We the Living (1942)
We the Living movie storyline. The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear – the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine,
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Citizen Kane (1941)
The newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane, one of the richest and most powerful men in America if not the world, dies. A newspaperman digs into his past seeking the meaning of his enigmatic last word: “Rosebud.” He finds evidence of a child torn away from his family to serve Mammon.
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Watch on the Rhine (1943)
Watch on the Rhine movie storyline. Anti-Fascist German engineer Kurt Muller, with his American-born wife, Sara, and their three children, returns to the United States in 1940 after spending 17 years in Europe, where Kurt has engaged in underground resistance to the rising Nazi threat.
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Homecoming (1948)
Homecoming movie storyline. Ulysses Johnson (Clark Gable) is an American surgeon coming back from World War II. As he is sitting on the transport boat taking him back to America, he is asked by a reporter about his experiences during the war. Johnson begins to tell his story, beginning in 1941. Johnson is the chief surgeon at a hospital, a man free of emotional attachment to his patients.
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (1947)
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow is a quintessential example of a key postwar cycle: the German Trümmerfilm (rubble film), which examines issues such as collective guilt and the prospect of an uncertain future. After living in Swiss exile for ten years, an illustrator returns to Munich, joining old acquaintances in the ruins of his former home, the Hotel Regina.
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A Double Life (1947)
A Double Life movie storyline. The successful middle-aged Broadway actor Anthony “Tony” John is a dedicated lonely professional that still loves his former wife Brita. They are playing Othello for almost two years and Tony has a breakdown, beginning to lose his mind and sense of reality, confusing his identity with his characters.
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Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Miracle on 34th Street movie storyline. At the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered old man. Doris Walker, the no nonsense special events director, persuades him to take his place.
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Forever Amber (1947)
Forever Amber movie storyline. Amber St. Clair (Linda Darnell) is 16-years-old by the time the revolution of Oliver Cromwell is ended and the House of Stuart has returned to the British throne in 1660, and she is none too happy in the home of her Puritanical foster parents, and soon departs for London under the reluctant “patronage” of Bruce Carlton.
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Green Dolphin Street (1947)
Green Dolphin Street movie storyline. Two beautiful daughters of a wealthy merchant fall in love with the same handsome young man (Richard Hart), but because he favors the gentle modesty of Marguerite (Donna Reed), her “not quite nice” sister Marianne (LanaTurner) persuades him to seek his fortune abroad.
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The Outlaw (1946)
The Outlaw movie storyline. In the 19th Century, in the town of Lincoln, New Mexico, the sheriff Pat Garrett welcomes his old friend, Doc Holliday, who has had his horse Red stolen by a stranger while coming to the town. They meet the thieve and realize that the guy is the gunman Billy the Kid.
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