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| 1 |  | White Heat (1949) |  3.1438 30 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir |
$5.91
| Cody Jarrett is the sadistic leader of a ruthless gang of thieves. Afflicted by terrible headaches ...more about White Heat starring James Cagney and Virginia Mayo |
| 2 |  | Twelve O'Clock High (1949) | 3.1385 16 reviews | NA |
$6.88
| In this story of the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must ...more about Twelve O'Clock High starring Gregory Peck | |
| 3 |  | Deadly Is the Female (1949) | 3.1178 31 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Romance, Film-Noir |
$9.49
| Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns. After leaving the army, his friends take him ...more about Deadly Is the Female starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall |
| 4 |  | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) | 3.0837 41 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy |
$14.63
| Louis Mazzini's mother's frequent tales of how her titled D'Ascoyn family shunned her after she ...more about Kind Hearts and Coronets starring Dennis Price and Valerie Hobson |
| 5 |  | On the Town (1949) | 3.0684 18 reviews | NA | Adventure, Musical, Comedy |
$10.00
| Three sailors - Gabey, Chip and Ozzie - let loose on a 24-hour pass in New York and the Big Apple ...more about On the Town starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra |
| 6 |  | All the King's Men (1949) | 3.0448 55 reviews | PG | Drama |
$10.23
| All The King's Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to ...more about All the King's Men starring Broderick Crawford and John Ireland |
| 7 |  | Banshun (1949) | 3.0358 28 reviews | NA | Drama |
$24.99
| Somiya was an old widower with a daughter, named Noriko, mature for marriage but would rather live ...more about Banshun starring Setsuko Hara |
| 8 |  | Letter to Three Wives, A (1949) | 2.9623 10 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy |
$9.27
| Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks ...more about Letter to Three Wives starring Jeanne Crain and Linda Darnell |
| 9 |  | Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) | 2.9379 12 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy, Sports |
$9.76
| The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a ...more about Take Me Out to the Ball Game starring Frank Sinatra and Esther Williams |
| 10 |  | The Thieves' Market (1949) | 2.9222 9 reviews | NA |
$27.95
| ...more about The Thieves' Market starring Richard Conte and Lee J. Cobb | |
| 11 |  | Batman and Robin (1949) | 2.9165 8 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Crime |
$12.20
| Antisocial Prof. Hammil's Remote Control device, which enables the user to take over any motor ...more about Batman and Robin starring Robert Lowery and Johnny Duncan |
| 12 |  | Mighty Joe Young (1949) | 2.9119 16 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy |
$9.49
| Jill Young has brought up her pet gorilla since she was a child. Twelve years later, when the ...more about Mighty Joe Young starring Terry Moore and Ben Johnson |
| 13 |  | Adam's Rib (1949) | 2.8994 26 reviews | NA |
$9.76
| When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. ...more about Adam's Rib starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn | |
| 14 |  | House of Strangers (1949) | 2.8982 12 reviews | NA | Drama, Film-Noir |
$5.88
| Max Monetti is consumed with vengeance for his brothers after their betrayal of his father Gino. ...more about House of Strangers starring Edward G. Robinson and Susan Hayward |
| 15 |  | Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, The (1949) | 2.8815 17 reviews | NA | Family, Animation, Disney |
$10.98
| Two stories. The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. ...more about Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad starring Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone |
| 16 |  | Heiress, The (1949) | 2.8690 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$5.95
| In 1840's New York Catherine lives with her father, Dr. Sloper. Her mother died some years before, ...more about Heiress starring Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift |
| 17 |  | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) | 2.8609 26 reviews | NA | Western, Romance |
$17.99
| Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending ...more about She Wore a Yellow Ribbon starring John Wayne and Joanne Dru |
| 18 |  | Criss Cross (1949) | 2.8180 15 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir |
$5.95
| Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former ...more about Criss Cross starring Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo |
| 19 |  | I Was a Male War Bride (1949) | 2.7719 21 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$6.88
| Captain Henri Rochard is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates. Through a ...more about I Was a Male War Bride starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan |
| 20 |  | Under Capricorn (1949) |  2.7386 14 reviews | NA | Drama |
$14.06
| In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his ...more about Under Capricorn starring Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten |
| 21 | | Give Us This Day (1949) | 2.7362 12 reviews | NA | Drama |
$13.58
| ...more about Give Us This Day starring Sam Wanamaker and Lea Padovani |
| 22 |  | Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) | 2.7252 17 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Romance |
$7.99
| Marine sergeant John Stryker seems a martinet and a bully as he trains young Marines for combat in ...more about Sands of Iwo Jima starring John Wayne and John Agar |
| 23 |  | Set-Up, The (1949) | 2.7095 12 reviews | NA | Sports, Film-Noir |
$4.91
| Over-the-hill boxer Bill 'Stoker' Thompson insists he can still win, though his sexy wife Julie ...more about Set-Up starring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter |
| 24 |  | Knock on Any Door (1949) | 2.7049 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir | N/A | Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man ...more about Knock on Any Door starring Humphrey Bogart and John Derek |
| 25 |  | Barkleys of Broadway, The (1949) | 2.6836 22 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy |
$11.89
| Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah ...more about Barkleys of Broadway starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers |
| 26 |  | Beyond the Forest (1949) | 2.6665 12 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir | N/A | Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who ...more about Beyond the Forest starring Bette Davis and Joseph Cotten |
| 27 |  | Champion (1949) | 2.6574 15 reviews | NA | Drama, Sports, Film-Noir |
$11.17
| Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing ...more about Champion starring Kirk Douglas and Marilyn Maxwell |
| 28 |  | Impact (1949) | 2.6300 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$6.99
| No-nonsense San Francisco industrial whiz Walter Williams's two-timing wife and her lover plot to ...more about Impact starring Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines |
| 29 | | Small Back Room, The (1949) | 2.6245 11 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Thriller, Film-Noir | N/A | The best bomb disposal officer during World War II was badly injured and is in frequent pain. He ...more about Small Back Room starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron |
| 30 |  | Pinky (1949) | 2.6136 6 reviews | NA | Drama |
$9.99
| Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after ...more about Pinky starring Jeanne Crain and Ethel Barrymore |
| 31 | | Caught (1949) | 2.6003 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Film-Noir | N/A | It was her childhood dream come true. She had married a man worth millions. But her innocent dream ...more about Caught starring Barbara Bel Geddes and Bernadene Hayes |
| 32 | | My Friend Irma (1949) | 2.5874 3 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$7.18
| Based on the long-running radio show. Irma is a likeable airhead who meddles in her roommate's ...more about My Friend Irma starring Marie Wilson and John Lund |
| 33 | | Intruder in the Dust (1949) | 2.5722 6 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not ...more about Intruder in the Dust starring David Brian and Claude Jarman Jr. |
| 34 |  | Love Happy (1949) | 2.5707 4 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$10.42
| Young hopefuls trying to stage a Broadway show on a shoestring are sustained with food by expert ...more about Love Happy starring Ilona Massey and Vera-Ellen |
| 35 |  | In the Good Old Summertime (1949) | 2.5630 7 reviews | NA | Musical |
$9.99
| It's turn of the century America when Andrew and Veronica first meet - by crashing into each other. ...more about In the Good Old Summertime starring Judy Garland and Van Johnson |
| 36 |  | Battleground (1949) | 2.5579 13 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War |
$6.13
| We follow a band of American soldiers as they engage the Germans in a snowy, foggy winter near ...more about Battleground starring Van Johnson and John Hodiak |
| 37 |  | Tokyo Joe (1949) | 2.5350 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller | N/A | Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe's, and ...more about Tokyo Joe starring Humphrey Bogart and Alexander Knox |
| 38 |  | Fountainhead, The (1949) | 2.5239 15 reviews | NA | Drama |
$12.71
| Individualistic and idealistic architect Howard Roark is expelled from college because his designs ...more about Fountainhead starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal |
| 39 | | Threat, The (1949) | 2.5113 2 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir | N/A | At Folsom Prison, several inmates escape...including killer Arnold Kluger, who swore revenge on the ...more about Threat starring Michael O'Shea and Virginia Grey |
| 40 | | Undercover Man, The (1949) | 2.5113 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir | N/A | ...more about Undercover Man starring Glenn Ford and Nina Foch |
| 41 |  | East Side, West Side (1949) | 2.4930 3 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Brandon and Jessie Bourne has been married to each other for many years. A few years ago, Brandon ...more about East Side starring Barbara Stanwyck and Van Heflin |
| 42 |  | Bribe, The (1949) | 2.4748 9 reviews | NA | Thriller, Film-Noir | N/A | In pursuit of stolen aircraft engines on a Central American island, federal agent Rigby meets chief ...more about Bribe starring Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner |
| 43 |  | Border Incident (1949) | 2.4443 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir |
$28.99
| To penetrate a gang exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers smuggled into California (and leaving no ...more about Border Incident starring Howard Da Silva |
| 44 | | Shockproof (1949) | 2.4428 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir | N/A | Jenny Marsh, still dangerously attractive after 5 years in prison for killing a man in defense of ...more about Shockproof starring Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight |
| 45 |  | Queen of Spades, The (1949) | 2.4382 7 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror |
$19.91
| An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to ...more about Queen of Spades starring Anton Walbrook and Edith Evans |
| 46 |  | Whirlpool (1949) | 2.4182 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir |
$5.99
| The wife of a psycho-analyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an ...more about Whirlpool starring Gene Tierney and Richard Conte |
| 47 | | Obsession (1949) | 2.4145 10 reviews | NA | Thriller |
$4.99
| London psychiatrist Clive Riordan, royally fed up with the repeated affairs of his wife Storm, ...more about Obsession starring Phil Brown and Sally Gray |
| 48 |  | Conspirator (1949) | 2.4108 3 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller | N/A | London, 1949. A young American beauty, Melinda Greyton, flighty and immature, falls in love with a ...more about Conspirator starring Robert Taylor and Marie Ney |
| 49 |  | It's a Great Feeling (1949) | 2.4017 1 reviews | NA | N/A | A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big ...more about It's a Great Feeling starring Doris Day and Jack Carson | |
| 50 |  | Little Women (1949) | 2.3812 6 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Family |
$13.30
| Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in ...more about Little Women starring June Allyson and Margaret O'Brien |
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