The Mummy's Curse

The Mummy's Curse 1944

5.49

After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina Mansouri, who seeks help and protection at a swamp draining project.

1944

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity 1944

8.10

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

1944

Gaslight

Gaslight 1944

7.53

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

1944

Mr. Skeffington

Mr. Skeffington 1944

6.80

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

1944

Appassionata

Appassionata 1944

5.40

A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.

1944

Ballaadi

Ballaadi 1944

1

At the request of author Zacharias, Fredrik begins composing an opera, inspired by a summer walk in Backas, Espoo. He falls in love with Ebba, who sings like a nightingale about a young mermaid on the shore of the lake. Fredrik's infatuation causes a scandal in Helsinki society circles, as he is married.

1944

Tender Comrade

Tender Comrade 1944

5.59

Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.

1944

Lisinski

Lisinski 1944

5.80

Biography of Vatroslav Lisinski, 19th century Croatian composer and the author of the first Croatian opera.

1944

Bathing Beauty

Bathing Beauty 1944

5.80

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.

1944

Laura

Laura 1944

7.60

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

1944

Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage 1944

5.55

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.

1944

Nine Girls

Nine Girls 1944

5.30

One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.

1944

Commando Duck

Commando Duck 1944

5.66

Donald Duck is ordered to wipe out a Japanese airfield. After parachuting out of an airplane, he lands in a Japanese forest. He uses an inflated canoe to cross the river, but as soon as it fills up with water, Donald is running for his life. He makes sure the canoe hits nothing that would pop it. When he gets to the edge of a cliff, he sees the airfield. The canoe has already exploded, causing water to flow. This large amount of water splashes onto the airfield, wiping the whole thing clean, but leaving disfigured airplanes

1944

Cover Girl

Cover Girl 1944

6.34

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

1944

Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis 1944

7.01

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

1944

Young Eagles

Young Eagles 1944

1

The spoiled Marianne has switched cocktail parties to flight lessons.

1944

Censored

Censored 1944

6.50

Private Snafu wants to tell his sweetheart, Sally Lou, that he thinks his unit will be sent to the South Pacific. But every effort he makes to get his letter through uncensored is thwarted by a resourceful (and unseen) censor with an array of contraptions and booby traps. Not even Snafu's carrier pigeon can avoid the censor -- not when he has a hawk for an assistant. Technical Fairy, First Class, comes to the rescue and agrees to deliver the letter -- but he has good reason to say that he'll hate himself in the morning.

1944

Silent Partner

Silent Partner 1944

1

A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.

1944

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace 1944

7.63

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!

1944

Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Awards 1944

7.20

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

1944

The World in Your Home

The World in Your Home 1944

4.00

The World in Your Home is an NBC Television TV series which aired from December 22, 1944 to 1948, originally broadcast on WNBT, NBC's New York flagship, then broadcast on NBC-affiliate stations WRGB in New York's Capital District and WPTZ in Philadelphia starting shortly after its premiere. The program consisted of educational short films. Each episode was 15 minutes long, and is believed to be one of the first television programs in the history of the NBC Television network. The series aired after I Love to Eat with James Beard in 1946, and after Campus Hoopla in 1947. Little else is known about the series.

1944