1946 Top Ten List

  • It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
  • The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
  • The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
  • My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
  • Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Gilda (Charles Vidor)
  • Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
  • A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
  • Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat)

    • Additional 1946 Films By Rating

  • Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)
  • Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch)
  • The Other Sister (Roberto Gavaldón)
  • Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica)
  • Panique (Julien Duvivier)
  • Humoresque (Jean Negulesco)
  • The Stranger (Orson Welles)
  • Ivan the Terrible Part II: The Revolt of the Boyars (Sergei Eisenstein)
  • Great Expectations (David Lean)
  • The Dark Corner (Henry Hathaway)
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)
  • A Woman in Love (Emilio Fernández)
  • The Bamboo Blonde (Anthony Mann)