1948 Movies

A film about the National Health Act that established the NHS, and how it benefitted communities. It starts with a bleak look, when coordinated patien...

Oil Can Harry captures Mighty Mouse and traps him in the Mohave desert about to be eaten by vultures. Harry kidnaps Pearl Pureheart's father, the Colo...

Carpaccio is a 1947 short film directed by Umberto Barbaro and Roberto Longhi and based on the life of the Italian painter Vittore Carpaccio.

Mexican movie

Three homeless youths commit petty crimes to get by in the difficult time just after the end of WW2 in Germany. When they become suspects in a murder...

Edgar, not willing to admit to Florence (Florence Lake) that they are broke, is forced by her to give Brother (Jack Rice) a $1000 check. Edgar, in an...

College professor Andy Clyde is on the lookout for a nightshirt bandit who is terrorising the campus.

A sculptor is tortured from childhood by jealousy of the son of the woman who had him trained, but marriage and a family cures him.

A debate on the definition of the word laughter, organized by Madame de Saint-Jules and two academicians, illustrated by film extracts, turns into a h...

Little Bigfeather, an Indian, wants to hunt and eat moose, but a turkey oddly wants to be chased instead. Very bizarre ending in this one.

A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is wit...

Known as Great China's most charming star at the time, Li Lihua starred as Zhao Lingru, a female Robin Hood-esque hero who fights for the poor. Her br...

“Vibrant, progressive animation contrasts with some outdated attitudes in this Electricity Council cartoon on energy usage” - BFI.

Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an inventor but finds herself, following a combination of c...