1. Double Indemnity
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Tom Powers, Jean Heather
Plot: An insurance man allows himself to be drawn in to a someone who is able to convince him to commit murder and insurance fraud which qualifies for an investigation.
2. Arsenic and Old Lace
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Capra
Actors: Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Plot: A nephew of two aunts comes home to find that his aunts may have been killing people and storing them in the basement, as if it was normal - he finds out on his wedding day.
3. Gaslight
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest
Plot: Years after her aunt, a famous singer, was murdered, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) moves back to her aunt's London home with her new husband Gregory (Charles Boyer). But slowly Paula begins to lose her grip on reality. Is Paula's madness congenital, or is Gregory torturing her?
4. Meet Me in St. Louis
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Actors: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Leon Ames, Tom Drake
Plot: A year in the life of a well-to-do St. Louis family and their four daughters is recounted, leading up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
5. Laura
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Otto Preminger
Actors: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson
Plot: Detective Mark McPherson is investigating the case of Laura - a girl who entranced every man she came across. A striking portrait, along with suspects testimony, paints the perfect picture and he finds himself falling under her spell leading to a startling revelation.
6. Lifeboat
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, Henry Hull
Plot: Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it.
7. The Uninvited
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Allen
Actors: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dorothy Stickney, Barbara Everest
Plot: A sister and brother buy a house in the country where they soon discover the house is haunted, and that the haunting is related to their newly introduced neighbors.
8. Henry V
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Laurence Olivier
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Robert Helpmann, Gerald Case , Vernon Greeves, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Warre
Plot: Classic historical epic charting Henry the V's victory at Agincourt.
9. Hail the Conquering Hero
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Preston Sturges
Actors: Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Elizabeth Patterson
Plot: A man discharged from the Marines for an allergy before every seeing action is encouraged by fellow marines to fabricate a story about being an injured war hero - and give him a uniform and medals to back up his claim. Back home, he is hailed as a hero - complete with statue and song - but when he tries to explain the truth - no one will listen.
10. None But the Lonely Heart
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Clifford Odets
Actors: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez, Jane Wyatt, George Coulouris
Plot: A less-than-ambitious Cockney man, who has pretty much lived a purposeless life, comes to self-discovery when is told his mother is dying.
