Greatest 17 Drama Movies Picks from 1945

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory. Explore Spellbound / IMDB / YouTube

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout. Get info on The Lost Weekend / IMDB / YouTube

During World War II, an American expatriate helps transport a French Resistance leader and his wife to Martinique while romancing a lounge singer. Find out about To Have and Have Not / IMDB / YouTube

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape. Read about Rome, Open City / IMDB / YouTube

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter. Check out Mildred Pierce / IMDB / YouTube

A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses. Check out Scarlet Street / IMDB / YouTube

Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late. Find out about And Then There Were None / IMDB / YouTube

A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them. Learn about Leave Her to Heaven / IMDB / YouTube

Londoner Dorian Gray stays young, but his portrait ages. See more about The Picture of Dorian Gray / IMDB / YouTube

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit. More about Murder, My Sweet / IMDB / YouTube

A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II. Check out They Were Expendable / IMDB / YouTube

Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot and tries to stop it. See more about Ministry of Fear / IMDB / YouTube

Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s. See more about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn / IMDB / YouTube

A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes. Info on National Velvet / IMDB / YouTube

In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his ability as a soldier and skillful leader, he unites the dissident factions in the English army and goes on to crush the French, against enormous odds, at Agincourt. Arranging a treaty with the French court, he woos Princess Katharine to whom he is formally betrothed as part of the peace agreement. Info on Henry V / IMDB / YouTube

Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot. More about The Woman in Green / IMDB / YouTube

A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for. See more about Fallen Angel / IMDB / YouTube