My Top 10 of 1946 (Of What I've Seen)

10. Bedlam (Mark Robson and Val Lewton)

9. Cloak and Dagger (Fritz Lang)

8. Gilda (Charles Vidor)

7. Fragment of Seeking (Curtis Harrington)

6. A Scandal in Paris: The Story of Vidocq (Douglas Sirk)

5. La Belle et la Bête [Beauty and the Beast] (Jean Cocteau)

4. The Stranger (Orson Welles)

TIE FOR 3:

3. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)

3. Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)

TIE FOR 2:

2. Paisà (Roberto Rossellini)

2. Utamarô (w)o meguru go-nin no onna [The Five Women Around Utamarô] (Kenji Mizoguchi)

TIE FOR 1:

1. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)

1. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)

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