The Whistler

1944

English

6.3

♡ 5

33%

William Castle Director

Gloria Stuart as Alice Walker

Robert Emmett Keane as Charles 'Charlie' McNear

Roy Brent as Detective in Alley

Trevor Bardette as The Bum in the Next Bed

A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.

The Mark of the Whistler

1944

English

6.5

♡ 5

William Castle Director

Edgar Dearing as Bank Guard

George Ford as Clerk

Walter Baldwin as Fireman

Minerva Urecal as Woman Sweeping Front Stoop

A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944

English

7.9

♡ 17

86%

Frank Capra Director

Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein

Priscilla Lane as Elaine Harper

Spencer Charters as Marriage License Clerk

Jack Carson as O'Hara

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

Since You Went Away

1944

English

7.5

♡ 10

77%

79%

Action

based on novel or book

John Cromwell Director

Irving Bacon as Bartender at Cocktail Lounge

Lloyd Corrigan as Mr. Mahoney

Terry Moore as Refugee Child on Train

Walter Baldwin as Train Station Gateman

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.

The Three Caballeros

1944

English

6.3

♡ 26

85%

salvador de bahia, brazil

travel

Clyde Geronimi Director

Clarence Nash as Donald Duck

Fred Shields as Narrator

Sterling Holloway as Prof. Holloway

Thurl Ravenscroft as Singers

For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild adventures through Mexico and South America.

The Mask of Dimitrios

1944

English

7.2

♡ 9

83%

Jean Negulesco Director

Peter Lorre as Cornelius Leyden

Faye Emerson as Irana Preveza

Eduardo Ciannelli as Marukakis

John Abbott as Mr. Pappas

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.

The Thin Man Goes Home

1944

English

7.3

♡ 9

75%

Richard Thorpe Director

John Wengraf as Big Man

Lloyd Corrigan as Dr. Bruce Clayworth

Myrna Loy as Nora Charles

Irving Bacon as Tom

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944

Russian

7.6

♡ 16

Sergei M. Eisenstein Director

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya as Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

Mikhail Zharov as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Vsevolod Pudovkin as Nikola, Simpleton Beggar

Aleksandr Rumnyov as The Stranger

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.

Bathing Beauty

1944

English

6.4

♡ 7

76%

Comedy

curfew

girls' boarding school

George Sidney Director

Beverly Tyler as Co-Ed

Sarah Edwards as Faculty Member

Janis Paige as Janis

Amzie Strickland as Showgirl

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.

Cry of the Werewolf

1944

English

5.3

♡ 4

24%

Henry Levin Director

John Abbott as Peter Althius

Barton MacLane as Police Lt. Barry Lane

Ray Teal as Policeman Ed

Nina Foch as Princess Celeste LaTour

A young gypsy girl turns into a wolf to destroy her enemies.

The Soul of a Monster

1944

English

5.0

♡ 4

Will Jason Director

George Macready as Dr. George Winson

Ray Teal as Truck Driver

Ruth Lee as Woman in Sedan

Charles Perry as Workman

A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?

House of Frankenstein

1944

English

6.2

♡ 6

Erle C. Kenton Director

John Carradine as Dracula aka Baron Latos

Elena Verdugo as Ilonka

George Lynn as Inspector Gerlach

Lon Chaney Jr. as Larry Talbot

Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.

They Came to a City

1944

English

6.3

♡ 4

Drama

Fantasy

Basil Dearden Director

Googie Withers as Alice Foster

Renee Gadd as Dorothy Stritton

Raymond Huntley as Malcolm Stritton

Ralph Michael as Sergeant Jimmy

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

Bon Voyage

1944

English

6.1

♡ 3

26%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Janique Joelle as Jeanne

John Blythe as RAF Sgt. John Dougall

After escaping a Nazi POW camp, a young Scottish RAF gunner recounts his perilous journey through occupied France with the help of the Resistance. During his debriefing in London, French intelligence officers press him for details—especially about one companion whose true loyalties may not be what they seemed.

Murder, My Sweet

1944

English

7.5

♡ 17

94%

Edward Dmytryk Director

John Indrisano as Amthor's Chauffeur

Claire Trevor as Helen Grayle / Velma Valento

Mike Mazurki as Joe 'Moose' Malloy

Fred Graham as Undetermined Role

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

The Uninvited

1944

English

7.2

♡ 19

95%

80%

Action

based on novel or book

Lewis Allen Director

Queenie Leonard as Mrs. Taylor

Ruth Hussey as Pamela Fitzgerald

Ray Milland as Roderick Fitzgerald

Gail Russell as Stella Meredith

A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast. They soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.

National Velvet

1944

English

7.3

♡ 6

98%

human animal relationship

pre-unix

Sport

Clarence Brown Director

Angela Lansbury as Edwina Brown

Norma Varden as Miss Sims

Donald Crisp as Mr. Brown

William A. Boardway as Racetrack Spectator

Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.

The Hour Before the Dawn

1944

English

5.7

♡ 3

Frank Tuttle Director

Veronica Lake as Dora Bruckmann

Donald Stuart as Farmer Searle

Otto Reichow as German Pilot

Harry Cording as Sam

A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.