Search results for "1948"
Drunken Angel

Drunken Angel

Drunken Angel
IMDb: 7.7
98

The chaotic worlds of the Yakuza and an alcoholic doctor collide in this film noir classic from Akira Kurosawa. Gangster Toshiro Mifune visits doctor Takashi Shimura, after an unfortunate incident…

Genre: Drama
Robin Hood-Winked

Robin Hood-Winked

Robin Hood-Winked
IMDb: 6.6
7

Popeye is Robin Hood; he’s got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is the owner/barmaid at the local pub. Bluto comes to the pub to…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Pre-Hysterical Man

Pre-Hysterical Man

Pre-Hysterical Man
IMDb: 6.7
7

Popeye and Olive are atop the highest peak in Yellowstone Park; Olive falls off into a deep hole, where a caveman and dinosaur are still living. Olive almost ends up…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Popeye The Sailor: Wigwam Whoopee

Popeye The Sailor: Wigwam Whoopee

Popeye The Sailor: Wigwam Whoopee
IMDb: 6.6
N/A

Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock.

Snow Place Like Home

Snow Place Like Home

Snow Place Like Home
IMDb: 6.8
N/A

Popeye and Olive are relaxing in the water off Miami when a hurricane hits. It carries them to the North Pole. Fortunately, a penguin comes by advertising Pierre’s Trading Post;…

Olive Oyl for President

Olive Oyl for President

Olive Oyl for President
IMDb: 7.1
6

Tired of political rhetoric, Olive lays out her platform.

Genre: Animation
Symphony in Spinach

Symphony in Spinach

Symphony in Spinach
IMDb: 7.2
6

Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Spinach vs Hamburgers

Spinach vs Hamburgers

Spinach vs Hamburgers
IMDb: 6.1
N/A

Popeye’s nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day.

Popeye Meets Hercules

Popeye Meets Hercules

Popeye Meets Hercules
IMDb: 6.9
6

The first Olympics, starring Hercules (looking, but not quite sounding, like a really pumped-up Bluto), who challenges anyone to do the same feats as him. Popeye takes that challenge, of…

A Wolf in Sheik’s Clothing

A Wolf in Sheik’s Clothing

A Wolf in Sheik’s Clothing
IMDb: 6.7
N/A

Popeye and Olive are riding a camel in Arabia. They stop to fill the camel with water and freshen up a bit; Olive muses aloud that she’d like to kiss…

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

No Orchids for Miss Blandish
IMDb: 6
104

Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress (Linden Travers) who is abducted on her wedding night by a trio…

Genre: Crime
Force of Evil

Force of Evil

Force of Evil
IMDb: 7.3
78

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants…

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
The Noose Hangs High

The Noose Hangs High

The Noose Hangs High
IMDb: 6.8
77

Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two…

Genre: Comedy
Hollow Triumph

Hollow Triumph

Hollow Triumph
IMDb: 6.8
83

A film noir drama in which a sophisticated con man, who has just stolen from the mob, is forced to impersonate a psychiatrist who looks just like him, going so…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Wake of the Red Witch

Wake of the Red Witch

Wake of the Red Witch
IMDb: 6.6
106

Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.

Genre: Action, Drama
The Miracle of the Bells

The Miracle of the Bells

The Miracle of the Bells
IMDb: 6.6
120

The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for…

Genre: Drama
The Street with No Name

The Street with No Name

The Street with No Name
IMDb: 7.1
91

After two gang-related killings in “Center City,” a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail…and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to…

Louisiana Story

Louisiana Story

Louisiana Story
IMDb: 6.6
78

The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Greed of William Hart

The Greed of William Hart

The Greed of William Hart
IMDb: 5.4
80

Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still great, the two decide to create their…

Genre: Horror, Mystery
The Man from Colorado

The Man from Colorado

The Man from Colorado
IMDb: 6.6
100

Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war,…

Genre: Action, Drama, Western
The Amazing Mr. X

The Amazing Mr. X

The Amazing Mr. X
IMDb: 6.4
78

On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf…then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who…

Genre: Thriller
Esther Waters

Esther Waters

Esther Waters
IMDb: 6.1
108

Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer’s daughter. Left alone to bring up…

Genre: Drama
Fighting Back

Fighting Back

Fighting Back
IMDb: 6.2
61

An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Bodyguard

Bodyguard

Bodyguard
IMDb: 6.5
62

A cop on suspension is framed for murder when he noses in on a murder investigation.

Genre: Crime
Incident

Incident

Incident
IMDb: 6.6
66

An innocent man — due to a case of mistaken identity — is beaten. Once recovered, the stockbroker tries to find the actual intended target — a gangster– and warn…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
In the Street

In the Street

In the Street
IMDb: 6.7
16

Images of street life in New York’s Spanish Harlem during the 1940s.

Genre: Documentary
Another Shore

Another Shore

Another Shore
IMDb: 5.9
77

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

Genre: Comedy
Station West

Station West

Station West
IMDb: 6.6
87

When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.

Homecoming

Homecoming

Homecoming
IMDb: 6.8
113

Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it’s “the thing to do” rather than deep-seated patriotism. On…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Tap Roots

Tap Roots

Tap Roots
IMDb: 6.5
109

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The…

Genre: Drama, War, Western
The Shanghai Chest

The Shanghai Chest

The Shanghai Chest
IMDb: 6.5
65

Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man’s finger prints show up at all three murder sites.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Ruthless

Ruthless

Ruthless
IMDb: 6.9
104

Wealthy, powerful Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
B.F.’s Daughter

B.F.’s Daughter

B.F.’s Daughter
IMDb: 6.2
108

Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Against the Wind

Against the Wind

Against the Wind
IMDb: 6.5
96

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who…

Genre: Drama, War
The Cumberland Story

The Cumberland Story

The Cumberland Story
IMDb: 6.4
43

A documentary by Humphrey Jennings about the modernization of coal mines in Cumberland.

On Our Merry Way

On Our Merry Way

On Our Merry Way
IMDb: 5.9
107

Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day’s roving…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Silver River

Silver River

Silver River
IMDb: 6.6
110

Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most…

A Song Is Born

A Song Is Born

A Song Is Born
IMDb: 6.9
113

The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson….

Genre: Action, Comedy, Music
The Voice of the Turtle

The Voice of the Turtle

The Voice of the Turtle
IMDb: 6.8
103

An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
All My Sons

All My Sons

All My Sons
IMDb: 7.4
95

Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in the post-war years.

Genre: Crime, Drama