Year 1947 movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant year 1947 movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, serious, stylized, psychological and independent film films and TV shows about / with husband wife relationship, father son relationship, family relations, post war, kiss, flashback, love, marriage, train and bare chested male plots mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as year 1947: Kon-Tiki (2012), Godzilla Minus One (2023), The Little Stranger (2018), The Last Witness (2018), Bharat (2019), 3 Seasons in Hell (2009), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), La Storia (2024), A Haunting in Venice (2023), Lolita (1997).

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Kon-Tiki (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Style: harsh, realistic, inspirational, epic, exciting ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: ocean, survival, sea voyage, shark, boat, expedition, raft, obsessive quest, adventurer, sailing, travel, lost at sea ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 20th century, year 2012, 2010s ...
Place: pacific ocean, polynesia, peru, usa, south america ...
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Godzilla Minus One (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In postwar Japan, a new terror rises. Will the devastated people be able to survive... let alone fight back?
Style: crying, ambiguous ending
Plot: godzilla, kaiju, monster, giant monster, post war japan, post war, kamikaze, naval battle, duty, heroes, male female relationship, bomb ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1947, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place: japan
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The Little Stranger (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister ...
Style: scary, psychotronic, bleak, spooky, gothic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: country estate, ghost, supernatural, country house, paranormal, supernatural power, haunted house, doctor, haunted by the past, terror, paranormal investigation, evil ...
Time: year 1947, year 1919, post world war two, post world war one
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The Last Witness (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during World War II, a secret kept hidden for far too many years.
Style: stylized, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: journalist, refugee, hidden truth, murder, investigation, secrets, danger, terrorism, world war two, mysticism, ambitious, world war ...
Time: year 1947, post world war two
Place: britain, poland
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 32K
Bharat (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: At the cusp of India's birth as an Independent nation, a family makes an arduous journey to freedom at a cost. A young boy Bharat, makes a promise to his Father that he will keep his family together no matter what.
Style: sentimental, captivating, disturbing, light, fast
Plot: promise, riot, hopes, escapades, diaspora, pirate, voice over narration, wedding, flashback, circus, motorcycle, church ...
Time: year 1947, year 1964, year 1983, year 2010
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3 Seasons in Hell (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, freeze frame, intellectual
Plot: writers, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship between men, employer employee relationship, student, teenage boy, communism, male objectification, youth, writer's life, society, love and romance ...
Time: year 1947, 1940s, year 1948, year 1949
Place: prague, central europe
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada, Japan, Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime ...
Style: neo noir, slapstick comedy, surreal, detective, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: private detective, rabbit, falsely accused, childhood, femme fatale, sexy woman, investigation, false accusation, frame up, parallel world, murder, satire ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s, 1940s, year 1947 ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, america
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 7.4
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La Storia (2024)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
TV show
Story: Set mostly in Rome between 1940 and 1948 “La Storia” looks at fascism, World War II and Italy’s early postwar period through a female prism. Ida, a half Jewish widow with a teen-age son named Nino, is raped by a drunken German soldier and gets ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, female nudity, dog, rape, epilepsy, teacher, carabinieri, fascist, communist, judaism, fascism ...
Time: year 1941, year 1947, year 1946, year 1942, year 1944 ...
Place: rome italy, italy
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A Haunting in Venice (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of ...
Style: detective, witty, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: murder mystery, whodunit, murder, murder investigation, medium, ghost, seance, victim, children, secret, murderer, investigation ...
Time: post world war two, 20th century, 1940s, year 1947
Place: venice, italy
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 6.8
 66K
Lolita (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
Style: erotic, psychological, sexual, sexy, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: obsession, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, lolita, age difference, lust, sexuality, older man young girl relationship, pedophilia, incest, virginity, girl man relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 1947, 20th century, 1920s
Place: cannes, new england
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Viceroy's House (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, India, Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Style: disturbing, factual, sincere, captivating, touching ...
Plot: palace, british raj, servant, democracy, ethnic conflict, independence, economics, british empire, governor, politics, school, promise ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, year 1945, year 1933
Place: delhi, pakistan, india, new delhi, london
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A United Kingdom (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. ...
Style: romantic drama, disturbing, thought provoking, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: interracial marriage, forbidden love, racism, interracial romance, politics, royal family, equality, marriage, freedom, justice, reporter, democracy ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 2016, year 1947
Place: africa, south africa, indiana, england, britain ...
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Mutiny: A Love Story (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Amongst the communal riots that erupt in the city, Tara shelters a wayward Sakina from a crazed mob and a bond that blossoms into love is created. The two eventually get married and have a son. The happy family, now living in Amritsar, gets the ...
Style: romantic, realistic, serious, patriotic, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, against the odds, social differences, fall in love, against the rules, political unrest, society, love and romance, religions or cults, on the run, patriot, pursuit ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 1950s
Place: india, pakistan, middle east, asia
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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 158 min.
Story: The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, survival, gulag, human spirit, pow, confined, getting home, captivity, wehrmacht, danger, jail, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, year 1939, year 1952, year 1947 ...
Place: ussr, germany, soviet union, siberia, baltics ...
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The Good Shepherd (2006)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, political, factual ...
Plot: cold war, spy, cia, espionage, double agent, corruption, politics, betrayal, conspiracy, secret agent, patriotism, invasion ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, 60s, year 1958 ...
Place: cuba, usa, london, berlin germany, washington d.c. ...
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is an animated television series that aired from August 2004 to May 2009 for a total of 79 episodes in six seasons. The premise is based on a simple question: In a world... where imaginary friends are living, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, adult animation, spooky ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary friend, imaginary character, naivete, teenager, friendship, troublemaker, young heroes, imaginary, youth, rescue, adoption, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: year 1997, year 1994, year 1990, year 1973, year 1984 ...
