Search results for "1943"
Flight for Freedom

Flight for Freedom

Flight for Freedom
IMDb: 6
102

1943 fictionalised biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean in 1937. In the film, Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart alter ego, called Tonie Carter,…

Genre: Drama
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
IMDb: 6.5
74

Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn’t like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries…

Genre: Horror
Higher and Higher

Higher and Higher

Higher and Higher
IMDb: 6
90

A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss’s fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Minesweeper

Minesweeper

Minesweeper
IMDb: 5.1
67

A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to…

Hi Diddle Diddle

Hi Diddle Diddle

Hi Diddle Diddle
IMDb: 6.7
72

When the bride’s mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom’s father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is…

Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case

Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case

Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case
IMDb: 6
89

In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate…

Tomorrow We Live

Tomorrow We Live

Tomorrow We Live
IMDb: 6.3
87

British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal…

Genre: Drama, War
Salute to the Marines

Salute to the Marines

Salute to the Marines
IMDb: 6.4
101

It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Presenting Lily Mars

Presenting Lily Mars

Presenting Lily Mars
IMDb: 6.8
104

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

Genre: Music, Romance
Young and Willing

Young and Willing

Young and Willing
IMDb: 5.7
83

For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists’ films during the war years, this is another one of the Paramount productions that…

Genre: Drama
The Human Comedy

The Human Comedy

The Human Comedy
IMDb: 7
117

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.

Women in Bondage

Women in Bondage

Women in Bondage
IMDb: 5.8
72

Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler’s regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It…

Genre: Drama, War
Princess O’Rourke

Princess O’Rourke

Princess O’Rourke
IMDb: 6.8
94

A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Hitler’s Children

Hitler’s Children

Hitler’s Children
IMDb: 6.4
82

This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.

Genre: Romance, War
Happy Land

Happy Land

Happy Land
IMDb: 6.7
73

An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy’s life was cut short before he had an opportunity…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Mystery of the 13th Guest

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

The Mystery of the 13th Guest
IMDb: 5.4
60

Murders result from an uncle’s wish to eliminate beneficiaries to a will.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Mission to Moscow

Mission to Moscow

Mission to Moscow
IMDb: 5.4
124

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Hard Way

The Hard Way

The Hard Way
IMDb: 7.1
109

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

Air Raid Wardens

Air Raid Wardens

Air Raid Wardens
IMDb: 6.1
67

Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.

I Dood It

I Dood It

I Dood It
IMDb: 6.2
102

Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine,…

Paris After Dark

Paris After Dark

Paris After Dark
IMDb: 6.4
85

Andre Marbel is the upper-class doctor who is able to continue his practice above suspicion even though he is a leader in the French Resistance. His nurse supports his activities,…

Genre: Drama, War
Where Are Your Children?

Where Are Your Children?

Where Are Your Children?
IMDb: 5.4
73

Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester (Jackie Cooper), who enlists in the…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Swing Fever

Swing Fever

Swing Fever
IMDb: 5.9
79

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

Holy Matrimony

Holy Matrimony

Holy Matrimony
IMDb: 7.3
87

An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Dead Men Walk

Dead Men Walk

Dead Men Walk
IMDb: 4.8
64

When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has,…

Genre: Horror
Thousands Cheer

Thousands Cheer

Thousands Cheer
IMDb: 6.2
125

Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel’s pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval…

Doña Bárbara

Doña Bárbara

Doña Bárbara
IMDb: 7.3
138

A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.

Genre: Drama, Western
The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down
IMDb: 6.8
89

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz…

Genre: Drama, War
The Fallen Sparrow

The Fallen Sparrow

The Fallen Sparrow
IMDb: 6.6
94

Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John “Kit” McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has…

The Ghost Ship

The Ghost Ship

The Ghost Ship
IMDb: 6.6
69

Captain Stone’s newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die mysteriously, Tom starts doubting Stone’s…

Vautrin the Thief

Vautrin the Thief

Vautrin the Thief
IMDb: 6.7
120

A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien de Rubempré, an impetuous and eternal…

Genre: Drama
No Time for Love

No Time for Love

No Time for Love
IMDb: 6.9
83

Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Claudia

Claudia

Claudia
IMDb: 6.5
91

Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can’t stand living so far away from her mother. She’s also afraid her husband doesn’t find…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Destroyer

Destroyer

Destroyer
IMDb: 6.4
99

Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is…

The Demi-Paradise

The Demi-Paradise

The Demi-Paradise
IMDb: 6.2
114

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people…

Guadalcanal Diary

Guadalcanal Diary

Guadalcanal Diary
IMDb: 6.7
93

Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
There’s Something About a Soldier

There’s Something About a Soldier

There’s Something About a Soldier
IMDb: 5.8
81

Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.

The Heat’s On

The Heat’s On

The Heat’s On
IMDb: 5.1
78

Broadway star Fay Lawrence (West) is a temperamental diva who is reluctantly persuaded by a Broadway producer (Gaxton) to star in his latest production.

Genre: Comedy
Romeo y Julieta

Romeo y Julieta

Romeo y Julieta
IMDb: 7
100

Verona’s peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian…

Genre: Comedy
Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness
IMDb: 7.2
119

The film pivots around the local doctor and his family. The doctor’s wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore the occupiers. The…

Genre: Drama, War