Search results for "1943"
Hi Diddle Diddle

Hi Diddle Diddle

Hi Diddle Diddle
IMDb: 6.7
72

When the bride’s mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom’s father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Doña Bárbara

Doña Bárbara

Doña Bárbara
IMDb: 7.3
138

A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.

Genre: Drama, Western
Mission to Moscow

Mission to Moscow

Mission to Moscow
IMDb: 5.4
124

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Genre: Drama, History, War
I Dood It

I Dood It

I Dood It
IMDb: 6.3
102

Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine,…

Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case

Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case

Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case
IMDb: 6
89

In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down
IMDb: 6.8
89

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz…

Genre: Drama, War
Tarzan’s Desert Mystery

Tarzan’s Desert Mystery

Tarzan’s Desert Mystery
IMDb: 6.3
70

A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan’s help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Flight for Freedom

Flight for Freedom

Flight for Freedom
IMDb: 6
102

1943 fictionalised biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean in 1937. In the film, Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart alter ego, called Tonie Carter,…

Genre: Drama
Moonlight in Vermont

Moonlight in Vermont

Moonlight in Vermont
IMDb: 6.5
62

A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Immortal Sergeant

Immortal Sergeant

Immortal Sergeant
IMDb: 6.7
91

During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.

Genre: Drama, War
Captive Wild Woman

Captive Wild Woman

Captive Wild Woman
IMDb: 5.6
61

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human…even though it costs human life.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
IMDb: 8.1
163

General Candy, who’s overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn’t have the respect of the men he’s training and is considered out-of-touch with what’s needed…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Aerial Gunner

Aerial Gunner

Aerial Gunner
IMDb: 5.6
78

Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.

Genre: Drama, War
The Song of Bernadette

The Song of Bernadette

The Song of Bernadette
IMDb: 7.6
156

In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of “a beautiful lady” in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but…

Genre: Drama
Background to Danger

Background to Danger

Background to Danger
IMDb: 6.4
80

An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness
IMDb: 7.2
119

The film pivots around the local doctor and his family. The doctor’s wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore the occupiers. The…

Genre: Drama, War
Sahara

Sahara

Sahara
IMDb: 7.5
97

Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command…

Son of Dracula

Son of Dracula

Son of Dracula
IMDb: 6.1
80

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the “virile” soil of…

Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo
IMDb: 7.3
96

The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He is helped by the hotel’s…

Genre: Thriller, War
Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait
IMDb: 7.4
112

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however,…

Le Corbeau

Le Corbeau

Le Corbeau
IMDb: 7.9
92

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions…

Phantom of the Opera

Phantom of the Opera

Phantom of the Opera
IMDb: 6.4
92

Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and…

Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Johnny Come Lately

Johnny Come Lately

Johnny Come Lately
IMDb: 6.8
97

Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased….

Genre: Drama
Titanic

Titanic

Titanic
IMDb: 6.2
85

This little-known German film retells the true story of the British ocean liner that met a tragic fate. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer plays the president of the White Star Line, who…

Genre: Action, Drama, History
Power of the Press

Power of the Press

Power of the Press
IMDb: 6
64

Although he’s credited only for story, the dialogue has Fuller’s headline punch, and of course newspapering was an alternative universe he knew inside out. A publisher whose once-honest New York…

Genre: Drama
For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls
IMDb: 6.9
170

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on…

The Desperadoes

The Desperadoes

The Desperadoes
IMDb: 6.5
87

Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town’s crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie’s choice for…

Distinto Amanecer

Distinto Amanecer

Distinto Amanecer
IMDb: 7.3
108

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping…

The Outlaw

The Outlaw

The Outlaw
IMDb: 5.5
116

Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is…

The Dancing Masters

The Dancing Masters

The Dancing Masters
IMDb: 6.3
63

The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor. A young Robert Mitchum…

Genre: Comedy
Fires Were Started

Fires Were Started

Fires Were Started
IMDb: 6.5
70

British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War II.

Genre: Drama, War
The Leopard Man

The Leopard Man

The Leopard Man
IMDb: 6.8
66

When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

I Walked with a Zombie

I Walked with a Zombie

I Walked with a Zombie
IMDb: 7.1
69

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, an unusual woman whose husband she’s fallen in love with.

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home
IMDb: 7.1
88

Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from…

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
IMDb: 7.5
97

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.

Genre: Drama, Romance
A Lady Takes a Chance

A Lady Takes a Chance

A Lady Takes a Chance
IMDb: 6.4
86

A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her simpy city suitors.

Day of Wrath

Day of Wrath

Day of Wrath
IMDb: 8.1
97

In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die!
IMDb: 7.5
134

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal “Hangman of Europe”, Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his…

Old Acquaintance

Old Acquaintance

Old Acquaintance
IMDb: 7.5
110

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Raiders of San Joaquin

Raiders of San Joaquin

Raiders of San Joaquin
IMDb: 6.3
59

In this western, two cowboys ride to the rescue of ranchers who are fighting to keep a land-grabber from taking their land and selling it to the railroad

Genre: Western