1944
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1. None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
Passed | 113 min | Drama, Romance
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
Director: Clifford Odets | Stars: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez
Votes: 2,828
2. Going My Way (1944)
Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, James Brown
Votes: 13,457 | Gross: $16.30M
3. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Romance, War
After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest
Votes: 7,945
4. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, War
Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest
Votes: 5,141
5. Wilson (1944)
Passed | 154 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 1,698 | Gross: $2.00M
6. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer
Votes: 27,690 | Gross: $7.57M
7. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Passed | 138 min | Drama, History, War
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock
Votes: 6,462
8. Lifeboat (1944)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, War
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak, William Bendix
Votes: 31,192
9. Double Indemnity (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr
Votes: 167,523 | Gross: $5.72M
10. Gaslight (1944)
Passed | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty
Votes: 33,927
11. Since You Went Away (1944)
Approved | 177 min | Drama, Romance, War
With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.
Directors: John Cromwell, Edward F. Cline, Tay Garnett, David O. Selznick | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
Votes: 5,095
12. The Fighting Lady (1944)
Passed | 61 min | Documentary, History, War
An in-depth look at aircraft carrier combat operations during World War II. Real combat footage. Very strong and compelling.
Directors: Edward Steichen, William Wyler | Stars: Robert Taylor, Charles Boyer, Joseph J. Clark, Dixie Kiefer
Votes: 616
13. Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)
Not Rated | 66 min | Drama, War
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Louis Adlon, Rand Brooks, Frederic Brunn, George Dolenz
Votes: 268
14. With the Marines at Tarawa (1944)
Approved | 18 min | Documentary, Short, War
Documentary short film depicting the harrowing battle between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific island of Tarawa.
Directors: Richard Brooks, Louis Hayward | Stars: Alexander Bonnyman Jr., John Borich, Merritt A. Edson, H.W. Hill
Votes: 306
15. Hymn of the Nations (1944)
Approved | 31 min | Short, Documentary, Music
Conductor Arturo Toscanini is shown at his home in New York City and leading tenor Jan Peerce and the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Verdi's "Hymn of the Nations" and "Overture to 'La Forza del Destino.'"
Director: Alexander Hammid | Stars: Arturo Toscanini, Jan Peerce, Knox Manning, The Westminister Choir
Votes: 95
16. New Americans (1944)
19 min | Documentary, Short
This documentary short portrays WWII refugees from Europe obtaining citizenship and adapting to the United States of America during wartime.
Director: Slavko Vorkapich | Star: Tom Chalmers
Votes: 41
17. Who's Who in Animal Land (1944)
Approved | 10 min | Short, Comedy, Family
An Academy Award-winning Paramount Headliner short featuring a tour of the animal kingdom with the animals tossing around quips and jokes via dubbing and special effects. The narration is ... See full summary »
Director: Lou Lilly | Stars: Sara Berner, Pinto Colvig, Harry Lang, Jack Mather
Votes: 80
19. Jammin' the Blues (1944)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Created under the guidance of jazz impresario and Verve Records founder Norman Granz, this short captures the spontaneity of a jam session and is one of few film records of black jazzers of the day including tenor sax legend Lester Young.
Director: Gjon Mili | Stars: Lester Young, George 'Red' Callender, Harry Edison, Marlowe Morris
Votes: 1,005
20. Movie Pests (1944)
Approved | 11 min | Comedy, Short
A humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.
Director: Will Jason | Stars: Pete Smith, William Bailey, Margaret Bert, Heinie Conklin
Votes: 275
22. I Won't Play (1944)
Passed | 18 min | Short, Drama, Music
In this Warner Bros. short, a Marine in a South Sea island during World War II, Joe Fingers, tells tales of the influence he's had on various personalities. In the words of one of his ... See full summary »
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Dane Clark, Janis Paige, Warren Douglas, Robert Shayne
Votes: 422
23. Main Street Today (1944)
Approved | 20 min | Short
This patriotic MGM short film, set in World War II, has a factory owner who produces the breech block for a key piece of army artillery. The military wants to increase production by 50%, ... See full summary »
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Ray Collins, John Nesbitt, Henry O'Neill, Addison Richards
Votes: 155
24. Mouse Trouble (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Tom's new book on "how to catch a mouse" doesn't prove too helpful against Jerry; actually, Jerry seems to make better use of it than Tom.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Sara Berner, William Hanna, Harry Lang
Votes: 2,312
25. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1944)
Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Third of the seven Academy Award® nominated Puppetoons for Best Animated Short Subject and the second based on a story by Dr. Seuss. Marco, a young boy re-imagines progressively more elaborate scenes on Mulberry Street.
Director: George Pal | Star: Gary Gray
Votes: 96
26. Fish Fry (1944)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An alley cat attempts to steal the goldfish Andy Panda just bought from a pet shop, but the fish proves too clever for him.
Director: Shamus Culhane | Stars: Harry Lang, Grace Stafford, Lionel Stander
Votes: 168
27. How to Play Football (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Taking all the places on both teams, Goofy demonstrates the game of football with varying results, having problems with the coach and the goal post.
Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Frank Bull, Pinto Colvig, Jack Kinney, John Sibley
Votes: 1,445
28. My Boy Johnny (1944)
7 min | Animation, Short
An animated WWII propaganda short film that shows, in fantastical comedic fashion, what every US soldier (or "Jonny") can come to expect on their victorious return home to the USA.
Director: Eddie Donnelly
Votes: 122
29. Swooner Crooner (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Porky Pig's egg farm faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Richard Bickenbach
Votes: 819
30. Laura (1944)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
Directors: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price
Votes: 51,470 | Gross: $4.36M
31. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson
Votes: 74,988
32. To Have and Have Not (1944)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Film-Noir
During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran
Votes: 38,016
33. The Woman in the Window (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon
Votes: 17,791
34. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov
Votes: 10,868
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