Year 1946 movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant year 1946 movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, emotional, touching, suspenseful and suspense films and TV shows about / with husband wife relationship, family relations, friendship, flashback, love, father son relationship, death, cigarette smoking, voice over narration and photograph plots mostly in Drama, History and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as year 1946: The Secret of Roan Inish (1994), Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025), There's Still Tomorrow (2023), Alcatraz (2018), Blonde (2022), A Christmas Story 2 (2012), The Shortcut (2009), Hillbilly Elegy (2020), Out in the Open (2019), The Two Jakes (1990).
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List of year 1946 movies
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother ...
Style:
scenic, fairy tale, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
children, mermaid, island, seal the animal, celtic, selkie, friendship, fishing boat, legend, ancient mystery, pagan, magic ...
Time:
year 1946, year 1994, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe, scotland
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Genre: Action, War
Country: Finland, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, 'the man who refuses to die' dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honor. When the Red Army commander who ...
Style:
brutal, road movie, neo noir, period piece, bloody ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, revenge, vengeance, violent, post war, war trauma, one man army, manhunt, obsession, cat and mouse, rage, grief ...
Time:
year 1946, 1940s
Place:
finland, siberia, soviet union
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In post-war Italy, the family of typical housewife Delia is in turmoil over the impending engagement of beloved firstborn Marcella. The arrival of a mysterious letter, however, will ignite Delia's courage to face her abusive husband and imagine ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dark comedy, period drama
Plot:
housewife, patriarchy, abusive husband, post war, lifestyle change, changing lives, marriage, working class, narcissism, blacks and whites, female empowerment, domestic violence ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of prisoners, led by an armed robber and a gangster, attempt to escape from the infamous Alcatraz Island.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
captive, prison, attempted escape, risk, hostage, brutality, freedom, imprisonment, court, prison warden, convict, prison fight ...
Time:
year 1946, 1940s
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her ...
Style:
exciting, cerebral, dramatic, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
actress, traumatic childhood, threesome, abortion, bare breasts, hand job, hollywood, female nudity, biopic, single mother, fame, oral sex ...
Time:
60s, 2020s, year 1946, 1950s, 1940s ...
Place:
los angeles, maine, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The original traditional one-hundred-percent red-blooded two-fisted all-american christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy mom and the old man. This time Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
christmas, family life, holiday, eccentric family, youth, coming of age, christmas time, happy ending, teaching the ways of the world, love, escapades, destiny ...
Time:
year 1946, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Derek (AnDrew Seeley) moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
woods, urban legend, youth, danger, murder, chase, child in peril, friendship, high school, psychopath, young heroes, siblings relations ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946, year 1953, year 1945, 1950s ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
Style:
thought provoking, period piece, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
small town life, dysfunctional family, addiction, single mother, heroin addict, mother daughter relationship, mother son estrangement, grandmother grandson relationship, mother daughter conflict, childhood memory, teenage boy, family drama ...
Time:
2020s, year 1946, year 1997, 90s, year 2011 ...
Place:
kentucky, columbus ohio, yale university, ohio, new haven connecticut ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A boy escaped from home, listening, crouched in the depths of his hiding place, the cries of the men who seek him. When the game passes, what remains before him is an infinite and arid plain that he must cross if he wants to get away definitively ...
Style:
suspense, period drama
Audience:
kids
Plot:
male nudity, sexual predator, man boy relationship, desert, spanish civil war, male pubic hair, 11 year old boy, bare chested male, child protagonist, boy, shepherd, child ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946
Place:
spain
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
This sequel to the classic Chinatown finds private detective Jake Gittes still haunted from the events of the first film. Hired by a man to investigate his wife's infidelities, Jake once again finds himself involved in a complicated plot ...
Style:
neo noir, period piece, stylized, visually stunning, clever ...
Plot:
private detective, murder, infidelity, gangster, betrayal, investigation, mafia, law, courtroom, private investigator, blackmail, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1940s, year 1948, year 1946, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families. Anna, who is secretly pregnant, meets the last orphan , Judith, left behind because of her mental ...
Style:
surprise ending, scary, suspenseful, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, female nudity, pregnancy, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, housekeeper, elevator, kitten, mirror, insanity, orphan ...
Time:
year 1958, 1950s, year 1946, post world war two, year 2004 ...
Place:
alps, france, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
Style:
suspense, intense, suspenseful, factual, realistic ...
Plot:
propaganda, woman, female spy, atomic bomb, closeted homosexual, politics, world war two, soviet spy, female secret agent, espionage, war crime, love ...
Time:
year 1945, year 1946, year 1941, year 2019, 1940s ...
Place:
soviet union, canada, russia, hiroshima japan, montreal ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, large family, parents and children, couple relations, nothing goes right, couples, holiday, new year, pretend relationship, happiness, starting over ...
Time:
year 1946, year 2015, 60s, 21st century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
Style:
exciting, thought provoking, captivating, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
writers, world war two, recluse, name calling, writer's life, novelist, obsession, father son relationship, friendship, teenage boy, father daughter relationship, friend ...
