1940s English-language films

Phantom Lady

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1944 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.

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State of the Union

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 7.2

An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.

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The Keys of the Kingdom

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1944 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a mor...

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Man Hunt

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 7.2

British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young...

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A Chump at Oxford

Film Age rating: 1 Year: 1939 IMDB Rating: 7.2

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank presid...

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Force of Evil

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that...

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Perfect Strangers

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1945 IMDB Rating: 7.1

After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.

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Boom Town

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to ma...

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