1947 Chronicle of The Cinema
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- DirectorElia KazanStarsGregory PeckDorothy McGuireJohn GarfieldA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.OKRU
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsRita HayworthOrson WellesEverett SloaneFascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.Film 103
- DirectorMaurice ClocheStarsPierre FresnayAimé ClariondJean DebucourtSt. Vincent de Paul struggles to bring about peace and harmony among peasants and nobles in the midst of the Black Death in Europe, carrying on his charitable work in the face of all obstacles.OKRU
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsRobert MitchumJane GreerKirk DouglasA private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.Film 103
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMady CorrellAllison RoddanA suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.Criterion
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsDeborah KerrDavid FarrarFlora RobsonA group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.OKRU
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsGene TierneyRex HarrisonGeorge SandersIn 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.OKRU
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsJames MasonRobert NewtonCyril CusackA wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.Film 103
- DirectorFritz LangStarsJoan BennettMichael RedgraveAnne RevereAfter a lovely woman and her new husband settle in an ancient mansion on the East coast, she discovers that he may want to kill her.OKRU
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsRonald ColmanEdmond O'BrienSigne HassoA celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.OKRU
- DirectorRobert RossenStarsJohn GarfieldLilli PalmerHazel BrooksA talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.OKRU
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsEdmund GwennMaureen O'HaraJohn PayneAfter a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.Film 103
- DirectorH.C. PotterStarsLoretta YoungJoseph CottenEthel BarrymoreAfter leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.Film 103
- DirectorRobert MontgomeryStarsRobert MontgomeryThomas GomezWanda HendrixWW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.Film 103
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsJoan CrawfordVan HeflinRaymond MasseyAfter being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.Film 103
- DirectorStuart HeislerStarsSusan HaywardLee BowmanMarsha HuntA successful nightclub singer weds a struggling songwriter, but when his fame eclipses hers, she delves into alcoholism.OKRU
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsGregory PeckAnn ToddCharles LaughtonA happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.OKRU
- DirectorChester ErskineStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayMarjorie MainOn their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.Film 103
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsCary GrantLoretta YoungDavid NivenA debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.Film 103
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsVan HeflinLana TurnerDonna ReedA young man loved by two sisters becomes a naval officer and sails to New Zealand, where he drunkenly writes a marriage proposal to the wrong sister, profoundly affecting the life of the other.OKRU
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsDennis O'KeefeWallace FordAlfred RyderTwo US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.OKRU
- DirectorIrving ReisStarsCary GrantMyrna LoyShirley TempleA high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.OKRU / Los Movies
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsDon DeForeAnn HardingCharles RugglesTwo homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.Film 103
- DirectorElia KazanStarsDana AndrewsJane WyattLee J. CobbThe true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.OKRU
- DirectorDudley NicholsStarsRosalind RussellMichael RedgraveRaymond MasseyEugene O'Neill's updated version of the Oresteia set in New England, after the American Civil War.OKRU
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsMicheline PresleGérard PhilipeDenise GreyDuring World War I, the star-crossed affair of an underage French student with a woman engaged to a soldier.Le Diable Au Corps - OKRU
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsVictor MatureBrian DonlevyColeen GrayA crook arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind once his wife dies under worrying circumstances.Film 103
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsTyrone PowerJoan BlondellColeen GrayThe rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.OKRU
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsHumphrey BogartLauren BacallBruce BennettA man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence.OKRU
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsMarcel DalioHenri VidalFlorence MarlyIn the last days of World War II, a group of Nazis and their sympathizers try to escape from reckoning using a submarine.OKRU
- DirectorJacques BeckerStarsRoger PigautClaire MafféiNoël RoquevertWorking class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. In the midst of constantly fending off the unwanted attention of men, especially the grocer Monsieur Roland, Antoinette purchases a winning lottery ticket. But when Antoine loses their ticket out of poverty, their dreams seem like they'll remain just that.M4uhd / OKRU
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsHolger LöwenadlerAnna LindahlBirger MalmstenA sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.Criterion
- DirectorHenri DecoinStarsMichel SimonGaby MorlayNadine AlariOn the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock with Victorine Rousset nicknamed Maryse, a colorful tramp. When Garrone's son, Pilou, a worker, falls in love with Augusta, the mayor's daughter, the unconventional old couple tries to protect the unconventional young pair from the disapproval of self righteous villagers...OKRU No English Sub
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsVittorio De SicaFiorella BettiJacqueline PlessisNaples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries to blackmail the father.NYA
- DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsBurgess MeredithDulcie GrayMichael ShepleyPretty Molly Lucian (Barbara White) enlists the reluctant aid of psychologist Felix Milne (Burgess Meredith) in treating her potentially homicidal husband Adam (Kieron Moore), who refuses to see a "real" psychiatrist. Traumatized in a Japanese prison camp, Adam proves to be on the verge of severe schizophrenia. In his risky struggle to help Adam, Felix finds his none-too-functional home life deteriorating, and is unable to help himself as he helps others. The situation rushes headlong to a suspenseful climax.Film 103
- DirectorMario SofficiStarsZully MorenoSabina OlmosNélida BilbaoHistory of a woman who lives clinging to her memories and to the mansion to which they are intimately linked.NYA
- DirectorArnold SjöstrandStarsEva DahlbeckCécile OssbahrGunnar BjörnstrandCecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend.NYA
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsIrasema DiliánAmedeo NazzariVittorio GassmanLiterary adaptation: A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.OKRU - No English Sub
- DirectorNicole VédrèsStarsClaude DauphinRené AlexandreGuillaume ApollinaireDocumentary limning the life of Paris and its citizens during "La Belle Epoque," the years between 1900 and 1914. Beginning with the Paris Exposition of 1900 and the completion of the Eiffel Tower, the film progresses through cultural, technological, and social changes, from peaceful and sometimes näive times to the rumbling foreshadowing of the war that would disrupt France and Europe for years to come.NYA
- DirectorJean DelannoyStarsMicheline PresleMarcello PaglieroCharles DullinTwo people learn to love each other in the afterlife and get a second chance.NYA
- DirectorBenito PerojoStarsImperio ArgentinaAlfredo AlariaLola BeltránA girl is tormented by a song about her written by a seducer she had publicly shamed.She marries a small town innkeeper to escape the publicity.NYA
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsAldo FabriziRoldano LupiYvonne SansonGiovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk, but his life was turned upside-down when he met Giulio. a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the overconfident man. Giovanni did what he never should have: associated himself with the crook. Giulio soon got hold of Giovanni's money, ruined his career, and manhandled him into marrying his own mistress, the beautiful Ginevra. The marriage was unhappy, but Giovanni found a little solace when his son Ciro was born. Seven years later, Giulio returns.IL Delitto Di Giovanni Episcopo - You Tube
- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsHarold LloydFrances RamsdenJimmy ConlinTwenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. But losing his job destroys that dream, and when he finds a particularly potent drink at his local bar, he goes on a very strange and funny rampage (with a lion in tow).OKRU
- DirectorJosé BohrStarsChela BonArmando BoCarlo BonIn the mid 19th century, a colony of German pioneers comes to remote southern Chile to work the land. Two brothers compete over a beautiful woman.NYA
- DirectorSam WoodStarsJoan FontainePatric KnowlesHerbert MarshallAn Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?OKRU
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsRobert YoungRobert MitchumRobert RyanA man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?Film 103 / OKRU
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsElla RainesEdmond O'BrienWilliam BendixAn attorney acting as a body guard, apparently kills a man in defense of his employer's life, and later believes the victim was set up to be murdered.OKRU
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsAnn SheridanLew AyresZachary ScottA Los Angeles socialite kills a man while home alone one night and claims he was an intruder she did not know. It seems like a clear case of self defense until the story hits the papers and people connected to the dead man come forward.OKRU
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsClaire TrevorLawrence TierneyWalter SlezakA calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister.OKRU
- DirectorJohan JacobsenStarsBodil KjerPoul ReichhardtKarin NellemoseA good natured soldier with a killer right hand, falls in love with a beautiful girl who has a troubled past.Film 101 - Jenny and The Soldier
- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsEmilio Ghione Jr.Mariella LottiPaolo StoppaA young girl's brother is unfairly accused of murder .A junkie, he is resigned to his fate .She decides to unmask the real culprit.Rare Filmm
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsAldo FabriziGar MooreMirella MontiThe peaceful, almost idyllic life of an Italian village is interrupted during the war by the appearance of two American soldiers who keep hiding in the house of one of the villagers.Film 101
- DirectorKeisuke KinoshitaStarsKinuyo TanakaKen UeharaEijirô TônoIn postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.Film 101
- DirectorSenkichi TaniguchiStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraYoshio KosugiThree bank robbers on the run from the police hide out in a remote mountain lodge high up in the snowy Japanese Alps.Film 102
- DirectorKeisuke KinoshitaStarsKinuyo TanakaKeiji SadaIsamu KosugiA young war widow remembers her short time with her husband.Film 102
- DirectorKôzaburô YoshimuraStarsSetsuko HaraYumeko AizomeOsamu TakizawaAfter Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The seemingly cold, cynical son secretly grieves for his defeated father and the values that the war destroyed, while the daughter tries to prevent father from taking his life and to find her own place in the new Japan.Film 102 - A Ball at The Anjo House
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsTatsuya IshiguroHaruko SugimuraYoshiko KugaSlice of life film centered around a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.Film 102
- DirectorIrving PichelStarsRobert YoungSusan HaywardJane GreerOn trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable-sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.Film 103
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsWilliam PowellIrene DunneElizabeth TaylorA straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.Film 103
- DirectorJules DassinStarsBurt LancasterHume CronynCharles BickfordAt a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.Film 103
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsRay MillandTeresa WrightBrian DonlevyA psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble after he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.OKRU
