Drama Movies
Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
Eva (1948)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
Whiplash (1948)
An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
Command Decision (1948)
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
The Dark Past (1948)
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be…
Joan of Arc (1948)
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices…
An Act of Murder (1948)
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.
Germany Year Zero (1948)
The Storm Within (1948)
Apostasy (1948)
So Dear to My Heart (1948)
The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his ‘champion’ lamb, Danny. Jeremiah’s dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcome the obstinate objections of…
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole – only to find…
The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
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…
Parole Inc. (1948)
A federal agent’s life is in danger when he’s exposed while investigating a parole scheme.
The Walls of Jericho (1948)
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.
The Snake Pit (1948)
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,…
L’amore (1948)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
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)
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.
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
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…
Strange Harbor (1948)
Macbeth (1948)
A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.
Moonrise (1948)
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….
Apartment for Peggy (1948)
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…
The Fallen Idol (1948)
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…
Cry of the City (1948)
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…
Louisiana Story (1948)
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.
Esther Waters (1948)
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…
The Winslow Boy (1948)
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.
Road House (1948)
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)
The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
The Blind Goddess (1948)
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…
Johnny Belinda (1948)
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Race Street (1948)
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
The Red Shoes (1948)
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…