Drama Movies of 1948
Words and Music
The life stories of Broadway tunesmiths Richard Rodgers ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Portrait of Jennie
In Portrait of Jennie, Joseph Cotten plays an artist, Eben Adams, who is unable to bring any true feeling to his ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Command Decision
Command Decision is a stagebound but consummately acted adaptation of William Wister Haines' Broadway play. Clark Gable, starring in the role essayed on ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Hamlet
Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston's 1948 treasure-hunt classic begins as drifter Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart), down and out in Tampico, Mexico, impulsively spends ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Enchantment
Most of the story in this five-hanky British melodrama takes place over a 50 year period within a single London home, 99 Wiltshire Place, the birth place of a noted general who has not been back ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Call Northside 777
In this documentary-inspired thriller, P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) is a reporter who is asked by his editor to look into a potential story: their newspaper has been carrying an ad offering a substantial ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
I Remember Mama
George Stevens's charming film version of Kathryn Forbes' collection of ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Four Faces West
When the family land is threatened with ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Rope
Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
The Three Godfathers
John Ford had already directed one of the three previous film versions of Peter Kyne's novel under the title Marked Men (1919) with his mentor Harry Carey, a great cowboy star of the silent ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
The Loves of Carmen
Perhaps it's just as well that Columbia elected to film Prosper Merimee's Carmen without Georges Bizet's music: after all, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford weren't ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Road House
Richard Widmark plays the borderline-psycho owner of a combination ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Secret Beyond the Door
Even star Joan Bennett and director Fritz Lang regarded The Secret Beyond the Door as ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Ruthless
Sharkishly handsome Zachary Scott is right in his element in the Eagle-Lion melodrama Ruthless. Told in flashback, this is the story of the rise and fall of unscrupulous financier Horace Vendig (Scott). ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Oliver Twist
The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Johnny Belinda
After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Anna Karenina
This 1948 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
The Boy With Green Hair
Finding a curiously silent young runaway boy (Dean Stockwell) whose head has been completely shaved, small ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
The Snake Pit
"A woman loses her mind and is confined to a mental institution." That's the usual TV-listing encapsulation of The Snake Pit -- and like most such encapsulations, it only scratches the film's surface. Olivia de ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
The Fallen Idol
Adapted from the Graham Greene story The Basement Room, director Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol is told almost completely from a child's eye view-but it isn't a children's story. Young Bobby Henrey ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
The Red Shoes
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's influential musical tragedy set the stage for the climactic ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Open Secret
Photographer Paul Lester (John Ireland) and his wife, Nancy (Jane Randolph), ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Force of Evil
John Garfield, in the best performance of his career, portrays Joe Morse, an ambitious attorney who ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
The Charterhouse of Parma
French filmmaker Christian-Jaque directs the 1948 melodrama La Chartreuse de Parme. ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Drunken Angel
Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Scott of the Antarctic
John Mills stars as Commander Scott, the leader of the ill-fated and famed 1911 expedition to be ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Perhaps the finest American film from the famed European director Max Ophüls, the ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Algo Flota Sobre el Agua
Algo Flota Sobre el Agua translates as the somewhat less exotic-sounding Something Floats on the Water. Arturo de Cordova stars in this easygoing drama about a fishing community located off the Gulf of Mexico. There's no ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
The Bicycle Thief
This landmark Italian neorealist drama became one of the best-known and most widely acclaimed European movies, including a special Academy Award as "most outstanding foreign ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
La Terra Trema
Luchino Visconti's pseudo-documentary look at ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Rolling Home
In this western, an ol' cowhand and his grandson enter a nice, but lame horse in a trotting race in hopes of raising enough money to save the little town church. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Test Tube Babies
One of the singular joys of filmgoing in the 1940s was to lie about one's age and attend one of those "for adults only" extravaganzas. In the tradition of ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Aag
Future Bollywood master Raj Kapoor makes his ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Angelitos Negros
Starring popular Mexican actor Pedro Infante, the drama Angelitos Negros concerns a racist Caucasian ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Follie per l'Opera
The leading lady of the Italian Mad About Opera was billed in the English-language prints as Lollo Brigida. By the time the film was reissued in the mid-1950s, this gaffe had been ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
Xiao Cheng Zhi Chun
The tone of this 1948 romantic drama, Xiao Cheng zhi Chun, is set by the very title itself. By using the classical "zhi" (pronounced "jr") to indicate that this spring "belongs" to the small town, director Fei Mu exchanges ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
El Ultimo Chinaco
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El Gallo Giro
The 1948 Mexican drama El Gallo Giro tells the story of a young man who is prone to violence. After serving time for fighting, the man decides to renounce his past and attempt a singing ... [ Drama movie - 1948 ]
