Romance Movies
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John…
Brazil (1944)
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…
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.
Enter Arsène Lupin (1944)
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn’t know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
The Very Thought of You (1944)
Army sergeants Dave and “Fixit” spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
Climbing to fame, Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball romances a showgirl, who catches the eye of an underworld character.
Mrs. Parkington (1944)
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner…
Kismet (1944)
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle…
Frenchman’s Creek (1944)
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into…
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can’t…
The Impatient Years (1944)
Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie’s father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to…
Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
Gypsy Wildcat (1944)
In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube’s gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar’s village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wicked baron blames the gypsies and imprisons…
Christmas Holiday (1944)
Don’t be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It’s a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat…
Marine Raiders (1944)
A Marine major (Pat O’Brien) looks out for his captain (Robert Ryan) on Guadalcanal and in Australia.
Johnny Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1944)
A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is that he’s given out keys to a half-dozen of his friends,…
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a…
Since You Went Away (1944)
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…
Bathing Beauty (1944)
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.
Days of Glory (1944)
A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.
Home in Indiana (1944)
‘Sparke’ Thorton, a lad with a penchant for trouble, is sent to live with his Uncle and Aunt Bolt in Indiana after his Aunt Henrietta Bolt dies. Though he’s not…
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
A Night of Adventure (1944)
A lawyer tries to clear his wife’s lover of murder charges.
Meet the People (1944)
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
On Approval (1944)
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see…
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she…
Show Business (1944)
Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.
The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)
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…
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 alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees…
Pin Up Girl (1944)
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…
Rosie the Riveter (1944)
In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on the up and up as the men and women…
Uncertain Glory (1944)
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for…
The Heavenly Body (1944)
The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer’s prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.
Cover Girl (1944)
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
See Here Private Hargrove (1944)
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of…
The Uninvited (1944)
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…
In Our Time (1944)
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see…