The Cranes Are Flying (1957), The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), State of the Union (2019), Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Stray Dog (1949), Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), Drunken Angel (1948), Went the Day Well? (1942) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best 1940s movies.
Storyline: Remy Germain (Pierre Fresnay) 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 are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets. This allegorical film was highly controversial at the time of its release, and was banned in France after the Liberation.
Plot Keywords: doctor, psychiatrist, nurse, patient, wife, bleak, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This dramatic story of a hero against his will is set in a small Czech town occupied by German forces during the last years of the Second World War. Josef and Marie are a childless couple who yearn for a baby; unfortunately, he is sterile. One day they meet David, a young Jewish man and former neighbor recently escaped from a concentration camp, to whom they give refuge in their home.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, son, friend, nazi collaborator, jew, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes an unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric German Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp, it is a testament to the good in all of us.
Plot Keywords: worker, nazi, businessperson, brooding, emotional, auschwitz, factory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A simple Parisian's (John Malkovich) love of children involves him in a Nazi scheme to kidnap boys and train them as SS troops during World War II.
Plot Keywords: frenchman, recruiter, powerful, disheartening, bavaria, training camp, third reich ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After being fired from his office job, Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd) gets drunk, goes on a wild binge, and buys a near-bankrupt circus.
Plot Keywords: football player, boss, secretary, hustler, bartender, worker, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the first of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's horror vehicles for Universal Pictures, the inimitable comic duo star as railway baggage handlers in northern Florida. When a pair of crates belonging to a house of horrors museum are mishandled by Wilbur (Lou Costello), the museum's director, Mr. MacDougal (Frank Ferguson), demands that they deliver them personally so that they can be inspected for insurance purposes, but Lou's friend Chick (Bud Abbott) has grave suspicions.
Plot Keywords: director, railway inspector, clerk, insurance investigator, passenger, campy, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Grueling training and racist officers challenge black recruits in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Plot Keywords: pilot, lieutenant, senator, major, eleanor roosevelt, confident, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Hemingwayesque artist (George C. Scott) plays and drinks in the 1940s Bahamas, visited by his first wife (Claire Bloom) and three sons.
Plot Keywords: man, friend, son, wife, refugee, dreamy, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A talk-show staffer (Cyd Charisse) puts a fight manager (Gene Kelly), adman (Dan Dailey) and cook on TV 10 years after they parted as GIs.
Plot Keywords: veteran, friend, gangster, tv personality, charming, amusing, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: His family packed off to Maine, Professor Richard Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) is anticipating some quiet time alone. Then he meets Alice (Joan Bennett), the model for a portrait he admires, and can't resist her offer of a drink. No sooner do they get to her place, however, than her jealous boyfriend arrives in a rage. Richard kills him in self-defense, and they decide to hide the body. Things go smoothly until Richard's D.A. friend invites him to tag along on the investigation of his own crime.
Plot Keywords: professor, artist's model, boyfriend, district attorney, bodyguard, dark, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At the close of Axis-aligned Finland's involvement in World War II, pacifist Finnish soldier Veikko (Ville Haapasalo) is trussed to a wilderness rock formation as punishment for desertion. Nearby, Soviet Capt. Ivan (Viktor Bychkov), en route to his trial for treason, survives the bombing of his transport. Anni (Anni-Kristiina Juuso), a local Sami woman, comes to the aid of both men, and an unlikely relationship is forged as three lonely souls attempt to survive the long winter.
Plot Keywords: soldier, pacifist, traitor, captain, woman, charming, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Filmmaker Chuck Workman profiles pop artist Andy Warhol through interviews with friends and colleagues.
Plot Keywords: actor, actress, artist, painter, model, engaging, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Five years after World War II, Hiroshima's survivors still struggle with the memories of their horrible ordeal.
Plot Keywords: young woman, uncle, aunt, poor person, survivor, bleak, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother...
Plot Keywords: captain, soldier, brother, enemy, parachutist, mother, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a Latin American country where the government has outlawed public religious displays, the last priest (Henry Fonda) in a village seeks refuge in a church, disguised as a peasant. Discovered by an Indian woman, Maria (Dolores del Río), the priest agrees to baptize her children and other poor people in the village. The priest's efforts to escape the military police are constantly upset by the desperate religious demands of the local people, and a beggar intent on turning him in.
Plot Keywords: priest, peasant, criminal, police chief, police officer, informant, dark ...
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