Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Love Story (A Lady Surrenders) (1944)
- Dir. Leslie Arliss
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc…
- Classy tearjerker with dying pianist Lockwood falling in love with blind pilot Granger. Treacly but satisfying with the two leads performances…
Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor…
- 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…
Ministry of Fear (1944)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond…
- Fritz Lang's classic film noir focuses on a man who, upon being released from an insane asylum, unwittingly discovers a piece of microfilm intended…
Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (1944)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn…
- Madcap screwball comedy from genius writer–director Preston Sturges (THE LADY EVE), following a small–town girl from the Midwest (Betty…
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
- Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
- Unrepentant weepie of epic length with Bette Davis as a NYC 'society girl' who snags a devoted and rich Jewish husband (Rains). But after a tangle…
Murder, My Sweet (Farewell, My Lovely) (1944)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley…
- An iconic 'noir' whose unsavoury storyline is taken from Raymond Chandler's classic novel.
Powell plays a detective dragged into a murky case of…
National Velvet (1944)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney
- Ever–exciting family classic, with 12 year–old budding equestrian Elizabeth Taylor, taking her horse Velvet all the way to the Grand…
Passage to Marseille (1944)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre
- Distinguished by the use of flashbacks within flashbacks, this WW2 propaganda piece re–unites the director with CASABLANCA alumnae.
Phantom Lady (1944)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Alan Curtis, Ella Raines, Virginia Brissac…
- Dark little treat of a thriller focused on a married man who spends a night with a mysterious lady and subsequently finds his wife murdered. The…
Pin Up Girl (1944)
- Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone
Feat. Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye…
- Betty Grable, America's #1 pin–up during WWII, strikes a pose as a canteen girl who pretends to be broadway star in order to stay close to her…