Drama Movies
Fighting Back (1948)
An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.
Blonde Ice (1948)
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
Deep Waters (1948)
A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Return of the Bad Men (1948)
US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws.
The Velvet Touch (1948)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Oliver Twist (1948)
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he’s hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young…
Penny and the Pownall Case (1948)
A glamour model helps Scotland Yard to catch a criminal gang.
Stage Struck (1948)
A young woman’s murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
The romance of a rancher’s niece and a rival rancher’s son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.
River Lady (1948)
In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver. Romance and deceit are…
Silver River (1948)
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most…
All My Sons (1948)
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry…
State of the Union (1948)
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
Homecoming (1948)
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it’s “the thing to do” rather than deep-seated patriotism. On…
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
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…
Good-Time Girl (1948)
Sent to a home for “problem” girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd,…
Drunken Angel (1948)
Ruthless (1948)
Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to foot the…
Test Tube Babies (1948)
A happily married couple has been trying to have a baby with no luck. They discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial…
The Hunted (1948)
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend – but she claims she’s being framed.
The Last Stage (1948)
The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for…
The Search (1948)
In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy’s mother desperately searches for him.
We the Poor (1948)
B.F.’s Daughter (1948)
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.
Snowbound (1948)
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
The Inside Story (1948)
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a…
Rope (1948)
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
Assunta Spina (1948)
I Remember Mama (1948)
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family…
The Sign of the Ram (1948)
A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.
A Woman’s Vengeance (1948)
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
The Charterhouse of Parma (1948)
This adaptation of Stendhal’s timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Grard Philipe) a young archibishop who gives his heart and soul to romance rather…
Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
Flavia’s been told that her Aunt Susan’s fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he’s finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can…
Sleep My Love (1948)
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can’t remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
Arch of Triumph (1948)
In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic,…
Call Northside 777 (1948)
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank’s mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O’Neal to look into the…
Against the Wind (1948)
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who…