Kalpana

1948

Hindi

6.4

♡ 7

bollywood

Musical

Uday Shankar Director

Dulal Sen as Mama

Nagen Dey as Mill Owner

G.V. Karandikar as Producer

Ganesh Banerji as Theater Manager

A writer goes to a film producer with a story in the hope of selling the idea for a film. As he explains it to the producer, scenes from his dance movie come to life.

The Boy with Green Hair

1948

English

6.7

♡ 4

80%

Joseph Losey Director

Peter Brocco as Bit Part

Pat O'Brien as Gramp

Dwayne Hickman as Joey

Regis Toomey as Mr. Davis

Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.

XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport

1948

English

6.5

♡ 2

Castleton Knight Director

Ted Husing as Narrator

Prince Philip as Self

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother as Self

King George VI as Self

A documentary covering the 1948 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and London, England.

Hamlet

1948

English

7.5

♡ 12

96%

80%

Action

based on play or musical

Laurence Olivier Director

Norman Wooland as Horatio, His Friend

Anthony Quayle as Marcellus

Peter Cushing as Osric

Niall MacGinnis as Sea Captain

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

Port of Call

1948

Swedish

6.6

♡ 11

75%

Ingmar Bergman Director

Georg Skarstedt as Gentleman

Stig Ossian Ericson as Man Reading the Court's Decision

Sif Ruud as Mrs. Krona

Birgitta Valberg as Mrs. Vilander

A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.

La Terra Trema

1948

Italian

7.8

♡ 9

82%

Luchino Visconti Director

Luchino Visconti as Narrator

Antonio Pietrangeli as Narrator

Nicola Castorino as Nicola

Antonio Arcidiacono as Ntoni

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

The Kissing Bandit

1948

English

5.3

♡ 4

38%

Laslo Benedek Director

Carleton G. Young as Count Ricardo Belmonte

Cyd Charisse as Fiesta Specialty Dancer

Mildred Natwick as Isabella

Edna Skinner as Juanita

Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the family would rather that he follow in his father's footsteps and become "The Kissing Bandit".

Bicycle Thieves

1948

Italian

8.2

♡ 54

99%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Sergio Leone as A Seminary Student

Gino Saltamerenda as Baiocco

Veriano Ginesi as Man in the Crowd

Elena Altieri as The Charitable Lady

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

Letter from an Unknown Woman

1948

English

7.8

♡ 5

100%

Max Ophüls Director

Ramsay Hill as Col. Steindorf

John Elliott as Flower Vendor

Betty Blythe as Frau Kohner

Joan Fontaine as Lisa Berndle

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

Macbeth

1948

English

7.4

♡ 10

86%

Orson Welles Director

Edgar Barrier as Banquo

Lurene Tuttle as Gentlewoman / The Three

Keene Curtis as Lennox

Roddy McDowall as Malcolm

A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.

So Evil My Love

1948

English

6.9

♡ 3

56%

Action

based on novel or book

Crime

Drama

female friendship

husband wife relationship

london, england

unlikely lovers

victorian england

Lewis Allen Director

Raymond Huntley as Henry Courtney

Ray Milland as Mark Bellis

Ann Todd as Olivia Harwood

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Susan Courtney

In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.

An Act of Murder

1948

English

6.9

♡ 4

95%

Michael Gordon Director

Harry Harvey as Dr. Boyd

Edward Earle as Dr. Standish

Fredric March as Judge Calvin Cooke

Don Beddoe as Pearson

A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

1948

English

7.3

♡ 25

90%

Charles Barton Director

Bela Lugosi as Dracula

Carl Sklover as Man at Costume Party

Frank Ferguson as Mr. McDougal

Vincent Price as The Invisible Man

Baggage handlers Bud and Lou accidentally stumble upon Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man.

Angel on the Amazon

1948

English

5.7

♡ 5

John H. Auer Director

Vera Ralston as Christine Ridgeway

Constance Bennett as Dr. Karen Lawrence

Richard Crane as Johnny MacMahon

Fortunio Bonanova as Sebastian Ortega

An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth.

Madness of Love

1948

Spanish

6.2

♡ 3

Drama

Juan de Orduña Director

Sara Montiel as Aldara

María Cañete as Doña Elvira

Fernando Rey as Felipe el Hermoso

Eduardo Fajardo as Marqués de Villena

The passion that Joan of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Kings and heir to the throne, feels for her husband, Philip the Handsome, sovereign of the Netherlands and son of Maximilian of Austria and Mary of Burgundy, is not reciprocated. Her temperament, her jealousy and an unexpected tragedy will throw Joan into the dark realm of madness and obsession with death, the only realm where she will be a true queen…

Pitfall

1948

English

7.1

♡ 3

80%

los angeles, california

Thriller

André De Toth Director

John Litel as District Attorney

Dick Powell as John Forbes

Ann Doran as Maggie

Lizabeth Scott as Mona Stevens

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.

Portrait of Jennie

1948

English

7.6

♡ 8

93%

William Dieterle Director

Joseph Cotten as Eben Adams

Brian Keith as Ice-Skating Extra

Amzie Strickland as Ice-Skating Extra

Lillian Gish as Mother Mary of Mercy

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

Good Sam

1948

English

6.3

♡ 4

60%

Leo McCarey Director

Todd Karns as Joe Adams

Minerva Urecal as Mrs. Nelson

William Frawley as Tom Moore

Irving Bacon as Tramp

Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.

The Paleface

1948

English

6.6

♡ 9

100%

Norman Z. McLeod Director

Trevor Bardette as Governor's Horseman

Harry Harvey as Justice of the Peace

George Chandler as Patient #1

John Roy as Waiter

Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.