Top 23 Romance Movies Picks from 1944

Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the house rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane. Read about Gaslight / IMDB / YouTube

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family. Explore Meet Me in St. Louis / IMDB / YouTube

From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military. Find out about The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp / IMDB / YouTube

A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past. Look into The Uninvited / IMDB / YouTube

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter. Learn about Jane Eyre / IMDB / YouTube

After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity. Look into The Miracle of Morgan's Creek / IMDB / YouTube

Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis enters into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge. Look into Mr. Skeffington / IMDB / YouTube

Rusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny. Learn about Cover Girl / IMDB / YouTube

Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis. Info on Passage to Marseille / IMDB / YouTube

With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone. Details on Since You Went Away / IMDB / YouTube

During WW2, the U.S. Navy implements a new idea of forming construction battalions that also are fighting units, in case of Japanese attack. Explore The Fighting Seabees / IMDB / YouTube

An idealistic adolescent suffering under the thumb of a sadistic schoolmaster falls in love with a loose girl who is bullied and tormented by another lover. Info on Torment / IMDB / YouTube

Shipped to Louisiana, the mummy Kharis from Egypt roams the bayou, tormented by his forbidden love for Princess Ananka. Read about The Mummy's Curse / IMDB / YouTube

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act. Details on It Happened Tomorrow / IMDB / YouTube

A dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's memory. Read about A Guy Named Joe / IMDB / YouTube

When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet. Check out None But the Lonely Heart / IMDB / YouTube

An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends. More about The Invisible Man's Revenge / IMDB / YouTube

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war. Get info on The Human Comedy / IMDB / YouTube

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 Garfield give talks on the history of the place. See more about Hollywood Canteen / IMDB / YouTube

A cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island. Info on The Princess and the Pirate / IMDB / YouTube

A philandering young playboy is sent to college somewhere in the American West, and organizes a show, together with his sweetheart, to save the college from closure due to falling enrollments. Info on Girl Crazy / IMDB / YouTube

In 1903, a doctor suspects murder in the gothic Bederaux family. More about Experiment Perilous / IMDB / YouTube

A contrived misunderstanding leads to the breakup of a songwriter and his fiancée. She returns to work as a gym teacher at an all-girls school, but a legal loophole allows the man to enroll as one of her students. Read about Bathing Beauty / IMDB / YouTube