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Movies: Popular Movies of 1943

Movies in chronological context: 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1943rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 943rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1940s decade. ()

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Shadow of a Doubt(1943)

PG
| 1h 48min | Thriller, Crime
3.8/5 (with 467 votes)

Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie Oakley, is coming to visit. However, as secrets about him come to the fore, Charlotte’s admiration turns into suspicion.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers, Hume Cronyn, ...
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The Ox-Bow Incident(1943)

NR
| 1h 16min | Western, Drama
3.9/5 (with 159 votes)

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

Directed by William A. Wellman, James Tinling - With Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn, Harry Morgan, Jane Darwell, Harry Davenport, ...
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Meshes of the Afternoon(1943)

14min | Mystery, Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 153 votes)

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

Directed by Maya Deren, Alexandr Hackenschmied - With Maya Deren

Le Corbeau(1943)

1h 32min | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 112 votes)

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets. This allegorical film was highly controversial at the time of its release, and was banned in France after the Liberation.

Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot - With Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Pierre Larquey, Albert Brouett, Albert Malbert, Antoine Balpêtré, ...

I Walked with a Zombie(1943)

1h 9min | Drama, Horror, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 107 votes)

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur - With James Ellison, Tom Conway, Frances Dee, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Theresa Harris, ...
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp(1943)

NR
| 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, ...
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Day of Wrath(1943)

NR
| 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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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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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man(1943)

NR
| 1h 14min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 85 votes)

Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died; however, his monster is found.

Directed by Roy William Neill - With Lon Chaney Jr., Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, ...
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Phantom of the Opera(1943)

1h 32min | Horror, Romance / Love, Drama, Music
3.1/5 (with 78 votes)

Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness, and has his face etched with acid. Soon, mysterious crimes plague the Paris Opera House, blamed on a legendary "phantom".

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Nelson Eddy, Claude Rains, Frank Puglia, Fritz Leiber, Susanna Foster, Edgar Barrier, ...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls(1943)

G
| 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, ...
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Der Fuehrer's Face(1943)

NR
| 8min | Animation
3.5/5 (with 61 votes)

A marching band of Germans, Italians, and Japanese march through the streets of swastika-motif Nutziland, serenading "Der Fuehrer's Face." Donald Duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting Nazi food rations and then with his day of toil at a Nazi artillery factory. After a nervous breakdown, Donald awakens to find that his experience was in fact a nightmare.

Directed by Jack Kinney
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Lassie Come Home(1943)

G
| 1h 28min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 55 votes)

Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.

Directed by Fred M. Wilcox - With Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester, Donald Crisp, Nigel Bruce, Edmund Gwenn, Elizabeth Taylor, ...
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Sahara(1943)

1h 37min | Action, Adventure, Drama, War
3.6/5 (with 54 votes)

Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.

Directed by Zoltan Korda - With Humphrey Bogart, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, Dan Duryea, Bruce Bennett, ...
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Jane Eyre(1943)

NR
| 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, ...
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The Seventh Victim(1943)

NR
| 1h 11min | Horror, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 50 votes)

A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.

Directed by Mark Robson - With Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Evelyn Brent, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., ...
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Sanshiro Sugata(1943)

1h 20min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 48 votes)

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new form of self-defence: Judo. The main character is based on Shiro Saigo, a legendary judoka.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Takashi Shimura, Ranko Hanai, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki, Ichirō Sugai, ...

Five Graves to Cairo(1943)

NR
| 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, ...

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 Brennan, Arno Frey, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, ...
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The Song of Bernadette(1943)

NR
| 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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The Leopard Man(1943)

NR
| 1h 6min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 46 votes)

When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur - With Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Abner Biberman, Isabel Jewell, Jacqueline deWit, ...
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Red Hot Riding Hood(1943)

7min | Animation, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 45 votes)

Tired of always playing the same roles, Little Red Riding Hood, her grandmother and the Wolf demand a new version of the tale. The story then plays out in a more contemperary urban environment, with Little Red Riding Hood working as a pin-up girl in a night club.

Directed by Tex Avery

Son of Dracula(1943)

NR
| 1h 20min | Fantasy, Horror
3.1/5 (with 43 votes)

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.

Directed by Robert Siodmak - With Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Paige, Evelyn Ankers, Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Samuel S. Hinds, George Irving, ...
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Journey into Fear(1943)

NR
| 1h 8min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 39 votes)

An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.

Directed by Norman Foster, Orson Welles - With Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane, Orson Welles, ...

The Outlaw(1943)

NR
| 1h 56min | Action, Adventure, Western
2.8/5 (with 38 votes)

Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.

Directed by Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks - With Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Walter Huston, Thomas Mitchell, Mimi Aguglia, Joe Sawyer, ...
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The Spider Woman(1943)

1h 3min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 32 votes)

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".

Directed by Roy William Neill - With Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Dennis Hoey, Mary Gordon, Alec Craig, ...

The More the Merrier(1943)

1h 44min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 32 votes)

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.

Directed by George Stevens - With Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Ann Doran, Bruce Bennett, Frank Sully, ...
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death(1943)

NR
| 1h 8min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.

Directed by Roy William Neill - With Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Halliwell Hobbes, Milburn Stone, Mary Gordon, ...

Batman(1943)

4h 20min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Science Fiction, Thriller, War
3.2/5 (with 30 votes)

Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.

Directed by Lambert Hillyer - With Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish, Shirley Patterson, William Austin

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi(1943)

NR
| 10min | Animation, Drama, Documentary
3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

A propaganda film during World War II about a boy who grows up to become a Nazi soldier.

Directed by Clyde Geronimi
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