Search results for "1948"
Music in Darkness

Music in Darkness

Music in Darkness
IMDb: 6.4
88

Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside and meets the young…

Genre: Drama, Romance
A Woman’s Vengeance

A Woman’s Vengeance

A Woman’s Vengeance
IMDb: 6.8
96

A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Larceny

Larceny

Larceny
IMDb: 6.9
89

John Payne is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial….

Vice Versa

Vice Versa

Vice Versa
IMDb: 6.4
111

Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is…

Genre: Comedy
Eternal Conflict

Eternal Conflict

Eternal Conflict
IMDb: 5.3
95

Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks away and ends up becoming a circus clown. In his new world, he meets…

Genre: Drama
Castle Sinister

Castle Sinister

Castle Sinister
IMDb: 3.6
49

During the War, a British agent travels to the remote Glennye Castle in the wilds of Scotland to investigate a mysterious murder by a masked phantom. Who or what is…

The Argyle Secrets

The Argyle Secrets

The Argyle Secrets
IMDb: 6.3
64

A framed reporter (William Gargan) and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of war profiteers and traitors.

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Shivering Sherlocks

Shivering Sherlocks

Shivering Sherlocks
IMDb: 7.3
18

The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed but are now the only…

Genre: Comedy
Mystery in Mexico

Mystery in Mexico

Mystery in Mexico
IMDb: 5.8
66

Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. His first lead is the agent’s fetching sister, Victoria, whom he trails to…

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Penny and the Pownall Case

Penny and the Pownall Case

Penny and the Pownall Case
IMDb: 5.6
47

A glamour model helps Scotland Yard to catch a criminal gang.

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Prince Of Thieves

The Prince Of Thieves

The Prince Of Thieves
IMDb: 5.5
72

After fighting in the Crusades alongside Richard I of England Sir Allan Claire is returning home to marry his betrothed Lady Christable. Accompanied by his sister Lady Marian Claire, the…

Guns of Hate

Guns of Hate

Guns of Hate
IMDb: 6.1
61

Ben Jason has found a lost gold mine. When Morgan learns this, he and his henchman chase down Jason and kill him. Banning and sidekick Rafferty arrive on the scene…

Genre: Western
The Arizona Ranger

The Arizona Ranger

The Arizona Ranger
IMDb: 6.3
64

A disgraced veteran wanders the West alone until he decides to help a battered woman.

Genre: Western
The Dude Goes West

The Dude Goes West

The Dude Goes West
IMDb: 6.8
86

Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and…

Genre: Comedy, Western
Sinister Journey

Sinister Journey

Sinister Journey
IMDb: 6.6
62

Lee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn’t approve of the marriage. Hoppy steps in when the young man is framed for murder.

Genre: Western
Test Tube Babies

Test Tube Babies

Test Tube Babies
IMDb: 3.2
70

A happily married couple has been trying to have a baby with no luck. They discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial…

Genre: Drama
Coroner Creek

Coroner Creek

Coroner Creek
IMDb: 6.6
90

A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée’s death.

Genre: Western
The Paleface

The Paleface

The Paleface
IMDb: 6.8
91

Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, “Painless” Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging…

Genre: Comedy, Western
Rachel and the Stranger

Rachel and the Stranger

Rachel and the Stranger
IMDb: 7
93

A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.

Furnival and Son

Furnival and Son

Furnival and Son
IMDb: 5.5
19

Story of work in a cutlery manufacturing firm in Sheffield told through story of the son who enters the business.

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
IMDb: 6.8
79

Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he in kills a man…

Fort Apache

Fort Apache

Fort Apache
IMDb: 7.5
125

In John Ford’s sombre exploration of the mythology of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday, who sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as…

Genre: Western
An Act of Murder

An Act of Murder

An Act of Murder
IMDb: 7
91

A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist
IMDb: 7.8
116

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he’s hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young…

The Eleven O’Clock Woman

The Eleven O’Clock Woman

The Eleven O’Clock Woman
IMDb: 6.4
97

Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara’s. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder…

Genre: Action, Crime
Sorry, Wrong Number

Sorry, Wrong Number

Sorry, Wrong Number
IMDb: 7.3
89

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport

XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport

XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport
IMDb: 6.5
138

A documentary covering the 1948 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and London, England.

This Was a Woman

This Was a Woman

This Was a Woman
IMDb: 6.9
102

The woman here is Sylvia Russell, who is a bit power mad and has some set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc
IMDb: 6.4
145

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Raw Deal

Raw Deal

Raw Deal
IMDb: 7.2
79

A revenge-seeking gangster is sent to prison after being framed for a crime he didn’t commit. After seducing a beautiful young woman, he uses her to help him carry out…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Storm Within

The Storm Within

The Storm Within
IMDb: 6.9
105

Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is innocent enough; his…

Genre: Drama
Moonrise

Moonrise

Moonrise
IMDb: 7.1
90

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor….

Genre: Drama
The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol
IMDb: 7.7
96

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father’s butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas
IMDb: 7
99

Doris Day, in her film debut, plays Georgia Garrett, a singer sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home…

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
IMDb: 6.4
89

As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in…

The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy
IMDb: 7.6
117

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Genre: Drama
Port of Call

Port of Call

Port of Call
IMDb: 6.6
99

A suicidal factory girl out of reformatory school, anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can’t forgive her past.

Genre: Drama
Red River

Red River

Red River
IMDb: 7.8
133

Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing…

They Live by Night

They Live by Night

They Live by Night
IMDb: 7.5
96

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

Genre: Crime, Drama
He Walked by Night

He Walked by Night

He Walked by Night
IMDb: 7.1
79

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.