May I recommend some movies that you might like with ‘realistic’ acting from before 1950? There is a lot of amazing stuff out there. Anything with Barbara Stanwyck is a winner in my book. Walter Huston in Dodsworth (1936), Ann Dvorak in Three On a Match (1932), Henry Fonda in anything, and speaking of Ingrid Bergman, I think you’d love Notorious (1946).