Best movies of 1947

At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.

After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.

A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence.

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.

An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?

A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.

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.

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.

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

A jealous husband intends to kill the man his wife is meeting for business, but arrives to find the deed already done.

In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

During a Sunday trip into war-ravaged Tokyo, despairing Yuzo and optimistic Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time.

The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.

A thief arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind after his wife dies under mysterious circumstances.

A debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.

British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.