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1944
 
     
Laurence Olivier directs and stars in a patriotic film of Henry V with stirring music by William Walton        
1945
 
    
Jean-Louis Barrault directs and stars in the film Les Enfants du Paradis       
1946
 
    
Sergei Eisenstein completes Part 2 of his intended epic film trilogy Ivan the Terrible       
1946
 
     
Howard Hawks directs Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep        
1946
 
     
David Lean directs Trevor Howard and and Celia Johnson in Noel Coward's Brief Encounter        
1948
 
     
British dancer Robert Helpmann choreographs the ballet scenes in the film The Red Shoes, featuring Moira Shearer        
1948
 
    
Vittorio de Sica directs the film Bicycle Thieves, a classic of Italian neorealism       
1948
 
     
John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a film based on B. Traven's novel of 1927        
1949
 
     
Ealing Studios produce a film of Compton Mackenzie's 1947 novel Whisky Galore, about an alcoholic windfall on the island of Barra        
1949
 
     
Carol Reed directs The Third Man, starring Orson Welles and written by Graham Greene