Year 1949 movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant year 1949 movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, suspense and cult classic films and TV shows about / with husband wife relationship, biopic, father son relationship, cigarette smoking, flashback, murder, post war, society, female nudity and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as year 1949: Why Women Kill (2019), 10 Rillington Place (1971), Cold War (2018), The Keeper (2018), Phil Spector (2013), On the Road (2012), Sister Death (2023), Circle of Friends (1995), Hamka & Siti Raham Vol. 2 (2023), Mao Zedong 1949 (2019).

List of year 1949 movies

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 8.3
 30K
Why Women Kill (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 984 min.
TV show
Story: Three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the '60s, a socialite in the '80s and a lawyer in 2018, deal with infidelity in their marriages.
Style: captivating, witty, atmospheric, erotic, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: marriage, women, open marriage, crumbling marriage, family in crisis, society, housewife, female protagonist, male female relationship, character change, changing lives, up and down relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 80s, 60s, 2010s, year 1949
Place: usa, los angeles, pasadena california, california
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10 Rillington Place (1971)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Style: suspense, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, crime thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, biopic, murder, killer, true crime, violent, psychopath, courtroom drama, killing, death, british, murderer ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, year 1949, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: london, england, europe, usa, boston ...
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 7.5
 62K
Cold War (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Poland, UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Cold War-era love story follows the passionate love affair between a mismatched couple.
Style: black and white, romantic, sad, thought provoking, art film ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: cold war, musician, communism, audition, female singer, loveless marriage, love story, suicide, tragic love, jazz, folklore, defector ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 60s, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: poland, paris france, east berlin, former yugoslavia, eastern europe ...
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 7.2
 6K
The Keeper (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: TRAUTMANN tells the story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by ...
Style: motivational, inspirational, realistic, intense, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, football, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, love and romance, world war, human spirit, rivalry, courage, college, ambition, transformation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, year 2019, year 1956 ...
Place: germany, england, manchester
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 6.2
 8K
Phil Spector (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A drama centered on the relationship between Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden while the music business legend was on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, cult classic, detective ...
Plot: legal, showbiz, courtroom drama, murder, courtroom, artists and showbiz, lawyers and clients, law, scandal, husband wife relationship, prosecution, biopic ...
Time: year 1949, year 2003, year 1968, year 2009, year 1944 ...
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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 6.0
 43K
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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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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 5.7
 7K
Sister Death (2023)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Spain, 1949. Narcisa, a novice, arrives at an old convent, converted into a girls' school, to work as a teacher.
Plot: convent, nun, newcomer, evil nun, girls' school, catholic school, secret, monastery, teenager, teacher, terror, female protagonist ...
Time: year 1939, 20th century, year 1949, 1930s, 1940s
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Circle of Friends (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve ...
Style: period piece, emotional, sentimental, realistic, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, college, small town, love, pregnancy, class differences, college life, adaptation, love affair, lust, breakup ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1949
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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Hamka & Siti Raham Vol. 2 (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Siti Raham loyally supported Buya Hamka when he fought for independence and preached. Especially when Hamka was desperate because he was living in prison, Siti Raham continued to support him with sincerity. Thanks to Siti Raham's support, Hamka ...
Style: indonesian, period drama
Plot: national hero, prison, father, childhood, school, aircraft, river, community, weapons, politics, education, village ...
Time: 1950s, year 1959, year 1943, year 1942, year 1966 ...
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Mao Zedong 1949 (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The film is set in 1949, as the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China prepare to establish a new Chinese state, the People's Republic of China.
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, political
Plot: republican era china, military officer, politics, political unrest, military, society, historical event, political intrigue
Time: 1940s, year 1949
Place: china, east asia, beijing china, asia
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 7.0
 128K
Julie & Julia (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, sweet, light, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: cooking, cooking and food, chef, women, food, self fulfillment, love, blogger, lifestyle, cookbook, couple relations, blog ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 2000s, 60s, 1900s ...
Place: paris france, new york, france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 192 min.
Story: The story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Jim Jones and the events leading up to one of the largest mass suicides in history.
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: mass suicide, commune, poison, manipulation, no survivors, leadership, rebellion, fighting the system, religions or cults, psychopath, against humanity, drug abuse ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 1940s, year 1965, year 1978 ...
Place: indianapolis indiana, africa, san francisco, california
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 6.7
 6K
The Survivor (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: USA, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way to find his first love again.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, historical drama, period drama
Plot: boxer, boxing, concentration camp survivor, concentration camp, world war two, love affair, martial arts, male female relationship, love interest, life is a bitch, relationships, guilty conscience ...
Time: post world war two, year 1963, year 1949, 60s
Place: germany, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city
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The Founding of a Republic (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 138 min.
Story: The Founding of a Republic is a Chinese historical film commissioned by China's film regulator and made by the state-owned China Film Group (CFG) to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. The film retells the tale of ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: politics, medieval, communist party, military, assassination, state affairs, revolution, political unrest, chinese history, ambition, heroes, battles ...
Time: year 1947, year 1949, year 1948, year 1945
Place: china, taiwan, shanghai, beijing china
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics launches an undercover sting operation against jazz singer Billie Holiday.
Style: suspense, thought provoking, tense, captivating, anamorphic ...
Plot: jazz singer, war on drugs, musician, jazz, fbi, heroin, undercover, civil rights, segregation, racism, addiction, women ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1947, year 1957 ...
