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1. A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949)

92 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama

A small bicycle club in Yorkshire becomes the center of some illegal activity - and a love triangle.

Director: Ralph Smart | Stars: John McCallum, Honor Blackman, Patrick Holt, Diana Dors

Votes: 253

2. A Man's Affair (1949)

62 min | Comedy

A pair of young coal miners meet two girls whilst on holiday in Ramsgate, Kent and despite family troubles, other admirers and a strict landlady they fall in love.

Director: Jay Lewis | Stars: Hamish Menzies, Cliff Gordon, Diana Decker, Joan Dowling

Votes: 29

3. A Matter of Murder (1949)

59 min | Crime, Drama

An embezzler is implicated in his girlfriend's murder.

Director: John Gilling | Stars: Maureen Riscoe, John Barry, Charles Clapham, Ivan Craig

Votes: 26

4. A Run for Your Money (1949)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy

Brothers from a Welsh village take their first trip to London to collect a prize, and meet a con artist and various other urban distractions.

Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Moira Lister, Alec Guinness

Votes: 721

5. Adam and Evalyn (1949)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance

When a friend dies, a gambler adopts his daughter. Complications ensue.

Director: Harold French | Stars: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Helen Cherry, Joan Swinstead

Votes: 612

6. Alice in Wonderland (1949)

Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and stop-motion animation.

Director: Dallas Bower | Stars: Stephen Murray, Ernest Milton, Pamela Brown, Felix Aylmer

Votes: 877

7. All Over the Town (1949)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

On the south west coast of England, two crusading reporters revive a failing newspaper and expose local corruption.

Director: Derek N. Twist | Stars: Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill, Cyril Cusack, Ronald Adam

Votes: 213

8. Badger's Green (1949)

62 min | Comedy

A village cricket match begins to assume Homeric proportions.

Director: John Irwin | Stars: Barbara Murray, Brian Nissen, Garry Marsh, Kynaston Reeves

Votes: 14

10. Blue Scar (1949)

90 min | Drama

A Welsh villager (Gwyneth Vaughan) dreams of London and wants her miner boyfriend (Emrys Jones) to get another job.

Director: Jill Craigie | Stars: Emrys Jones, Gwyneth Vaughan, Rachel Thomas, Prysor Williams

Votes: 53

11. Boys in Brown (1949)

Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama

A slice of life in a British Borstal reform institution for young criminals.

Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Jimmy Hanley

Votes: 304

12. The Forbidden Street (1949)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance

A rich woman in Victorian England marries a poor artist from the wrong side of the track, and finds herself the victim of a blackmailing plot.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton

Votes: 574

13. Cardboard Cavalier (1949)

96 min | Comedy

In Cromwellian England, royalists commission a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped by Nell Gwynn, he succeeds after encounters with a castle ghost and custard pies.

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood, Jerry Desmonde, Jack McNaughton

Votes: 133

14. Celia (1949)

64 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An actress is persuaded by her boyfriend, the head of a private-detective agency, to take a job as a housekeeper in the home of a wealthy elderly woman. It seems that no one has seen the ... See full summary »

Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Hy Hazell, Bruce Lester, Elsie Wagstaff, John Bailey

Votes: 55

15. Children of Chance (1949)

99 min | Drama

In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.

Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Patricia Medina, Manning Whiley, Yvonne Mitchell, Barbara Everest

Votes: 15

16. Christopher Columbus (1949)

Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.

Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Kathleen Ryan

Votes: 613

17. Conspirator (1949)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, 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.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender

Votes: 1,109

18. Dark Secret (1949)

85 min | Crime

A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.

Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Dinah Sheridan, Emrys Jones, Irene Handl, Hugh Pryse

Votes: 9

19. Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)

91 min | Comedy, Romance

Arthur Prohack (Cecil Parker) is an official in the Treasury Department with a reputation for fiscal efficiency and running a tight ship. One day he finds out that a struggling businessman ... See full summary »

Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Cecil Parker, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Dirk Bogarde

Votes: 213

20. Diamond City (1949)

Approved | 74 min | Drama, Adventure

Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".

Director: David MacDonald | Stars: David Farrar, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors, Niall MacGinnis

Votes: 148

21. Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949)

73 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

Special Agent Dick Barton uncovers a ring of international psychopathic criminals with plans to dominate the world using a terrifying weapon of mass destruction.

Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Don Stannard, Bruce Walker, Sebastian Cabot, James Raglan

Votes: 208

22. Don't Ever Leave Me (1949)

85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

In a pleasant variation on "The Ransom of Red Chief," elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Jimmy Hanley, Petula Clark, Linden Travers, Hugh Sinclair

Votes: 103

23. Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress (1949)

73 min | Mystery

A young woman goes missing under strange circumstances. A friend of hers tries to find out what happened and it almost leads to another case of a missing young woman. Dr. Morrell has his hands full trying to solve this case.

Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Valentine Dyall, Julia Lang, Hugh Griffith, Philip Leaver

Votes: 130

24. Edward, My Son (1949)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance

A businessman's desire to protect his corrupt son's fortune leads to tragedy.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter, James Donald

Votes: 1,411

25. Eureka Stockade (1949)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, History, Western

In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government.

Director: Harry Watt | Stars: Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert, Peter Illing

Votes: 210

27. Floodtide (1949)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance

David Shields decides to become a ship designer instead of following the family tradition and entering farming.

Director: Frederick Wilson | Stars: Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie, Jack Lambert

Votes: 104

28. Fools Rush In (1949)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy

Howes plays Pamela Dickson, an impulsive young bride-to-be, while Guy Rolfe portrays her long-lost father Paul. Ostensibly a cad and bounder, Paul turns out to be just the opposite when he arrives for Pamela's wedding.

Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Sally Ann Howes, Nora Swinburne, Guy Rolfe, Raymond Lovell

Votes: 83

29. For Them That Trespass (1949)

Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama

Christy Drew, an aspiring young writer trying to broaden his experience, gets involved with Frankie Ketchen and her two suitors, Herb Logan and Jim Heal. One night, Jim finds Frankie has ... See full summary »

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Stephen Murray, Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett, Rosalyn Boulter

Votes: 139

30. Forbidden (1949)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Thriller

An ex-serviceman plans to escape his faithless wife.

Director: George King | Stars: Douglass Montgomery, Hazel Court, Patricia Burke, Garry Marsh

Votes: 216

31. Give Us This Day (1949)

Passed | 120 min | Drama

One of the few (if any at the time this film was made) films shot in England with New York City's 'Little Italy" as the locale. This was Edward Dmytryk's first film after he had refused to ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan, Bonar Colleano

Votes: 391

33. Held in Trust (1949)

57 min | Crime

An account by former associates of the reformation of a criminal.

Director: Cecil H. Williamson | Stars: Ian Proctor, Dorothy Shaw, Guy Verney

34. Helter Skelter (1949)

Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A radio 'detective' gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping due to the machinations of a ghostly cupid who works his magic to cause mayhem and laughter throughout the film.

Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson, Mervyn Johns, Peter Hammond

Votes: 216

35. High Jinks in Society (1949)

78 min | Comedy

After foiling a robbery, Ben, a window cleaner is hired by Lady Bar-Nunn to guard her valuables. A comedy based on class divisions and snobbery.

Directors: John Guillermin, Robert Jordan Hill | Stars: Ben Wrigley, Barbara Shaw, Moore Marriott, Basil Appleby

36. I Was a Dancer (1949)

Crime

A prop dagger is replaced by a real dagger at a ballet school, and may help to find the killer in a 30-year-old murder.

Director: Frank Richardson | Stars: Diana Napier, Igor Barczinsky, Patricia Owen, John Oxford

38. It's Not Cricket (1949)

Approved | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy

Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos.

Directors: Roy Rich, Alfred Roome | Stars: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw, Maurice Denham

Votes: 183

39. It's a Wonderful Day (1949)

50 min | Musical

A dance band takes a holiday in Devon, and discovers some talent amongst the locals.

