1949 Movies

Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around the world; Bluto's got a sort of rocket plane, an...

A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.

Michiko is a spirited young woman who was invited by the delinquent Kuniko to a shady cabaret, where she was introduced to a pseudo-gentleman named Na...

This film is an official record of the operations made by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) between November 1947 and Apri...

"Román s basou" is another short by master a stop-motion puppet-animator Jiri Trnka. The story is based on Anton Chekhovs story "Roman s Kontrabasom"....

Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.

Ronaldo, a singer with the growing reputation dedicating himself body and soul to his art, sacrificing his marriage.

Biography of the famous saint of Portuguese origin recalled from the readings of a young boy who one day goes to church with his mother to pray for th...

A prima donna hires a man to pretend to be her lover so as to protect her from an unwelcome suitor. Unbeknownst to her, he is a tenor in disguise.

Armande, the wife of surgeon Colbert, has numerous love affairs and pursues Jacques, whom Armande’s girlfriend Liliane has in her sights.

Marionette puppet version of the tale about a little man who grants a miller's daughter the gift of spinning straw into gold.

Released a few months after the Italian The Passion According to St. Mathew, this Austrian film is, like the earlier effort, based on a theatre piece....

In 'Tales of Fermentation' (ぬかものがたり),the ancient art of Japanese fermentation takes center stage, weaving a tapestry of heartwarming stories t...

19th century Iceland: Ingolfur, the son of an impoverished farmer, is courting a wealthy merchant’s daughter. Things are complicated when he’s wrongly...

Historic look at the Columbia River and its development. This film contains rare footage of Grand Coulee Dam construction, Indian fishing at Celilo Fa...

A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as...

When the local Banker jumps the Blaine's claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money. When the men try to double-cross the Blains, a gun...

Two Jews and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following World War II.