Random Movie from the 1940s
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Notorious
A US agent recruits a woman to spy on a circle of Nazis in Rio de Janeiro, and their feelings complicate the mission.
More about this movie
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Country
- United States
In this list
Includes A Matter of Life and Death, Children of Paradise, His Girl Friday, Meet Me in St. Louis, Rebecca, The Big Sleep and more.
About Random Movie
Random Movie picks one film at random from a hand-curated list of well-regarded movies spanning silent classics to recent favourites, across every major genre. Each pick shows the year, genre, director and a one-line premise so you can decide in seconds.
Use the filters to narrow the pool to a genre or decade. Every film in the list was chosen because it is widely considered worth watching — this is a shortcut past endless scrolling, not a random dump of every film ever made.
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