, 1h16
Directed by William Castle, Frederick Kohner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull, Fred Clark, Jim Backus
Roles Producer (uncredited)
Rating66%
New York theatrical producer Larry O'Brien (Conte) plans to found a motion picture company in Hollywood. He buys an old studio which was unused since the days of silent movies. There he's shown the office where a famous director was murdered twenty years earlier. Although there were many suspects the case hasn't been solved. O'Brian becomes fascinated by the subject and decides to make a film based on the case. To this end he begins interviewing the surviving participants and soon gets into danger himself. In the end it turns out that the murderer is the victim's jealous brother.

, 1h43
Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders, Kent Smith, Selena Royle
Roles Man in Montage (uncredited)
Rating70%
Ethel Whitehead (Crawford) is a weary housewife living at the edge of the Texas oil fields. When her young son is killed in a bicycle accident, she leaves her laborer husband Roy (Egan) for the big city. She quickly learns to use her physical charms to get ahead. In cahoots with bookkeeper friend Martin Blackford (Smith), Ethel works her way into the entourage of George Castleman (Brian), a mobster who enjoys an elegant lifestyle. With the help of socialite Patricia Longworth (Royle), Castleman grooms Ethel in the arts of cultured living. After making her his mistress, he tries to use her to trap his arch-rival Nick Prenta (Cochran). The trap fails when Ethel falls in love with Prenta. The betrayed Castleman kills Prenta and goes gunning for Ethel but dies in a shootout with Blackford.

, 1h32
Directed by Edward Ludwig
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors Mickey Rooney, Allen Jenkins, Thomas Mitchell, Mary Hatcher, Michael O'Shea, Spring Byington
Roles Head Waiter
Rating56%
Billy Coy (Mickey Rooney) from Carrell in California wants to be a race car driver. He manages to get hired as a mechanic by Arthur "Red" Stanley (Thomas Mitchell) at his garage, after mentioning that he is the son of a famous driver called "Cannonball" Coy. Billy's father died in an accident at the Indianapolis 500 a few years ago.

, 1h33
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Mark Stevens, June Haver, Edward Clark, John Davidson, S.Z. Sakall, James Griffith
Rating59%
The film is a fictionalized biography of Fred Fisher, a German-born American writer of Tin Pan Alley songs. Tin Pan Alley promoter (Mark Stevens) turns serious composer Fred Breitenbach (S.Z. Sakall) into songwriter Fred Fisher. Fred Fisher is his assumed name in real life and Breitenbach is his birth surname. In the film, many Fisher songs were given a symphonic arrangement that was performed at Aeolian Hall. Among the Fisher songs heard were:

, 1h8
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Joe Yule, Renie Riano, Jimmy Aubrey, Willie Best, Betty Blythe, Chester Conklin
Roles Gambler
Rating70%
Jiggs and Maggie win a racehorse in a competition, but lose large sums of money on it each time it races.

, 2h4
Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Howard Smith, Adolphe Menjou
Roles Television Prompter (uncredited)
Rating71%
Republican newspaper magnate Kay Thorndyke (Angela Lansbury) intends to make her lover, aircraft tycoon Grant Matthews (Spencer Tracy), President of the United States with her as the power behind the throne. Thorndyke plans to use her newspaper chain's influence to deadlock the 1948 Republican National Convention, so it will choose Matthews as a compromise dark horse candidate instead of Dewey, Taft, or another.

, 1h17
Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Bullfighting films, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Grey, John Hubbard, Fritz Feld, Pedro de Cordoba
Roles Mr. Clarke, Mine Buyer (uncredited)
Rating61%
Joe Bascomb (Lou Costello) chases con man Harry Lambert (Bud Abbott) to Mexico City, after Harry apparently swindled him (and some friends) in an oil stock scam back in the United States. Joe's ex-girlfriend, Mary (Virginia Grey) has hired Harry as her agent, and is going by the name 'Montana', passing herself off as a toreador. When Joe encounters Harry at a bullring arena, he also sees Mary, who is in the ring. As part of 'Amigo Americana Week', she is about to toss her hat into the crowd where the lucky recipient will be proclaimed 'goodwill ambassador'. Mary is supposed to toss the hat to Gus Adamson (Frank Fenton), another con man whom Harry has arranged to be chosen, but Mary instead throws the hat in anger at Joe. It turns out that Joe, now the 'goodwill ambassador', is also being pursued by American authorities for partaking in the oil stock scam; he uses an alias, 'Humphrey Fish', while in Mexico.

, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Helen Walker, Rudy Vallée, Florence Bates
Roles Francois, Headwaiter (uncredited)
Rating57%
Successful novelist and playboy Owen Waterbury (Kirk Douglas) hires aspiring writer Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord (Laraine Day) as his secretary; a dream come true for Steve who admires Owen and his work. Steve soon finds out that the egomaniacal Owen has gone through a series of secretaries who have left when they are fed up with his behaviour. He is constantly in debt and cannot begin to write a contracted novel that will pay his bills including a lucrative advance by his publisher. Steve perseveres until the novel, based on the events of Steve's life and that mentions a character based on his publisher shown in an unflattering light, is refused publication.

, 1h10
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Wallace Ford, June Vincent, Mark Roberts, Frank Albertson, Elena Verdugo, Betty Blythe
Roles Mr. Nicholas (Uncredited)
Rating62%
Edna Grover (Vincent) convinces her older husband Sam (Ford) to fake his own death so they can collect on the life insurance. He hides in another city under an assumed name while she identifies a burned body found after a hotel fire as her husband. Edna collects the money but she has been having an affair for some time and double-crosses her husband. The whole situation rouses the suspicions of the Sam's son from a previous marriage who hires a private investigator to look into it. Unfortunately the PI is crooked and Edna pays him to stay silent. In the end, when Sam finds out about Edna's secret lover, Ray (Roberts), he is so distraught that he commits suicide.

, 2h10
Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Christmas films, Films about religion, Films about angels, Alternate history films
Actors James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Building & Loan Depositor (uncredited)
Rating85%
In Bedford Falls, New York, on Christmas Eve 1945, George Bailey is suicidal. Prayers for him reach Heaven. Clarence Odbody, Angel 2nd Class, is assigned to save George in order to earn his angel wings. To prepare Clarence, his superior Joseph shows flashbacks of George's life.

, 1h56
Directed by Dudley Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi, Gloria Holden
Roles Reporter (uncredited)
Rating71%
In 1911, Elizabeth Kenny (Rosalind Russell) returns from nurse school in Brisbane, Australia to her home in the bush of Queensland with the head doctor at the nearest hospital, Dr. McDonnell (Alexander Knox). She informs him that she will be a bush nurse near her home instead of taking up residency at the hospital 50 miles away; her own personal experiences growing up in the bush made her want to help those not able to get to a hospital. Dr. McDonnell is incredulous, and says she will not last six months in the bush.

, 1h15
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Leo Carrillo, Tom Neal, Lionel Atwill, Grant Mitchell, Sheldon Leonard, Harry Shannon
Roles Head Waiter (uncredited)
Rating54%
The film, based on a story by former crime reporter Martin Mooney, is about a newspaper journalist who faces prison time because he refuses to name his sources. To complicate matters more, the reporter falls in love with the sister of one of the racketeers he's trying to take down.

Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Jane Frazee, Minna Gombell, Amelita Ward, Paul Harvey, William Austin, George Davis
Roles Parker (uncredited)
Rating55%

, 1h41
Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Musical films
Actors Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Bill Goodwin, Jean Porter, Nana Bryant
Roles Captain of Waiters (uncredited)
Rating63%
In Los Angeles, popular songwriter Steve Elliott (Red Skelton) prepares to marry Caroline Brooks (Esther Williams), who has pledged to give up her job as a college swimming instructor once she has wed. Likewise, Steve plans to quit his songwriting career, even though New York producer George Adams (Basil Rathbone) has already hired him to write new songs for a water ballet show.

, 1h9
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Frances Langford, Edward Norris, Iris Adrian, Craig Woods, Charles Williams, Gladys Blake
Roles Mr. Draper (uncredited)
Rating55%
Kansas City girl Joan Terry has come to New York to conquer Broadway as thousands have before her. Advised to maintain an appearance of wealth, she has been living in an expensive hotel until she is discovered. With no offers coming in she moves to an economical women's boarding house full of equally unsuccessful actresses, singers, and dancers.