1943 Drama Movies

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The Song of Bernadette(1943)

| 2h 36min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 47 votes)

In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.

Directed by Henry King - With Jennifer Jones, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb, Gladys Cooper, ...

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Day of Wrath(1943)

| 1h 37min | Drama

4.0/5 (with 91 votes)

In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Marte. When Absalon's son returns home and is attracted to Anne, it's a matter of time before her family destiny catches up with her.

Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - With Lisbeth Movin, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Olaf Ussing, Hans Christian Sørensen, Preben Neergaard, Sigrid Neiiendam, ...

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Action in the North Atlantic(1943)

2h 6min | Drama, War

3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh - With Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Ruth Gordon, Sam Levene, William von Brincken, ...

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This Land Is Mine(1943)

1h 43min | Drama, War

3.6/5 (with 24 votes)

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.

Directed by Jean Renoir - With Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Kent Smith, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Una O'Connor, ...

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Guadalcanal Diary(1943)

| 1h 33min | Action, War, Drama

2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.

Directed by Lewis Seiler - With Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, Richard Jaeckel, ...

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Above Suspicion(1943)

| 1h 30min | Thriller

3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

Directed by Richard Thorpe - With Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Basil Rathbone, Conrad Veidt, Reginald Owen, Johanna Hofer, ...

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Madame Curie(1943)

2h 4min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 16 votes)

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann, C. Aubrey Smith, May Whitty, ...

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Crash Dive(1943)

| 1h 46min | War, Romance / Love, Drama, Action, Adventure, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.

Directed by Archie Mayo, Otto Brower - With Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason, May Whitty, Harry Morgan, ...

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Heaven Can Wait(1943)

1h 52min | Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 90 votes)

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, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - With Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Louis Calhern, Spring Byington, Marjorie Main, ...

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Hangmen Also Die!(1943)

2h 14min | Drama, Thriller, War

3.5/5 (with 47 votes)

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.

Directed by Fritz Lang - With Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brenda, Arno Frey, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, ...

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Gung Ho!(1943)

| 1h 28min | Action, Adventure, Drama, War

2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, "Carlson's Raiders," whose assignment is to take control of a South Pacific island once possessed by the United States but now under Japanese command.

Directed by Ray Enright - With Randolph Scott, Alan Curtis, J. Carrol Naish, Sam Levene, Robert Mitchum, Rod Cameron, ...

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The Ghost Ship(1943)

| 1h 9min | Thriller, Mystery

3.2/5 (with 27 votes)

Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die mysteriously, Tom starts doubting Stone's authority.

Directed by Mark Robson - With Richard Dix, Steve Forrest, Alec Craig, Dewey Robinson, Edith Barrett, Lawrence Tierney, ...

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The Song Lantern(1943)

1h 33min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him, leading the once promising actor to a life on the streets. But his desire to win back the respect of his father and the affection of the dead actor's daughter pushes him toward a more noble existence. Naruse employed a delicately structured mise-en-scene in this family melodrama, which evokes the work of Josef von Sternberg.

Directed by Mikio Naruse

Child Bride(1938)

1h 2min | Drama

2.2/5 (with 12 votes)

Jennie is a twelve-year-old girl living with her parents in extremely rural mountain country. Her schoolteacher, Miss Carol, though a mountain girl herself, has gone off to be educated and returned in hopes of stopping the tradition of child marriage which permeates the culture. Jennie's father Ira is a good man who tries to protect Miss Carol from the men who threaten her if she doesn't call off her crusade. One of these men, Jake Bolby, has his eye on little Jennie and plots to make her his bride. NOTE: the actress playing Jennie was 14 years old when she made this film, and appears topless in a couple of shots.

Directed by Harry Revier - With Shirley Mills, Angelo Rossitto, Warner Richmond

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The Man in Grey(1943)

| 1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

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 her husband.

Directed by Leslie Arliss - With Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Amy Veness, Helen Haye, ...

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Mission to Moscow(1943)

2h 4min | War, Drama, History

2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Eleanor Parker, ...

Tender Comrade(1944)

| 1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.

