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Subgenre Sampler

 
Gentleman's AgreementGentleman's Agreement (1947)
Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck stars in this Academy Award winning melodrama about a writer who, for the sake of research, pretends to be Jewish and becomes a victim…
Germany Year ZeroGermany Year Zero (1947) Aro Favourite
Dir. Roberto Rossellini
A heart–breaking depiction of life in the post–WW2 ruins of Berlin, in which a boy struggles to help his family who are forced to live in…
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, TheGhost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947)
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison
A whimsical tone pervades this mildly spooky tale of widow Gene Tierney being haunted by phantom sea–captain Rex Harrison. Music by Bernard…
Golden EarringsGolden Earrings (1947)
Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Ray Milland, Murvyn Vye
Romantic spy film set the eve of World War II in which Ray Milland plays an English officer on an espionage mission in Nazi Germany to recover a…
Good NewsGood News (1947)
Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall
Toe–tapping MGM musical based on the 1927 stage production of the same name. Set on a collage campus, where a football star falls in love…
Green Dolphin StreetGreen Dolphin Street (1947)
Dir. Victor Saville
Feat. Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed
One of the biggest box office hits of its time, this sweeping colonial melodrama of unrequited lovers who migrate to Aotearoa in the 1850s has dated…
Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)
Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell plays an anguished WW2 widow who comes to terms with her husband's death by confronting the five men he saved in a heroic but fatal…
Hue and CryHue and Cry (1947)
Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Alastair Sim, Valerie White, Jack Warner
The first Ealing comedy is an affable yarn about kids who detect criminal information encoded in comic books. Shot on the post–war streets of…
It Always Rains on SundayIt Always Rains on Sunday (1947) Recommended
Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner
Overlooked masterpiece of British crime noir which blends kitchen sink realism with the poetic sensibilities of 30's French cinema. An escaped…
Jour De FeteJour De Fete (1947)
Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati established himself as a major new comic as a postman who attempts to modernise his mail service. Such precise visual humour had not…

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