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American cinema: 1940s

To Have and Have Not (1944)
Howard Hawks

At the time when France falls to Nazi Germany during WWII, American expatriate Harry Morgan is living on the island of Martinique...   [More...]

Trapped (1949)
Richard Fleischer

To foil a money counterfeiting operation the U.S. Treasury Department recruits a convicted counterfeiter Tris Stewart, offering a full pardon in return for his help in bringing the wrong-doers to justice...   [More...]

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
John Huston

In a small Mexican town in 1925, three down-at-heel gringos meet up and agree to work together to prospect for gold in the Sierra Madre mountains...   [More...]

The Undercover Man (1949)
Joseph H. Lewis

Federal treasury investigator Frank Warren is assigned to a case which, if successful, will smash one of America's biggest crime syndicates and put its boss behind bars for many years...   [More...]

Watch on the Rhine (1943)
Herman Shumlin

In 1941, in the summer before America enters WWII, Sara Muller returns to her comfortable family home in Washington D.C., accompanied by her German husband Kurt Muller and their three children...   [More...]

The Web (1947)
Michael Gordon

When small time lawyer Bob Regan harangues him for a petty claim multi-millionaire businessman Andrew Colby is so impressed that he immediately offers him a job, as his personal bodyguard...   [More...]

White Heat (1949)
Raoul Walsh

Cody Jarett is the psychotic leader of a gang of crooks which the FBI has been trying to round up for some time. The only person Jarett trusts is his mother, who is every bit as tough and resourceful as he is, and far more reliable than his egoistical wife...   [More...]

The Wolf Man (1941)
George Waggner

After 18 years, Larry Talbot returns to his family home to take the place of his elder brother, who died in a hunting accident...   [More...]

The Woman in the Window (1944)
Fritz Lang

Richard Wanley is a humdrum college professor who is looking forward to an uneventful few weeks of bachelor living while his wife takes their children away for the annual holiday...   [More...]

Woman of the Year (1942)
George Stevens

Sam Craig is a down-to-Earth sportswriter on a New York newspaper. Tess Harding may have a column on the same paper, but she appears to come from another world - a society girl who has become both a prominent political journalist and a torchbearer for feminism...   [More...]

Wonder Man (1945)
H. Bruce Humberstone

Buster Dingle is a popular performer at a swanky New York nightclub, the Pelican Club. The sole witness to a gangland killing, his life is threatened when mobster boss Ten Grand Jackson escapes from police custody...   [More...]

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Michael Curtiz

In 1942, the veteran star of Broadway George Michael Cohan is appearing in a musical satire in which he plays the President of the United States...   [More...]

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
William A. Seiter

Robert Davis, an American dancer stranded in Buenos Aires without a peso to his name, is desperate to find work. His friend, bandleader Xavier Cugat, suggests that he should try to impress hotel owner Eduardo Acuña by performing at his eldest daughter's wedding...   [More...]

Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Robert Z. Leonard

Lift operator Sheila Regan can hardly believe her good fortune when she is invited to attend an audition to become a Ziegfeld girl and appear in the hit show Ziegfeld Follies...   [More...]


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