Drama Movies

The Boy with Green Hair (1948)

The Boy with Green Hair (1948)

The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
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82

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Parole Inc. (1948)

Parole Inc. (1948)

Parole Inc. (1948)
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71

A federal agent’s life is in danger when he’s exposed while investigating a parole scheme.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Walls of Jericho (1948)

The Walls of Jericho (1948)

The Walls of Jericho (1948)
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106

In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.

Genre: Drama
The Snake Pit (1948)

The Snake Pit (1948)

The Snake Pit (1948)
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108

Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband,…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
L’amore (1948)

L’amore (1948)

L’amore (1948)
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76

L’Amore (‘Love’) is a 1948 Italian drama anthology film that consists of two parts, The Human Voice (Una voce umana), based on Jean Cocteau’s 1929 play of the same title,…

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Genre: Drama
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
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79

Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and…

The Guinea Pig (1948)

The Guinea Pig (1948)

The Guinea Pig (1948)
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97

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.

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Genre: Drama
Port of Call (1948)

Port of Call (1948)

Port of Call (1948)
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99

Berit is a young woman with problems. She is suicidal and depressed. Since it has been impossible for her to live with her mother, she has spent many years in…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Locura de amor (1948)

Locura de amor (1948)

Locura de amor (1948)
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107

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…

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Genre: Drama, History
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)

Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)

Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
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96

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…

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Strange Harbor (1948)

Strange Harbor (1948)

Strange Harbor (1948)
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85

“Strange Harbor ” – A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a…

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Genre: Drama
Macbeth (1948)

Macbeth (1948)

Macbeth (1948)
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107

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

Genre: Drama
Moonrise (1948)

Moonrise (1948)

Moonrise (1948)
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90

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor….

Genre: Drama
Apartment for Peggy (1948)

Apartment for Peggy (1948)

Apartment for Peggy (1948)
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96

Professor Henry Barnes decides he’s lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Fallen Idol (1948)

The Fallen Idol (1948)

The Fallen Idol (1948)
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96

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father’s butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Cry of the City (1948)

Cry of the City (1948)

Cry of the City (1948)
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95

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Louisiana Story (1948)

Louisiana Story (1948)

Louisiana Story (1948)
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78

The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Esther Waters (1948)

Esther Waters (1948)

Esther Waters (1948)
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108

Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer’s daughter. Left alone to bring up…

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Genre: Drama
The Winslow Boy (1948)

The Winslow Boy (1948)

The Winslow Boy (1948)
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117

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

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Genre: Drama
Road House (1948)

Road House (1948)

Road House (1948)
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95

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.

A Hen in the Wind (1948)

A Hen in the Wind (1948)

A Hen in the Wind (1948)
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84

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband’s return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has…

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Genre: Drama
The Babe Ruth Story (1948)

The Babe Ruth Story (1948)

The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
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106

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

Genre: Drama
The Blind Goddess (1948)

The Blind Goddess (1948)

The Blind Goddess (1948)
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87

Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public…

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Genre: Drama
Johnny Belinda (1948)

Johnny Belinda (1948)

Johnny Belinda (1948)
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102

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.

Genre: Drama
Race Street (1948)

Race Street (1948)

Race Street (1948)
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79

A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Red Shoes (1948)

The Red Shoes (1948)

The Red Shoes (1948)
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133

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Larceny (1948)

Larceny (1948)

Larceny (1948)
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89

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….

Genre: Crime, Drama
Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)

Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)

Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
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91

A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case…

Genre: Crime, Drama
365 Nights (1948)

365 Nights (1948)

365 Nights (1948)
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119

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and…

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Genre: Drama
Boarding House Blues (1948)

Boarding House Blues (1948)

Boarding House Blues (1948)
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86

In order to save their home, tenants of a boarding house put on a show.

Genre: Drama, Music
Good Sam (1948)

Good Sam (1948)

Good Sam (1948)
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114

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Furnival and Son (1948)

Furnival and Son (1948)

Furnival and Son (1948)
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19

Story of work in a cutlery manufacturing firm in Sheffield told through story of the son who enters the business.

Tap Roots (1948)

Tap Roots (1948)

Tap Roots (1948)
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109

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The…

Genre: Drama, War, Western
The Loves of Carmen (1948)

The Loves of Carmen (1948)

The Loves of Carmen (1948)
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99

Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.

Genre: Drama, Romance
A Foreign Affair (1948)

A Foreign Affair (1948)

A Foreign Affair (1948)
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116

In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
My Brother’s Keeper (1948)

My Brother’s Keeper (1948)

My Brother’s Keeper (1948)
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86

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets,…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Lulu Belle (1948)

Lulu Belle (1948)

Lulu Belle (1948)
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86

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 fiancĂ©e and career…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Pitfall (1948)

Pitfall (1948)

Pitfall (1948)
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86

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.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Man from Colorado (1948)

The Man from Colorado (1948)

The Man from Colorado (1948)
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100

Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war,…

Genre: Drama, Western
So Evil My Love (1948)

So Evil My Love (1948)

So Evil My Love (1948)
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109

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…

Genre: Drama, Thriller