Drama Movies
Minesweeper (1943)
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to…
Happy Land (1943)
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy’s life was cut short before he had an opportunity…
Douce (1943)
Northern Pursuit (1943)
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse…
Find the Blackmailer (1943)
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there’s a talking blackbird who insists upon saying…
Claudia (1943)
Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can’t stand living so far away from her mother. She’s also afraid her husband doesn’t find…
The North Star (1943)
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as “Armored Attack.”
The Children Are Watching Us (1943)
Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
The Dark Tower (1943)
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
Paris After Dark (1943)
Andre Marbel is the upper-class doctor who is able to continue his practice above suspicion even though he is a leader in the French Resistance. His nurse supports his activities,…
So Proudly We Hail (1943)
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines…
The Flemish Farm (1943)
Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.
Johnny Come Lately (1943)
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased….
Salute to the Marines (1943)
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a…
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara’s wealthy mother near…
Holy Matrimony (1943)
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
Destroyer (1943)
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is…
The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John “Kit” McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has…
The Man in Grey (1943)
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with…
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however,…
Undercover (1943)
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators…
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
General Candy, who’s overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn’t have the respect of the men he’s training and is considered out-of-touch with what’s needed…
Stormy Weather (1943)
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Submarine Base (1943)
Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman…
Hers to Hold (1943)
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her “Three Smart Girls” films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of…
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on…
The Constant Nymph (1943)
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who…
The Silent Village (1943)
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
Hitler’s Madman (1943)
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
My Friend Flicka (1943)
Ken McLaughlin is a precocious 10-year-old who lives with his family on a remote Wyoming ranch. When Ken returns home from school with failing grades, his father, Rob, blames the…
Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He assumes the identity of a…
The Bells Go Down (1943)
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz…
I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the…
Bombardier (1943)
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers….
Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case (1943)
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate…
They Came to Blow Up America (1943)
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow…