Drama Movies

Keeper of the Flame (1943)

Keeper of the Flame (1943)

Keeper of the Flame (1943)
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100

Famed reporter Stephen O’Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
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80

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new form of self-defence: Judo….

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Genre: Drama
Thursday’s Child (1943)

Thursday’s Child (1943)

Thursday’s Child (1943)
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82

A couple’s little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.

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Genre: Drama
Aerial Gunner (1943)

Aerial Gunner (1943)

Aerial Gunner (1943)
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78

Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.

Genre: Drama, War
Air Force (1943)

Air Force (1943)

Air Force (1943)
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124

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of…

The Silver Fleet (1943)

The Silver Fleet (1943)

The Silver Fleet (1943)
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84

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a…

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Genre: Drama, War
Paracelsus (1943)

Paracelsus (1943)

Paracelsus (1943)
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104

The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to the world as Paracelsus.

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Genre: Drama, History
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
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76

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

Genre: Drama, Western
The Priest Who Knocked Out (1943)

The Priest Who Knocked Out (1943)

The Priest Who Knocked Out (1943)
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86

The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches Björn Harring fight off some…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Human Comedy (1943)

The Human Comedy (1943)

The Human Comedy (1943)
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118

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.

Genre: Drama, Family
Nine Men (1943)

Nine Men (1943)

Nine Men (1943)
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68

The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian…

Genre: Drama, War
Picpus (1943)

Picpus (1943)

Picpus (1943)
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95

Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Young and Willing (1943)

Young and Willing (1943)

Young and Willing (1943)
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83

For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists’ films during the war years, this is another one of the Paramount productions that…

Genre: Drama
The Outlaw (1943)

The Outlaw (1943)

The Outlaw (1943)
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116

Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is…

Genre: Drama, Western
Power of the Press (1943)

Power of the Press (1943)

Power of the Press (1943)
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64

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper’s policy and support the US war effort. His friend,…

Genre: Drama
Truck Busters (1943)

Truck Busters (1943)

Truck Busters (1943)
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58

An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker’s brother dies…

Genre: Drama
Forever and a Day (1943)

Forever and a Day (1943)

Forever and a Day (1943)
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104

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from…

Genre: Drama, History
Casablanca (1943)

Casablanca (1943)

Casablanca (1943)
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103

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Hard Way (1943)

The Hard Way (1943)

The Hard Way (1943)
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109

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

Genre: Drama
Stand by for Action (1942)

Stand by for Action (1942)

Stand by for Action (1942)
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109

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank,…

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, War
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)

Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)

Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
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98

A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.

Genre: Drama, War
Journey for Margaret (1942)

Journey for Margaret (1942)

Journey for Margaret (1942)
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81

An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns…

Genre: Drama, War
White Cargo (1942)

White Cargo (1942)

White Cargo (1942)
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88

In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Pittsburgh (1942)

Pittsburgh (1942)

Pittsburgh (1942)
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91

Charles ‘Pittsburgh’ Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and…

Genre: Drama
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)
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85

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her…

Genre: Drama
The Devil’s Envoys (1942)

The Devil’s Envoys (1942)

The Devil’s Envoys (1942)
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121

At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.

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Thunder Rock (1942)

Thunder Rock (1942)

Thunder Rock (1942)
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112

David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn’t cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Tennessee Johnson (1942)

Tennessee Johnson (1942)

Tennessee Johnson (1942)
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103

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson’s boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a…

Genre: Drama, History
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
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115

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ride Tonight! (1942)

Ride Tonight! (1942)

Ride Tonight! (1942)
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106

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to…

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Genre: Drama, History
Miss V from Moscow (1942)

Miss V from Moscow (1942)

Miss V from Moscow (1942)
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73

Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny…

Lucky Jordan (1942)

Lucky Jordan (1942)

Lucky Jordan (1942)
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84

Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he’s drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Gentleman Jim (1942)

Gentleman Jim (1942)

Gentleman Jim (1942)
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104

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Great Mr Handel (1942)

The Great Mr Handel (1942)

The Great Mr Handel (1942)
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89

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.

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Genre: Drama, Music
To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)

To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)

To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
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86

Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Dr. Gillespie’s New Assistant (1942)

Dr. Gillespie’s New Assistant (1942)

Dr. Gillespie’s New Assistant (1942)
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87

The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Thunder Birds (1942)

Thunder Birds (1942)

Thunder Birds (1942)
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78

On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Moon and Sixpence (1942)

The Moon and Sixpence (1942)

The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
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89

Loosely inspired from Gauguin’s life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted…

Genre: Drama
Now Voyager (1942)

Now Voyager (1942)

Now Voyager (1942)
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117

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Manila Calling (1942)

Manila Calling (1942)

Manila Calling (1942)
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81

During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.

Genre: Drama, War