1948 Romantic Drama Movies

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The Red Shoes(1948)

4.0/5 (with 255 votes)

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.

Directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell - With Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine, Albert Bassermann, ...

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Letter from an Unknown Woman(1948)

1h 27min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 123 votes)

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

Directed by Max Ophüls - With Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Erskine Sanford, Betty Blythe, Mady Christians, Otto Waldis, ...

Spring in a Small Town(1948)

1h 33min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 35 votes)

After eight years of marriage to Liyan - once rich but now a shadow of his former self following a long, ruinous war - Yuwen does little except grocery and medication shopping. A surprise visit from Liyan's friend Zhang re-energises the household, but also stirs up long-suppressed feelings and resentments.

Directed by Fei Mu - With Wei Wei, Li Wei, Shi Yu, Zhang Hongmei, Cui Chao-Ming

A Foreign Affair(1948)

| 1h 56min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 58 votes)

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell, Charles Meredith, Gordon Jones, ...

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.

Directed by Vincente Minnelli - With Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin, Gene Lockhart, ...

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The Charterhouse of Parma(1948)

2h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Grard Philipe) a young archibishop who gives his heart and soul to romance rather than to the Church creating upheaval in the lives of evergone around him the Countess of Sanseverine (Maria Casares) is but one of the may women who love him. In turn she incurs jealous retributions from those in high places who desire her. For his crimes Fabrice is thrown in Prison where from Crimes Fabrice is thrown in prison where form his lonely window he falls in love with his jailer s daughter and plans a daring escape she however calls his plan insane and takes a vow to the Virgin Mary to never see him again ever if his escape succeeds the Charterhouse of Parma explodes with conflicting desires man s desire form God vs. his desire for romance.

Directed by Christian-Jaque - With Gérard Philipe, Tina Lattanzi, Attilio Dottesio, Aldo Silvani, Tullio Carminati, Enrico Glori, ...

Saraband for Dead Lovers(1948)

1h 36min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.

Directed by Basil Dearden - With Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Peter Bull, Flora Robson, Françoise Rosay, Anthony Quayle, ...

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Maclovia(1948)

1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.

Directed by Emilio Fernández - With María de los Angeles Felix Güereña, Pedro Armendáriz, Carlos López Moctezuma, Columba Domínguez

The Loves of Carmen(1948)

1h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.

Directed by Charles Vidor - With Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Victor Jory, Luther Adler, Margaret Wycherly, Ron Randell, ...

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Enchantment(1948)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.

Directed by Irving Reis - With David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger, Jayne Meadows, Leo G. Carroll, ...

The Eagle with Two Heads(1948)

1h 33min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who's drawn apart. He enters her private quarters intent on killing her then himself, but they fall in love, in part because he looks like the king. Stanislas wants her to regain political power by appearing to the public, and she tries to convince him to find hope and escape. All the while, the queen's enemies plot to keep the lovers together but to thwart their plans.

Directed by Jean Cocteau - With Edwige Feuillère, Jean Marais, Jean Debucourt, Silvia Monfort, Jacques Varennes, Ahmed Abdallah, ...

No Orchids for Miss Blandish(1948)

1h 44min | Crime

3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress who is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods, in what starts out as a jewel robbery and turns into a kidnapping/murder when one of them kills the bridegroom. More mayhem ensues as the three kidnappers soon end up dead.

Directed by St. John Legh Clowes - With Jack La Rue

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Río Escondido(1948)

1h 50min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Called by the Mexican President himself, and in spite of a heart condition, young teacher Rosaura Salazar travels to the deserted town of Rio Escondido to accomplish the mission of bringing education to the poorest people. Being there, Salazar has to fight Regino Sandoval the evil landlord of the town. He has transformed the town into his own property, imposing his will and spreading death everywhere.

Directed by Emilio Fernández - With María de los Angeles Felix Güereña, Fernando Fernández, Carlos López Moctezuma, Columba Domínguez

Lulu Belle(1948)

1h 26min | Romance / Love, Drama

2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.

Directed by Leslie Fenton - With Addison Richards, Albert Dekker, Dorothy Lamour, George Montgomery, Glenda Farrell, Otto Kruger, ...

