Tag: 1943

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

After two years under German rule, a small Norwegian fishing village rises up and revolts against the occupying Nazis.

Director: H.C. Potter
Stars: Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A gambler has plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.

Director: Maurice Tourneur
Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gaël, Noël Roquevert
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: France

Roland Brissot bought for a nickel a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a cut left hand, and it works perfectly. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called “pajama suicides”. He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.

Director: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

An American tanker’s sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment; bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.

Director: Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Stars: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Fitch is on the list, and co-opts Claude Babbington to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.

Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marais, Jean Murat
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

This is a retelling of Tristan and Isolde, set in 1940s France. The script was written by Jean Cocteau.

Director: Mark Sandrich
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A group of nurses returning from the war in the Phillippines recall their experiences in combat and in love.

Director: Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family but their plans are complicated by a Romanian count.

Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Stars: Odette Joyeux, Madeleine Robinson, Marguerite Moreno
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference.

Director: Roy Rowland
Stars: Margaret O’Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Alpha’s been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.

Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A dead World War II bomber pilot named Pete Sandidge, becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge’s memory.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, William Eythe
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A young girl claims to have seen a divine vision, which prompts both a religious phenomenon and extreme skepticism.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA

During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.

Director: Robert Stevenson
Stars: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O’Brien
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, George Sanders
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A mild-mannered school-teacher in a Nazi-occupied town during W.W.II finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.

Director: Robert Bresson
Stars: Renée Faure, Jany Holt, Sylvie
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Anne-Marie joins a Dominican convent as a novice where she knows Therese. After shooting a man for which she was imprisoned, Therese protests her innocence reluctant to tell her secret.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale
Genre: Adventure, History, War
Country: USA

In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

After the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.

Director: Zoltan Korda
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: USA

During World War II, an undercover British soldier tries get word to the Allies that the Germans have tons of supplies buried in five excavations across Egypt.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.