Drama Movies of 1944
Since You Went Away
David O. Selznick's first production since 1940's Rebecca, Since You Went Away, based on Margaret Buell Wilder's bestselling novel, is a long but rewarding paean to the World War 2 ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
The Keys of the Kingdom
Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
I'll Be Seeing You
Ginger Rogers gives a dramatic performance in this moving romantic ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
To Have and Have Not
Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
Lifeboat
Seeking a creative challenge after several years' worth of fairly elaborate melodramas, director Alfred Hitchcock stages all of the action in Lifeboat in one tiny boat, adrift in the North ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
Dragon Seed
This lavish, 145-minute cinemadaptation of the Pearl Buck best-seller Dragon Seed was intended by MGM as a ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
Jane Eyre
Director Robert Stevenson collaborated with novelist Aldous Huxley and theatrical-producer John Houseman on the ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
This Happy Breed
With This Happy Breed, playwright Noel Coward hoped to glorify the British working class in the same manner that he'd celebrated the "higher orders" in ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
Tomorrow the World
14-year-old Skip Homeier repeats his stage role as an unreconstructed Hitler Jugend in the film version of the James Gow/Arnaud D'Usseau stage play Tomorrow the ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
Mr. Skeffington
From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman Fanny Trellis. Informed by Jewish-American financier Job Skeffington (Claude Rains) that her brother ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
First filmed in 1928, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning novel The Bridge of ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
Gambler's Choice
Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit continued its unbroken string of box-office successes with Gambler's Choice. Pine-Thomas perennial Chester Morris plays turn-of-the-century ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
The Sullivans
The Sullivans attempts to find the positives in one of the most tragic chapters of ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
Dark Mountain
This Pine-Thomas actioner stars Robert Lowery as two-fisted forest ranger Don Bradley. Promoted to supervisor, Bradley finds his success hollow when his childhood sweetheart Kay (Ellen Drew) ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
The Purple Heart
The year is 1942: eight American airmen crash-land during the Doolittle bombing raid on Tokyo and are taken prisoner. Though slated for execution, the pilots are put through a "show trial" by the military, on a charge of committing war crimes. The ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
Maria Candelaria
The title character is a young woman (Dolores DelRio) who is shunned by local townsfolk because her mother once posed naked for an artist and was stoned to death because of the incident. She must consider the consequences while ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
Dangerous Passage
No production unit at Paramount Pictures was busier in 1944 than the Pine-Thomas unit-and few were as bankable at the box-office. In Pine-Thomas' Dangerous Passage, Joe Beck (Robert Lowery), an easygoing ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
Enemy of Women
Though the filmmakers claimed they were writing a biography of Nazi minister Dr. ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
Machine Gun Mama
PRC's Machine Gun Mama is the sort of comedy that tries to get laughs by invoking the name of Brooklyn. ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
Delinquent Daughters
The title tells all in the PRC quickie Delinquent Daughters. June Carlson and Teala Loring ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
I Bambini Ci Guardano
A very early Vittorio De Sica effort, The Children Are Watching Us was originally released in ... [ Drama movie - 1944 ]
