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Double Indemnity
(1944)
An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
Dir: Billy Wilder
With: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
107 mins.
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To Have and Have Not
(1944)
During WWII, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer.
Dir: Howard Hawks
With: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan
Adventure | Comedy | Romance | Thriller | War
100 mins.
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Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
Dir: Frank Capra
With: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Comedy | Crime
118 mins.
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
(1944)
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is...
Dir: George B. Seitz
With: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden
Comedy | Romance
107 mins.
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Lifeboat
(1944)
Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
With: Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak
Thriller | War
97 mins.
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Laura
(1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
Dir: Otto Preminger
With: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance
88 mins.
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Gaslight
(1944)
Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if it means driving his wife insane.
Dir: George Cukor
With: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
United States-PASSED
114 mins.
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Meet Me in St. Louis
(1944)
In the year before the 1904 St Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
With: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance
United States-PASSED
113 mins.
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Phantom Lady
(1944)
A beautiful secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.
Dir: Robert Siodmak
With: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery
United States-PASSED
87 mins.
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National Velvet
(1944)
A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
Dir: Clarence Brown
With: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp
Drama | Family | Sport
United States-PASSED
123 mins.
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