Pinky
Rating: 7.1
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky t...
Best movies of 1949
Titles indexed: 35
Little Women
Rating: 7.4
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War....
Bitter Rice
Rating: 7.5
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice w...
Cover Up
Rating: 6.5
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspec...
Mighty Joe Young
Rating: 6.4
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 bring...
Samson and Delilah
Rating: 6.6
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they...
The Third Man
Rating: 7.9
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to...
He Walked by Night
Rating: 6.7
Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him t...
Stray Dog
Rating: 7.5
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he g...
The Secret Garden
Rating: 7.1
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...
The Heiress
Rating: 7.7
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — w...
The Window
Rating: 6.9
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only peopl...
Alias Nick Beal
Rating: 6.7
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smoot...
Shockproof
Rating: 6.3
Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who h...
Obsession
Rating: 6.8
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover....
Reign of Terror
Rating: 6.8
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespi...
The Crooked Way
Rating: 6.2
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers ...
You're My Everything
Rating: 3.8
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to ano...
The Barkleys of Broadway
Rating: 6.9
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by...
Trapped
Rating: 5.9
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneym...
Take One False Step
Rating: 5.2
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces...
The Quiet Duel
Rating: 7.3
A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats ...
The Accused
Rating: 6.1
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense....
Manhandled
Rating: 4.9
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in...
The File on Thelma Jordon
Rating: 6.5
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a susp...
Passport to Pimlico
Rating: 6.9
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in f...
The Reckless Moment
Rating: 6.7
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal....
King of the Rocket Men
Rating: 5.2
Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the science academy. Donning his Rocket Man cos...
The Black Sheep
Rating: 7.7
The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his ...
The Red Danube
Rating: 6.3
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect....
The Phantom Creeps
Rating: 3.8
The truncated feature version of the 4½ hour serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inven...
Illegal Entry
Rating: 5.4
Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who late...
Port of New York
Rating: 4.8
Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband....
Everybody Does It
Rating: 8.1
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to tr...
Svenske ryttaren
Rating: 0.0
Agneta Gyllencrona is in love with Henrik Lettnoff, a refugee from the Baltic. They have to leave together when her mother, the Countess, wa...