The top ten 1944 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

• March 10 – MGM's supernatural romantic drama A Guy Named Joe, starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne, is released nationally in the United States.
• May 3 – The musical comedy drama Going My Way, directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald, premieres in New York City. The highest-grossing picture of the year, it goes on to win a total of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for McCary, Best Actor for Crosby and Best Original Song for "Swinging on a Star".
• May 13 – Dale Evans appears in her first film with future husband, Roy Rogers – Cowboy and the Senorita.
• July 20 – Home front drama Since You Went Away is released in the United States.
• August 16–September 11 – Nazi propaganda documentary Theresienstadt is filmed in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Following completion of filming, co-director Kurt Gerron and many of those featured are transported to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered; although completed in 1945, the film is never released.^[6]
• September 6 – Crime thriller film noir Double Indemnity is released in the United States.
• September – Around 640 motion picture actors, writers and directors are included on the Gottbegnadeten list in Nazi Germany, protecting them from military conscription.
• November 22 – MGM's musical Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien, premieres. Hugely popular with both audiences and critics, the film is nominated for four Academy Awards.

January–March edit

• January 1944
  • 7 January
    • Standing Room Only
  • 11 January
    • Career Girl
  • 14 January
    • Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
  • 28 January
    • Lifeboat
    • Phantom Lady
• February 1944
  • 3 February
    • None Shall Escape
    • The Fighting Sullivans
  • 5 February
    • Captain America
  • 10 February
    • Lady in the Dark
  • 11 February
    • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  • 22 February
    • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (re-issue)
• March 1944
  • 2 March
    • The Curse of the Cat People
  • 10 March
    • A Guy Named Joe
  • 17 March
    • Knickerbocker Holiday
  • 22 March
    • Cover Girl
  • 23 March
    • The Heavenly Body

April–June edit

• April 1944
  • 9 April
    • Rosie the Riveter (film)
  • 17 April
    • The Lady and the Monster
  • 25 April
    • Pin Up Girl
    • And the Angels Sing
  • 26 April
    • The Hitler Gang
  • 29 April
    • The Story of Dr. Wassell
• May 1944
  • 5 May
    • Follow the Boys
  • 8 May
    • Time Flies – (Great Britain)
  • 11 May
    • The White Cliffs of Dover
  • 13 May
    • Cowboy and the Senorita
  • 27 May
    • The Tiger Woman
  • 29 May
    • Going My Way
• June 1944
  • 1 June
    • Address Unknown
  • 8 June
    • Days of Glory
  • 27 June
    • Bathing Beauty

July–September edit

• July 1944
  • 2 July
    • The Hairy Ape
  • 6 July
    • Double Indemnity
  • 7 July
    • The Mummy's Ghost
  • 8 July
    • Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More
  • 12 July
    • The Invisible Man's Revenge
  • 14 July
    • Summer Storm
  • 20 July
    • Since You Went Away
  • 22 July
    • The Adventures of Mark Twain
  • 24 July
    • The Seventh Cross
• August 1944
  • 1 August
    • Wilson
  • 12 August
    • Mr. Skeffington
  • 17 August
    • Cry of the Werewolf
    • The Soul of a Monster
  • 23 August
    • Marriage Is a Private Affair
  • 30 August
    • Till We Meet Again
• September 1944
  • 2 September
    • Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
  • 9 September
    • Crime by Night
  • 12 September
    • Strangers in the Night
  • 23 September
    • Arsenic and Old Lace

October–December edit

• October 1944
  • 11 October
    • To Have and Have Not
  • 17 October
    • Fiddlers Three – (GB)
    • None but the Lonely Heart
• November 1944
  • 1 November
    • Something for the Boys
  • 3 November
    • The Woman in the Window
  • 10 November
    • Enemy of Women
  • 11 November
    • Bluebeard
  • 15 November
    • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
  • 28 November
    • Meet Me in St. Louis
• December 1944
  • 1 December
    • House of Frankenstein
  • 5 December
    • Blonde Fever
  • 6 December
    • Nothing but Trouble
  • 15 December
    • Hollywood Canteen
  • 18 December
    • Dangerous Passage
  • 22 December
    • Winged Victory
    • The Mummy's Curse
  • 23 December
    • Lake Placid Serenade
  • 24 December^[7]
    • I'll Be Seeing You
  • 29 December
    • Tomorrow, the World!

