1940s in film

film genre/style usually deployed in mystery and police procedural detective crime films

national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class

art showing conditions of the working class

style of filmmaking characteristic of American cinema between the 1910s and the 1960s

French film movement

film genre

Italian film genre

slang term used in Hollywood to refer to small film production companies

aspect of Christian media

Peak period in the history of Mexican cinema (1936–1956)

''''''' (, German for "homeland-films"; German singular: ') were films of a genre popular in West Germany, Switzerland, and Austria from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. Heimat can be translated as "home" (in the geographic sense), "hometown" or "homeland".

term used in film theory and criticism to describe films associated with a nation-state

film genre

thumb|The Betrothed (1941 film)|The Betrothed by [[Mario Camerini (1941)]] Calligrafismo (; ) is an Italian style of filmmaking relating to some films made in Italy in the first half of the 1940s and endowed with an expressive complexity that isolates them from the general context. Calligrafismo is in a sharp contrast to Telefoni Bianchi-American style comedies and is rather artistic, highly formalistic, expressive in complexity, and deals mainly with contemporary literary material, above all the pieces of Italian realism from authors such as Corrado Alvaro, Ennio Flaiano, Emilio Cecchi, Franc

overview of the events of the 1940s in film

film genre originating in the United States