Drama Movies of 1949
East Side, West Side
Director Mervyn Leroy lends a burnished MGM gloss to this sordid tale of infidelity among rich New York East Siders. Barbara Stanwyck stars as Jessie Bourne, a charming society woman whose finds out that her husband Brandon ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Little Women
Of the many film versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this 1949 MGM adaptation is by far the prettiest. Set in New England during the ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Stratton Story
Both Van Johnson and Gregory Peck were considered for the role of baseball star Monty Stratton in the 1949 biopic The Stratton Story before settling upon the real Stratton's own first choice, James Stewart. The film covers several ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Heiress
Henry James based his 1881 novella Washington Square on a real-life incident, wherein a ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Man from Colorado
Glenn Ford is top-billed in Man From Colorado, though he's anything but a hero. Ford plays a seriously disturbed Civil War vet who kills because he enjoys killing. William Holden, Ford's army buddy, tries to stem Ford's homicidal tendencies. ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Fountainhead
The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned after Frank Lloyd Wright. Rather than compromise his ideals, Roark takes ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Madame Bovary
MGM circumvented the censorship that would otherwise have prevented a film version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary by adding a prologue and epilogue that assured any and all ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Under Capricorn
Returning to his old Elstree Studios headquarters in England, Alfred Hitchcock did his best ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
We Were Strangers
Set in the Cuba of 1933, We Were Strangers stars John ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Without Honor
Also known as Twilight, Without Honor is a tour de force for leading-lady Laraine Day. During a quarrel with her lover Dennis Williams (Franchot Tone), Mrs. Jane Bandle (Day) attacks him with an ice pick. ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Flamingo Road
The fourth of Joan Crawford's Warner Bros. vehicles, Flamingo Road doesn't hold up as well as her earlier Mildred Pierce or Humoresque, but ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Champion
While far from the only good film on boxing, Champion is perhaps the best drama ever based on the fight game. It is remarkable for a ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Big Wheel
In The Big Wheel, Mickey Rooney plays Billy Coy, a garage mechanic who matriculates into a champion race-car driver. On the way to the top, he ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Great Dan Patch
Though occasionally hampered by its tiny budget, The Great Dan Patch is a reasonably satisfying horse story. The title character was, of course, one of the greatest harness-race horses that ever drew breath. But ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Green Promise
A mule-stubborn farmer is determined to avoid modern technology and nearly destroys what is left of his family in this moving drama. The farmer is saddled with raising his four kids alone and insists on being ruler of the roost in every way. ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
House of Strangers
House of Strangers is the first of three film versions of Jerome Weidman's I'll Never ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Tulsa
Tulsa was, in 1949, the most elaborate production released to date by the Eagle-Lion corporation-though all evidence, especially the technical credits, suggests that the film was put together at ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Pinky
Elia Kazan directed this, one of Hollywood's early attacks on racism, starring Jeanne Crain as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson. ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Small Back Room
Few British films were run on American TV in 1950s with such frequency as The Small Back Room (U.S. title: Hour of Glory). A typically multilayered effort from the Powell-Pressburger team, the film stars David Farrar as crippled munitions ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Thieves' Highway
Thieves' Highway is set in San Francisco and the surrounding countryside. Richard Conte plays Nick Garcos, an American GI who returns from WWII to ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
All the King's Men
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a roman ŕ clef inspired by the career of Louisiana governor Huey Long. Broderick Crawford won an Academy Award for his ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Big Cat
A frequent cable-TV attraction since lapsing into public domain in 1976, The Big Cat is an excellent outdoor drama, beautifully lensed in Technicolor (though most ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Impact
Though he doesn't know it at first, industrialist Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) shouldn't trust his wife Irene (Helen Walker) any farther ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Too Late for Tears
When Lizabeth Scott's Jane Greer husband Arthur Kennedy accidentally gets his mitts on $60,000 in stolen money, she insists that he keep ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Alimony
One thing you can say about Alimony: It tackled a subject that virtually everyone in Hollywood was intimately ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Jigsaw
Made on a miniscule budget primarily financed by its star Franchot ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Set-Up
As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Black Book
Also known as Reign of Terror, The Black Book is a bold effort by director Anthony Mann to film a French Revolution epic on a "B" detective picture budget. ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Rocking Horse Winner
D.H. Lawrence's tragic fable The Rocking Horse Winner is faithfully transferred to the screen in this 1950 gem. John Howard Davies, the young star of ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Trapped
When nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills start ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Quiet Duel
A dedicated army surgeon finds his once-bright future suddenly ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Christ in Concrete
On the outs in Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
The Passionate Friends
David Lean directed this romantic drama, scripted by Eric Ambler from a novel by H.G. Wells. Mary Justin (Ann Todd) is married to wealthy financier Howard Justin (Claude Rains), and while their marriage ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
C-Man
In the tradition of such big-budget "docudramas" as House on 92nd Street and Call ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Dynamite
Dynamite is a 1949 effort from the Pine-Thomas production mill. William ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Parole, Inc.
Government agent Richard Hendricks (Michael O'Shea) goes undercover to get goods on a gang responsible for dispensing illegal paroles. Posing as a prisoner, Hendricks links up with the ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Wild Weed
This seedy anti-marijuana tract was distributed as She Shoulda Said No. ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Border Street
Originally Ulica Graniczna, this postwar Polish drama was also released as That Others May Live. In sweeping, multistoried fashion, the film recreates the last days of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. Director Aleksander Ford ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Late Spring
Veteran Japanese writer/director Yasujiro Ozu's second postwar production was 1949's Late ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Daleká cesta
The terrible effect of the Nazis upon a single Jewish family provides the basis for this drama. The family cannot handle the strain and gradually breaks up. Interspliced within the film are newsreel clips ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Aventurera
From Mexican director Alberto Gout comes this classic 1949 cabaretera, a style of film native to Latin American that mixes elements of many genres. The picture stars ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Barsaat
Raj Kapoor directs this meditation on love. Pran (Kapoor), a wealthy lad with a poetic soul, is passionately in love with impoverished country lass Reshma (Nargis). When she ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
La Malquerida
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
No Desearas la Mujer de Tu Hijo
Mexican screen legend Pedro Infante stars in director Ismael Rodriguez's drama concerning a father and ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Rotation
This powerful, World War II drama frequently cited as one of the most important films in German history tells the heated tale of a family divided over supporting the Nazis or fighting for the ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Tres Hombres Malos
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Perdida
When a sensual cabaret dancer (Ninón Sevilla) falls for a handsome bullfighter, the woman's troubled past soon comes back to haunt her in this classic Mexican melodrama from director Fernando Rivera. ~ ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Una Canción a la Virgen
The 1949 romantic drama Una Cancion a la Virgin concerns a young man with a desire to become a famous singer. He soon falls in love with a loyal young lady, but when he learns that ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Comisario en Turno
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El Vengador
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Al Caer La Tarde
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La Mujer Que Yo Perdi
La Mujer Que Yo Perdi stars Pedro Infante as a man who fearlessly ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
El Seminarista
Roberto Rodriguez directs Pedro Infante in El Seminarista, a drama about a man studying for the priesthood who begins to question himself when he develops a strong attraction for a woman. ~ Perry ... [ Drama movie - 1949 ]
Sobra Las Olas
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