1943 Romantic Drama Movies

24 movies found (page 1/1):

For Whom the Bell Tolls(1943)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 50min | Drama, History, Romance / Love, Thriller, Adventure, War

3.4/5 (with 76 votes)

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 side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.

Directed by Sam Wood - With Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Katina Paxinou, Fortunio Bonanova, Vladimir Sokoloff, ...

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp(1943)

2h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love, War, History

3.8/5 (with 93 votes)

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 to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger - With Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver, Patrick Macnee, Carl Jaffe, ...

Jane Eyre(1943)

1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 53 votes)

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.

Directed by Robert Stevenson - With Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Sara Allgood, Henry Daniell, Agnes Moorehead, ...

Five Graves to Cairo(1943)

1h 36min | Thriller, War

3.5/5 (with 47 votes)

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 is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, afraid of the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans. John assumes the identity of the recently deceased waiter to survive.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck, Fortunio Bonanova, ...

Mr. Lucky(1943)

1h 40min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

Directed by H. C. Potter - With Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Henry Stephenson, Paul Stewart, ...

Maria Candelaria(1944)

1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.

Directed by Emilio Fernández - With Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Miguel Inclán, Arturo Soto Rangel, Alberto Galán

The Constant Nymph(1943)

1h 52min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

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 begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.

Directed by Edmund Goulding - With Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, May Whitty, Peter Lorre, ...

The Hard Way(1943)

1h 49min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

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

Directed by Vincent Sherman - With Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Gladys George, Faye Emerson, ...

Immortal Sergeant(1943)

1h 31min | War, Drama

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.

Directed by John M. Stahl - With Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Mitchell, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner, Bramwell Fletcher, ...

The Eternal Return(1943)

1h 47min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

A retelling of Tristan and Isolde set in 1940s France.

Directed by Jean Delannoy - With Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marais, Jean Murat, Jane Marken, Alexandre Rignault, Jacques Baumer, ...

Immensee(1943)

1h 29min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A man and a woman struggle to stifle their love for each other, even after he moves away to travel the world and she marries a suitor.

Directed by Veit Harlan - With Kristina Söderbaum, Paul Klinger, Otto Gebühr, Germana Paolieri, Vadim Glowna, Luigi Ricci, ...

Romance in a Minor Key(1943)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 38min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.

Directed by Helmut Käutner - With Marianne Hoppe, Ferdinand Marian, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Karl Günther, Helmut Käutner, Paul Dahlke, ...

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The Spirit's Canyon(1943)

2h 1min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.

Directed by Miguel Zacarías - With Jorge Negrete, María de los Angeles Felix Güereña, René Cardona, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Carlos López Moctezuma, Virginia Manzano, ...

Douce(1943)

1h 49min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.

Directed by Claude Autant-Lara - With Odette Joyeux, Roger Pigaut, Madeleine Robinson, Marguerite Moreno, Albert Michel, Albert Rémy, ...

Safo, historia de una pasión(1943)

1h 38min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.

Directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen - With Mirtha Legrand, Mecha Ortiz, Roberto Escalada, Miguel Gómez Bao, Nicolás Fregues, Guillermo Battaglia, ...

The Lamp Still Burns(1943)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.

Directed by Maurice Elvey - With Rosamund John, Stewart Granger, Godfrey Tearle, Cathleen Nesbitt

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher(1943)

1h 2min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love

2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.

Directed by James Tinling

Santa(1943)

1h 51min | Romance / Love, Drama

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito.

Directed by Norman Foster - With José Cibrián, Esther Fernández, Ricardo Montalbán

Örlogsmän(1943)

1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.

Directed by Börje Larsson - With Nils Kihlberg