Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey
- Renowned black farce features a frenzied Cary Grant trying to convince his two elderly aunts that their habit of poisoning lonely old men, out of…
Bells of St. Mary's (1944)
- Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman
- Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman team up for a musical comedy as a gentle priest and a prim nun who slug out their differences. 8 Oscar nominations.
Buffalo Bill (1944)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell
- Fictionalized story of one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, from his days as an army scout to his…
Can't Help Singing (1944)
- Dir. Frank Ryan
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff
- Sugary sweet technicolour western musical based on the book "Girl of the Overland Trail" by Samuel J. and Curtis B. Warshawsky. Set during the…
Canterbury Tale, A (1944)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Eric Porter, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price
- A typically uncategorisable Powell/Pressburger movie, that draws on British eccentricities to flesh out its simple story about three wartime…
Champagne Charlie (1944)
- Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Feat. Stanley Holloway, Jean Kent
- Ealing musical drama following the fortunes of an ambitious entertainer trying to make it big in grimy late 19th century London. This often…
Christmas Holiday (1944)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly
- Considered one of the bleakest Film Noirs of the 1940s, casting musical star Deanna Durbin in a rare serious role as a woman who marries an…
Cover Girl (1944)
- Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers…
- Sheer energy and razzamatazz compensate for the rampant cliches of this Rita Hayworth/Gene Kelly dance–musical, set in the world of magazine…
Curse of the Cat People (1944)
- Dir. Gunther V Fritsch, Robert Wise
Feat. Simone Simon
- Sequel of worth to the original Val Lewton psychological chiller, again with the feline Simone Simon, here haunting the imagination of a small girl…
Double Indemnity (1944)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
- The jewel in the crown of all things film noir has hardly dated an iota despite countless imitations. You'll savour each moment as…