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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 |  | 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 |
| 3 |  | 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 |
| 4 |  | 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 |
| 5 |  | 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 |
| 6 |  | 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 |
| 7 |  | 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 |
| 8 |  | 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 |
| 9 |  | 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 |
| 10 |  | 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 |
| 11 |  | 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 |
| 12 |  | 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 |
| 13 |  | 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 |
| 14 |  | 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 |
| 15 |  | 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 |
| 16 |  | 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 |
| 17 |  | 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 |
| 18 |  | 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 |
| 19 | | 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 |
| 20 |  | 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 |
| 21 | | 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 |
| 22 | | 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. |
| 23 |  | 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 |
| 24 |  | 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 |
| 25 |  | 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 |
| 26 | | 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 |
| 27 | | 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 |
| 28 |  | 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 |
| 29 |  | 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 |
| 30 | | 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 |
| 31 |  | 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 |
| 32 |  | 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 |
| 33 |  | 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 |
| 34 |  | 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 |
| 35 | | Reckless Moment, The (1949) | 2.3743 11 reviews | NA | Drama, Film-Noir | N/A | After discovering the dead body of Bea Harper's lover, Bea's mother Lucia hides the body under the ...more about Reckless Moment starring Joan Bennett and Geraldine Brooks |
| 36 | | Christopher Columbus (1949) | 2.3347 6 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Biography | N/A | ...more about Christopher Columbus starring Florence Eldridge and Francis L. Sullivan |
| 37 |  | We Were Strangers (1949) | 2.3049 5 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$9.66
| China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret ...more about We Were Strangers starring Jennifer Jones and John Garfield |
| 38 |  | My Foolish Heart (1949) | 2.2921 1 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. ...more about My Foolish Heart starring Dana Andrews and Susan Hayward |
| 39 |  | Task Force (1949) | 2.2647 5 reviews | NA | Drama, War | N/A | After learning the finer points of aerial combat during WWI, career officer Jonathan Scott and his ...more about Task Force starring Gary Cooper and Jane Wyatt |
| 40 | | Big Steal, The (1949) | 2.2526 5 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir | N/A | Jane and Duke (alias Capt. Blake) accidently meet in Vera Cruz while chasing flim-flam man Fiske. ...more about Big Steal starring Jane Greer and William Bendix |
| 41 |  | Red Pony, The (1949) |  2.2373 3 reviews | NA | Drama |
$9.99
| In the coast range mountains on the western edge of the Salinas Valley is a ranch where Tom, a lad ...more about Red Pony starring Myrna Loy and Louis Calhern |
| 42 |  | Astonished Heart, The (1949) | 2.2373 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance | N/A | The film begins with a scene in which Barbara rings Leonora to tell her that something has happened ...more about Astonished Heart starring Celia Johnson and Noel Coward |
| 43 |  | She Shoulda Said No (1949) | 2.2373 2 reviews | NA | Drama |
$5.16
| ...more about She Shoulda Said No starring Lyle Talbot and Alan Baxter |
| 44 |  | Crooked Way, The (1949) | 2.2160 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir |
$5.39
| ...more about Crooked Way starring John Payne and Sonny Tufts |
| 45 | | Bad Lord Byron, The (1949) | 2.2099 1 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Seriously ill on a military campaign in Greece, Lord Byron dreams of being judged on his death ...more about Bad Lord Byron starring Dennis Price and Mai Zetterling |
| 46 | | Hasty Heart, The (1949) | 2.1795 3 reviews | NA | Drama |
$31.85
| It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going ...more about Hasty Heart starring Ronald Reagan and Patricia Neal |
| 47 | | Follow Me Quietly (1949) | 2.1643 3 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir | N/A | For six months, a strangler has terrorized the city. Calling himself The Judge, he's a ...more about Follow Me Quietly starring William Lundigan and Dorothy Patrick |
| 48 |  | Take One False Step (1949) | 2.1369 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | N/A | Prof. Andrew Gentling, in Los Angeles to help found a new college, is inveigled by old flame ...more about Take One False Step starring William Powell and Shelley Winters |
| 49 |  | Flamingo Road (1949) | 2.1186 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance | N/A | Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political ...more about Flamingo Road starring Joan Crawford and Zachary Scott |
| 50 | | Alias Nick Beal (1949) | 2.1186 2 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | N/A | Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster's main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters ...more about Alias Nick Beal starring Audrey Totter and George Macready |
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