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsDennis MorganAndrea KingArlene DahlThe life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his true love Rose Donovan and stage star Lillian Russell, who wants to make him a star.OKRU
- DirectorElliott NugentStarsBob HopeDorothy LamourPeter LorreShortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson tells reporters how he got there.OKRU
- DirectorGustaf MolanderStarsAlf KjellinGunn WållgrenAnita BjörkMartin and Frida married solely because she was pregnant. Later he would have a passionate side-affair with Rut. Rut's sexual feelings were highly neurotic because she had been sexually abused by her stepfather. When the chimney sweep came, she seduced him and afterward felt dirty and desperate. She found and seduced Martin. From the beginning she interspersed mean attacks. During the war he was drafted, but deserted. He and Rut hired a room by the chimney sweep. Soon Rut seriously stabbed Martin's hand with a fork and they were thrown out. But whatever Rut did, she could always "make it undone" by one word. Eventually they lived at the loft of an empty storehouse. On New Year's Eve Rut went to her mother and stepfather and demanded all cash the latter had. He gave her what was equal to four months salary for an unskilled worker. Martin believed she had got the money by prostitution. He left her and reported himself to the police. Rut promised to revenge herself. Martin was acquitted because a friend testified that he was mentally ill when he deserted. He and Rut reconciled, but she did not forget her promise. She left him when it would hurt most. He tried to kill himself, but was saved.Film 103
- DirectorOtto PremingerJohn M. StahlStarsLinda DarnellCornel WildeRichard GreeneIn seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.OKRU
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsLouis HaywardJoan LeslieVirginia FieldOn New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.Nova
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsDana AndrewsMerle OberonEthel BarrymoreWhen a beautiful socialite falls in love with an embittered composer who is blind, she feigns blindness herself in order to get closer to him.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsGeorge RaftGeorge BrentRandolph ScottTo save her fortune from a designing nephew, Matilda Reed must locate her three long-lost adopted sons in time for a Christmas Eve reunion.
- DirectorJames Edward GrantStarsJohn WayneGail RussellHarry CareyQuirt Evans, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth, a Quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose between his world and the world Penelope lives in.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsFred MacMurrayAva GardnerRoland CulverAfter WW2, an American skipper returns to Singapore to retrieve his hidden stash of pearls and finds his lost fiancée who now has amnesia.Nova /
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsTeresa WrightRobert MitchumJudith AndersonA boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.Nova / Film 103
- DirectorJohn ReinhardtStarsLee TracyDon CastleJulie BishopA fast-moving automobile fails to make a sharp turn of the highway from Malibu to Los Angeles. It overturns and its occupants, Tim Slade, Newspaper man turned private investigator, and Hugh Fresney, managing editor of the Los Angeles Currier, are pinned underneath. Both are seriously injured and are unable to move. As they wait for the tide to come in and cover them, Fresney recounts that his boss, Clint VAughn has been killed, presumably by gangsters in the pay of Nick Dyke, who Fresney has fought against through his newspaper columns. Slade had been hired to avenge Fresney if Dyke's gang killed him in retaliation, Slade, one-time sweetheart of Vaughn's dipsomaniac wife Julie Vaughn, believed she still loved him, but he had fallen for Dana Jons, Vaughn's beautiful secretary. Police Detective O'Haffey investigated Vaughn's death and unearthed several suspects, including Slade, Julie, Dykes and Dana, but Slade was not satisfied and looked elsewhere.Nova / Film 103
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsJohn HodiakLizabeth ScottBurt LancasterThe daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsDavid FarrarGlynis JohnsMai ZetterlingA Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down during World War II returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then her brother arrives.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJoan BennettRobert RyanCharles BickfordA Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsRobert NewtonSimone SimonWilliam HartnellA signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One of the men is deliberately pushed into the water and the signalman cannot save him, but decides to keep his suitcase which he later finds is full of banknotes with a value of £5000.Rare Filmm / Film 105
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsKenneth AngerGordon GrayBill SeltzerA dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.Rare Filmm /
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsJohn MillsMartha ScottPatricia RocMayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper editor George has fought hard to better working and living conditions in the bleak Lancashire mill town.OKRU
- DirectorKurt NeumannStarsJohnny WeissmullerBrenda JoyceJohnny SheffieldTo equip the American zoos with as many animals as possible, a cruel trio of big game hunters team up with an unexpected ally, threatening the African fauna. Will Tarzan allow the fiendish huntress to pillage the jungle?OKRU
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonStarsJames MasonRosamund JohnPamela MasonA British brain surgeon punishes the murderess of his lover.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsGeorge SandersLucille BallCharles CoburnBritish police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.
- DirectorGeorge WaggnerStarsRandolph ScottBarbara BrittonDorothy HartGunfighter Brazos Kane takes a job on a ranch but he is unjustly accused of killing fellow cowhand Bob Tyrell and must clear himself by finding the real killer.M4uhd
- DirectorGregorio FernandezStarsNorma BlancaflorJose Padilla Jr.Lirio del ValleNorma Blancaflor and her mother pose as wealthy to enter a movie star contest, occupying an affluent family's home while they're away. Unexpectedly, the son returns and plays along with their charade in this mistaken identity comedy.M4uhd