The best movies 1949

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...

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he...

A concise adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" about Mr. Toad's motor mania, followed by a short retelling of Washington...

Art student Ulla lies to her older sister Ilse, claiming to be posing for sculptor Professor Viktor Arnim. To confront him, Ilse visits him that very...

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both...

Klementine Plamershof is a fun-loving young woman. She has long been “confined” to a girls’ boarding school, where she is studying...

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

The new warden of a bad prison finds his biggest problem is his wife.

A man from humble origins becomes a famous boxer, but fame has its price.

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

The tumultuous loves of a diver and a pretty bitch. Mario loves Perrucha, she only loves money. When, by dint of diving, the boy's health...

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

Postwar Germany, May 1945. American city commander Tom Keller appoints engineer Walter Reinhardt as acting mayor of a small town in southern Germany....

A surprising film about the large number of inadequately addressed letters that the postal service receives every day. The film is an invitation to...

Tabloid journalists muddy the waters during the investigation of the murder of an Argentine senator.

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...

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is...

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be...

A man from humble origins becomes a famous boxer, but fame has its price.

Tabloid journalists muddy the waters during the investigation of the murder of an Argentine senator.

The struggle of a group of peasants who try to take over the land where they work.

Filigrana is in the prime of his career. His dressing room is full of flowers and always the same fan: William Harrison who asks her to marry him....

The film begins with some sequences related to the youth of Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez, his arrival in Buenos Aires from his native Arrecifes, his...

It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon...

Juan returns to Spain after unsuccessfully seeking his fortune in America. His older brother, Miguel, a brave fire lieutenant, welcomes him warmly....

Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.

Paloma and Marcelo are in love, but only dare meet once a month- see, she doesn't know that he is only pretending to be the son of rich ranchers, and...

The creative and ambitious Carlos, a young Spanish film buff, manages to become a professional camera operator with time and effort, and is also...

Maria Fuenterreal remembers the days of resistance in the sanctuary of the Virgen de la Cabeza. There she met Aracil, a man of extremist ideas who...

A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a...

Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.

Magician Fu Manchu must find a way out of a supposed haunted house.

Tuberculosis and a passional crime prevent the final triumph to a boy from the slums who has opened his way in boxing.

Tin-Tan and his carnal Marcelo take over Carmelita baby for a few hours, and suddenly, the three are hired by an employer of the tents, starting the...

Father Carlos, a Basque priest, decides to leave voluntarily as a missionary to a village lost in the Philippines. From the first moment, their...