Best 27 Drama Movies Popular from 1943

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. Details on Casablanca / IMDB / YouTube

A teenage girl, overjoyed when her uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is the Merry Widow killer sought by the authorities. Learn about Shadow of a Doubt / IMDB / YouTube

When a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men. Learn about The Ox-Bow Incident / IMDB / YouTube

A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island. See more about I Walked with a Zombie / IMDB / YouTube

An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld. Explore Heaven Can Wait / IMDB / YouTube

The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig. Read about The Pride of the Yankees / IMDB / YouTube

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge. See more about For Whom the Bell Tolls / IMDB / YouTube

A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion. Get info on Le Corbeau / IMDB / YouTube

After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water. Check out Sahara / IMDB / YouTube

An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy's career. Read about Phantom of the Opera / IMDB / YouTube

An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life. Learn about Random Harvest / IMDB / YouTube

A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance. Info on The Seventh Victim / IMDB / YouTube

14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil. Look into The Song of Bernadette / IMDB / YouTube

During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better use. See more about Five Graves to Cairo / IMDB / YouTube

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands. Check out Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon / IMDB / YouTube

After the German administrator of Czechia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed. More about Hangmen Also Die! / IMDB / YouTube

When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors. Look into Son of Dracula / IMDB / YouTube

After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home. Learn about Lassie Come Home / IMDB / YouTube

A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family, but a Romanian count complicates their plans. Explore Watch on the Rhine / IMDB / YouTube

An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board. Read about Journey Into Fear / IMDB / YouTube

An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat, and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment - bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic. Learn about Action in the North Atlantic / IMDB / YouTube

Third Officer Tom Merriam accuses Captain Will Stone of being a homicidal maniac, but no one believes him. See more about The Ghost Ship / IMDB / YouTube

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines. Get info on Air Force / IMDB / YouTube

Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels. Look into Old Acquaintance / IMDB / YouTube

A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance. Details on This Land Is Mine / IMDB / YouTube

A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife. See more about Cabin in the Sky / IMDB / YouTube

Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium. Read about Madame Curie / IMDB / YouTube