Director: Hal Wilson | Stars: John Blythe, Dorothee Baroone, Eva Benyon, Jack Hodges

40. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime

A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood

Votes: 39,726

41. Landfall (1949)

86 min | Drama, War

During WW2, an RAF pilot from coastal command is accused of sinking a British submarine that he mistook for a German one.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett, Edith Sharpe, Margaret Barton

Votes: 241

42. Madness of the Heart (1949)

Approved | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Lydia Garth meets Paul de Vandiere, a French nobleman, but their romance is plagued by Lydia's complaint of recurring spells of blurred vision. Paul leaves for France, promising to return ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Bennett | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Maxwell Reed, Kathleen Byron, Paul Dupuis

Votes: 259

43. Man on the Run (1949)

82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In post-war Britain, an army deserter unwittingly gets involved in murder and armed robbery and enlists the aid of a war widow to help clear his name.

Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey

Votes: 448

44. Marry Me (1949)

97 min | Comedy, Romance

Several individuals consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run, a country vicar and a newspaper reporter sent by his editor to do an undercover story.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Derek Bond, Susan Shaw, Patrick Holt, Carol Marsh

Votes: 136

45. Maytime in Mayfair (1949)

94 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An English playboy gentleman is broke when he inherits London's leading dress store in the posh Mayfair district. Instead of selling it for cash, he enters the business of "rags" for riches and romance. -- SimonJack

Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Peter Graves, Nicholas Phipps

Votes: 242

46. Meet Simon Cherry (1949)

67 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When the reclusive invalid daughter of Lady Harling is found dead, a young lady is suspected of murdering her.

Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Hugh Moxey, Jeannette Tregarthen, Anthony Forwood, Ernest Butcher

Votes: 56

48. Melody Club (1949)

67 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical

A nitwit investigator goes undercover in a restaurant to catch a gang of crooks.

Directors: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Gwyneth Vaughan, Michael Balfour, Len Lowe

Votes: 63

50. Miss Pilgrim's Progress (1949)

82 min | Comedy

An young American lady arrives in Britain to advise on factory working practices and ends up embroiled in a local battle that evokes the spirit of magna Carta.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Michael Rennie, Yolande Donlan, Garry Marsh, Emrys Jones

Votes: 31

52. Mystery at the Burlesque (1949)

Passed | 58 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery

A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Garry Marsh, Jack Livesey, Jon Pertwee, Eliot Makeham

Votes: 134

53. No Way Back (1949)

72 min | Crime, Drama

A boxer goes on a downward spiral after an injury. He loses his money, wife and family. Old girlfriend Beryl tries to help him but he gets tied up with a police siege.

Director: Stefan Osiecki | Stars: Terence de Marney, Eleanor Summerfield, Jack Raine, John Salew

Votes: 72

54. Now Barabbas (1949)

87 min | Drama

A humane prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.

Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke, Kathleen Harrison, Ronald Howard

Votes: 149

55. The Hidden Room (1949)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne

Votes: 2,676

56. Old Mother Riley's New Venture (1949)

69 min | Comedy

Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow.

Director: John Harlow | Stars: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Chili Bouchier, Willer Neal

Votes: 72

57. Once Upon a Dream (1949)

87 min | Comedy, Romance

Chaos ensues when a woman wakes up believing that a romantic dream about her new servant is reality.

Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, Guy Middleton, Betty Lynne

Votes: 104

58. Maniacs on Wheels (1949)

Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Factory worker Bill Fox (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is fired from a reliable job and becomes a successful motorbike racer, until his wife threatens to leave him unless he comes to his senses.

Director: Jack Lee | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Bill Owen, Renée Asherson

Votes: 271

59. Paper Orchid (1949)

86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A murder mystery set in the newspaper industry.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Hugh Williams, Hy Hazell, Sidney James, Garry Marsh

Votes: 67

60. Passport to Pimlico (1949)

Approved | 84 min | Comedy

Residents of a part of London declare independence after they discover an old treaty, which leads to the need for a "Passport to Pimlico".

Director: Henry Cornelius | Stars: Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis

Votes: 5,288

61. Poet's Pub (1949)

Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Thriller

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

Director: Frederick Wilson | Stars: Derek Bond, Rona Anderson, James Robertson Justice, John McLaren

Votes: 137

62. Lost Daughter (1949)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Intrigued by the portrait of a Jewish girl at a London art gallery, a British Army Major attempts to find her amongst the refugees living in various camps for displaced people in post-World War II Germany.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Mai Zetterling, Robert Beatty, Guy Rolfe, Herbert Lom

Votes: 202

63. Private Angelo (1949)

106 min | Comedy, War

Angelo has been draft into the Italian Army in World War II. He does not like people shooting at him, so he tries all sorts of tricks to avoid being caught up in the action. However, events always seem to lead him back to the fighting.