Directed by Edward Dmytryk - With Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Kim Hunter, Patricia Collinge, Mady Christians, ...

The Count of Monte Cristo Part 1 - The Prisoner of Kastell(1943)

1h 30min | Adventure, Drama, History, Action

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.

Directed by Robert Vernay - With Aimé Clariond, Alexandre Rignault, André Fouché, André Lorière, André Varennes, Charles Granval, ...

Margin for Error(1943)

1h 14min | Crime, Comedy, Drama, War

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.

Directed by Otto Preminger - With Joan Bennett, Milton Berle, Carl Esmond, Don Dillaway, Ferike Boros, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, ...

Night Plane from Chungking(1943)

| 1h 9min | Action, Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.

Directed by Ralph Murphy - With Robert Preston

It Happened at the Inn(1943)

1h 44min | Drama, Mystery, Comedy

3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

An old woman living in an inn is killed and her family members seem like the likely culprits.

Directed by Jacques Becker - With Albert Rémy, Arthur Devère, Blanchette Brunoy, Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Germaine Kerjean, ...

Cry 'Havoc'(1943)

| 1h 37min | Drama, War

3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitress, and a stripper, show up. Many conflicts arise among these women who are thrown together in what is a desperate and ultimately hopeless situation.

Directed by Richard Thorpe - With Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Frances Gifford, ...

Happy Land(1943)

| 1h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

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 to truly appreciate his existence.

Directed by Irving Pichel - With Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Ann Rutherford, Harry Morgan, Minor Watson, ...

Watch on the Rhine(1943)

1h 54min | Drama, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

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 Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.

Directed by Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr - With Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lucile Watson, Beulah Bondi, George Coulouris, ...

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Pilot #5(1943)

| 1h 11min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five pilots anxious to fly it, the Dutch commander chooses George Collins to fly a mission to drop a 500-lb bomb on the Japanese carrier lying offshore. As the flight progresses, the commander asks the other pilots to tell him about George. They recount his rise from brilliant law student, through the time he became involved in the corrupt machine of his state's Governor, and his attempts to redeem himself, both in his own eyes, and in Fredie, his long-time love.

Directed by George Sidney - With Franchot Tone, Marsha Hunt, Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Alan Baxter, Steven Geray, ...

Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra(1943)

1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.

Directed by Alvaro Gálvez y Fuentes, Ismael Rodríguez

Minesweeper(1943)

| 1h 7min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love, War

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

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 a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.

Directed by William Berke - With Richard Arlen

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Forever and a Day(1943)

| 1h 44min | Drama, History

3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

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 selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

Directed by René Clair, Frank Lloyd, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, ... - With Merle Oberon, Ray Milland, Donald Crisp, Charles Laughton, Buster Keaton, Victor McLaglen, ...

Bombardier(1943)

| 1h 39min | Drama, War

2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

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. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.

Directed by Richard Wallace, Lambert Hillyer - With Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley, Eddie Albert, Robert Ryan, Barton MacLane, ...

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The Human Comedy(1943)

1h 57min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

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.

Directed by Clarence Brown - With Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Fay Bainter, Ray Collins, ...

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1943 Drama Movies

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The Song of Bernadette(1943)

Day of Wrath(1943)

Action in the North Atlantic(1943)

This Land Is Mine(1943)

Guadalcanal Diary(1943)

Above Suspicion(1943)

Madame Curie(1943)

Crash Dive(1943)

Heaven Can Wait(1943)

Hangmen Also Die!(1943)

Gung Ho!(1943)

The Ghost Ship(1943)

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The Song Lantern(1943)

Child Bride(1938)

The Man in Grey(1943)

Mission to Moscow(1943)

Tender Comrade(1944)

The Count of Monte Cristo Part 1 - The Prisoner of Kastell(1943)

Margin for Error(1943)

Night Plane from Chungking(1943)

It Happened at the Inn(1943)

Cry 'Havoc'(1943)

Happy Land(1943)

Watch on the Rhine(1943)

Pilot #5(1943)

Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra(1943)

Minesweeper(1943)

Forever and a Day(1943)

Bombardier(1943)

The Human Comedy(1943)

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