Poet's Pub

1949 79 min UK 6.4

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A struggling young poet in love manages a country inn, and thwarts a kidnapping attempt.

Little Women

1949 122 min USA 7.3

• Director: Mervyn LeRoy
• Actors: June Allyson,Peter Lawford,Margaret O'Brien,Elizabeth Taylor
• Genres: Drama,Family,Romance

A group of sisters experience life's difficulties and its pleasures while growing up in nineteenth-century America.

Act of Violence

1949 82 min USA 7.5

• Director: Fred Zinnemann
• Actors: Van Heflin,Robert Ryan,Janet Leigh,Mary Astor
• Genres: Drama,Film-Noir,Thriller

An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp.

Knock on Any Door

1949 100 min USA 6.9

• Director: Nicholas Ray
• Actors: Humphrey Bogart,John Derek,George Macready,Allene Roberts
• Genres: Crime,Drama,Film-Noir

Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string of crimes behind him. After he lost his paycheck gambling, hoping to buy...

The Clay Pigeon

1949 63 min USA 6.3

• Director: Richard Fleischer
• Actors: Bill Williams,Barbara Hale,Richard Quine,Richard Loo
• Genres: Drama,Film-Noir

Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from ...

Conspirator

1949 87 min UK, USA 6.1

• Director: Victor Saville
• Actors: Robert Taylor,Elizabeth Taylor,Robert Flemyng,Harold Warrender
• Genres: Drama,Thriller

In Cold-War London, young American Melinda Greyton marries British Army Major Michael Curragh who is a Communist spy working for the Soviets.

City Across the River

1949 91 min USA 6.7

• Director: Maxwell Shane
• Actors: Stephen McNally,Thelma Ritter,Luis Van Rooten,Jeff Corey
• Genres: Crime,Drama,Film-Noir

The macho head of an urban community center tries to reform juvenile delinquents.

The Walls of Malapaga

1949 89 min Italy, France 7

• Director: René Clément
• Actors: Jean Gabin,Isa Miranda,Vera Talchi,Andrea Checchi
• Genres: Drama,Romance

A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.

Johnny Stool Pigeon

1949 76 min USA 6.8

• Director: William Castle
• Actors: Howard Duff,Shelley Winters,Dan Duryea,Tony Curtis
• Genres: Crime,Drama,Film-Noir

US Treasury agent George Morton persuades convicted criminal Johnny Evans to help him destroy a drug smuggling ring in exchange for early parole.

The Secret Garden

1949 92 min USA 7.5

• Director: Fred M. Wilcox
• Actors: Margaret O'Brien,Herbert Marshall,Dean Stockwell,Gladys Cooper
• Genres: Drama,Family

A girl is sent to live with her uncle on his estate when her parents die. There she discovers much intrigue, family history and secrets and personal baggage. In particular, a screaming child and...a secret garden.

Outpost in Morocco

1949 92 min USA 5.4

• Director: Robert Florey
• Actors: George Raft,Marie Windsor,Akim Tamiroff,John Litel
• Genres: Action,Adventure

After escorting an Emir's daughter to her father's stronghold, French Foreign Legion Captain Gerard's unit joins an isolated Moroccan outpost facing imminent attack by rebel Bedouin tribes.

State Department: File 649

1949 87 min USA 5.2

• Director: Sam Newfield
• Actors: William Lundigan,Virginia Bruce,Jonathan Hale,Frank Ferguson
• Genres: Action,Adventure,Drama

U.S. Foreign Service officer matches wits with a Chinese warlord to try to save American citizens threatened with execution.