A list of American films released in 1949.
All the King's Men won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| A Woman's Secret |
Nicholas Ray |
Maureen O'Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame |
Film noir drama |
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| Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff |
|
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello |
Comedy |
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| Adam's Rib |
George Cukor |
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, David Wayne |
Romantic comedy |
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| The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad |
James Algar, Clyde Geronimi |
Bing Crosby, Eric Blore, Basil Rathbone |
Animation |
Golden Globe for Cinematography, Color |
| Africa Screams |
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| All the King's Men |
Robert Rossen |
Broderick Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge |
Drama |
Academy Award Best Picture |
| The Awful Orphan |
Chuck Jones |
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Animated |
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| Bagdad |
Charles Lamont |
Maureen O'Hara, Paul Christian, Vincent Price |
Adventure |
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| The Barkleys of Broadway |
Charles Walters |
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers |
Musical comedy |
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| Batman and Robin |
Spencer Gordon Bennet |
Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, Jane Adams |
Serial |
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| Battleground |
William Wellman |
Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban |
War drama |
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| The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend |
Preston Sturges |
Betty Grable |
romantic comedy Western |
Fox |
| Beyond the Forest |
King Vidor |
Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten |
Drama |
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| Big Jack |
Richard Thorpe |
Wallace Beery |
|
Beery's final film |
| The Big Steal |
Don Siegel |
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer |
Drama |
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| The Big Wheel |
Edward Lustig |
Mickey Rooney |
Drama |
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| Bitter Rice |
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| Border Incident |
Anthony Mann |
Ricardo Montalban |
Drama |
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| The Bribe |
Robert Z. Leonard |
Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price |
Film noir |
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| Bride for Sale |
William D. Russell |
Claudette Colbert, Robert Young |
Comedy |
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| Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family |
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| Bruce Gentry |
|
Tom Neal |
Drama |
Serial |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Edward, My Son |
George Cukor |
Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr |
Drama |
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| Eureka Stockade |
|
Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson |
Drama |
British |
| Family Honeymoon |
Claude Binyon |
Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray |
Comedy |
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| The Fan |
Otto Preminger |
Madeleine Carroll, Jeanne Crain |
Drama |
Based on Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde |
| Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc |
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| The Fighting Kentuckian |
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John Wayne |
Western |
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| Flamingo Road |
Michael Curtiz |
Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott |
Drama |
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| Flaxy Martin |
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| Follow Me Quietly |
Richard Fleischer |
William Lundigan |
Drama |
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| For Scent-imental Reasons |
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Animated |
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| The Fountainhead |
King Vidor |
Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal |
Drama |
Warner Brothers |
| Frigid Hare |
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Animated |
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| Ghost of Zorro |
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| The Glass Mountain |
E. Anton, Henry Cass |
Michael Denison |
Drama |
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| The Great Gatsby |
Elliott Nugent |
Alan Ladd, Ruth Hussey |
Drama |
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| Green Grass of Wyoming |
Louis King |
Peggy Cummins, Charles Coburn |
Drama |
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| Gun Crazy |
Joseph H. Lewis |
Peggy Cummins, John Dall |
Film noir |
United Artists |
| The Hasty Heart |
Vincent Sherman |
Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal |
Drama |
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| The Heiress |
William Wyler |
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift |
Drama |
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| High Diving Hare |
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Animated |
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| Holiday Affair |
Don Hartman |
Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh |
Romantic comedy |
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| Home of the Brave |
Mark Robson |
Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges |
Drama |
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| House of Strangers |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte |
Drama |
20th Century Fox |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Kind Hearts and Coronets |
Robert Hamer |
Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood |
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| King of the Rocket Men |
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| Knock on Any Door |
Nicholas Ray |
Humphrey Bogart, John Derek |
Drama |
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| Late Spring |
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Drama |
Japan |
| A Letter to Three Wives |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Jeanne Crain |
Drama |
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| Little Women |
Mervyn LeRoy |
Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien |
