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 from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.

Whispering Smith

1948

English

6.6

♡ 4

83%

Leslie Fenton Director

Frank Hagney as Frank - Wrecking Crew Member

Irving Bacon as Telegrapher

Frank Faylen as Whitey Du Sang

Lester Dorr as Woody, Train Brakeman

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).

They Live by Night

1948

English

7.4

♡ 13

96%

Nicholas Ray Director

Frank Ferguson as Bum

Harry Harvey as Hagenheimer

Ian Wolfe as Hawkins

Mickey Simpson as Shadow

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.

Sitting Pretty

1948

English

7.4

♡ 3

77%

Walter Lang Director

Louise Allbritton as Edna Philby

Betty Lynn as Ginger

Minerva Urecal as Mrs. Maypole

Maureen O'Hara as Tacey King

Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.

Éternel conflit

1948

French

5.8

♡ 2

Drama

Georges Lampin Director

Philippe Lemaire as Chardeuil fils

Annabella as Florence dite Lili

Colette Ripert as Mlle Chardeuil

Mary Morgan as Mme Chardeuil

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 a beautiful acrobat nicknamed Lili and grows fonder and fonder of her every day of his life. The trouble is that the lady bestows her favors to two different lovers : wealthy married man Chardeuil and good-looking but listless young Antonio. He now considers his duty to make Lili recover her dignity.

Adventures of Don Juan

1948

English

7.0

♡ 11

67%

Vincent Sherman Director

Errol Flynn as Don Juan de Maraña

Douglas Kennedy as Don Rodrigo

Fortunio Bonanova as Don Serafino Lopez

John Roy as Guard

Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under threat from sinister forces.

Road House

1948

English

7.2

♡ 10

86%

Jean Negulesco Director

Tom Moore as Foreman

Ida Lupino as Lily Stevens

Robert Foulk as Policeman at Road House

Celeste Holm as Susie Smith

A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.

Vice Versa

1948

English

6.3

♡ 4

33%

based on novel or book

Peter Ustinov Director

Alfie Bass as 1st Urchin

James Kenney as Coggs

Timothy Bateson as Coker

James Robertson Justice as Dr. Grimstone

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 immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.

Larceny

1948

English

6.8

♡ 2

George Sherman Director

Bill Walker as Butler

Grandon Rhodes as Harry Carson

Paul Brinegar as Mechanic

Dan Duryea as Silky Randall

Rick Mason 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. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.

Lulu Belle

1948

English

5.9

♡ 1

Leslie Fenton Director

John Indrisano as Charlie - Brady's Bodyguard

William Haade as Duke Weaver

George Montgomery as George Davis

Addison Richards as Police Commissioner John Dixon

Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.

A Woman's Vengeance

6.8

Zoltan Korda Director

Ann Blyth as Doris Mead

Mildred Natwick as Nurse Caroline Braddock

John Williams as Prosecuting Counsel

Colin Kenny as Warder

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

Music in Darkness

1948

Swedish

6.4

♡ 1

absurd

arrogant

based on novel or book

Ingmar Bergman Director

Mai Zetterling as Ingrid

Gunnar Björnstrand as Klasson

Hilda Borgström as Lovisa

Ingmar Bergman as Man with Newspaper on the Train

A blind upper-class pianist falls in love with a young servant.

Easter Parade

1948

English

7.3

♡ 9

91%

86%

Action

easter

man woman relationship

Charles Walters Director

Margaret Bert as Florist

Frank Mayo as Headwaiter

Jules Munshin as Headwaiter François

Robert Emmett O'Connor as Policeman

On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.

The Last Stage

1948

Polish

7.2

♡ 14

Action

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

based on true story

concentration camp prisoner

Wanda Jakubowska Director

Edward Dziewonski as Auschwitz Medical Officer

Barbara Rachwalska as Elza

Mariya Vinogradova as Nadya, a nursing aide

Jadwiga Chojnacka as Prisoner #2

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate.

One Touch of Venus

1948

English

6.6

♡ 3

43%

William A. Seiter Director

Robert Walker as Eddie Hatch

Arthur O'Connell as Reporter

Ava Gardner as Venus

Tom Conway as Whitfield Savory

A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.

Melody Time

1948

English

6.1

♡ 16

69%

live action and animation

Musical

package film

part live action

Clyde Geronimi Director

Thurl Ravenscroft as Big Toot

Bobby Driscoll as Bobby Driscoll

Frances Langford as Frances Langford

Luana Patten as Luana Patten

In the grand tradition of Disney's great musical classics, Melody Time features seven timeless stories, each enhanced with high-spirited music and unforgettable characters. You'll be sure to tap your toes and clap your hands in this witty feast for the eyes and ears.

Nosotros los pobres

1948

Spanish

7.8

♡ 4

Ismael Rodríguez Director

Evita Muñoz 'Chachita' as Chachita

Katy Jurado as La que se levanta tarde

Pedro Infante as Pepe El Toro

Guillermo Bravo Sosa as Policía

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.

Raw Deal

1948

English

7.2

♡ 14

100%

man between two women

Anthony Mann Director

John Ireland as Fantail

Cliff Clark as Gates

Claire Trevor as Pat Regan

Regis Toomey as Police Capt. Fields

Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pulled. Rick sets up an escape for Joe, assuming that Joe will be killed while fleeing. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker Ann, Joe gets further than Rick intended...

Saraband

1948

English

6.5

♡ 1

Basil Dearden Director

Anthony Quayle as Durer

Guy Rolfe as Envoy at Ahlden

Christopher Lee as Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel

Sandra Dorne as (uncredited)

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.

Highway 13

1948

English

6.1

♡ 1

William Berke Director

Clem Bevans as Bill 'Pops' Lacy

Lyle Talbot as Company Detective

Robert Lowery as Hank Wilson

Dan Seymour as Kelleher

Hank Wilson is a driver for a truck for a big transportation company which is in financial straits. He is in love with Doris Lacy, a waitress at the truck-stop where the company has its truck fleet serviced. Frequent accidents near the place leads the company to hire a private detective to investigate, and when the detective is murdered Hank is arrested as a suspect. The insurance company that covers the fleet has him released and he is sent back to work with instructions to investigate the accidents on his own. The trail leads to the uncle of Doris, and one of the part-owners of the company.

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Whispering Smith

They Live by Night

Sitting Pretty

Éternel conflit

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Road House

Vice Versa

Larceny

Lulu Belle

A Woman's Vengeance

Music in Darkness

Easter Parade

The Last Stage

One Touch of Venus

Melody Time

Nosotros los pobres

Raw Deal

Saraband

Highway 13