United States unless stated

A edit

• The Adventures of Mark Twain, starring Fredric March
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, starring Maria Montez and Jon Hall
• And Now Tomorrow, starring Alan Ladd and Loretta Young
• And the Angels Sing, starring Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Lamour
• Army (陸軍, Rikugun), directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, starring Chishū Ryū and Kinuyo Tanaka – (Japan)
• Arsenic and Old Lace, directed by Frank Capra, starring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre; filmed in 1941 but not released until 1944
• At Land, directed by Maya Deren

B edit

• Bathing Beauty, starring Esther Williams and Red Skelton
• Berlanti, directed by and starring Youssef Wahbi – (Egypt)
• Between Two Worlds, starring John Garfield, Eleanor Parker and Sydney Greenstreet
• The Black Pirate (El corsario negro), starring Pedro Armendariz – (Mexico)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey, starring Lynn Bari
• Buffalo Bill, starring Joel McCrea and Maureen O'Hara
• A Bullet in the Heart (Rossassa Fel Qalb) – (Egypt)

C edit

• Candlelight in Algeria, starring James Mason – (GB)
• Can't Help Singing, starring Deanna Durbin
• A Canterbury Tale, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Eric Portman – (GB)
• The Canterville Ghost, starring Charles Laughton, Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien
• Casanova Brown, starring Gary Cooper
• Champagne Charlie, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Tommy Trinder and Stanley Holloway – (GB)
• The Children Are Watching Us (I bambini ci guardano), directed by Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
• Christmas Holiday, starring Gene Kelly
• The Climax, starring Susanna Foster and Boris Karloff
• Cobra Woman, starring Maria Montez
• The Conspirators, starring Paul Henreid and Hedy Lamarr
• Cover Girl, starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly
• Cowboy and the Senorita, starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
• Crime by Night, starring Jane Wyman
• Cry of the Werewolf, starring Nina Foch
• The Curse of the Cat People, starring Simone Simon

D edit

• Days of Glory, starring Gregory Peck
• Don't Take It to Heart, directed by Jeffrey Dell, starring Richard Greene – (GB)
• Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson
• Dragon Seed, starring Katharine Hepburn
• Dream of the Red Chamber (Hong lou meng) – (China)

E edit

• Enemy of Women, starring Paul Andor
• Experiment Perilous, starring Hedy Lamarr and George Brent

F edit

• Fanny by Gaslight, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Stewart Granger – (GB)
• Fiddlers Three, starring Tommy Trinder (GB)
• The Fighting Seabees, starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward
• The Fighting Sullivans, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Anne Baxter and Thomas Mitchell
• For Those in Peril, directed by Charles Crichton – (GB)
• Frenchman's Creek, starring Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone
• Die Feuerzangenbowle (The Punch Bowl) – (Germany)

G edit

• Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and Joseph Cotten
• Going My Way, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald – winner of 7 Oscars
• The Great Moment, starring Joel McCrea and Betty Field
• Greenwich Village, starring Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche
• The Great Sacrifice (Opfergang) – (Germany)

H edit

• Hail the Conquering Hero, written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Ella Raines
• The Halfway House, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Mervyn Johns and Glynis Johns
• The Heavenly Body, starring William Powell and Hedy Lamarr
• Henry V, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier – (GB)
• The Hitler Gang, starring Robert Watson
• Hollywood Canteen, starring Joan Leslie
• Home in Indiana, starring Walter Brennan
• The Hour Before the Dawn, starring Veronica Lake
• House of Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr.

I edit

• I'll Be Seeing You, starring Ginger Rogers and Shirley Temple
• In Our Time, starring Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid
• In Society, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• It Happened Tomorrow, starring Dick Powell
• Ivan the Terrible (Ivan Grozniy), by director Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolai Cherkasov – (U.S.S.R.)

