1949 Movies

Ania, a few years old girl, starts attending to a new kindergarten. The film shows the difficult moments of a little girl's adaptation to a new enviro...

Floorshow from the Club Zanzibar, compered by Max Bygraves. Features fabulous slapstick comic band ‘The Nitwits’, led by Sid Millward which later fou...

Set in the 1880s, the story opens when Johan de Villiers inherits the family farm and asks for childhood sweetheart Sarie Marais’s hand in marriage. S...

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

"Being a housewife is a profession like any other," emphasizes the speaker in this film, which is about how to keep a house in the 1940s. The newlywed...

In a small town in São Paulo State, everyone lives happily: Tinoco and his bride Joan, Lollipop and Nha Barbina. One day come the men in charge of ope...

Highlights from the 1949 British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone.

A convict on the run returns to his native village to see his daughter again, who believes him to be dead. The priest intervenes to avoid a scandal th...

Omar, a music teacher, teaches Rokiah to play the violin. He falls in love with Rokiah’s sister named Zaharah. Their romance goes through various bitt...

A medical student, Kusmayadi, the son of Dr. Sugiharto, is going for a vacation in Bandung with Selikur and Winarto. There he meets up with Asmarani,...

The characters are refugees from the war who have arrived in America. Ricardo Moller is a scientist who the war has left sexually mutilated, while Art...

Mariano and Andres are balut vendors who fortuitously save Rosa's life. They adopt her and care for her as their own daughter. One day a lawyer confro...