Search results for "1949"
The File on Thelma Jordon

The File on Thelma Jordon

The File on Thelma Jordon
IMDb: 6.9
100

Cleve Marshall is an assistant district attorney who falls for the shadowy Thelma Jordon. With her sordid past — and her relationship with thief Tony Laredo kept secret from the…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Thieves’ Highway

Thieves’ Highway

Thieves’ Highway
IMDb: 7.6
94

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Red Menace

The Red Menace

The Red Menace
IMDb: 4.9
81

A couple try to leave the Communist party after a murder by the group they were once loyal to.

Genre: Crime
A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives
IMDb: 7.7
103

Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks she is just a gold digger. Rita Phipps makes as much…

Genre: Drama, Romance
El Paso

El Paso

El Paso
IMDb: 5.8
103

Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas…

Genre: Western
Red Canyon

Red Canyon

Red Canyon
IMDb: 6.3
82

A former outlaw goes straight and is determined to catch and tame a wild stallion. Western.

Genre: Western
Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Joe Young
IMDb: 7
94

A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father’s ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to…

White Heat

White Heat

White Heat
IMDb: 8.1
114

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
South of St. Louis

South of St. Louis

South of St. Louis
IMDb: 6
88

With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.

Genre: Western
Passport to Pimlico

Passport to Pimlico

Passport to Pimlico
IMDb: 7.2
84

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus…

Genre: Comedy
Rope of Sand

Rope of Sand

Rope of Sand
IMDb: 6.8
104

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.

The Passionate Friends

The Passionate Friends

The Passionate Friends
IMDb: 7.3
90

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Knock on Any Door

Knock on Any Door

Knock on Any Door
IMDb: 6.7
100

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Pinky

Pinky

Pinky
IMDb: 7.2
102

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother’s house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been “passing”…

Genre: Drama
Black Magic

Black Magic

Black Magic
IMDb: 6.4
105

Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV’s court.

Easy Living

Easy Living

Easy Living
IMDb: 6.3
77

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.

Genre: Drama
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
IMDb: 7
68

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame’s story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled…

My Dream Is Yours

My Dream Is Yours

My Dream Is Yours
IMDb: 6.6
101

Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace Garry. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson,…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Whisky Galore!

Whisky Galore!

Whisky Galore!
IMDb: 7.2
82

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 – during WWII – was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Only a Mother

Only a Mother

Only a Mother
IMDb: 6.8
92

About serf wife Maria, called Rya-Rya, her life from a young beautiful girl with dreams of love to a worn-out mother, who only lives for her children.

Genre: Drama
Lust for Gold

Lust for Gold

Lust for Gold
IMDb: 6.8
90

A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has…

Genre: Action, Western
My Foolish Heart

My Foolish Heart

My Foolish Heart
IMDb: 6.9
98

After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise’s daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah
IMDb: 6.8
134

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret. The classic story of Samson and Delilah as…

The Set-Up

The Set-Up

The Set-Up
IMDb: 7.9
73

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Neptune’s Daughter

Neptune’s Daughter

Neptune’s Daughter
IMDb: 6.4
95

Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O’Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Big Wheel

The Big Wheel

The Big Wheel
IMDb: 5.6
92

The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father’s legacy and achieve his own successes.

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
That Forsyte Woman

That Forsyte Woman

That Forsyte Woman
IMDb: 6.7
113

Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife’s death. Teenager June Forsyte has…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Little Women

Little Women

Little Women
IMDb: 7.3
121

Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg,…

Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Any Number Can Play

Any Number Can Play

Any Number Can Play
IMDb: 6.8
112

When illegal casino owner Charley Enley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep…

Genre: Drama
It’s a Great Feeling

It’s a Great Feeling

It’s a Great Feeling
IMDb: 6.4
85

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Hellfire

Hellfire

Hellfire
IMDb: 6.8
90

Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher’s mission of building a…

Genre: Western
Trail of the Yukon

Trail of the Yukon

Trail of the Yukon
IMDb: 5.6
67

When the local Banker jumps the Blaine’s claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money. When the men try to double-cross the Blains, a gunfight erupts and…

Slightly French

Slightly French

Slightly French
IMDb: 6.4
81

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a “French” movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden
IMDb: 7.5
92

When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at…

Genre: Drama, Family
Home of the Brave

Home of the Brave

Home of the Brave
IMDb: 7
86

A sensitive, educated black man’s World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of his peace-time problems which are pointed up in a flashback of his life, and primarily…

Genre: Drama, War
The Undercover Man

The Undercover Man

The Undercover Man
IMDb: 6.6
85

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information,…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Invisible Man Appears

The Invisible Man Appears

The Invisible Man Appears
IMDb: 5.8
82

Jewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace called the “Tears of Amour.”

The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room
IMDb: 7.2
106

At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his…

A Run for Your Money

A Run for Your Money

A Run for Your Money
IMDb: 6.5
85

Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers…

Genre: Comedy
Champion

Champion

Champion
IMDb: 7.4
99

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

Genre: Drama