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| 1 |  | Casablanca (1942) |  3.9536 166 reviews | PG | Drama, Romance |
$8.04
| Expatriate and nightclub owner Rick Blaine is faced with the decision to help an old girlfriend's ...more about Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman |
| 2 |  | Red Shoes, The (1948) |  3.6614 19 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Music |
$24.29
| Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) is a ballerina who must choose between her love of dancing and a new ...more about Red Shoes starring Anton Walbrook and Marius Goring |
| 3 |  | Rebecca (1940) | 3.6061 32 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Romance |
$294.95
| A young woman is haunted by her new husband's dead wife, Rebecca. After a quick courtship and world ...more about Rebecca starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine |
| 4 |  | Notorious (1946) | 3.6021 28 reviews | Not Rated | Drama, Thriller, Romance, Film-Noir |
$39.95
| After her father is convicted of treason and commits suicide Alicia is asked by the U.S. government ...more about Notorious starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman |
| 5 |  | Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) | 3.5152 47 reviews | PG | Drama, Romance |
$4.86
| Three American servicemen return home to Boone City after the war, to find their lives irrevocably ...more about Best Years of Our Lives starring Myrna Loy and Fredric March |
| 6 |  | Philadelphia Story, The (1940) | 3.4740 75 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy, Classic |
$5.17
| Just before Tracy is about to marry, her ex-husband shows up at the wedding with a reporter from a ...more about Philadelphia Story starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn |
| 7 |  | Christmas in July (1940) | 3.3887 13 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$41.89
| Dick Powell (Jimmy MacDonald) is a office clerk who loves to enter contests and hopes for a better ...more about Christmas in July starring Dick Powell and Ellen Drew |
| 8 |  | Shop Around the Corner, The (1940) | 3.3081 22 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$9.76
| "Matuschek's" is the gift shop around the corner. Among the staff is Alfred Kralik, a likeable ...more about Shop Around the Corner starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart |
| 9 |  | Angel and the Badman (1947) |  3.2128 11 reviews | NA | Western, Romance |
$2.90
| A wounded outlaw is taken in and nursed by a nice Quaker family. During his stay, he begins to fall ...more about Angel and the Badman starring John Wayne and Gail Russell |
| 10 |  | His Girl Friday (1940) | 3.2053 47 reviews | PG | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$3.93
| Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to ...more about His Girl Friday starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell |
| 11 |  | Holiday Inn (1942) | 3.1839 31 reviews | NA | Christmas, Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$4.99
| One half of a night club duo decides to open an inn in the country that is only open on holidays. ...more about Holiday Inn starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire |
| 12 |  | Northwest Passage (1940) | 3.1637 12 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, History, Western, Romance | N/A | Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They ...more about Northwest Passage starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Young |
| 13 |  | Gentleman's Agreement (1947) | 3.1570 51 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$4.86
| This film is about a journalist who passes himself off as a Jew to write an article about Semitism ...more about Gentleman's Agreement starring Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire |
| 14 |  | Brief Encounter (1945) | 3.1559 47 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$23.99
| On a cafe at a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson meets doctor Alec Harvey. Although they are ...more about Brief Encounter starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard |
| 15 |  | Woman of the Year (1942) | 3.1373 15 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$8.68
| Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don't like each other very much. At least the first ...more about Woman of the Year starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn |
| 16 |  | How Green Was My Valley (1941) | 3.1262 40 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$9.99
| At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise ...more about How Green Was My Valley starring Walter Pidgeon and Maureen O'Hara |
| 17 |  | To Have and Have Not (1944) | 3.1222 21 reviews | NA | Adventure, War, Thriller, Romance |
$12.71
| Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a ...more about To Have and Have Not starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Brennan |
| 18 |  | Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) | 3.1197 48 reviews | NA | Musical, Romance, Family |
$8.00
| The well to do Smith family faces the possibility of moving when Mr. Smith's job is transferred ...more about Meet Me in St. Louis starring Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien |
| 19 |  | 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 |
| 20 |  | Mildred Pierce (1945) | 3.1115 45 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Film-Noir |
$12.71
| Mildred Pierce dotes on her daughters while husband Bert looks to Maggie Binderhof for affection. ...more about Mildred Pierce starring Joan Crawford and Jack Carson |
| 21 |  | Sea Hawk, The (1940) | 3.0991 30 reviews | NA | Adventure, Romance |
$11.89
| Geoffrey Thorpe is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ...more about Sea Hawk starring Errol Flynn and Brenda Marshall |
| 22 |  | Cat People (1942) | 3.0924 51 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Romance |
$12.71
| Irena Dubrovna, a beautiful and mysterious Serbian-born fashion artist living in New York City, ...more about Cat People starring Simone Simon and Kent Smith |
| 23 |  | Killers, The (1946) | 3.0687 26 reviews | PG | Crime, Romance, Film-Noir |
$27.79
| Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede," who's ...more about Killers starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner |
| 24 |  | Clock, The (1945) | 3.0318 14 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$8.68
| Soldier Joe Allen is on a two-day leave in New York, and there he meets Alice. She agrees to show ...more about Clock starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker |
| 25 |  | Lady Eve, The (1941) | 3.0315 42 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$23.99
| Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike ...more about Lady Eve starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda |
| 26 |  | Penny Serenade (1941) | 3.0158 12 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$1.99
| As Julie prepares to leave her husband Roger, she begins to play through a stack of recordings, ...more about Penny Serenade starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant |
| 27 |  | Gilda (1946) | 3.0103 34 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Romance, Film-Noir |
$10.23
| Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by ...more about Gilda starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford |
| 28 |  | Talk of the Town, The (1942) | 3.0063 16 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Romance, Comedy |
$15.34
| When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson (and ...more about Talk of the Town starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur |
| 29 |  | Black Swan, The (1942) | 3.0014 18 reviews | NA | Adventure, Romance, Family |
$6.88
| When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his ...more about Black Swan starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara |
| 30 |  | Anna and the King of Siam (1946) | 2.9841 15 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$4.86
| In 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. On ...more about Anna and the King of Siam starring Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison |
| 31 |  | Kings Row (1942) | 2.9725 13 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$12.71
| Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years ...more about Kings Row starring Ann Sheridan and Robert Cummings |
| 32 |  | Now, Voyager (1942) | 2.9679 31 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$8.68
| Charlotte Vale suffers under the domination of her Boston matron mother until Dr. Jaquith gets her ...more about Now starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid |
| 33 |  | Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) | 2.9661 31 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$12.20
| Sophisticated New York couple David and Annie Smith have an unusual marriage with an inordinate ...more about Mr. & Mrs. Smith starring Carole Lombard and Gene Raymond |
| 34 |  | I Married a Witch (1942) | 2.9588 16 reviews | NA | Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Comedy | N/A | After a ancestor of Wallace Wooley has burned Jennifer, a witch and her father, they cursed his ...more about I Married a Witch starring Veronica Lake and Robert Benchley |
| 35 |  | Anchors Aweigh (1945) | 2.9575 20 reviews | NA | Adventure, Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$9.76
| Two sailors, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the world, on liberty in Los Angeles, ...more about Anchors Aweigh starring Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly |
| 36 |  | Boom Town (1940) | 2.9575 8 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$12.71
| McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsey comes West intending to marry Sand but ...more about Boom Town starring Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy |
| 37 |  | 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945) | 2.9492 33 reviews | G | Drama, Romance |
$27.95
| Young middle-class Englishwoman Joan Webster is determined to have the finer things in life, and to ...more about 'I Know Where I'm Going!' starring George Carney |
| 38 |  | My Favorite Wife (1940) | 2.9469 10 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$12.71
| Ellen Arden arrives 7 years after being given up for dead in a shipwreck, to find her husband Nick ...more about My Favorite Wife starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant |
| 39 |  | Palm Beach Story, The (1942) | 2.9208 28 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$4.08
| Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is ...more about Palm Beach Story starring Claudette Colbert and Franklin Pangborn |
| 40 |  | Portrait of Jennie (1948) | 2.9146 22 reviews | NA | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance |
$9.99
| Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find ...more about Portrait of Jennie starring Lillian Gish and Jennifer Jones |
| 41 |  | Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947) | 2.9049 25 reviews | NA | Fantasy, Romance |
$5.53
| In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage by the British seaside, even ...more about Ghost and Mrs. Muir starring Isobel Elsom and Gene Tierney |
| 42 |  | Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) | 2.8888 15 reviews | PG | Drama, Romance | N/A | In Vienna, about 1900, a dashing man arrives at his flat, instructing his manservant that he will ...more about Letter from an Unknown Woman starring Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan |
| 43 |  | Lady Takes a Chance, A (1943) | 2.8753 8 reviews | NA | Western, Romance, Comedy |
$9.99
| ...more about Lady Takes a Chance starring Jean Arthur and John Wayne |
| 44 |  | Mrs. Miniver (1942) | 2.8713 31 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Romance |
$7.99
| The Minivers, an English "middle-class" family experience life in the first months of World War II. ...more about Mrs. Miniver starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon |
| 45 |  | 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 |
| 46 |  | My Favorite Brunette (1947) | 2.8688 13 reviews | NA | Mystery, Romance, Comedy |
$3.43
| Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: ...more about My Favorite Brunette starring Reginald Denny and Bob Hope |
| 47 |  | They Live by Night (1948) | 2.8674 19 reviews | NA | Crime, Romance, Film-Noir | N/A | In the 30s three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them 23 years young ...more about They Live by Night starring Cathy O'Donnell and Farley Granger |
| 48 |  | Major and the Minor, The (1942) | 2.8609 14 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy | N/A | New York working girl Ginger Rogers is desparate to go home to Iowa but does not have the railway ...more about Major and the Minor starring Ginger Rogers and Rita Johnson |
| 49 |  | 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 |
| 50 |  | More the Merrier, The (1943) | 2.8483 21 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$13.34
| It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. ...more about More the Merrier starring Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn |
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