1940s English-language films

White Heat

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 8.1

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

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The Ox-Bow Incident

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1943 IMDB Rating: 8

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

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The Shop Around the Corner

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 8

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1943 IMDB Rating: 8

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. Bu...

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Out of the Past

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1947 IMDB Rating: 8

Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stran...

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The Maltese Falcon

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 8

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

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Brief Encounter

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1945 IMDB Rating: 8

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soo...

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The Little Foxes

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 7.9

The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddons is est...

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I Remember Mama

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening....

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