J edit

• Janie, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Joyce Reynolds
• Jwar Bhata – (India)

K edit

• The Keys of the Kingdom, starring Gregory Peck, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price and Roddy McDowall
• Knickerbocker Holiday, starring Nelson Eddy
• Kismet, starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich

L edit

• Lady in the Dark, starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland
• Lady, Let's Dance, ice skating musical starring Belita and comedy ice team Frick and Frack
• Lake Placid Serenade, starring Vera Ralston
• Laura, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb and Vincent Price
• Lifeboat, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Henry Hull and Hume Cronyn
• The Lodger, starring Merle Oberon and George Sanders
• Lost in a Harem, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

M edit

• Man from Frisco directed by Robert Florey, starring Michael O'Shea and Anne Shirley
• Marie-Louise directed by Leopold Lindtberg and an uncredited Franz Schnyder
• The Mask of Dimitrios, starring Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and Zachary Scott
• Meet Me in St. Louis, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Judy Garland
• Meet the People, starring Lucille Ball
• Melody of Murder (Mordets Melodi) – (Denmark)
• Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, a documentary by William Wyler
• Ministry of Fear, starring Ray Milland
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton
• Mr. Skeffington, starring Bette Davis and Claude Rains
• Mrs. Parkington, starring Greer Garson
• The Mummy's Curse, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
• The Mummy's Ghost, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
• Murder, My Sweet (aka Farewell My Lovely), directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Dick Powell and Claire Trevor
• Music for Millions, starring Margaret O'Brien

N edit

• The Nail (El clavo) – (Spain)
• National Velvet, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney
• None but the Lonely Heart, starring Cary Grant and Ethel Barrymore
• None Shall Escape, starring Alexander Knox

O edit

• On Approval, starring Clive Brook and Googie Withers – (GB)
• Once Upon a Time, starring Cary Grant, Ted Donaldson, Janet Blair
• Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, starring Gail Russell and Diana Lynn

P edit

• Pardon My Rhythm, starring Gloria Jean
• Passage to Marseille, starring Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet
• The Pearl of Death, a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as Watson; co-starring Rondo Hatton and Evelyn Ankers
• Phantom Lady, starring Franchot Tone and Ella Raines
• Pin Up Girl, starring Betty Grable
• Port of Freedom (Große Freiheit Nr. 7) – (Germany)
• Possession (Besættelse) – (Denmark)
• The Princess and the Pirate, starring Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo
• The Purple Heart, starring Dana Andrews, Richard Conte and Farley Granger

R edit

• Rainbow (Raduga) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Rationing, starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main
• The Rats of Tobruk (aka The Fighting Rats of Tobruk), starring Peter Finch and Chips Rafferty – (Australia)
• The Respectable Ladies of Pardubice (Počestné paní pardubické), directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia)

S edit

• The Scarlet Claw, a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as Watson
• The Seventh Cross, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Spencer Tracy
• Sherlock Holmes and The Spider Woman, a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson; co-starring Gale Sondergaard
• Since You Went Away, starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple
• Something for the Boys starring Carmen Miranda, Michael O'Shea and Vivian Blaine
• Song of Russia, starring Robert Taylor
• The Soul of a Monster, starring George Macready
• Storm Over Lisbon, starring Vera Ralston
• The Story of Dr. Wassell, starring Gary Cooper
• Sunday Dinner for a Soldier, starring Anne Baxter and John Hodiak
• The Suspect, starring Charles Laughton

T edit

• Tall in the Saddle, starring John Wayne
• Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, starring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson
• This Happy Breed, directed by David Lean, starring John Mills and Celia Johnson – (GB)
• The Three Caballeros, a Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Dora Luz (released in South America in 1944, but was released in 1945 in the U.S.)
• Time Flies, starring Tommy Handley (GB)
• To Have And Have Not, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
• Torment (Hets), directed by Alf Sjoberg – (Sweden)
• The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (La Torre de los Siete Jorobados) – (Spain)
• Tunisian Victory, directed by Frank Capra, Hugh Stewart and John Huston – (US/GB)
• Two Thousand Women, starring Flora Robson and Phyllis Calvert – (GB)

U edit

• The Uninvited, starring Ray Milland
• Up in Arms, starring Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore

W edit

• The Way Ahead (Immortal Battalion), directed by Carol Reed, starring David Niven and Stanley Holloway – (GB)
• Weird Woman, starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Anne Gwynne
• When Strangers Marry, starring Dean Jagger, Kim Hunter, Robert Mitchum
• The White Cliffs of Dover, starring Irene Dunne
• Wilson, a biopic of President Woodrow Wilson, starring Alexander Knox and Charles Coburn
• Wing and a Prayer, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Dana Andrews and Don Ameche
• The Woman in the Window, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett