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!(1948)

| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. No one is able to handle the mules and he must train them. Adding to his dilemma, he pursues his boss's daughter who gets her kicks out of keeping him guessing about her true feelings. Of course, at the end he tames both the mules and the girl.

Directed by F. Hugh Herbert - With June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan, Anne Revere, Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe, ...

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Mela(1948)

2h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love

A convicted murderer is released from prison. His only possession is a broken figurine - the last token of his love. The tragic story of how he came to be incarcerated and the significance of the figurine is the subject of this tale of star-crossed lovers whose destiny is moulded by society's rigid rules and the villainy of a scoundrel.

Directed by S.U. Sunny - With Dilip Kumar, Nargis, Rehman

In the Eyes of Memory(1948)

1h 45min

3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To the Eyes of Memory). The film is based on a true story, wherein an France airliner managed to survive a journey from Rio De Janeiro to Dakar with two of its engines incapacitated. To this already intensely dramatic situation has been added a romantic subplot involving Claire Magny (Michele Morgan) and Jacques Forester (Jean Marais). The love story adds very little to the film; fortunately, neither does it detract from the film's overall quality. As was the case with many French productions of the 1940s, Aux Yeux du Souvenir benefits immeasurably from the Wagnerian musical score by Georges Auric.

Directed by Jean Delannoy - With Michèle Morgan, Jean Marais, Albert Duvaleix, Colette Mars, Daniel Ivernel, Denise Prêcheur, ...

Smart Woman(1948)

| 1h 33min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.

Directed by Edward A. Blatt - With Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Barry Sullivan

Night Song(1948)

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

3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.

Directed by John Cromwell - With Dana Andrews, Merle Oberon, Ethel Barrymore, Hoagy Carmichael, Arthur Rubinstein, Eugene Ormandy, ...

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Homecoming(1948)

1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Ray Collins, Gladys Cooper, ...

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To the Victor(1948)

1h 40min | Drama

An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.

Directed by Delmer Daves - With Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Victor Francen, Eduardo Ciannelli, Anthony Caruso, Tom D'Andrea, ...

Sohag Raat(1948)

2h 23min

On her deathbed Lajjo asks her stepson, Rajjo, to look after her son, Beli.

Directed by Kidar Sharma - With Bharat Bhushan, Begum Para, Geeta Bali

Embraceable You(1948)

| 1h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Eddie, a small-time hoodlum is forced to care for Marie he accidentally hits with his car during a crime. He is broke and hits up his very displeased mob boss for cash. To make matters worse, Eddie and Marie begin to fall for each other.

Directed by Felix Jacoves - With Dane Clark, Geraldine Brooks

Shaheed(1948)

2h 44min | Drama, Romance / Love

A freedom fighter faces opposition from both his father and an ambitious police officer.

Directed by Ramesh Saigal - With Dilip Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, Leela Chitnis

Vidya(1948)

Born in a low-caste family of chamars (cobblers), Chandu alias Chandrashekhar (Dev Anand) helps his father repair shoes and other footware for a small pittance. One day a girl from a rich and wealthy family, Vidya (Suraiya) stops by to get her shoe repaired. She wants Chandu to stop doing this menial job, and go to school, study and become someone important. She offers help financially, and gets Chandu to school. Both grow up and are attracted to each other. Both intent to marry, but obstacles open up in the form of Harry alias Harilal (Madan Puri), and Vidya's alcoholic dad, who will not permit his daughter to mingle with a boy from a lower caste.

Directed by Girish Trivedi - With Dev Anand

1948 Romantic Drama Movies

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The Red Shoes(1948)

Letter from an Unknown Woman(1948)

Spring in a Small Town(1948)

A Foreign Affair(1948)

Madame Bovary(1949)

The Charterhouse of Parma(1948)

Saraband for Dead Lovers(1948)

Maclovia(1948)

The Loves of Carmen(1948)

Enchantment(1948)

The Eagle with Two Heads(1948)

No Orchids for Miss Blandish(1948)

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Río Escondido(1948)

Lulu Belle(1948)

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!(1948)

Mela(1948)

In the Eyes of Memory(1948)

Smart Woman(1948)

Night Song(1948)

Homecoming(1948)

To the Victor(1948)

Sohag Raat(1948)

Embraceable You(1948)

Shaheed(1948)

Vidya(1948)

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