The Best Movies Of 1945

A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in...

A series of murders of women, each with their right forefinger severed, leads to the creation of Dr. and the world's most famous detective. Professor Moriarty is the mastermind of the blackmail scheme...

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination cam...

Blackie accidentally sold a fake Charles Dickens first edition at an auction and was implicated in a murder.

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton, wanders into a small California town and hangs out at the diner. Eric falls in love with a well-to-do woman named June Mills, while he also falls in love with a lo...

After her unfaithful husband leaves her, she becomes independent and successful. Winning the approval of her daughter is a bigger challenge.

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalo...

Private Snafu learns about fear

After Pearl Harbor, a squadron of boats in the Philippines have to battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the boats and the...

This documentary was secretly and 'illegally' shot inside the prison camps, established during World War II by American authorities to detain US citizens of Japanese descent who were considered a pote...

After the King of Ruthenia has been killed, a transatlantic ocean liner carrying a number of suspicious people and a plot to assassinate him, will be used to escort his son to Europe.

Two cats battle violently for the affections of a pretty girl cat, who will give her favors to the one who brings her a little bird. Unfortunately for the lovestruck felines, the bird in question is a...

The death of the scientist's young son is the result of his boss releasing the vaccine before it's ready, which is why the scientist is working on a cure for the flu.

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

Walter Craig finds himself once again stuck in his nightmare when he seeks the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse. He must listen to the strange stories of the assembled guests before rea...

The training that Alsatian dogs would have received for war and non-combative work is revealed in the 1945 film. The source is the British Film Institute, https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv- people/565c...

The Österman brothers have come to realize that they need a housekeeper. Oldest brother Kalle travel to town and return with the young and modern Anna.

Edinburgh was founded in the year 1831. A cab driver named Gray is one of the people who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery. Gray was a medical student when he was convicted of a grave robbe...

The tale is set in Uzbekistan.

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders, this film consists primarily of dead and surviving prisoners and of facilities use...

A married couple dread their postwar reunion because of World War II service changes.

Porky can't sleep because mice demolish his plates. A cat offers help and gets the mice out, but invites some friends so Porky still can't sleep.

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try...

Personal stories of a handful of Air Force recruits.

In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together.

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany.

The Lost Letter is a 1945 Soviet animated film that was directed by the Brumberg sisters and Lamis Bredis. It's the first Soviet feature film that uses animation. The story is based on the one written...

Christopher Cross, a cashier and part-time starving artist, loves the Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. Johnny and Kitty were tricked into letting K...

A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.

Vicki Morrison is the niece of the irascible old scoundrel Uncle William Morrison. When Vicki's boyfriend and owner of a Broadway nightclub Duke Randall needs $63,000 in a hurry, Vicki fakes her own k...

The US Government tries to find embedded Nazi agents.

The series portrays the life of knight and poet Antarah ibn Shaddad whose father refused to acknowledge him as a legitimate son. Antarah falls in love with his cousin Ablah, but he couldn't dream to m...

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.

Boarding house proprietor Wally Walrus takes out an ad in the local paper looking for a sweetheart. Woody reads this and decides he might be able to trick Wally out of some cooking if he dresses up li...

A village boy is sent to war. He becomes the Sunedar Major.

Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.

Santa visits some kids and tells them a story in the form of a cartoon in this Castle short.

Donald is a park ranger, assigned to protect the giant tree Old Sequoia from a pair of beavers that bear a striking resemblance in their tactics and speech to Chip 'n' Dale.

The truant officer is after Screwy Squirrel for not going to school, and doesn't find out the reason until he goes through a load of crazy gags while trying to catch him.

In the Black Forest, Bugs disguises himself as Hitler, Stalin and Brunhilde in order to confront Nazi Goering.

A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.

When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio proves to be a Nazi collaborationist. Casting her lo...

Man on death row narrates the story of his life from childhood up through the criminal activities he's being executed for.

Two playwrights and a former burlesque queen travel to Louisiana to research a musical they're planning on a local Southern hero.

Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers ...

Goofy narrates his own quest to Africa accompanied by various tour guides. He is in search of wild game. After run-ins with various animals while camping for the night and taking his morning plunge (r...

A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.