Place: paris france, las vegas
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Road to Boston (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A rousing tale of the Korean athletes who ran the 1947 Boston International Marathon, the first international marathon held since World War II.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, road movie, period piece ...
Plot: marathon, athlete, running, sport competition, professional rivalry, ambition, problem, competition, runner, track and field, japanese occupation of korea, gold ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 20th century, 1930s, year 1936
Place: korea
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The Secret Garden (2020)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, France, USA, China
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven. She meets her sickly cousin Colin and the two children find a wondrous ...
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, sentimental, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: orphan, imagination, estate, old mansion, secret, curse, flowers, gardening, mansion, true love, child, garden ...
Time: 2020s, 1940s, year 1947, 19th century, post world war two
Place: yorkshire, england, india
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The Guardian Angel (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Denmark, Croatia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Criminal investigator Anders Olsen begins to solve a case in which a bank robber shoots two bank clerks and runs into the streets of Copenhagen with the money. When arrested, he claims to have committed the crime alone. Some eyewitnesses say the ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, psychological thriller
Plot: mind control, hypnotist, criminal, police, past, prisoner, society, danger, twists and turns, cop, investigation, yoga ...
Time: 1950s, year 1951, post world war two, year 1947
Place: denmark, copenhagen
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Married Life (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The late 1940s. Richard Langley, a bachelor playboy, narrates a story that starts when his best friend, Harry Allen, invites him to lunch to tell Richard he's in love. Trouble is, Harry's already married to Pat; he worries Pat would be ...
Style: stylized, talky, melancholic, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: relationships, friendship, fall in love, love story, in love, jealousy, adultery, love and romance, crumbling marriage, love affair, infidelity, unrequited love ...
Time: 1940s, 2000s, year 2007, year 1949, year 1947 ...
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Trumbo (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Style: political, factual, talky, suspense, intense ...
Plot: communism, communist, hollywood, biopic, politics, gossip columnist, gossip, cancer, movie business, mccarthyism, screenwriter, film industry ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 70s, 1940s, 1950s ...
Place: los angeles, kentucky, usa
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NASCAR: The IMAX Experience (2004)
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 48 min.
Story: A big-screen look into one of America's most successful entertainment industries, NASCAR racing.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, ambition, contests and competitions, rising to stardom, athlete's life, ego clash, hotshot hero, chases and races, danger, racing, race, sports car ...
Time: year 1947, 21st century
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The Return of Monte Cristo (1968)
Genre: Adventure
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: fairy tale, tragic ending, modern day adaptation
Plot: world war two, accusation, treasure, wrongful arrest, fortress, prison, nazi collaborator, rally, car race, suicide, ruby, attempted rape ...
Time: year 1947, 1940s, 60s
Place: france, central america, latin america, french riviera
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Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.
Style: erotic, factual, sexy, historical drama, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: polyamory, lgbt, lesbian, bdsm, lesbianism, husband wife relationship, lesbian love, harvard, superheroine, sadomasochism, college professor, orgasm ...
Time: 1940s, year 2017, 2010s, 70s, 1930s ...
Place: louisiana, england, boston, connecticut, france ...
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A Private Function (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Life isn't easy in 1947 Yorkshire, where strict post-war rationing is putting the squeeze on the townspeople. But when a working-class couple discover that the town's wealthy elite has been secretly fattening up an illegal pig for their ...
Style: humorous, clever, offbeat, witty, culinary ...
Plot: satire, working class, small town, food, couples, village, ambition, society, village life, social differences, monty python, rural area ...
Time: 20th century, year 1947, 1940s
Place: england, yorkshire, europe, britain, northern england
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Midnight's Children (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A Canadian-Brith film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name. The film tells the story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England grow up in the country that is nothing like their ...
Style: surreal, captivating, stylized, psychological, epic ...
Plot: family relations, political unrest, coming of age, hopes, society, love and romance, youth, rich and poor, siblings relations, magic realism, colonialism, coup ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 70s, 60s ...
Place: india, bombay india, pakistan, asia, kashmir ...
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 7.8
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Jinnah (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, Pakistan, India
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation from the Muslim regime, infuriating Lord ...
Style: epic, cult classic, islamic, captivating, serious ...
Plot: muslim, politics, political unrest, biopic, independence, national identity, religious fundamentalist, religions or cults, leadership, war, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1948, year 1947
Place: india, kashmir, pakistan
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 6.8
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Four Minutes (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sir Roger Bannister's historic running of the sub-four-minute mile is celebrated in Four Minutes, an inspiring and respectably authentic TV movie about breaking the most famous barrier in the history of sports.
Plot: running, runner, track and field, cambridge university, male female relationship, twenty something, jazz, new year, boat, pianist, race, patient ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, year 1954, year 1952, year 1947 ...
Place: helsinki finland, oxford university, mount everest
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Giovanni's Island (2014)
Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two ...
Style: anime, realistic, touching, emotional, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: friendship, young heroes, forceful separation, social differences, life turned upside down, society, village, deportation, white supremacy, dancing, post war, tragedy ...
Time: 20th century, post world war two, 2010s, 1940s, year 1947 ...
Place: asia, japan, soviet union
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On the Road (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, UK, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
Style: road movie, sexy, independent film, inspirational, melancholic ...
Plot: road trip, writers, on the road, beat generation, infidelity, friendship, bisexual, travelogue, beatnik, youth, hitchhiker, watching sex ...
Time: 1940s, year 1951, 1950s, 50s, year 2012 ...
Place: nebraska, california, arizona, usa, louisiana ...
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