henry Hathaway
William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Drama / Spy / Thriller / War
USA
English
1464
20
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
1490
21
Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann
Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn
Adventure / Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
1618
22
Leo McCarey
Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan
Drama / Religion
USA
English
1645
23
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1778
24
John M. Stahl
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1825
25
Anthony Asquith
Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Stanley Holloway
Drama / War / Romance
UK
English
1958
26
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull
War / Drama
USA
English
1958
26
Delmer Daves
John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, John Ridgely, Rosemary DeCamp
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
1988
27
Walt Disney, Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Harold Young
Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz, Sterling Holloway
Animation / Family / Musical
USA
English
2027
28
John Huston
Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2103
29
George Sidney
Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi
Adventure / Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2131
30
George Marshall
Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather, Porter Hall
Comedy / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2131
30
Walter Lang, José Ferrer
Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Charles Winninger
Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2276
31
Roy Rowland
Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford
Drama / Family
USA
English
2276
31
Compton Bennett
James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott, Albert Lieven
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2332
32
H. Bruce Humberstone
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods, S.Z. Sakall, Allen Jenkins
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Gangster
USA
English
2391
33
Robert Bresson
Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2398
34
Leopold Lindtberg
Ewart G. Morrison, John Hoy, Ray Reagan
War / Drama
Switzerland
English
2412
35
Irving Rapper
Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan, Mildred Dunnock
Drama
USA
English
2508
36
André Malraux, Boris Peskine
Andrés Mejuto, Julio Peña, Pedro Codina, Miguel Del Castillo
Documentary / Drama / War
Spain / France
French
2541
37
Robert Siodmak
George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sara Allgood, Moyna MacGill
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2591
38
Henry King
Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Glenn Langan, Richard Conte
Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
2591
38
Irving Pichel
Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, J. Carrol Naish, Mikhail Rasumny
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2605
39
Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert Harris, Peter Ustinov
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA
English
2628
40
Edward Dmytryk
John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli, Richard Loo
Drama / War
USA
English
2628
40
Frank Lloyd
James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong
Action / Drama / War / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2628
40
Peter Godfrey
Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2628
40
John Cromwell
Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick, Spring Byington
Drama / Romance / Fantasy
USA
English
2628
40
Sam Newfield
Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan, Vivienne Osborne, George Meeker
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2628
40
William Dieterle
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2628
40
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers, Lois Collier
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2635
41
Allan Dwan
Dennis O'Keefe, Helen Walker, June Havoc, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Comedy
USA
English
2635
41
Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale, Morris Carnovsky
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / War / Mystery
USA
English
2635
41
Louis King
Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell, Patti Hale
Family / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2661
42
Mervyn LeRoy
Frank Sinatra, Harry McKim, Teddy Infuhr, Merrill Rodin, Axel Stordahl
Short / Family / Drama / Religion / Music
USA
English
2661
42
William Beaudine
June Carlson, Lois Austin, George Eldredge, Jimmy Clark, Hardie Albright
Drama
USA
English
2661
42
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Lloyd Nolan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2673
43
Lau Lauritzen, Bodil Ipsen
Poul Reichhardt, Lisbeth Movin, Per Buckhøj
War / Drama
Denmark
Danish
2673
43
Fridrikh Ermler
Mikhail Derzhavin, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Yuri Tolubeyev
Drama / War / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2708
44
Tay Garnett
Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore, Preston Foster
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2712
45
Charles Vidor
Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni, Nina Foch, George Coulouris
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2717
46
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Jerry Austin, John Warburton
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
2719
47
Wallace Fox
Joan Woodbury, Kane Richmond, Syd Saylor, Joe Devlin, George Meeker
Serial / Crime / Action / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2719
47
Jacques de Baroncelli
Josephine Baker, Micheline Presle, Georges Marchal, Raymond Aimos, Jean Tissier
Comedy / Romance / Musical
France
French
2719
47
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery, Helen Thimig
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2719
47
Arthur Crabtree
Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Peter Glenville, John Stuart
Drama / Mystery / Crime / Romance
UK
English
2719
47
Harold F. Kress
Byron Foulger, Dick Elliott, Morris Ankrum, Paul E. Burns, Edward Earle
Crime / Short
USA
English
2719
47
Oliver Drake
Jimmy Wakely, Dennis Moore, Lee 'Lasses' White, Marie Harmon, Rex Lease
Western / Musical
USA
English
2719
47
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Henry Stephenson
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2719
47
Frank Capra
George C. Marshall, Anthony Veiller
Documentary / War / History / Short
USA
English
2719
47
Alexander Korda
Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Ann Todd, Roland Culver, Elliott Mason
Drama / Romance / Comedy / War
UK
English
2719
47
Leslie Arliss
Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie
Adventure / Drama / Crime
UK
English
2719
47
Harold S. Bucquet
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Carl Esmond
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2742
48
Otto Preminger
Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere
Film-Noir / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2765
49
Humphrey Jennings
Michael Redgrave, Myra Hess, John Gielgud, Frederick Allen, George Woodbridge
Documentary / Short
UK
English
