Festival de Cannes: Official Selection 1949
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1. Act of Violence (1948)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor
Votes: 5,711
2. Almafuerte (1949)
92 min | Drama
Biography of the Argentine poet Almafuerte.
Director: Luis César Amadori | Stars: Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Pola Alonso, Eva Caselli, Federico Mansilla
Votes: 38
3. An Act of Murder (1948)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien, Florence Eldridge, Geraldine Brooks
Votes: 870
4. Au grand balcon (1949)
97 min | Adventure, Drama
'The Grand Balcon' is a family guesthouse where the inhabitants have the same passion for adventure. All these future pilots made the glory of Aerospostale (a pioneering aviation company which operated from 1918 to 1933).
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Georges Marchal, Félix Oudart, Janine Crispin
Votes: 86
5. The Original Sin (1948)
105 min | Comedy, Fantasy
An apple juice producer can't decide between his wife and his secretary and tries to commit suicide. Being committed to psychiatry, he falls asleep and dreams of adventures as Adam and Eve in heaven and hell.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Bobby Todd, Bettina Moissi, Joana Maria Gorvin, Arno Assmann
Votes: 94
6. Der Ruf (1949)
100 min | Drama
A Jewish professor returns to Germany following World War II. He hopes to help rebuild a new, free Germany, but he must confront the antisemitism of his colleagues and students.
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Johanna Hofer, Rosemary Murphy, Lina Carstens
Votes: 60
7. Die Buntkarierten (1949)
100 min | Drama
Family drama spanning three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII.
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Camilla Spira, Werner Hinz, Liselotte Lieck, Friedrich Gnaß
Votes: 72
8. Eine große Liebe (1949)
90 min | Musical, Romance
Aristocratic Sabine marries her childhood love Klaus despite his coming from a lower class. When he does not return from World War I, she sinks into despair. They do find each other again until they've both grown old.
Director: Hans Bertram | Stars: Gisela Uhlen, Michael Korrontay, Barbara Bertram, Rüdiger von Sperl
9. Eroica (1949)
95 min | Biography, Drama, Music
"Eroica" is an Austrian film from 1949 that illustrates the life and work of composer Ludwig von Beethoven.
Director: Walter Kolm-Veltée | Stars: Ewald Balser, Marianne Schönauer, Judith Holzmeister, Oskar Werner
Votes: 75
10. Främmande hamn (1948)
85 min | Drama
A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland. In a port tavern a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors. Later in the evening he is found dead.
Director: Hampe Faustman | Stars: Adolf Jahr, George Fant, Stig Järrel, Illona Wieselmann
Votes: 96
11. House of Strangers (1949)
Approved | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After years in prison, Max promises revenge on his brothers for their betrayal. His lover Irene and memories of his past yield him a broader perspective.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler
Votes: 4,186
Award for Best Actor: Edward G. ROBINSON
12. Images d'Ethiopie (1949)
65 min | Documentary
A documentary about Ethiopia's culture, both traditional and modern.
Directors: Jean Pichonnier, Paul Pichonnier | Stars: Georges Farineau, Robert Lefebvre
13. Lies of Love (1949)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary short about the romantic Italian comic strips called Fumetti.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Anna Vita, Annie O'Hara, Sergio Raimondi, Sandro Roberti
Votes: 208
14. The Walls of Malapaga (1949)
89 min | Drama, Romance
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi, Andrea Checchi
Votes: 991
Award for Best Director Award for Best Actress - Isa MIRANDA
15. Lost Boundaries (1949)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
This story is a true account of the lives of Scott and Marsha Carter. Having graduated from medical school, Scott Carter, a fair-skinned African American, marries Marsha Mitchell and moves ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Susan Douglas Rubes, Robert A. Dunn
Votes: 496
Award for Best Screenplay
16. Mughamarat Antar wa Abla (1948)
105 min | Adventure, Drama, History
The knight and poet Antar fights for his love, Abla.
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Kouka, Seraj Munir, Zaki Toleimat, Negma Ibrahim
Votes: 36
17. Na svoji zemlji (1948)
110 min | Drama, War
Set in a small Slovenian village , it tells the story of its residents who lived under German occupation after the Italian defeat in 1943. While helping the partisans, the residents look forward to the upcoming liberation.