Directors: Michael Anderson, Peter Ustinov | Stars: Godfrey Tearle, Maria Denis, Peter Ustinov, Marjorie Rhodes

Votes: 40

65. Saints and Sinners (1949)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama

What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.

Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Kieron Moore, Christine Norden, Sheila Manahan, Michael Dolan

Votes: 58

66. School for Randle (1949)

Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy

School caretaker "Flatfoot" Mason, a former Music-hall artiste harbours a secret. He has a daughter, Betty who unbeknownst to her was adopted when his wife died. Now a teenager, she's a ... See full summary »

Director: John E. Blakeley | Stars: Frank Randle, Dan Young, Alec Pleon, Terry Randall

Votes: 25

67. Silent Dust (1949)

82 min | Drama

A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held,... See full summary »

Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Sally Gray, Stephen Murray, Derek Farr, Nigel Patrick

Votes: 265

69. Stop Press Girl (1949)

78 min | Comedy, Fantasy

An attractive young girl has the power to stop all kinds of machinery.

Director: Michael Barry | Stars: Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne

Votes: 175

70. If This Be Sin (1949)

72 min | Drama, Romance

A lonely wife of a workaholic husband on the magical Isle of Capri meets a charming and attractive young man. An exciting affair must end when word gets back to the husband and he becomes ill. Then the daughter enters the scene.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene

Votes: 146

71. The Adventures of Jane (1949)

Not Rated | 60 min | Comedy

Jane is given a bracelet by an elderly admirer. He is in league with Cleaver, a suave crook, and the two plan to use Jane and the bracelet to smuggle diamonds into England.

Directors: Edward G. Whiting, Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Christabel Leighton-Porter, Stanelli, Michael Hogarth, Ian Colin

Votes: 110

72. The Adventures of P.C. 49: Investigating the Case of the Guardian Angel (1949)

67 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A police constable goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of violent thieves.

Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Hugh Latimer, John Penrose, Annette D. Simmonds, Pat Nye

Votes: 96

73. The Bad Lord Byron (1949)

85 min | Drama

Seriously ill on a military campaign in Greece, Lord Byron dreams of being judged upon his death, as either a poet and soldier or as a seducer and libertine. Amongst the witnesses called ... See full summary »

Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Joan Greenwood, Linden Travers

Votes: 171

74. The Blue Lagoon (1949)

Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific and fall in love while growing up together.

Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks, Peter Rudolph Jones

Votes: 651

75. The Case of Charles Peace (1949)

88 min | Crime, Drama

Businessman Charles Peace leads a double life--by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's a professional thief who lets nothing, not even murder, stop him from getting what he wants.

Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Michael Martin Harvey, Chili Bouchier, Valentine Dyall, Bruce Belfrage

Votes: 213

76. The Amazing Mr. Beecham (1949)

Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Romance

Young Viscount Tony Pym manages to get an army leave on the pretence of running for the Conservatives in the next local election. His only aim in fact is to marry June, a rich American ... See full summary »

Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Cecil Parker, A.E. Matthews, David Tomlinson, Lana Morris

Votes: 122

77. The Cure for Love (1949)

98 min | Comedy

Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he falls in love with a charming new lodger Milly Southern instead.

Directors: Robert Donat, Alexander Shaw | Stars: Robert Donat, Renée Asherson, Marjorie Rhodes, Charles Victor

Votes: 35

79. The Glass Mountain (1949)

99 min | Drama

An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.

Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Dulcie Gray, Michael Denison, Valentina Cortese, Sebastian Shaw

Votes: 304

80. The Golden Madonna (1949)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama

Patricia (Phyllis Calvert) throws away a painting members of her Italian village consider to be extremely lucky. She goes to great lengths in her attempts to locate it again and bring it back.

Directors: Luigi Carpentieri, Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Michael Rennie, Tullio Carminati, David Greene

Votes: 73

81. The Hasty Heart (1949)

102 min | Drama, War

In the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a seriously wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd, Anthony Nicholls

Votes: 1,550

82. The History of Mr. Polly (1949)

Approved | 95 min | Drama

With an inheritance after his father's death, Alfred Polly finds love in the arms of a schoolgirl but marries an unattractive cousin and opens a shop, leading him to unhappiness, arson, suicide attempts and escape.