Y edit

• The Yellow Rose of Texas, starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

• Black Arrow
• Captain America, starring Dick Purcell
• The Desert Hawk, starring Gilbert Roland and Charles Middleton
• The Great Alaskan Mystery
• Haunted Harbor, starring Kane Richmond
• Mystery of the River Boat
• Raiders of Ghost City
• The Tiger Woman, starring Linda Stirling
• Zorro's Black Whip, starring Linda Stirling

• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

• Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Scrappy (1931–1941)
• Popeye (1933–1957)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
• Donald Duck (1934–1956)
• Porky Pig (1935–1965)
• Daffy Duck (1937–1968)
• Goofy (1939–1955)
• Andy Panda (1939–1949)
• Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
• Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949)
• Swing Symphonies (1941–1945)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941–1950)
• Red Hot Riding Hood (1943–1949)
• Droopy (1943–1958)
• Screwball Squirrel (1944–1946)
• Sylvester the Cat (1944–1966)

• January 5 – Franco Ferrini, Italian screenwriter
• January 9 – Harun Farocki, German filmmaker (died 2014)
• January 10 – William Sanderson, American actor
• January 13 - Mike Edmonds, English actor
• January 20 – Margaret Avery, American actress
• January 23 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (died 2019)^[8]
• February 3 – Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress (died 2021)
• February 8 - Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (died 2014)
• February 13
  • Stockard Channing, American actress
  • Michael Ensign, American actor
• February 14 – Alan Parker, English director, producer and screenwriter (died 2020)
• February 22 – Jonathan Demme, American director, producer and screenwriter (died 2017)
• February 29 – Dennis Farina, American actor (died 2013)
• March 5 – Peter Weibel, Ukrainian-born Austrian experimental filmmaker
• March 6 - Harold Hopkins, Australian actor (died 2011)
• March 10 – Richard Gant, American actor
• March 14 – Steve Daskewisz, American actor and stunt double (died 2018)
• March 19 - Guy Thauvette, Canadian actor
• March 24 – R. Lee Ermey, American film, television and voice actor (died 2018)
• March 26 – Diana Ross, American singer and actress
• April 4 – Craig T. Nelson, American actor
• April 6 – Anita Pallenberg, Italian-born actress and model (died 2017)
• April 8 - Joey D. Vieira, American actor
• April 13 – Charles Burnett, American director
• April 30 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (died 2010)
• May 4 – Russi Taylor, American voice actress (died 2019)
• May 5
  • Roger Rees, Welsh actor and director (died 2015)
  • John Rhys-Davies, English actor
• May 10 – Jim Abrahams, American director, producer and screenwriter
• May 14 – George Lucas, American director, producer and screenwriter
• May 16 – Danny Trejo, American actor and voice actor
• May 19
  • Peter Mayhew, English actor (died 2019)
  • Frank Pellegrino, American actor (died 2017)
• May 25 – Frank Oz, American actor, filmmaker and puppeteer
• May 26
  • Olga Bisera, Yugoslav-born Italian actress and producer
  • Andre Stojka, American voice actor and singer
• May 28 – Sondra Locke, American actress (died 2018)
• May 29 - Helmut Berger, Austrian actor (died 2023)
• June 11 – Roscoe Orman, American actor
• June 12 - Terence Kelly, Canadian actor
• June 14 - Joe Grifasi, American character actor
• June 20 - Oliver Cotton, English actor, comedian and playwright
• June 21 - Tony Scott, British director and producer (died 2012)
• June 23 – Ingrīda Andriņa, Latvian actress (died 2015)
• June 24 - Julian Holloway, British actor
• June 29 – Gary Busey, American actor
• July 1 – Wahid Hamed, Egyptian screenwriter (died 2021)
• July 2 – Viiu Härm, Estonian actress
• July 8 – Jeffrey Tambor, American actor
• July 17 – Catherine Schell, Hungarian-born British actress
• July 22 - Peter Jason, American character actor
• July 23 - Pepe Serna, American actor
• July 30
  • Frances de la Tour, English actress
  • Yoon Jeong-hee, South Korean actress
• July 31 – Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
• August 4 - Richard Belzer, American actor and stand-up comedian (died 2023)
• August 7 – John Glover, American actor
• August 9 – Sam Elliott, American actor
• August 11 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
• August 19 – John Roselius, American actor (died 2018)
• August 21 – Peter Weir, Australian director, producer and screenwriter
• August 25 - Anthony Heald, American character actor
• August 26 - Stephen Greif, English actor (died 2022)
• August 30 – Wolf Roth, German actor
• September 1 – Beau Starr, American actor
• September 6 - Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
• September 13 – Jacqueline Bisset, English actress
• September 15 – Pik-Sen Lim, Malaysian-British actress
• September 16 - Michael Edwards, American actor
• September 20 – Jeremy Child, British actor (died 2022)
• September 21 - Fannie Flagg, American actress and comedian
• September 22
  • Kathe Green, American actress, model and singer
  • Frazer Hines, English actor
• September 25 – Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
• September 26 - Helmut Bakaitis, German-born Australian director, actor and screenwriter
• September 28 - Matthew Cowles, American actor (died 2014)
• October 1 – Jean-Pierre Castaldi, French actor
• October 8 – Dale Dye, American actor, technical advisor, radio personality and writer
• October 10 – Lii Tedre, Estonian actress
• October 14 - Udo Kier, German actor
• October 20 - Robert Swan, American actor (died 2023)
• October 28 – Dennis Franz, American actor
• November 4 – Linda Gary, American actress, voice actress (died 1995)
• November 17
  • Danny DeVito, American actor, comedian, producer and director
  • Gary Goldman, American animator, producer and director
  • Lorne Michaels, Canadian-American producer
• November 21 – Harold Ramis, American actor, director and screenwriter (died 2014)
• November 22 - Paul Brooke, retired English actor
• November 25
  • Will McMillan, American actor, producer and director (died 2015)
  • Ben Stein, American actor and comedian
• December 4 - Carol Sutton, American actress (died 2020)
• December 5 – Jeroen Krabbe, Dutch actor and director
• December 8 – Sharmila Tagore, Indian actress
• December 12 – Kenneth Cranham, Scottish actor
• December 15 – Morgan Paull, American actor (died 2012)
• December 17 – Bernard Hill, English actor

