Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics: 3559 Films to Rent
Trapped (1949)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt
- U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters in this fast–paced B–noir.
Tulsa (1949)
- Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendariz…
- Glossy melodrama with Hayward whose determination to save her ranch from a greedy oil baron sees her enter the cut throat world of prospecting.
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck
- Gregory Peck is at his peak as a General brought in to restore morale to a squadron engaged in daily bombing raids over Germany. One of the great…
Under Capricorn (1949)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding…
- An alcoholic woman (Bergman) is torn between her roguish husband and the governor of NSW in this Hitchcock oddity, a romantic melodrama set in…
We Were Strangers (1949)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz…
- Adventure drama with Jennifer Jones playing a woman who joins the Cuban Underground and helps devise a plot to bring down the country's corrupt…
Where Danger Lives (w/ Tension) (1949-1950)
- Dir. John Farrow, John Berry
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains…
- Tautly directed crime of passion, with secret lovers Mitchum and Domergue making a beeline for the Mexican border after killing her millionaire…
Whirlpool (1949)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, Jose Ferrer…
- Tierney stars as Mrs Ann Sutton, a beautiful woman who seems to be living the dream in LA with her successful psychoanalyst husband William (Conte),…
Whisky Galore! (1949)
- Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Joan Greenwood
- When villagers on a dry Scottish isle 'rescue' a cargo of shipwrecked whiskey, a classic Ealing comedy ensues. Generous doses of sly humour help this…
White Heat (1949)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
- Intense, verging–on–primal performance from a greying James Cagney blasts this straight into the pantheon of greatest–ever crime…
Young Man With a Horn (Young Man of Music) (1949)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Lauren Bacall…
- Sharp biopic based on legendary jazz trumpeteer Bix Beiderbecke (played here by Kirk Douglas), who rose from obscurity to possess one of the most…