1948

Film Decades: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • 3 Godfathers – directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, Harry Carey Jr., & Pedro Armendáriz
  • Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
  • Act of Violence – directed by Fred Zimmerman, starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
  • Adventures of Don Juan – starring Errol Flynn
  • Albuquerque – starring Randolph Scott & Barbara Britton
  • The Amazing Mr. X, starring Turhan Bey and Lynn Bari
  • Anna Karenina – starring Vivien Leigh & Ralph Richardson – UK
  • Another Part of the Forest, starring Fredric March
  • April Showers, starring Ann Sothern and Jack Carson
  • Arch of Triumph – starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, Ruth Warrick
  • B.F.’s Daughter – starring Barbara Stanwyck
  • Berlin Express, starring Merle Oberon and Robert Ryan
  • The Berliner (Berlin Balade), starring Gert Fröbe – (Germany)
  • Bicycle Thieves – directed by Vittorio De Sica – Italy
  • The Big Clock – directed by John Farrow, starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Maureen O’Sullivan
  • Blanche Fury, starring Valerie Hobson and Stewart Granger – (GB)
  • Blonde Ice, starring Leslie Brooks
  • Blood on the Moon – directed by Robert Wise, starring Robert Mitchum
  • Bodyguard – directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Lawrence Tierney and Priscilla Lane
  • The Boy with Green Hair, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dean Stockwell and Robert Ryan
  • The Bride Goes Wild, directed by Norman Taurog, starring June Allyson and Van Johnson
  • Call Northside 777 – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring James Stewart
  • La calle sin sol (The Sunless Street) – (Spain)
  • Campus Honeymoon, starring Lee and Lyn Wilde
  • Canon City, starring Scott Brady
  • Command Decision – starring Clark Gable
  • Counterblast, directed by Paul L. Stein, starring Mervyn Johns – (GB)
  • Cry of the City, starring Victor Mature and Richard Conte
  • The Dark Past – starring William Holden, Lee J. Cobb, Nina Foch
  • A Date with Judy, starring Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor and Carmen Miranda
  • Dédée d’Anvers, starring Simone Signoret – (France)
  • Drunken Angel – directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Takashi Shimura & Toshiro Mifune – Japan
  • The Eagle with Two Heads (L’Aigle à deux têtes), directed by Jean Cocteau – (France)
  • Easter Parade** – starring Judy Garland & Fred Astaire
  • The Emperor Waltz – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Bing Crosby
  • Escape – directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Rex Harrison – (GB/U.S.)
  • Eva- co-written by Ingmar Bergman – Sweden
  • Every Girl Should Be Married – starring Cary Grant
  • The Fallen Idol – written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed, starring Ralph Richardson – UK
  • Fighter Squadron, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Edmond O’Brien and Robert Stack
  • Force of Evil, starring John Garfield
  • A Foreign Affair – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jean Arthur & Marlene Dietrich
  • Fort Apache – directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
  • Four Faces West, starring Joel McCrea and Frances Dee
  • The Gentleman from Nowhere – directed by William Castle
  • Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero) – directed by Roberto Rossellini – Italy
  • God Reward You (Dios se lo pague), starring Arturo de Córdova – (Argentina)
  • Good Sam – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Gary Cooper
  • Good-Time Girl, starring Jean Kent and Dennis Price – (GB)
  • Green Grass of Wyoming, starring Peggy Cummins and Charles Coburn
  • The Green Promise, starring Marguerite Chapman and Walter Brennan
  • The Guinea Pig, a Boulting Brothers film starring Richard Attenborough – (GB)
  • Half Past Midnight, starring Kent Taylor and Peggy Knudsen
  • Hamlet – directed by and starring Laurence Olivier, with Basil Sydney & Jean Simmons – UK
  • He Walked by Night, starring Richard Basehart and Jack Webb
  • A Hen in the Wind (Kaze no naka no mendori), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
  • Hollow Triumph, starring Paul Henreid and Joan Bennett
  • Homecoming – starring Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak
  • I Remember Mama, directed by George Stevens, starring Irene Dunne
  • I Walk Alone, starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas
  • The Iron Curtain – directed by William Wellman, starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, June Havoc
  • Isn’t It Romantic? – starring Veronica Lake
  • Joan of Arc – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Ingrid Bergman
  • Johnny Belinda, starring Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres
  • June Bride, starring Bette Davis
  • Key Largo – directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
  • Kiss the Blood off My Hands – starring Joan Fontaine & Burt Lancaster
  • The Kissing Bandit, starring Kathryn Grayson and Frank Sinatra
  • Ladies of the Chorus – starring Marilyn Monroe
  • The Lame Devil (Le Diable boiteux), directed by and starring Sacha Guitry – (France)
  • Letter from an Unknown Woman – directed by Max Ophüls, starring Joan Fontaine & Louis Jourdan
  • London Belongs to Me, starring Richard Attenborough and Alastair Sim – (GB)
  • Louisiana Story, documentary by Robert J. Flaherty
  • Love – directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Anna Magnani & Federico Fellini – anthology – Italy
  • The Loves of Carmen – directed by Charles Vidor, starring Rita Hayworth & Glenn Ford
  • The Luck of the Irish, starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter
  • Luxury Liner, starring Jane Powell and George Brent
  • Macbeth – directed by & starring Orson Welles
  • The Mating of Millie, starring Evelyn Keyes and Glenn Ford
  • Mela, starring Dilip Kumar – (India)
  • Melody Time, starring Roy Rogers & Trigger and The Andrews Sisters
  • Mexican Hayride, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
  • Michurin, directed by Alexander Dovzhenko – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Miranda, directed by Ken Annakin, starring Glynis Johns – (GB)
