Search results for "1944"
The Suspect

The Suspect

The Suspect
IMDb: 7.4
85

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much,…

Genre: Crime, Drama
It’s in the Bag

It’s in the Bag

It’s in the Bag
IMDb: 5.4
80

Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.

Genre: Comedy
Show Business

Show Business

Show Business
IMDb: 6.4
92

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Song of Russia

Song of Russia

Song of Russia
IMDb: 5.9
107

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill
IMDb: 6.4
90

Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator’s daughter (Maureen O’Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.

Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Four Jills in a Jeep

Four Jills in a Jeep

Four Jills in a Jeep
IMDb: 6.4
89

Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

Genre: Comedy, Music, War
Up in Mabel’s Room

Up in Mabel’s Room

Up in Mabel’s Room
IMDb: 6.4
76

Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O’Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail Patrick) a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in the lacework. It is Gary’s unenviable task to retrieve…

Genre: Comedy
Wing and a Prayer

Wing and a Prayer

Wing and a Prayer
IMDb: 6.6
97

An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Heavenly Days

Heavenly Days

Heavenly Days
IMDb: 5.9
71

Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.

Genre: Comedy
The Seventh Cross

The Seventh Cross

The Seventh Cross
IMDb: 7.4
110

In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to…

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Lifeboat

Lifeboat

Lifeboat
IMDb: 7.6
96

During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Batty Baseball

Batty Baseball

Batty Baseball
IMDb: 6.8
6

A series of visual gags about baseball. One running gag has an angry fan screaming “Kill the ump!” Be careful what you wish for…..

Puppet Love

Puppet Love

Puppet Love
IMDb: 7.2
8

Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Olive away. When Popeye discovers the ruse, knocks Bluto out and ties…

W’ere on our way to Rio

W’ere on our way to Rio

W’ere on our way to Rio
IMDb: 7.1
8

Actually, Popeye and Bluto are already there. They visit a nightclub, where the featured singer/dancer is, of course, Olive Oyl.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Pitchin’ Woo at the Zoo

Pitchin’ Woo at the Zoo

Pitchin’ Woo at the Zoo
IMDb: 6.8
7

Popeye takes Olive to the zoo, where she’s spotted by zookeeper Bluto, who tries various stunts to impress her and/or get rid of Popeye.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
She-Sick Sailors

She-Sick Sailors

She-Sick Sailors
IMDb: 7.1
6

Bluto disguises himself as Superman in order to impress the comic book hero’s biggest fan, Olive Oyl. A jealous Popeye becomes a real superhero by eating his spinach.

Spinach Packin’ Popeye

Spinach Packin’ Popeye

Spinach Packin’ Popeye
IMDb: 6.1
7

Popeye donates blood, then dashes off to a boxing match with Bluto. He loses. Olive, who heard this on the radio, rejects him as no longer strong enough for her,…

Moving Aweigh

Moving Aweigh

Moving Aweigh
IMDb: 6.3
6

Popeye and Shorty help Olive move. Unfortunately, they start by running into a police car, and keep running afoul of the officer.

Voodoo Man

Voodoo Man

Voodoo Man
IMDb: 5.3
62

A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.

Genre: Horror
The Anvil Chorus Girl

The Anvil Chorus Girl

The Anvil Chorus Girl
IMDb: 6.8
7

Popeye and Bluto pass by Olive’s blacksmith shop and are smitten. Olive needs help, and of course both of the boys offer, and demonstrate their prowess at blacksmithing.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Screwball Squirrel

Screwball Squirrel

Screwball Squirrel
IMDb: 7.2
7

A crazy squirrel provokes a dog into trying to catch him throughout the picture.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Big Heel-Watha

Big Heel-Watha

Big Heel-Watha
IMDb: 7
8

To prove he’s a true Indian Brave, Big Heel-Watha decides to catch a squirrel – but wouldn’t you know it; Screwy Squirrel is the first one he sees…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away
IMDb: 7.5
177

While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
In Society

In Society

In Society
IMDb: 6.7
75

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into…

Genre: Comedy
Casanova Brown

Casanova Brown

Casanova Brown
IMDb: 6.2
94

Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the…

Genre: Comedy
This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed
IMDb: 7.3
115

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children….

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
The Big Noise

The Big Noise

The Big Noise
IMDb: 6.5
74

During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.

House of Frankenstein

House of Frankenstein

House of Frankenstein
IMDb: 6.3
71

An evil scientist and a hunchback escape from prison and encounter Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein’s Monster.

Cobra Woman

Cobra Woman

Cobra Woman
IMDb: 5.8
71

A man (Jon Hall) tracks his kidnapped bride (Maria Montez) to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Scarlet Claw

The Scarlet Claw

The Scarlet Claw
IMDb: 7.3
74

A woman is found dead — with her throat torn out. Villagers blame a supernatural source but Holmes has other ideas.

Ministry of Fear

Ministry of Fear

Ministry of Fear
IMDb: 7.2
86

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn’t seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization,…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Return of the Ape Man

Return of the Ape Man

Return of the Ape Man
IMDb: 4.9
68

The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain transplant.

They Came to a City

They Came to a City

They Came to a City
IMDb: 6.4
78

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

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Pin Up Girl

Pin Up Girl

Pin Up Girl
IMDb: 6.1
84

Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become “engaged” to almost every serviceman she’s signed her pin-up photo for. Now she’s leaving home to go into…

Genre: Music, Romance
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
IMDb: 6.4
87

Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his…

Brazil

Brazil

Brazil
IMDb: 6.3
91

Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Adventures of Mark Twain

The Adventures of Mark Twain

The Adventures of Mark Twain
IMDb: 7.1
130

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Strangers in the Night

Strangers in the Night

Strangers in the Night
IMDb: 6.4
56

In this Gothic tale, a returning WW2 vet goes looking for a small-town girl whom he knows only from letters. Its the pretext for an off-beat treatment of sexual frustration…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis
IMDb: 7.6
113

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…

A Canterbury Tale

A Canterbury Tale

A Canterbury Tale
IMDb: 7.5
124

Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery