Drama Movies
Strange Impersonation (1946)
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and…
To Each His Own (1946)
During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she…
The Mask of Diijon (1946)
A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.
Sentimental Journey (1946)
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides…
From This Day Forward (1946)
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several…
Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John’s son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John…
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not…
Smooth as Silk (1946)
An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree.
Shock (1946)
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart….
Whistle Stop (1946)
When beautiful Mary returns to her “whistle stop” hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
My Reputation (1946)
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946)
The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for a meal, looks at photos and goes to bed to rise,…
Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946)
A Harlem nightclub entertainer arrives on the Caribbean island of “Rinidad” to perform as the headliner in a revue at the Paradise Hotel. She quickly attracts the attention of several…
Adventure (1945)
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
Father O’Malley is sent to St. Mary’s, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though…
A Walk in the Sun (1945)
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.
Scarlet Street (1945)
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she’s really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty…
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
They Were Expendable (1945)
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. “Rusty” Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan…
The Rake’s Progress (1945)
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career….
Detour (1945)
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst… but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend…
Brief Encounter (1945)
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship…
Club Havana (1945)
A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.
Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the…
Saratoga Trunk (1945)
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
Danger Signal (1945)
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to…
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and…
Fallen Angel (1945)
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing…
The Wicked Lady (1945)
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
The Dolly Sisters (1945)
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.
Confidential Agent (1945)
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
And Then There Were None (1945)
Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon…
Voice of the Whistler (1945)
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
Johnny Frenchman (1945)
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their…
Love Letters (1945)
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl,…
Johnny Angel (1945)
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father’s mysterious death.