In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.

Isle of the Dead

1945

English

6.4

♡ 4

90%

Mark Robson Director

Jason Robards Sr. as Albrecht

Skelton Knaggs as Andrew Robbins

Boris Karloff as Gen. Nikolas Pherides

Ellen Drew as Thea

On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.

Objective, Burma!

1945

English

7.3

♡ 5

86%

Raoul Walsh Director

Errol Flynn as Capt. Nelson

William Hudson as Fred Hollis

John Alvin as Hogan

Richard Erdman as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.

Journey Together

1945

English

6.5

♡ 4

John Boulting Director

Edward G. Robinson as Dean McWilliams

Alastair Sim as Guest

Jack Watling as John Aynesworth

Bessie Love as Mrs. Mary McWilliams

Two Englishmen train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.

Anchors Aweigh

1945

English

7.0

♡ 12

56%

live action and animation

George Sidney Director

Lester Dorr as Assistant Director

Dean Stockwell as Donald Martin

Ruth Lee as Kindergarten Teacher

Forbes Murray as Passerby

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.

The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne

1945

French

7.1

♡ 8

100%

Robert Bresson Director

Elina Labourdette as Agnès

Jean Marchat as Jacques

Yvette Etiévant as La bonne

Blanchette Brunoy as (uncredited)

A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute.

The Vampire's Ghost

1945

English

5.9

♡ 3

40%

Lesley Selander Director

Peg Stewart as Julie Vance

Adele Mara as Lisa

Martin Wilkins as Simon Peter

John Abbott as Webb Fallon

In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of the past few hundred years.

Paris Frills

1945

French

6.9

♡ 5

Jacques Becker Director

Christiane Barry as Lucienne

Micheline Presle as Micheline Lafaurie

François Joux as Murier

Georges Bréhat as (uncredited)

Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is also a sharp picture of the fashion world.

The Bellman

1945

French

6.4

♡ 2

Christian-Jaque Director

Renée Faure as Catherine Fabret

Georges Tourreil as Le brigadier de gendarmerie

Jacques Butin as Le gendarme

Michel Piccoli as Un villageois qui danse à la fête

The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to bribe the daughter of his only friend, a head injury victim considered the village simpleton, into marrying him, despite her love for a lowly woodsman who is, in turn, being cajoled into marriage by the daughter of the wealthy innkeeper.

La fiancée des ténèbres

1945

French

6.2

♡ 3

Serge de Poligny Director

Robert Dhéry as L'aubergiste de Tournebelle

Léonce Corne as Le docteur

Édouard Delmont as M. Toulzac

Jean-Pierre Belmon as Tristan

Sylvie, a young woman who believes to be cursed, lives in the town of Carcassonne with her guardian, Mr. Toulzac. He is a retired teacher who wishes to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. Sylvie meets Roland, a composer who instills new hope into her troubled mind. Mr. Toulzac then asks her then to renounce the world and go down a secret tomb he has just found.

Christmas in Connecticut

1945

English

7.3

♡ 7

89%

Peter Godfrey Director

Dennis Morgan as Jefferson Jones

Joyce Compton as Mary Lee

Walter Baldwin as Sheriff Potter

Frank Jenks as Sinkewicz

While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.

A Walk in the Sun

1945

English

6.9

♡ 6

86%

Lewis Milestone Director

John Ireland as Pfc. Windy Craven

Steve Brodie as Pvt. Judson

Richard Conte as Pvt. Rivera

Herbert Rudley as Sgt. Eddie Porter

In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.

Idiots Deluxe

1945

English

7.6

♡ 6

Comedy

short

short film

Jules White Director

Vernon Dent as Judge

Larry Fine as Larry

Gwen Seager as Mamie

Moe Howard as Moe

Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the woods they confronted a bear which Curly and Larry stunned, and thinking it was dead, threw it in the back of their car, where it came awake, tossed Moe out and drove the car into a tree. The judge finds Moe not guilty and Moe promptly goes after Larry and Curly again with the ax.

I Know Where I'm Going!

1945

English

7.4

♡ 16

100%

Michael Powell Director

Petula Clark as Cheril

Arthur Chesney as Harmonica Player

Anthony Eustrel as Hooper

Roger Livesey as Torquil MacNeil

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.

The Clock

1945

English

7.3

♡ 5

100%

Fred Zinnemann Director

Robert Walker as Corporal Joe Allen

Paul Newlan as Garbage Man

Terry Moore as Girl at Museum

Keenan Wynn as The Drunk

A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.

Spellbound

1945

English

7.5

♡ 28

86%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Regis Toomey as Det. Sgt. Gillespie

Ingrid Bergman as Dr. Constance Petersen

Addison Richards as Police Captain

Irving Bacon as Railway Gateman

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.

Road to Utopia

1945

English

7.1

♡ 9

100%

Hal Walker Director

Douglass Dumbrille as Ace Larson

Hillary Brooke as Kate

Nestor Paiva as McGurk

Paul Newlan as Tough Ship's Purser

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.