Best 26 Romance Movies Highly Recommended Released in 1947

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. Details on It's a Wonderful Life / IMDB / YouTube

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. Look into The Best Years of Our Lives / IMDB / YouTube

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames. Info on Out of the Past / IMDB / YouTube

A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her. Info on Beauty and the Beast / IMDB / YouTube

A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor. Look into Great Expectations / IMDB / YouTube

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence. Learn about Dark Passage / IMDB / YouTube

In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost. More about The Ghost and Mrs. Muir / IMDB / YouTube

Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy. Info on L'Atalante / IMDB / YouTube

A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred. Find out about Gentleman's Agreement / IMDB / YouTube

Romantic comedy about a high school girl who falls in love with a playboy artist. The girl's older sister, who's a judge, does not approve of the relationship. Read about The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer / IMDB / YouTube

Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad. Get info on Duel in the Sun / IMDB / YouTube

A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy. More about The Secret Life of Walter Mitty / IMDB / YouTube

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South. Check out It Happened on Fifth Avenue / IMDB / YouTube

Quirt Evans, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth, a Quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose between his world and the world Penelope lives in. Find out about Angel and the Badman / IMDB / YouTube

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there. See more about Possessed / IMDB / YouTube

British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops. See more about Lured / IMDB / YouTube

The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder. Find out about Boomerang! / IMDB / YouTube

A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite. Get info on Humoresque / IMDB / YouTube

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead. Learn about Pursued / IMDB / YouTube

Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson tells reporters how he got there. See more about My Favorite Brunette / IMDB / YouTube

Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. Read about Road to Rio / IMDB / YouTube

On their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob. Find out about The Egg and I / IMDB / YouTube

In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a wheelchair-bound one-handed pianist with a strong belief in the occult is murdered. More about The Beast with Five Fingers / IMDB / YouTube

A commercial artist having an affair with a married attorney becomes involved with a returning soldier and must choose between the two. Find out about Daisy Kenyon / IMDB / YouTube

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable-sounding, sequence of events that led to her death. More about They Won't Believe Me / IMDB / YouTube

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics. Check out The Farmer's Daughter / IMDB / YouTube