Search results for "1943"
Jitterbugs

Jitterbugs

Jitterbugs
IMDb: 6.2
75

The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for “gasolene pills” in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels…

Genre: Comedy
Sherlock Holmes in Washington

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

Sherlock Holmes in Washington
IMDb: 6.7
71

In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.

The Mad Ghoul

The Mad Ghoul

The Mad Ghoul
IMDb: 5.7
65

Dr. Alfred Morris, a university chemistry professor, rediscovers an ancient Mayan formula for a gas which turns men into pliant, obedient, zombie-like ghouls. After medical student Ted Allison becomes a…

The Spider Woman

The Spider Woman

The Spider Woman
IMDb: 7
N/A

20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him in suspended animation for 500 years. Upon returning to Earth and discovering the planet is…

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
IMDb: 6.9
68

During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime…

The Gang’s All Here

The Gang’s All Here

The Gang’s All Here
IMDb: 6.6
103

A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Return of the Vampire

The Return of the Vampire

The Return of the Vampire
IMDb: 6.1
69

In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free…

Genre: Horror
Hit the Ice

Hit the Ice

Hit the Ice
IMDb: 6.7
82

Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott…

Genre: Comedy
Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt
IMDb: 7.8
108

Just when Charlotte “Charlie” Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie Oakley,…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Secrets of a Ballerina

Secrets of a Ballerina

Secrets of a Ballerina
IMDb: 6.2
98

In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire that once took a macabre…

Genre: Drama
Watch on the Rhine

Watch on the Rhine

Watch on the Rhine
IMDb: 7.1
114

On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara’s wealthy mother near…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Destination Tokyo

Destination Tokyo

Destination Tokyo
IMDb: 7.1
135

During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned…

Genre: War
Picpus

Picpus

Picpus
IMDb: 6
95

Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Douce

Douce

Douce
IMDb: 7.2
109

In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager…

Genre: Drama
Mexican Spitfire’s Blessed Event

Mexican Spitfire’s Blessed Event

Mexican Spitfire’s Blessed Event
IMDb: 6
63

Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat’s new kittens.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Swing Shift Maisie

Swing Shift Maisie

Swing Shift Maisie
IMDb: 6.2
87

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot “Breezy” McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and…

Genre: Comedy
Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy
IMDb: 6.8
99

Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there’s…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
I Escaped from the Gestapo

I Escaped from the Gestapo

I Escaped from the Gestapo
IMDb: 5.4
75

A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace
IMDb: 7.9
118

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Above Suspicion

Above Suspicion

Above Suspicion
IMDb: 6.5
90

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Ape Man

The Ape Man

The Ape Man
IMDb: 4.4
64

A scientist is turned into an ape man.

Action in the North Atlantic

Action in the North Atlantic

Action in the North Atlantic
IMDb: 7
126

Lieutenant Joe Rossi is 1st Officer on a Liberty Ship in a great convoy bound from Halifax to Murmansk. After German subs crushed the convoy his ship loses the convoy…

Genre: Drama, War
Donald’s Tire Trouble

Donald’s Tire Trouble

Donald’s Tire Trouble
IMDb: 6.6
7

Donald, driving in the country, is frustrated in his attempts to fix a flat tire. The jack breaks, the radiator explodes, then the remaining three tires go flat. Donald gives…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
The Priest Who Knocked Out

The Priest Who Knocked Out

The Priest Who Knocked Out
IMDb: 4.6
86

The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches Björn Harring fight off some…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Sky’s the Limit

The Sky’s the Limit

The Sky’s the Limit
IMDb: 6.4
89

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron’s personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Paracelsus

Paracelsus

Paracelsus
IMDb: 6.8
104

A 1943 German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst based on the life of Philippus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). The film is one of several big nazi era productions with…

Genre: Drama
Madame Curie

Madame Curie

Madame Curie
IMDb: 7.2
124

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Forever and a Day

Forever and a Day

Forever and a Day
IMDb: 7
104

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from…

Genre: Drama, History
Tarzan’s Desert Mystery

Tarzan’s Desert Mystery

Tarzan’s Desert Mystery
IMDb: 6.1
70

A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan’s help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Immortal Sergeant

Immortal Sergeant

Immortal Sergeant
IMDb: 6.6
91

During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.

Genre: Drama, War
Moonlight in Vermont

Moonlight in Vermont

Moonlight in Vermont
IMDb: 6.5
62

A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Flight for Freedom

Flight for Freedom

Flight for Freedom
IMDb: 6
102

1943 fictionalised biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean in 1937. In the film, Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart alter ego, called Tonie Carter,…

Genre: Drama
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
IMDb: 6.4
74

Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn’t like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries…

Genre: Horror
Higher and Higher

Higher and Higher

Higher and Higher
IMDb: 6
90

A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss’s fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Minesweeper

Minesweeper

Minesweeper
IMDb: 5.1
67

A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to…

Hi Diddle Diddle

Hi Diddle Diddle

Hi Diddle Diddle
IMDb: 6.7
72

When the bride’s mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom’s father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case

Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case

Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case
IMDb: 6
89

In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tomorrow We Live

Tomorrow We Live

Tomorrow We Live
IMDb: 6.3
87

British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal…

Genre: Drama, War
Salute to the Marines

Salute to the Marines

Salute to the Marines
IMDb: 6.4
101

It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Presenting Lily Mars

Presenting Lily Mars

Presenting Lily Mars
IMDb: 6.8
104

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

Genre: Music, Romance