1947 Movies

Young widow Fan Ruhua feigns the daughter of a tycoon and solicits husbands on papers. But Fan bumped into Yang Xiaomao, a barber, who similarly prete...

A documentary about how trading goods with the rest of the world works to help the UK economy after WWII.

Rouch’s earliest surviving film, which depicts the Sorko of Niger on a hippopotamus hunt. - MoMA

The film illustrates the various services provided by a bank through the experience of Mr. Frank Adams. It details his process of depositing money, th...

After the end of the war, Mrs. Lu's eldest daughter's fiancé Situ Yan returns to Shanghai from Chongqing. When they meet, they find that he is an impo...

A courtesan sacrifices her relationship with a youthful admirer after the man's father pleads with her. Adapted from Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera in t...

A man interacts with an animated cat in a test created by Hugh Harman for a live action/animation optical printing process.

Young girls attend ballet school and make debut performances

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

A man thinks he's being cheated and hires a detective to watch over his wife on a cruise, but she hires a singer to impersonate her.

Directed by Ibrahim Lama.

Khurshid tries to marry Bahigha, the daughter Arfy Pasha, who rejects the idea of their marriage for the difference in their social status. Khurshid i...

Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.

Marouf, the cobbler, lives in Isfahan. He marries an awful woman so he decides to escape. When his ship is wrecked by a storm, he finds himself on an...

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities. Howe...