Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1944

The Adventures of Mark Twain – Irving Rapper

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves – Arthur Lubin

And Now Tomorrow – Irving Pichel

And Angles Sing – Geroge Marshall

Between Two Worlds – Edward A. Blatt

The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Rowland V. Lee

Buffalo Bill – William A. Wellman

Candlelight in Algeria – George King

Can’t Help Singing – Frank Ryan

A Canterbury Tale - Powell / Pressburger

The Children Are Watching Us – Vittorio De Sica

Casanova Brown – Sam Wood

Champagne Charlie – Alberto Cavalcanti

Christmas Holiday – Robert Siodmak

The Climax – George Waggner

Cobra Woman – Robert Siodmak

The Conspirators – Jean Negulesco

Crime By Night – William Clemens

Cry of the Werewolf – Henry Levin

Days of Glory – Jacques Toureur

Don’t Take it to Heart – Jeffery Dell

Dragon Seed – Jack Conway

Dream of the Red Chamber – Bu Wancang

Experiment Perlous – Jacques Tourneur

Fanny by Gaslight – Anthony Asquith

The Fighting Seabees – Edward Ludwig

The Fighting Sullivans – Llyod Bacon

For Those in Peril – Charles Crichton

Die Feuerzangenbowle (The Punch Bowl) – Helmut Weiss

Give us The Moon – Val Guest

Going My Way – Leo McCarey

The Great Sacrifice (Opferganag) – Veit Harlan

Hollywood Canteen – Delmer Daves

Home in Indiana – Henry Hathaway

The Hour Before the Dawn – Frank Tuttle

House of Frankenstein – Erle C. Kenton

In Our Time – Vincent Sherman

In Society – Jean Yarbrough

It Happened Tomorrow – Rene Clair

Jwar Bhata – Amiya Chakravarty

The Keys to the Kingdom – John M. Stahl

Kismet – William Dieterle

Lady in the Dark – Mitchel Leisen

Lady, Let’s Dance – Frank Woodruff

The Lodger – John Brahm

Lost in Harlem – Charles Reisner

Mn from Frisco – Robert Florey

The Mask of Dimitrios – Jean Negulesco

Meet Me in St. Louis – Vincente Minnelli

Meet the People – Charles Reisner

Meldoy of Murder – Bodil Ipsen

Memphis Bell: A Story of a Flying Fortress – William Wyler

Ministry of Fear – Fritz Lang

The Most Beatutiful – Akira Kurosawa

Mrs. Parkington – Tay Garnett

The Mummy’s Curse – Leslie Goodwins

The Mummy’s Ghost – Reginald Le Borg

The Nail (El Clavo) – Rafael Gil

National Velvet – Clarence Brown

None Shall Escape – Andre De Thoth

None but the Lonely Heart – Clifford Odets

On Approval – Clive Brook

The Pearl of Death – Roy William Beill

Pin Up Girl – H. Bruce Humberstone

Port of Freedom (Grobe Freiheit Nr. 7) – Helmut Kautner

The Princess and the Pirate – David Butler

The Purple Heart – Lewis Milestone

Rainbow – Mark Donskoy

The Rats of Tobruk – Charles Chauvel

The Respectable Ladies of Pardubice – Martin Fic

The Return of the Vampire – Lew Landers 

The Scarlet Claw – Roy William Neill

The Seventh Cross – Fred Zinnemann

Since You Went Away – John Cromwell

Song of Russia – Gregory Ratoff / Lazlo Benedek

The Spider Woman – Roy William Neill

The Story of Dr. Wassell – Cecil B. DeMille

Sunday Dinner for a Soldier – Llyod Bacon

The Suspect – Robert Siodmak

Thirty Seconds over Tokoyo – Mervyn LeRoy

Time Flies – Walter Forde

Torment – Alf Sjoberg

La Torre de los Siete Jorobados – Egdar Neville

The Way Ahead – Carol Reed

The White Cliffs Of Dover – Clarence Brown

Wilson – Henry King

The Yellow Rose of Texas – Joseph Kane