Drama |
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| Long-Haired Hare |
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Animated |
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| Love That Pup |
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| Madame Bovary |
Vincente Minnelli |
Jennifer Jones, James Mason |
Drama |
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| Malaya |
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| Malice in the Palace |
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| Manhandled |
Lewis R. Foster |
Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden |
Drama |
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| Mighty Joe Young |
Ernest B. Schoedsack |
Terry Moore |
Drama |
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| Miss Grant Takes Richmond |
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Lucille Ball, William Holden |
Comedy |
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| Mississippi Hare |
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Animated |
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| Mother Is a Freshman |
Lloyd Bacon |
Loretta Young, Van Johnson |
romantic comedy |
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| My Foolish Heart |
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| My Friend Irma |
George Marshall |
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis |
Comedy |
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| On the Town |
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly |
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra |
Musical |
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| The Passionate Friends |
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| Pinky |
Elia Kazan |
Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore |
Drama |
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| Porky in Wackyland |
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| Port of New York |
Laszlo Benedek |
Scott Brady, Yul Brynner |
Drama |
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| Prince of Foxes |
Henry King |
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles |
Drama |
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| Prison |
Ingmar Bergman |
|
Drama |
Sweden |
| The Quiet Duel |
Akira Kurosawa |
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Drama |
Japan |
| Rabbit Hood |
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Animated |
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| Radar Patrol vs Spy King |
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| Rebel Rabbit |
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Animated |
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| The Reckless Moment |
Max Ophuls |
James Mason, Joan Bennett |
Drama |
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| Red Light |
Roy Del Ruth |
George Raft, Virginia Mayo |
Crime drama |
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| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Samson and Delilah |
Cecil B. DeMille |
Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature |
Biblical drama |
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| Sands of Iwo Jima |
Allan Dwan |
John Wayne, Forrest Tucker |
War drama |
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| The Secret Garden |
Fred M. Wilcox |
Margaret O'Brien |
Drama |
MGM |
| The Set-Up |
Robert Wise |
Robert Ryan |
Drama |
RKO |
| Shabnam |
|
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Drama |
Hindi |
| "She Shoulda Said 'No'!" |
|
Lila Leeds |
Exploitation |
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| She Wore a Yellow Ribbon |
John Ford |
John Wayne, Ben Johnson |
Western |
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| Le Silence de la mer |
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| Sitt al-Bayt |
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| Slattery's Hurricane |
Andre De Toth |
Richard Widmark |
Drama |
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| The Small Back Room |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack |
Drama |
aka Hour of Glory |
| So Dear to My Heart |
Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske |
Burl Ives, Bobby Driscoll, Beulah Bondi |
Animation |
With live action |
| Sorrowful Jones |
Sidney Lanfield |
Bob Hope, Lucille Ball |
Comedy |
Story by Damon Runyon |
| The Spider and the Fly |
Robert Hamer |
Eric Portman |
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| The Stratton Story |
Sam Wood |
James Stewart, June Allyson |
Biopic |
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| The Sun Comes Up |
Richard Thorpe |
Jeanette MacDonald, Claude Jarman Jr. |
Family |
Lassie feature |
| Task Force |
Delmer Daves |
Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt |
War drama |
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| Technicolor for Industrial Films |
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| Tennis Chumps |
Hanna Barbera |
Tom and Jerry |
Animated |
|
| That Midnight Kiss |
Norman Taurog |
Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza |
Musical |
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| They Live by Night |
Nicholas Ray |
Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva |
Film noir |
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| Thieves' Highway |
Jules Dassin |
Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb |
Drama |
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| Thirst |
Ingmar Bergman |
|
Drama |
Sweden |
| Tokyo Joe |
Stuart Heisler |
Humphrey Bogart |
War drama |
|
| Too Late for Tears |
Byron Haskin |
Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea |
Film noir |
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| Trapped |
|
Lloyd Bridges, John Hoyt |
Drama |
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| Tulsa |
Stuart Heisler |
Susan Hayward, Robert Preston |
Drama |
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| Twelve O'Clock High |
Henry King |
Gregory Peck, Gary Merrill |
War drama |
|
| Under Capricorn |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten |
Drama |
|
| The Undercover Man |
Joseph H. Lewis |
Glenn Ford, Nina Foch |
Crime drama |
|
| Which Is Witch |
Friz Freleng |
Bugs Bunny |
Animated |
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| Whirlpool |
Otto Preminger |
Gene Tierney, Jose Ferrer |
Drama |
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| White Heat |
Raoul Walsh |
James Cagney, Edmund O'Brien |
Crime drama |
Warner Brothers |
| The Window |
Ted Tetzlaff |
Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale |
Drama |
RKO |
| Without Honor |
Irving Pichel |
Laraine Day, Dane Clark |
Drama |
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