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1. The Judge Steps Out (1948)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

A Boston judge bored with his life leaves his family and heads off for adventure. He gets a job as a short-order cook at a roadside diner and soon finds romance with the pretty owner. He ... See full summary »

Director: Boris Ingster | Stars: Alexander Knox, Ann Sothern, George Tobias, Sharyn Moffett

Votes: 361

2. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.

Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee

Votes: 9,595

3. The Farmer's Daughter (1947)

Unrated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Charles Bickford

Votes: 2,877

4. That's My Man (1947)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod, Roscoe Karns, John Ridgely

Votes: 161

5. That Hagen Girl (1947)

Passed | 83 min | Drama

Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there have been whispers, rumors and gossip about who her real parents are. After Tom Bates returns to... See full summary »

Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Shirley Temple, Rory Calhoun, Lois Maxwell

Votes: 722

6. Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Lyle Latell, Kay Christopher, Jack Lambert

Votes: 1,087

7. My Wild Irish Rose (1947)

Approved | 101 min | Biography, Musical

The life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his... See full summary »

Director: David Butler | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Andrea King, Arlene Dahl, Alan Hale

Votes: 433

8. The Trouble with Women (1947)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Romance

A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble after he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Brian Donlevy, Rose Hobart

Votes: 126

9. My Darling Clementine (1946)

Passed | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Western

After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs

Votes: 25,722

10. The Hoodlum Saint (1946)

Passed | 91 min | Drama, Music

A former reporter returns home after serving in the Army during World War I and discovers that finding work is more difficult than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: William Powell, Esther Williams, Angela Lansbury, James Gleason

Votes: 768

11. The Cat Creeps (1946)

Passed | 58 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Noah Beery Jr., Lois Collier, Paul Kelly, Frederick Brady

Votes: 357

12. Lover Come Back (1946)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

A faithful wife takes gentle revenge on her philandering husband.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: George Brent, Lucille Ball, Vera Zorina, Charles Winninger

Votes: 167

13. Her Kind of Man (1946)

Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A nightclub singer is caught between a big-time gangster and a tough Broadway columnist.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Dane Clark, Janis Paige, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson

Votes: 244

14. The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946)

Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Michael Lanyard finds himself accused of stealing a valuable gem, and must find the real thief in order to clear his name.

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Gerald Mohr, Janis Carter, Eric Blore, John Abbott

Votes: 224

15. Blonde Alibi (1946)

Passed | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.

Director: Will Jason | Stars: Martha O'Driscoll, Tom Neal, Donald MacBride, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 52

16. Plainsman and the Lady (1946)

Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance, Western

St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1859, is divided by a railroad track that separates the richer and poorer classes of people. From the richer side comes Ann Arnesen, daughter of Michael Arnesen, ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Bill Elliott, Vera Ralston, Gail Patrick, Joseph Schildkraut

Votes: 97

17. In Old Sacramento (1946)

Approved | 89 min | Western

In California, Johnny Barrett is a dashing gambler by day and a masked bandit by night who starts a romantic rivalry with young gold miner Sam Chase over showboat singer Belle Malone.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Bill Elliott, Constance Moore, Henry H. Daniels Jr., Ruth Donnelly

Votes: 79

18. Ding Dong Williams (1946)

Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Ding Dong Williams, a clarinet player who can neither read nor write music, is employed at a motion-picture studio. The studio plans to use him and his six-piece band, but his musical ... See full summary »

Director: William Berke | Stars: Glen Vernon, Marcy McGuire, Felix Bressart, Anne Jeffreys

Votes: 104

19. They Were Expendable (1945)

Approved | 135 min | Drama, War

A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.

Directors: John Ford, Robert Montgomery | Stars: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt

Votes: 9,252

20. Ziegfeld Follies (1945)

Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Musical

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

Directors: Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, Merrill Pye, Charles Walters | Stars: William Powell, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Fred Astaire

Votes: 3,628 | Gross: $7.93M

21. Dillinger (1945)

Passed | 70 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

John Dillinger begins his life of crime as a petty thief, meets his future gang in prison and eventually masterminds a series of daring robberies.

Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, Eduardo Ciannelli

Votes: 2,136 | Gross: $4.00M

22. Saratoga Trunk (1945)

Passed | 135 min | Drama, Romance, Western

An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Jerry Austin

Votes: 1,576

23. Incendiary Blonde (1945)

Approved | 113 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father to her reign as the Queen of the Night Clubs. Along the way, she also finds romance and heartbreak.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Betty Hutton, Arturo de Córdova, Charles Ruggles, Albert Dekker

Votes: 418

24. You Came Along (1945)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, Romance

War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour... See full summary »

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Robert Cummings, Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Charles Drake

Votes: 246

25. The Man Who Walked Alone (1945)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama

A hitch-hiking stranger manages a lift from a young woman into the town he's destined for, and she's from. Both land up in jail, twice, as the small town and its leading family slowly unravel the in-plain-sight mystery behind this man.

