Tag: 1947

Director: Lawrence Huntington
Stars: James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

A British brain surgeon punishes the murderess of his lover.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chôko Iida, Hôhi Aoki, Eitarô Ozawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young boy follows Tashiro home to his tenement housing complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, the boy who was separated from his carpenter father somehow and somewhere in Kudan.

Director: Robert Hamer
Stars: Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover’s house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.

Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Micheline Presle, Marcello Pagliero, Marguerite Moreno
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

Two people learn to love each other in the afterlife and get a second chance.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A nightclub singer inspires a doctor to fake his own murder, leading to plenty of complications.

Director: Robert Rossen
Stars: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
Country: USA

A talented boxer’s young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Ronald Colman, Edmond O’Brien, Signe Hasso
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

Oslo, April 19th 1945, as the Third Reich is living its last days, a group of Nazis and sympathizers (a Wehrmacht general; an SS commander and his “assistant”; an Italian industrialist and his wife who is also the general’s lover; a French collaborator) board a submarine that will take them to South America, where they hope to find refuge.

Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Frances Ramsden, Jimmy Conlin
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Twenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. But losing his job destroys that dream, and when he finds a particularly potent drink at his local bar, he goes on a very strange and funny rampage (with a lion in tow).

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?

Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A soldier runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A soldier runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Holger Löwenadler, Anna Lindahl, Birger Malmsten
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.

Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Stars: Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Denise Grey
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: France

During World War I, the star-crossed affair of an underage French student with a woman engaged to a soldier.

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

The real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials..

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

Director: H.C. Potter
Stars: Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After leaving her family’s farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic-poem clues to the cops.

Director: Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Two cats have a litter of 5 kittens and then nurse, teach and play with them.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Libertad Lamarque, Jorge Negrete, Meche Barba
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Mexico

A prison escapee becomes involved with an independent oil well owner threatened by corporate thugs, who do their dodgy business in the glamorous Grand Casino.

Director: Michael Gordon
Stars: Ella Raines, Edmond O’Brien, William Bendix
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

An attorney acting as a body guard, apparently kills a man in defense of his employer’s life, and later believes the victim was set up to be murdered.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

During a Sunday trip into war-ravaged Tokyo, despairing Yuzo and optimistic Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.

Director: Edward Buzzell
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA

Nick and Nora investigate the murder of a bandleader in New York.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Sô Yamamura, Kikue Môri
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Maurice Chevalier, François Périer, Marcelle Derrien
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | USA

1910: A friend leaves his daughter, Madeleine, with Emile a French film producer. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his young friend Jacques returns from military service complaining his misfortune with women. Once he follows Emile’s advice to have an affair, he meets Lucette and falls in love with her instead.

Director: Jacques Becker
Stars: Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. In the midst of constantly fending off the unwanted attention of men, especially the grocer Monsieur Roland, Antoinette purchases a winning lottery ticket. But when Antoine loses their ticket out of poverty, their dreams seem like they’ll remain just that.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

A Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down during World War II returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then her brother arrives.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Jenny Lamour wants to succeed in music hall. Her husband and accompanist is Maurice Martineau, a nice but jealous man. When he knew Jenny is making eyes at Brignon, an old businessman, in order to get some engagements, he looses his temper and threatens Brignon with death. But Jenny went anyway to a rendez-vous at the old man’s, who is murdered the same evening.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

Director: Byron Haskin
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn’t prepare Frankie for Big Business.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.

Director: Henri Decoin
Stars: Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Georges Bréhat
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt after a young woman that he has just recently met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Marius Goring
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

Philippa Shelley races against time to clear her husband Nicholas Talbot of a murder he did not commit. While she works on getting proof, the prosecution is doing all it can to force a conviction.

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Stars: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: UK

After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman’s murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge.

Director: Robert Montgomery
Stars: Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Wanda Hendrix
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.

Director: Martin Gabel
Stars: Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

An publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letters.

Director: Chester Erskine
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

On their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A financier from New York City rules his numerous family, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousness of a bookkeeper.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Nick Bianco is caught during a botched jewellery heist. The prosecution offer him a more lenient sentence if he squeals on his accomplices but he doesn’t roll over on them. Three years into the sentence an event changes his mind.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
Genre: Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The true story of a prosecutor’s fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

On America’s frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

An angel in human form enters the life of a bishop in order to help him build a new cathedral and repair his fractured marriage.