The best movies 1949

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...

A concise adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" about Mr. Toad's motor mania, followed by a short retelling of Washington...

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

Tabloid journalists muddy the waters during the investigation of the murder of an Argentine senator.

A man from humble origins becomes a famous boxer, but fame has its price.

Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realization that a jewelry heist may be behind the...

The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.

Juan returns to Spain after unsuccessfully seeking his fortune in America. His older brother, Miguel, a brave fire lieutenant, welcomes him warmly....

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

In hell, equipped with the latest technological advances, the devils watch the happiness of a Viennese revue singer and her sculptor fiancé on...

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both...

Art student Ulla lies to her older sister Ilse, claiming to be posing for sculptor Professor Viktor Arnim. To confront him, Ilse visits him that very...

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of...

A Jerky Journeys short.

Monte Hale is cast as Ted Post, a Texas marshal who's on the trail of embezzler Larry Forester (Myron Healey). His search takes him to a remote...

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...

A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.

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...

Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic,...

Tabloid journalists muddy the waters during the investigation of the murder of an Argentine senator.

A man from humble origins becomes a famous boxer, but fame has its price.

Juan returns to Spain after unsuccessfully seeking his fortune in America. His older brother, Miguel, a brave fire lieutenant, welcomes him warmly....

Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.

The film begins with some sequences related to the youth of Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez, his arrival in Buenos Aires from his native Arrecifes, his...

A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a...

Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.

After learning that his widowed father will remarry, a boy escapes home.

London, England, World War II. During a bombing, several people are trapped in the basement of a building where the air will run out in only ninety...

Tuberculosis and a passional crime prevent the final triumph to a boy from the slums who has opened his way in boxing.

Filigrana is in the prime of his career. His dressing room is full of flowers and always the same fan: William Harrison who asks her to marry him....

It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon...

Paloma and Marcelo are in love, but only dare meet once a month- see, she doesn't know that he is only pretending to be the son of rich ranchers, and...

A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.

Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.

Tin-Tan and his carnal Marcelo take over Carmelita baby for a few hours, and suddenly, the three are hired by an employer of the tents, starting the...

Young woman has to choose between three potential husbands, so she leaves town for awhile to sing for a living and sort out her feelings.

The creative and ambitious Carlos, a young Spanish film buff, manages to become a professional camera operator with time and effort, and is also...

Magician Fu Manchu must find a way out of a supposed haunted house.