  • Miss Tatlock’s Millions, starring Wanda Hendrix, Barry Fitzgerald, John Lund
  • The Monkey’s Paw, starring Milton Rosmer – (GB)
  • Moonrise, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Gail Russell and Dane Clark
  • Morituri – (Germany)
  • Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House – starring Cary Grant & Myrna Loy
  • My Dear Secretary – starring Kirk Douglas, Laraine Day
  • Myriad of Lights (Wanjia denghuo) – (China)
  • The Mysterious Apartment (Den hemmelighetsfulle leiligheten) – (Norway)
  • The Naked City, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Barry Fitzgerald
  • Night Has a Thousand Eyes – starring Edward G. Robinson
  • No Orchids for Miss Blandish – (GB)
  • No Room at the Inn, starring Freda Jackson and Hermione Baddeley – (GB)
  • Noose, starring Carole Landis
  • The Noose Hangs High, starring Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
  • One Sunday Afternoon, starring Dennis Morgan
  • One Touch of Venus – starring Robert Walker and Ava Gardner
  • Oliver Twist – directed by David Lean, starring Alec Guinness & Robert Newton – UK
  • On Our Own Land (Na svoji zemlji) – (Yugoslavia)
  • The Paleface, starring Bob Hope and Jane Russell
  • Les Parents terribles, directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais – (France)
  • The Pirate – directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gene Kelly & Judy Garland
  • Pitfall – starring Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr
  • Port of Call – directed by Ingmar Bergman – Sweden
  • Portrait of Jennie – directed by William Dieterle, starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish
  • Quartet, starring Mai Zetterling – (GB)
  • Race Street, starring George Raft and William Bendix
  • Rachel and the Stranger – starring Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum
  • Raw Deal – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, Raymond Burr
  • Red River – directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, John Ireland
  • The Red Shoes, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Moira Shearer and Anton Walbrook – (GB)
  • Relentless, starring Robert Young
  • The Return of October, starring Glenn Ford
  • Road House – starring Ida Lupino
  • Rogues’ Regiment – directed by Robert Florey and starring Dick Powell, Märta Torén, Vincent Price
  • Romance on the High Seas – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Doris Day
  • Rope – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart
  • Ruthless – directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Raymond Burr
  • Saigon – starring Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake
  • The Sainted Sisters – starring Veronica Lake & Joan Caulfield
  • Saraband for Dead Lovers, starring Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood – (GB)
  • Scott of the Antarctic, starring John Mills – (GB)
  • Sealed Verdict, starring Ray Milland
  • The Search – directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Montgomery Clift – (US/Switzerland)
  • Secret Beyond the Door – directed by Fritz Lang, starring Joan Bennett & Michael Redgrave
  • Senza pietà – co-written by Federico Fellini – Italy
  • Shaheed, starring Dilip Kumar – (India)
  • Silver River – starring Errol Flynn & Ann Sheridan
  • Sitting Pretty – starring Robert Young & Maureen O’Hara
  • Sleep, My Love – starring Claudette Colbert
  • Sleeping Car to Trieste, starring Jean Kent – (GB)
  • Smart Girls Don’t Talk, starring Virginia Mayo
  • The Snake Pit – starring Olivia de Havilland
  • So Evil My Love, starring Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald – (GB)
  • A Song Is Born – directed by Howard Hawks, co-written by Billy Wilder, starring Danny Kaye & Virginia Mayo
  • Sorry, Wrong Number – starring Barbara Stanwyck & Burt Lancaster
  • Spring in a Small Town (Xiǎochéng zhī chūn), directed by Fei Mu – (China)
  • Spring in Park Lane, starring Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding – (GB)
  • State of the Union – directed by Frank Capra, starring Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn
  • Station West, starring Dick Powell and Jane Greer
  • The Street with No Name – directed by William Keighley, starring Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan, Barbara Lawrence
  • Tap Roots, starring Van Heflin and Susan Hayward
  • La Terra Trema (The Earth Will Tremble), directed by Luchino Visconti – (Italy)
  • Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven – directed by William Castle
  • They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell
  • The Three Muskteers – starring Lana Turner & Gene Kelly
  • The Time of Your Life, starring James Cagney
  • Tragic Hunt (Caccia tragica) – (Italy)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre** – directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, & Tim Holt
  • Treasured Earth (Talpalatnyi föld) – (Hungary)
  • Los tres huastecos, starring Pedro Infante – (Mexico)
  • Under the Sun of Rome (Sotto il sole di Roma), directed by Renato Castellani – (Italy)
  • Unfaithfully Yours – directed by Preston Sturges, starring Linda Darnell & Rex Harrison
  • Up in Central Park – directed by William A. Seiter, starring Deanna Durbin & Vincent Price
  • The Velvet Touch – directed by Jack Gage, starring Rosalind Russell, Leon Ames, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor, Sydney Greenstreet
  • Vidya, starring Dev Anand – (India)
  • Waverley Steps: A Visit to Edinburgh – (GB) documentary
  • We the Poor – starring Pedro Infante – Mexico
  • Western Heritage, starring Tim Holt
  • When My Baby Smiles at Me, starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey
  • When You Come Home
  • Whiplash, starring Alexis Smith and Dane Clark
  • Whispering Smith, starring Alan Ladd and Robert Preston
  • The Winslow Boy, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Robert Donat and Margaret Leighton – UK
  • The Woman in White – directed by Peter Godfrey, starring Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, Gig Young
  • Yellow Sky, starring Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark
  • You Gotta Stay Happy – starring Joan Fontaine & James Stewart
  • You the Rich – starring Pedro Infante – Mexico
  • The Young Guard – USSR