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Movies Set in 1949

Public list by WPS with 46 movies or TV shows/series

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Oppenheimer(2023)

R
| 3h | Drama, History
4.1/5 (with 2,359 votes)

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

The Shawshank Redemption(1994)

R
| 2h 22min | Drama, Crime
4.4/5 (with 12,480 votes)

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

The Survivor(2022)

2h 9min | History, Action, Drama
3.7/5 (with 44 votes)

Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way to find his first love again.

Raging Bull(1980)

R
| 2h 9min | Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 1,896 votes)

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Exorcist: The Beginning(2004)

R
| 1h 54min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 332 votes)

Having lived through traumatizing events during WWII, Father Lankester Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to conduct archaeological excavations in British-administered East Africa. Merrin unearths an ancient Byzantine church believed have been built and then immediately buried to keep down evil from the crypt below. The natives are convinced that uncovering the church has unleashed a demon, and begin to violently clash with the British military troops. As the village rapidly disintegrates into chaos and war, Merrin must face-off with the demon which has taken possession of somebody close to him.

Assassination(2015)

2h 20min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 98 votes)

In Japanese-occupied Korea, three freedom fighters are assigned a mission to assassinate a genocidal military leader and his top collaborator. But the plan goes completely awry amidst double-crossings, counter-assassinations, and a shocking revelation about one of the assassins' past.

Gangster Squad(2013)

R
| 1h 53min | Crime, Drama, Action, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 1,911 votes)

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.

The Chorus(2004)

PG
| 1h 36min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 1,076 votes)

Set in 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

The Man Who Wasn't There(2001)

R
| 1h 56min | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 675 votes)

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.

Miranda(1985)

2.6/5 (with 37 votes)

Miranda is a sensual tavern owner with a taste for men of all types. Over a year's time, Miranda copes with the death of her husband by enjoying the talents of a different lover for each of the four seasons. All the men are delightful, but which one is the best lover, and who will make a suitable husband?

Get on Up(2014)

PG-13
| 2h 19min | Drama, Music
3.4/5 (with 234 votes)

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

The Notorious Bettie Page(2005)

R
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 63 votes)

Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day.

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Psycho IV: The Beginning(1990)

1h 36min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 101 votes)

Norman Bates recalls his childhood with his abusive mother on a radio show about boys who commit matricide.

Dead Again(1991)

3.2/5 (with 154 votes)

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.

MacArthur(1977)

PG
| 2h 10min | Drama, History, War
3.1/5 (with 34 votes)

The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

Neruda(2016)

R
| 1h 48min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 118 votes)

It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

Trumbo(2015)

R
| 2h 4min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 708 votes)

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

Madadayo(1993)

2h 14min | Drama, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 45 votes)

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with him resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.

The Keeper(2019)

1h 54min | Drama, War, History
3.8/5 (with 87 votes)

The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.

Married Life(2007)

PG-13
| 1h 30min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 62 votes)

A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her.

Pollock(2000)

R
| 2h 2min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 129 votes)

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.

Scandal(1950)

1h 44min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 31 votes)

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing(1955)

NR
| 1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.1/5 (with 36 votes)

A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.

10 Rillington Place(1971)

PG
| 1h 46min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 79 votes)

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

The Crossing(2014)

2h 9min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 16 votes)

At the end of the World War II and the middle of the Chinese Revolution, three couples from different backgrounds with different nationalities flee from China to the island of Taiwan.

The Blue Lamp(1950)

1h 24min | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

Mao Zedong 1949(2019)

2h 20min | History
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

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The Fan(1949)

NR
| 1h 19min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

Lord Windermere appears to all - including his young wife Margaret - to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.

Elizabeth Is Missing(2019)

1h 27min | TV Movie, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 17 votes)

Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.

The Happiest Days of Your Life(1950)

1h 21min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.

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