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Best Movies of 1944, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
67 films from 1944 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Double Indemnity ('1944), at 8.3 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Going My Way, 7.0 on IMDb against 90 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Double Indemnity '1944 | Crime / Thriller | 8.3 | 97% | 95 | 8.1 | Billy Wilder |
| 2 | Arsenic and Old Lace '1944 | Comedy / Crime | 7.9 | 86% | - | 7.6 | Frank Capra |
| 3 | Laura '1944 | Drama / Mystery | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Otto Preminger |
| 4 | Gaslight '1944 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Crime | 7.8 | 94% | 78 | 7.5 | George Cukor |
| 5 | Lifeboat '1944 | War / Drama | 7.6 | 90% | 78 | 7.4 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 6 | Ivan the Terrible, Part I '1944 | Drama | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Sergei Eisenstein |
| 7 | The Woman in the Window '1944 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 83% | - | 7.4 | Fritz Lang |
| 8 | Meet Me in St. Louis '1944 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 99% | 94 | 7.0 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 9 | The Punch Bowl '1944 | Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.2 | Helmut Weiss |
| 10 | Murder, My Sweet '1944 | Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.5 | 94% | - | 7.2 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 11 | Mouse Trouble '1944 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.3 | William Hanna |
| 12 | Hail the Conquering Hero '1944 | Comedy / War | 7.6 | 95% | - | 7.1 | Preston Sturges |
| 13 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek '1944 | Comedy / Romance / War | 7.5 | 87% | 86 | 6.8 | Preston Sturges |
| 14 | Mr. Skeffington '1944 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 57% | - | 6.8 | Vincent Sherman |
| 15 | Since You Went Away '1944 | Drama | 7.5 | 77% | - | 6.6 | John Cromwell |
| 16 | At Land '1944 | Fantasy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | Maya Deren |
| 17 | The Bodyguard '1944 | Animation / Comedy | 7.8 | - | - | 7.4 | William Hanna |
| 18 | Little Red Riding Rabbit '1944 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.1 | Friz Freleng |
| 19 | The Million Dollar Cat '1944 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.0 | William Hanna |
| 20 | A Canterbury Tale '1944 | Mystery / War / Drama | 7.3 | 94% | 85 | 6.9 | Michael Powell |
| 21 | Puttin' on the Dog '1944 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.6 | Joseph Barbera |
| 22 | The Thin Man Goes Home '1944 | Comedy / Mystery | 7.3 | 75% | - | 7.1 | Richard Thorpe |
| 23 | The Seventh Cross '1944 | Drama / War | 7.4 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 24 | This Happy Breed '1944 | Drama | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.1 | David Lean |
| 25 | The Uninvited '1944 | Mystery / Horror / Fantasy / Romance | 7.2 | 95% | - | 6.9 | Lewis Allen |
| 26 | The Memphis Belle '1944 | Documentary / War | 7.4 | - | - | 6.7 | William Wyler |
| 27 | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo '1944 | War / Drama | 7.2 | 100% | 77 | 6.7 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 28 | Phantom Lady '1944 | Mystery / Thriller / Crime | 7.2 | 94% | - | 6.9 | Robert Siodmak |
| 29 | The Zoot Cat '1944 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 6.8 | William Hanna |
| 30 | Torment '1944 | Drama | 7.2 | 88% | - | 7.1 | Alf Sjöberg |
| 31 | The Mask of Dimitrios '1944 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.2 | 83% | - | 7.1 | Jean Negulesco |
| 32 | The Keys of the Kingdom '1944 | Drama | 7.2 | - | - | 7.1 | John M. Stahl |
| 33 | Maria Candelaria '1944 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 92% | - | 7.3 | Emilio Fernández |
| 34 | Ministry of Fear '1944 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.1 | 85% | - | 6.9 | Fritz Lang |
| 35 | Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears '1944 | Animation / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.7 | Chuck Jones |
| 36 | The Scarlet Claw '1944 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Roy William Neill |
| 37 | The Pearl of Death '1944 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 7.1 | - | - | 7.1 | Roy William Neill |
| 38 | Donald Duck and the Gorilla '1944 | Animation / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 7.1 | Jack King |
| 39 | I'll Be Seeing You '1944 | Romance / Drama | 7.1 | - | - | 6.9 | William Dieterle |
| 40 | Screwball Squirrel '1944 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.4 | Tex Avery |
| 41 | How to Play Football '1944 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Jack Kinney |
| 42 | It Happened Tomorrow '1944 | Fantasy / Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 71% | - | 6.8 | René Clair |
| 43 | The Lodger '1944 | Thriller / Mystery / Horror | 7.0 | - | - | 6.5 | John Brahm |
| 44 | Henry V '1944 | Drama / War | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Laurence Olivier |
| 45 | Going My Way '1944 | Drama / Comedy / Musical | 7.0 | 85% | 90 | 6.7 | Leo McCarey |
| 46 | The Way Ahead '1944 | Drama / War | 6.9 | 100% | - | 6.5 | Carol Reed |
| 47 | A Guy Named Joe '1944 | Drama / Romance / War / Fantasy | 6.9 | 60% | - | 6.7 | Victor Fleming |
| 48 | The Canterville Ghost '1944 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | 86% | - | 6.9 | Jules Dassin |
| 49 | Tall in the Saddle '1944 | Western | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | Edwin L. Marin |
| 50 | Witch's Cradle '1944 | Fantasy / Horror | 6.4 | - | - | 6.7 | Maya Deren |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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