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Dave O'Brien, Kay Aldridge, Walter Catlett, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Votes: 260

26. Sing Your Way Home (1945)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Conceited war correspondent Steve Kimball, desperate to get back to the USA from occupied Paris, reluctantly agrees to chaperone a troupe of stranded teenage hepcat entertainers--plus ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Jack Haley, Marcy McGuire, Glen Vernon, Anne Jeffreys

Votes: 248

27. Swing Out, Sister (1945)

Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Music

Penelope Mariman works as a singer at Club Colby, a Broadway nightclub, under the name of Donna Leslie, as her blue-blooded family in Connecticut believes she is attending school in New ... See full synopsis »

Director: Edward C. Lilley | Stars: Rod Cameron, Billie Burke, Arthur Treacher, Frances Raeburn

Votes: 18

28. Circumstantial Evidence (1945)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When his son is abused, Joe Reynolds threatens to kill the man responsible. When that man is killed, Joe finds himself facing the electric chair.

Director: John Francis Larkin | Stars: Michael O'Shea, Lloyd Nolan, Trudy Marshall, Billy Cummings

Votes: 169

29. Leave It to Blondie (1945)

Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Family

Dagwood and Blondie have each written checks for charity unaware of it. To cover the amounts they enter a song-writing contest. Meanwhile Mr. Dithers wants Dagwood to soften up a female client in order to close a real estate deal.

Director: Abby Berlin | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Marjorie Ann Mutchie

Votes: 193

30. Shady Lady (1945)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A professional gambler is caught cheating and sent to prison. Eventually paroled, he decides to make a fresh start and takes his niece, an aspiring singer, to Chicago. Once there, however, ... See full summary »

Director: George Waggner | Stars: Charles Coburn, Robert Paige, Ginny Simms, Alan Curtis

Votes: 31

31. Blonde Ransom (1945)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Drama

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 ... See full summary »

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Donald Cook, Virginia Grey, Pinky Lee, Collette Lyons

Votes: 20

32. See My Lawyer (1945)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Music

Olsen and Johnson are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner , B. J. Wagonhorn (Franklin ... See full summary »

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Alan Curtis, Grace McDonald

Votes: 48

33. Night Club Girl (1945)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Two show-business wannabees get their big chance to show off their big-time act and talents in a nightclub,and bomb. Othet acts come on---endlessly---and do well, but the kids will be back.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Vivian Austin, Edward Norris, Maxie Rosenbloom, Minna Gombell

Votes: 17

34. Tell It to a Star (1945)

Approved | 67 min | Music, Romance

A smooth-talking old "colonel" finagles his way into luxurious living and tries to smooth the path for his lovely and talented niece as well.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Ruth Terry, Robert Livingston, Alan Mowbray, Franklin Pangborn

Votes: 40

35. Penthouse Rhythm (1945)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Music

Entertainer siblings Patty, Bill, Hank and Johnny Davis all quit their jobs when they discover that their friend, Linda Reynolds, has secured them an audition with her boss, New York ... See full synopsis »

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Kirby Grant, Lois Collier, Edward Norris, Maxie Rosenbloom

Votes: 18

36. Youth for the Kingdom (1945)

60 min | Drama

While carolling, a young girl discovers that her neighbors have lost the spirit of Christmas.

Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Gloria Marlen, Charles Trowbridge, Alice Fleming, Shirley Doble

37. Since You Went Away (1944)

Approved | 177 min | Drama, Romance, War

With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.

Directors: John Cromwell, Edward F. Cline, Tay Garnett, David O. Selznick | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple

Votes: 5,093

38. Up in Arms (1944)

Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Musical

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.

Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Danny Kaye, Dana Andrews, Dinah Shore, Constance Dowling

Votes: 1,122

39. Make Your Own Bed (1944)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. The only way that ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning, Alan Hale

Votes: 408

40. Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)

Passed | 112 min | Biography, Musical, Romance

Biographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Irene Manning

Votes: 451

41. And the Angels Sing (1944)

Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy (Dorothy Lamour), Bobby (Betty Hutton), Josie (Diana Lynn) and Patti (Mimi Chandler), aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc... See full summary »

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn

Votes: 221

42. In Society (1944)

Approved | 75 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough, Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marion Hutton, Kirby Grant

Votes: 2,120

43. Greenwich Village (1944)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Vivian Blaine

Votes: 465

44. San Diego I Love You (1944)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Jon Hall, Louise Allbritton, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore

Votes: 181

45. Strange Confession (1944)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, War

In World War 2 an escaped murderer who takes the identity of a dead soldier becomes a hero fighting in Africa, but his past catches up with him.

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Drew

Votes: 222

46. A Night of Adventure (1944)

Passed | 65 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

A wealthy lawyer begins to suspect that his inattention to his wife is making her cheat on him. When he discovers the truth he's charged with murder.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Tom Conway, Audrey Long, Edward Brophy, Louis Borel

Votes: 275

47. Song of Nevada (1944)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Music, Western

A western girl moves east and influenced badly by her snobby fiancé. She returns to sell her deceased father's ranch. The father isn't really dead, though; he's hoping that his friend Roy can restore the girl's western values.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dale Evans, Mary Lee

Votes: 136

48. Allergic to Love (1944)

Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

In an arranged marriage, the prospective bride discovers she gets hay-fever whenever her future husband is near.

Director: Edward C. Lilley | Stars: Martha O'Driscoll, Noah Beery Jr., David Bruce, Franklin Pangborn

Votes: 20

49. Mission to Moscow (1943)

Approved | 124 min | Drama, History, War

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oscar Homolka, George Tobias

Votes: 1,017

50. In Old Oklahoma (1943)

Passed | 102 min | Drama, Western

In 1906, on Oklahoma's Indian lands, a cowboy fights for oil lease rights against a greedy oilman while a pretty schoolteacher steals both men's hearts.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Votes: 1,470