Place: new york, new orleans, baltimore, philadelphia
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 7.2
 7K
Avalon (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Avalon is the third in Levinson's semi-autobiographical series of four "Baltimore Films": Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999). The film is set in Baltimore in the early 1950s and explores the themes ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, cult classic, semi autobiographical, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: thanksgiving, immigrant, culture clash, american history, immigration, children, hospital, nostalgia, intrigue, culture, migration, youth ...
Time: 1940s, 1910s, 1900s, 20th century, year 1948 ...
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
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Mirror for a Hero (1987)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Two not quite similar men, our contemporaries, Sergey Pshenichny and Andrew Nemchinov, are walking in the street in their native mining town and found themselves in 1949. It's a common knowledge that real miracles happen without technical ...
Style: surreal, social, philosophical
Plot: time travel, communism, time loop, trapped, mining town, father son relationship, war hero, repeated event, alternate reality, social realism, fantasy becomes reality, fantasy world ...
Time: 1940s, year 1949, 80s
Place: ussr, soviet union
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 6.4
 22K
Lonely Hearts (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez were America's notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". Their lethal scam was simple; they would swindle and then viciously murder lovelorn war widows who would answer their ...
Style: neo noir, detective, suspenseful, suspense, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, gangster, obsession, murderous pair, femme fatale, loneliness, hitman, attempted murder, cons and scams, chase ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1951, year 1949, 1950s
Place: usa, new york
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 6.2
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Mano Po (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, young Chinese copra trader named Fong-Huan marries Elisa, a young and pretty Filipina. The couples children, Daniel and Linda, were raised in a mixture of Chinese and Filipino-Hispanic tradition. These richly ...
Plot: immigrant, birthday, sister sister relationship, funeral, flashback, kidnapping, engagement, pregnancy, family business, rebellious daughter, patriarch, interracial romance ...
Time: year 1949
Place: the philippines
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 6.2
 10K
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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 6.1
 115K
Hannibal Rising (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his ...
Style: psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, cannibalism, murder, revenge, psycho killer, gory, childhood, insanity, dehumanization, world war two, vengeance ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 50s, year 2007, 20th century ...
Place: china, lithuania, paris france, europe, russia ...
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100 Million BC (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A scientist from the failed Philadelphia Experiment leads a team of Navy SEALs back in time to the Cretaceous Period to rescue the first team he sent back during the 1940s. Things go wildly awry though, when on his return he accidentally brings a ...
Style: semi serious, mockbuster, tense, exciting, natural horror ...
Plot: dinosaur, time travel, tyrannosaurus rex, lost world, time portal, experiment gone awry, heroes, chaos and mayhem, imaginary, fish out of water, creature feature, creature ...
Time: future, 1940s, prehistory, year 1950, year 1949 ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 6.6
 6K
The Odyssey (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Biopic of the great French ocean-going adventurer and filmmaker
Style: factual, exciting, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: kids
Plot: explorer, sea, biopic, ocean, environmental, diver, love, ship, airplane accident, ecology, fish, diving ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1972, 1950s, 60s ...
Place: paris france, france, new york, antarctica
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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhod of rigorous martial arts training, Lee realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America. Before long, he is discovered ...
Style: uplifting, captivating, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, biopic, master warrior, actor's life, filmmaking, culture clash, training, father son relationship, american dream, prodigy, rising to stardom ...
Time: 1940s, year 1993, 20th century, 60s, 70s ...
Place: hong kong, los angeles, seattle, california, asia ...
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 7.2
 161K
The Post (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Style: political thriller, political, factual, tense, inspirational ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: journalism, journalist, truth, expose, newspaper office, whistleblower, newspaper, lie, cover up, wartime, freedom of the press, u.s. government ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 90s, 70s, year 1965 ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, vietnam
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 6.9
 897
Newsfront (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Surprisingly adventurous saga of an intrepid group of cinematographers and reporters who risk life and limb to capture footage of breaking news for the movie-going public.
Style: serious, realistic, period piece, independent film, period drama
Plot: journalism, female nudity, reflection, filmmaking, world war two, brother brother relationship, news reporter, contests and competitions, politics, state affairs, artists and showbiz, media ...
Time: 1940s, year 1978, 1950s, 50s, year 1949 ...
Place: australia, sydney australia
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Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, Italy, Pakistan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Having lived through traumatizing events during WWII, Father Lankester Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to conduct archaeological excavations in British-administered East Africa. Merrin unearths an ancient Byzantine church believed have ...
Style: demonic, scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: exorcism, devil, demonic possession, supernatural, gory, good versus evil, priest, demon, religion, exorcist, possession, blood ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2004, year 1949
Place: africa, kenya, cairo egypt, iraq
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 7.2
 99K
The Doors (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The story of the famous and influential 1960's rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Style: psychedelic, factual, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: rock and roll, music band, drug addiction, life philosophy, musician's life, addiction, music, biopic, musician, drug abuse, singer, hippie ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1949, year 1967 ...
Place: california, paris france, los angeles, usa, new mexico ...
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The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: USA, New Zealand, UK, France, Australia, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine suspects him of ...
Style: computer animated, exciting, motion capture, colorful, 3d animation ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: treasure, treasure hunt, reporter, young heroes, adventurer, dog, captain, riddles and clues, pirate, journalist, journalism, ship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: morocco, ethiopia, iran, europe, north africa
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