Time:
year 1946, 50s, year 2010, year 1939, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, new hampshire
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, scenic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, couples, true love, fall in love, happy ending, love and romance, couple relations, destiny, love story, enemies to lovers, hospital, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 1946, year 1989, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, south carolina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
Style:
feel good, inspirational, realistic, witty, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, happy ending, bullying, youth, teacher, drinking, neighbor, divorced parents, storytelling, character study, redemption ...
Time:
year 1946, 2010s, y2k, year 2014, year 1965 ...
Place:
new york, peru, usa, brooklyn new york city, new jersey ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his aim, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
concentration camp, door to door salesman, anti semitism, holocaust survivor, interrogation, haunted by the past, judaism, german history, war, genocide, reading a newspaper aloud, flashback ...
Time:
year 1946
Place:
frankfurt germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A film about the black-and-white era actress LĂda Baarová and her doomed love affair.
Style:
captivating, suspense, touching, disturbing, meta ...
Plot:
nazism, world war two, nazi, ambition, love triangle, actress, mistress, intrigue, husband wife relationship, selfishness, dictator, filmmaking ...
Time:
year 1935, 1940s, year 1946, 20th century, year 1937 ...
Place:
berlin germany, germany, czech republic, austria, czechoslovakia ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Based on the real life story of an incident in 1946 during the Chinese Civil War, the film involves a communist reconnaissance team soldier Yang Zirong who disguised himself as a bandit to infiltrate a local gang of bandits, eventually helping the ...
Style:
epic, exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
tiger, medieval, chinese civil war, civil war, escapades, undercover, working undercover, army, infiltration, mountain, prisoner, hunger ...
Time:
year 1946, 1940s
Place:
china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two ...
Style:
anime, realistic, touching, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
friendship, young heroes, social differences, forceful separation, life turned upside down, society, deportation, village, white supremacy, dancing, post war, disaster ...
Time:
20th century, post world war two, year 1946, 2010s, 1940s ...
Place:
asia, japan, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The film follows the innovative Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey, the ...
Style:
sentimental, period piece, touching, factual, intense ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
racism, baseball, athlete and trainer, african american, rise to the top, racial segregation, civil rights, athlete's life, against the odds, biopic, black history, justice ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place:
africa, new york, usa, pasadena california, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, China, Canada, UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, atmospheric, stylized, perverse ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, teens, boys' night ...
Plot:
mummy, tomb, archaeology, mythology, archaeologist, treasure hunt, tombs and skeletons, adventurer, sword, dragon, immortality, supernatural ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, year 1946, jurassic, 20th century
Place:
china, peru, asia, shanghai, england ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In 1942, British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are cowards when they chose to surrender instead of commiting ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, realistic, bleak, art film ...
Plot:
world war two, pow, homoeroticism, japanese culture, war, japanese occupation, prison, war crime, anti war, christmas, imperial japan, samurai ...
Time:
1940s, year 1983, year 1936, year 1946, 20th century ...
Place:
southeast asia, asia, britain, japan, australia ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, noir, period piece, erotic ...
Plot:
femme fatale, dangerous attraction, police investigation, murder, lesbian, obsession, lesbian sex, police corruption, death, danger, greed, voyeur ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2006, year 1946, 2000s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.
Style:
historical drama, thought provoking, psychological thriller, intense, tense ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, manipulation, ethical dilemma, ethics, character study, moral ambiguity, evil, world war two, courtroom, courtroom drama, obsession, interrogation ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947, post world war two, year 1946, year 1945
Place:
germany, austria, washington d.c.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
couples, forbidden love, infidelity, betrayal, unfaithful husband, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Vietnam - 1946. Philippe is committed to pacifying an unknown country made of dense forests and spectacular mountains. His ideals collapse when he realizes that he must torture and kill a young vietnamese who is fighting for his independence. He ...
Plot:
interracial romance, soldier, indochina war, bare chested male, nudity, male nudity, love, torture, raft, lake, nature, cat ...
Time:
year 1946
Place:
indochina, vietnam
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sir Roger Bannister's historic running of the sub-four-minute mile is celebrated in Four Minutes, an inspiring and respectably authentic TV movie about breaking the most famous barrier in the history of sports.
Plot:
running, runner, track and field, cambridge university, male female relationship, twenty something, jazz, new year, boat, dancer, bicycle, love ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1946, year 1954, year 1952 ...
Place:
helsinki finland, oxford university, mount everest
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
holocaust survivor, chaos, against the odds, woman in danger, holocaust, concentration camp, survival, escapades, getting home, rescue, society, against humanity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946
Place:
palestine, israel, holland, netherlands, london ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor.
Style:
eros, realistic, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, woman, hitman, haunted by the past, dishonesty, state affairs, betrayal, assassination, undercover, nudity, violent content, assassin ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1962, year 1946
Place:
madrid, spain, europe, warsaw poland
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