The best movies 1949

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...

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

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as...

The main character in the story that takes place in 1896, year of the millennium, is Szakhmáry Zoltán, who, in sharp contrast with the...

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...

Michel Desnoyer has turned his private life into a comic stage play. But the volcanic Ecaterina is not at all pleased to find out that Michel's...

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

The life of a weak-willed man is thrust into a downward spiral by the scheming of his manipulative girlfriend and her mother.

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

This year the Musica Viva Festival will feature content from the NFSA's Film Australia Collection to be screened in the Bang & Olufsen Salon...

A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals.

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

This short film documentary features Shaw Desmond, founder of the International Institute for Psychical Research. Shaw relates several famous British...

A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore...

The only jacket owned by Rédey Lajos, a university student majoring in Italian language and literature, is pawned by his room-mate. The...

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...

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...

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After...

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that binds them, struggle to rebuild their lives when a...

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...

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

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

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

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

Something's rotten in the state of Puebla.

A man takes over an inheritance and when they try to solve the case some imitators appear who want the fortune.

After learning that his widowed father will remarry, a boy escapes home.

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...

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...

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

London, England, World War II. During a bombing, several people are trapped in the basement of a building where the air will run out in only ninety...

Blind nightclub pianist takes in a young singer/entertainer when she hits bottom... but once she gets stable and starts thinking about maybe a...

A political revolutionary fights against injustice, his adoring wife by his side. But only in her death does he realize the depth of her love for him...

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

Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to...

The first Latin American documentary focused on Indigenous peoples, filmed on the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca.

A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.