Director: France Stiglic | Stars: Lojze Potokar, Franc Presetnik, Mileva Zakrajsek, Stefka Drolc
Votes: 189
18. The Hidden Room (1949)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne
Votes: 2,674
19. Occupe-toi d'Amélie..! (1949)
92 min | Comedy
Once a lowly chambermaid, Amelie Pochet now revels as the pampered mistress of a military man named Etienne.
Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Desailly, Victor Guyau, Grégoire Aslan
Votes: 239
20. Pueblerina (1949)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Columba Domínguez, Roberto Cañedo, Arturo Soto Rangel, Manuel Dondé
Votes: 282
21. Rendezvous in July (1949)
112 min | Comedy, Drama
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Brigitte Auber, Nicole Courcel, Pierre Trabaud
Votes: 456 | Gross: $0.01M
22. Retour à la vie (1949)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Five prisoners, a woman and four men, return to France after WW2. We follow their rocky road to life. It's a movie which consists of five different stories.
Directors: André Cayatte, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Dréville, Georges Lampin | Stars: Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet, Noël-Noël, François Périer
Votes: 265
23. Bitter Rice (1949)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama
Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.
Director: Giuseppe De Santis | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone
Votes: 4,874
24. The Passionate Friends (1949)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains, Betty Ann Davies
Votes: 3,032
25. The Queen of Spades (1949)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An army officer becomes obsessed with learning the secret to a card game for which an elderly countess sold her soul years earlier.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Howard
Votes: 2,395
26. The Set-Up (1949)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Sport
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter
Votes: 10,076
27. The Third Man (1949)
Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard
Votes: 181,785 | Gross: $0.45M
Grand Prix
28. Without Honor (1949)
TV-PG | 69 min | Drama
Jane Bandle has recently married, but Bill, her husband's brother, tries to wreck her marriage because Jane rejected his sexual advances before her marriage.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Laraine Day, Dane Clark, Franchot Tone, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 412
29. Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy
Residents of a part of London declare independence after they discover an old treaty, which leads to the need for a "Passport to Pimlico".
Director: Henry Cornelius | Stars: Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis
Votes: 5,285
OUT OF COMPETITION
30. A Capital Plan (1949)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Bernard Devlin | Stars: Lorne Greene, Jacques Gréber
Votes: 10
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
31. Tomorrow's a Wonderful Day (1947)
50 min | Documentary, Drama
Director: Helmar Lerski | Stars: Sam Balter, Benjamin Hildesheimer, Jimmie Lipton
Votes: 34
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
32. In het land van Thijl Uilenspiegel (1948)
19 min | Documentary
A documentary about Occidental Flanders.
Director: Charles Dekeukeleire
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
34. They Caught the Ferry (1948)
11 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A man and a woman on a motorcycle arrive with a ferry to Assens. They want to catch the next ferry in Nyborg, on the other side of the island, but this ferry will leave in three quarters of... See full summary »
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Star: Joseph Koch
Votes: 1,328
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
36. It's a Lovely Day (1949)
8 min | Animation, Short
This cartoon features a squirrel, crow, mole, hare, & fish.
Director: Bert Felstead
Votes: 58
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
37. La terre de Caïn (1949)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Pierre Petel | Star: René Lecavalier
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
38. Les feux de la mer (1949)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary film shot in Brittany about lighthouses and lighthouse keepers on the island of Ouessant and coast of Finistere.
Director: Jean Epstein
Votes: 59
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
39. Muscle Beach (1948)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Amateur athletes and bodybuilders at the original Muscle Beach in Santa Monica, California.
Directors: Irving Lerner, Joseph Strick
Votes: 57
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
40. Pacific 231 (1949)
9 min | Short, Music
An engine moves from the roundhouse to a track where it couples with several passenger cars. At 2:10 in the afternoon, it starts a trip out of the station through the countryside to its ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Mitry
Votes: 384
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
41. Palle Alone in the World (1949)
25 min | Short, Drama, Family
Palle, a young boy wakes up to find all other people have gone, leaving him free to do whatever he wants
Director: Astrid Henning-Jensen | Stars: Lars Henning-Jensen, Lily Broberg
Votes: 117
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
42. Color Rhapsodie (1948)
6 min | Animation, Short
Directors: Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
Votes: 16
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
43. Seal Island (1948)
Approved | 27 min | Documentary, Short, Family
The first of the True-Life Adventure featurettes. Fur seals arrive on the Pribilof Islands for the purpose of mating. The older seals are known as bulls and have "harems" of females which ... See full summary »
Director: James Algar | Star: Winston Hibler
Votes: 176
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
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