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1949 Drama Movies

Public list by WPS with 243 movies or TV shows/series

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Samson and Delilah(1949)

NR
| 2h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love, Adventure
3.3/5 (with 82 votes)

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret. The classic story of Samson and Delilah as told by Cecil B. DeMille.

The Secret Garden(1949)

1h 32min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.

Late Spring(1949)

1h 50min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 155 votes)

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

The Heiress(1949)

NR
| 1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love, History
3.9/5 (with 103 votes)

Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.

The Quiet Duel(1949)

1h 35min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 30 votes)

Toshirō Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father's (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.

The Silence of the Sea(1949)

1h 27min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.7/5 (with 53 votes)

In a small town in occupied France in 1941, the German officer, Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted in the house of the uncle and his niece. The uncle and niece refuse to speak to him, but each evening the officer warms himself by the fire and talks of his country, his music, and his idealistic views of the relationship between France and Germany. That is, until he visits Paris and discovers what is really going on...

All the King's Men(1949)

NR
| 1h 49min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 89 votes)

All The King's Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the governor's mansion.

Sands of Iwo Jima(1950)

NR
| 1h 40min | War, Action, Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 54 votes)

The relationship between Sergeant Stryker and a group of rebellious recruits is made difficult by the Sergeant's tough training tactics. At Tarawa, the leathernecks have a chance to see Stryker in action, and begin to appreciate him.

Directed by Allan Dwan - With John Wayne, John Agar, Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, James Brown, Arthur Franz, ...

The Set-Up(1949)

NR
| 1h 13min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 55 votes)

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Bitter Rice(1949)

1h 48min | Drama, Crime
3.8/5 (with 83 votes)

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.

Caught(1949)

3.3/5 (with 34 votes)

It was Leonora Eames' childhood dream come true. She had married Smith Ohlrig, a man worth millions. But her innocent dream became a nightmare once she realizes the truth about her husband - he is power mad and insane! Since he will not grant her a divorce, she leaves her life of luxury on Long Island and goes to work as a receptionist in an impoverished doctor's office in NYC's lower east side. After Smith deceives her into a temporary reconciliation, Leonora becomes pregnant. By the time she realizes she is expecting, she and one of the doctors, Larry Quinada (James Mason), have fallen in love. But she is again lured backed to her wealthy husband to give her child financial security. Her sadistic husband is hell-bent on keeping her and her child prisoner. What will happen to Leonora?

They Live by Night(1949)

NR
| 1h 36min | Drama, Crime, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 70 votes)

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

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D.O.A.(1949)

1h 23min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 77 votes)

Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.

Madame Bovary(1949)

1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Based on the French literary classic, this drama presents author Gustave Flaubert narrating his tale of infidelity and narcissism. After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young Leon Dupuis and later with the wealthy Rodolphe Boulanger. Eventually, however, her self-involved behavior catches up with her.

The Window(1949)

1h 13min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.

House of Strangers(1949)

NR
| 1h 41min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of the sons take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that stays loyal to his father.

Champion(1949)

1h 39min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 37 votes)

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

The Red Pony(1949)

1h 31min | Action, Drama, Western
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley. With his incompatible parents -- the city-loving Fred and country-happy Alice -- constantly bickering, Tom looks to cowboy Billy Buck for companionship and paternal love.

Pinky(1949)

1h 42min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 19 votes)

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

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.

Such a Pretty Little Beach(1949)

1h 31min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.

A Family Like Many Others(1949)

2h 10min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.

Flamingo Road(1949)

1h 34min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 19 votes)

A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

Christopher Columbus(1949)

NR
| 1h 39min | Action, Adventure
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.

A Woman's Secret(1949)

NR
| 1h 24min | Mystery, Drama
2.8/5 (with 15 votes)

A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.

The Woman on Pier 13(1950)

NR
| 1h 13min | Drama, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 10 votes)

Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.

Directed by Robert Stevenson - With Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar, Thomas Gomez, William Talman

Prince of Foxes(1949)

NR
| 1h 47min | Adventure, Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte, and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...

Down to the Sea in Ships(1949)

NR
| 2h | Drama, Adventure
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

During a whaling expedition in the late 1800's, the aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) and his new first mate, Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark) engage in a battle of wills concerning the education of the captain's struggling grandson.

Bagdad(1949)

NR
| 1h 22min | Adventure
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

An Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and his Black Riders.

Any Number Can Play(1949)

1h 52min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

When illegal casino owner Charley Enley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.

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