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1945 Top Ten List

1. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
2. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Elia Kazan)
4. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
5. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
6. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
7. Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger)
8. Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
9. The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
10. Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh)

Other 1945 Films I Enjoyed

• Hangover Square (John Brahm)
• My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis)
• I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
• Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
• The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
• Paris Frills (Jacques Becker)
• The Southerner (Jean Renoir)
• It's in the Bag! (Richard Wallace)