Director: Anthony Pelissier | Stars: John Mills, Sally Ann Howes, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins

Votes: 652

83. The Huggetts Abroad (1949)

Approved | 89 min | Comedy

A family makes a lengthy and fraught journey across South Africa by truck when their son-in-law gets a job in the country.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Dinah Sheridan, Susan Shaw

Votes: 252

84. The Interrupted Journey (1949)

Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A writer eloping with his mistress by train has second thoughts, pulls the emergency brake, bails out and witnesses the train's collision with another train, events eventually leading to murder and a police manhunt.

Director: Daniel Birt | Stars: Valerie Hobson, Richard Todd, Christine Norden, Tom Walls

Votes: 632

85. The Jack of Diamonds (1949)

73 min | Drama

Down on their luck, a couple rent out their ship to a mysterious man looking for treasure he'd hidden during the war. Complications ensue when it turns out he's not the only one looking for it.

Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Cyril Raymond, Joan Carol, Dolly Bouwmeester

Votes: 37

86. Woman of Dolwyn (1949)

95 min | Drama

Rob returns to Dolwyn, a village, from which he was ousted for thievery, to buy the land so that his master can flood the village to build a dam. He faces opposition from an old woman and her son.

Director: Emlyn Williams | Stars: Edith Evans, Richard Burton, Anthony James, Emlyn Williams

Votes: 312

88. The Lost People (1949)

89 min | Drama, War

Set in a German theatre after World War II, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough, Siobhan McKenna

Votes: 34

89. Temptations (1949)

68 min | Thriller

A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered. Soon the psychic points the finger at ... See full summary »

Director: Oswald Mitchell | Stars: John Stuart, Henry Oscar, Marie Burke, Gwyneth Vaughan

Votes: 32

90. The Nitwits on Parade (1949)

49 min | Musical

Floorshow from the Club Zanzibar, compered by Max Bygraves.

Director: Robert Jordan Hill | Stars: Max Bygraves, Norah Black, Hope Calvert, Penny Calvert

91. The Passionate Friends (1949)

Approved | 95 min | Drama, Romance

A woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago.

Director: David Lean | Stars: Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains, Betty Ann Davies

Votes: 3,036

92. The Perfect Woman (1949)

89 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Upper class young man has to resort to employment, together with his valet/butler in tow. He finds a job escourting a robot out for an evening, and they end up in a hotel and a farce ensues when roles are swapped.

Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Patricia Roc, Stanley Holloway, Nigel Patrick, Miles Malleson

Votes: 255

93. The Queen of Spades (1949)

95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An army officer becomes obsessed with learning the secret to a card game for which an elderly countess sold her soul years earlier.

Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Howard

Votes: 2,398

94. The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)

Approved | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy

A young boy receives a rocking horse for Christmas and soon learns that he is able to pick the winning horse at the races.

Director: Anthony Pelissier | Stars: Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, John Mills

Votes: 1,415

95. Naughty Arlette (1949)

80 min | Comedy

Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor ... See full summary »

Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: Mai Zetterling, Hugh Williams, Margot Grahame, Petula Clark

Votes: 92

96. Hour of Glory (1949)

Approved | 106 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: David Farrar, Jack Hawkins, Michael Gough, Henry Caine

Votes: 3,105

97. The Spider and the Fly (1949)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires, the woman loved by the official who is in love with the thief, at the outbreak of World War I.

Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe, Nadia Gray, Edward Chapman

Votes: 407

98. The Temptress (1949)

85 min | Crime, Drama

The complex plot begins with the passionate desire of a doctor to found a hospital for medical research, which is thwarted by the Nazi invasion, in which he loses his notes and all his ... See full synopsis »

Director: Oswald Mitchell | Stars: Joan Maude, Arnold Bell, Don Stannard, Shirley Quentin

Votes: 16

99. The Third Man (1949)

Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

97 Metascore

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard

Votes: 181,870 | Gross: $0.45M

100. Third Time Lucky (1949)

90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl as well.

Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Glynis Johns, Dermot Walsh, Charles Goldner, Harcourt Williams

Votes: 128



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