• January 3 – Aage Hertel, Danish actor (born 1873)
• March 14 – Merta Sterling, American actress (born 1883)
• April 10 – Pat West, American actor (born 1888)
• July 14 – Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor (born 1884)
• July 18 – Alan Dinehart, American actor (born 1889)
• July 20 – Mildred Harris, American actress (born 1901)
• September 24 – Hugo Thimig, Austrian actor (born 1854)
• October 28 – Kurt Gerron, German film director (born 1897)
• November 27 – Jill Furse, British actress (born 1915)^[9]
• December 9 – Laird Cregar, American actor (born 1913)
• December 13 – Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (born 1908)
• December 15 – Glenn Miller, American bandleader, actor (born 1904)

• Michael Ansara – Action in Arabia
• Lauren Bacall – To Have and Have Not
• Ann Blyth – Chip Off the Old Block
• Steve Brodie – Ladies Courageous
• Red Buttons – Winged Victory
• Rory Calhoun – Something for the Boys
• Peggy Ann Clifford – One Exciting Night
• Margia Dean – Casanova in Burlesque
• Guy Deghy – Mr. Emmanuel
• John Derek – Since You Went Away
• Richard Erdman – Mr. Skeffington
• Mona Freeman – Double Indemnity
• Gloria Grahame – Blonde Fever
• Victoria Horne – Phantom Lady
• Trevor Howard – The Way Ahead
• Angela Lansbury – Gaslight
• Guy Madison – Since You Went Away
• Anthony Newley – Henry V
• Jane Nigh – Laura
• Janis Paige – Bathing Beauty
• Gregory Peck – Days of Glory
• Enriqueta Reza – La vida inútil de Pito Pérez
• Zachary Scott – The Mask of Dimitrios
• Jean Simmons – Give Us the Moon

• Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0813123240.

• List of 1944 films at IMDb
• List of 1944 deaths at IMDb
• List of 1944 births at IMDb