List of the best Brian Aherne movies: Merrily We Live(1938), Smart Woman(1948), Shooting Stars(1927), The Great Garrick(1937), My Sister Eileen(1942), The Song of Songs(1933), Vigil in the Night(1940), A Night to Remember(1942), What Every Woman Knows(1934), First Comes Courage(1943), What a Woman!(1943), My Son, My Son(1940) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1938
90 Minutes
Brian Aherne Constance Bennett Billie Burke Alan Mowbray Patsy Kelly Ann Dvorak Tom Brown Clarence Kolb
matron ex-convict chauffeur butler tramp daughter hysterical wild united states household rehabilitation family dysfunction homelessness mistaken identity philanthropy transformation love 1930s
Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1948
93 Minutes
Brian Aherne Constance Bennett Barry Sullivan Otto Kruger Michael O'Shea James Gleason
lawyer prosecutor racketeer journalist district attorney assistant engaging suspenseful los angeles courtroom parking garage nightclub hotel yacht trial missing persons mother/son relationship attempted murder corruption blackmail
A crusading district attorney, Robert Larrimore, butts heads in court with defense attorney Paula Rogers.
Drama
1927
80 Minutes
Brian Aherne Annette Benson Chili Bouchier David Brooks Donald Calthrop Ella Daincourt Judd Green Wally Patch Tubby Phillips Ian Wilson
Comedy
1937
91 Minutes
Brian Aherne Olivia de Havilland Edward Everett Horton Melville Cooper Luis Alberni Lionel Atwill Marie Wilson Lana Turner Linda Perry Craig Reynolds Dorothy Tree
actor countess love interest fan servant amusing outlandish witty paris inn england stage impersonation performance romance misunderstanding theater david garrick rivalry transformation
French actors stage a hoax to deflate the ego of the famed 18th-century British actor (Brian Aherne).
Comedy
USA
1942
96 Minutes
Rosalind Russell Brian Aherne Janet Blair George Tobias Allyn Joslyn Elizabeth Patterson Grant Mitchell Richard Quine June Havoc Donald MacBride Gordon Jones
sister actress writer reporter editor quirky amusing new york city ohio greenwich village theater ambition sister relationship struggle city life rivalry underdog transformation 1940s
Two sisters move from Ohio to New York with hopes of stardom.
Romance
USA
1933
90 Minutes
Marlene Dietrich Brian Aherne Lionel Atwill Alison Skipworth Hardie Albright Helen Freeman Morgan Wallace Wilson Benge Hans Schumm Richard Bennett James Marcus
model country girl aunt sculptor baron love interest mushy melodramatic emotional berlin bookstore studio relationships family art death new life romance love discovery
Lily falls in love with the sculptor who leaves her out of fear of commitment.
Drama
USA
1940
96 Minutes
Dr. Robert S. Prescott
Carole Lombard Brian Aherne Dawn O'Day Julien Mitchell Robert Coote Brenda Forbes Rita Page Peter Cushing Ethel Griffies Doris Lloyd Emily Fitzroy
nurse doctor boss nun sister engaging emotional touching london hospital medicine love guilt sexual harassment redemption pursuit rise sacrifice 1940s
A nurse loses her job after selflessly taking the blame for a fatal mistake her sister and co-worker made; she is subsequently employed at a poorly-equipped hospital, where she finds romance and tragedy.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
91 Minutes
Jeff Troy aka Jeff Yort
Loretta Young Brian Aherne Sidney Toler Jeff Donnell William Wright Gale Sondergaard Donald MacBride Lee Patrick Don Costello Blanche Yurka Richard Gaines
writer wife landlord housekeeper husband amusing engaging suspenseful apartment new york city greenwich village murder blackmail deception mystery discovery 1940s
A mystery writer and his newlywed wife move into a Greenwich Village apartment and find themselves with a corpse and a half dozen red herrings.
Comedy
USA
1934
92 Minutes
Helen Hayes Brian Aherne Madge Evans Lucile Watson Dudley Digges Donald Crisp
student politician wife aristocratic lady amusing melodramatic scotland household ambition politics marriage of convenience romance family love transformation rise 1900s
The story takes place in Scotland, where plain Maggie Wylie's family, fearing she may become a spinster, finances young John Shand's studies in return for his agreement to marry her in five... See full summary »
War
USA
1943
88 Minutes
beautiful woman nazi british soldier doctor secret agent old flame melodramatic emotional norway small town love triangle espionage resistance deception romance world war ii quest sacrifice love 1940s
Nicole Larsen is detested by her countrymen because they suspect she is collaborating with the occupying Germans. In reality she is working for the Norwegian underground, risking her life passing secrets to the resistance fighters.
Comedy
USA
1943
94 Minutes
Rosalind Russell Brian Aherne Willard Parker Hobart Cavanaugh Frank Dawson Alan Dinehart Russell Hicks Ann Savage Grady Sutton Nella Walker
A literary agent is pursued by the charming writer of a popular magazine while she attempts to sway one of her clients, a handsome but innocent college professor, to star in an upcoming movie based on his best-selling novel The Whirlwind.
Drama
USA
1940
115 Minutes
William Essex
wealthy man artist son father widower fiancée melodramatic cheeky touching slum manchester, england household city rags to riches father/son relationship deception love triangle world war i family dysfunction sacrifice
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
Romance
1935
92 Minutes
Joan Crawford Brian Aherne Frank Morgan Aline MacMahon Eric Blore Arthur Treacher Fred Keating Jessie Ralph Frank Conroy Etienne Girardot Edward Brophy
socialite archaeologist father millionaire butler grandmother airy witty charming lighthearted new york city yacht greece island connecticut museum class distinctions deception vacation love triangle
An heiress and a young archaeologist fall in love during a chance meeting, but they find that money poses a problem.
Drama
1936
90 Minutes
Dennis Riordan
Merle Oberon Brian Aherne David Niven Karen Morley Theodore von Eltz Jerome Cowan John Burton Leland Hodgson David Torrence Henry Stephenson Donald Crisp
lord daughter rebel rival mother brash fiery patriotic dublin police station house england street irish life politics father/daughter relationship peace treaty assassination plot quest rivalry
British soldiers follow an aristocrat (Merle Oberon) to her lover, a rebel leader (Brian Aherne) in 1921 Dublin.
Biography
USA
1939
132 Minutes
Emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg
Paul Muni Bette Davis Brian Aherne Claude Rains John Garfield Gale Sondergaard Donald Crisp Gilbert Roland Louis Calhern Grant Mitchell
emperor empress president rebel soldier napoleon iii tense emotional mexico france government offices mansion democracy government power struggle breakdown benito juérez maximilian i quest fall
Louis Napoleon III takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximillian Hapsburg to add Mexico to his empire.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1967
98 Minutes
Oliver Stevenson
Rosalind Russell Sandra Dee Brian Aherne James Farentino Audrey Meadows Vanessa Brown
wealthy woman daughter lawyer granddaughter psychiatrist emotional endearing united states asylum courtroom countryside inheritance trial institutionalization greed grandparent/child relationship eccentricity underdog rise 1960s
A widowed millionaire announces that she intends to buy a closed theater, the location where her late husband proposed, much to the dismay of her cold-hearted daughters who try to commit her to an insane asylum.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
94 Minutes
Michael Fane
Katharine Hepburn Cary Grant Brian Aherne Edmund Gwenn Natalie Paley Dennie Moore Lennox Pawle Daisy Belmore
love interest father con artist artist daughter cheeky unrestrained hilarious emotional france england train countryside swindling impersonation father/daughter relationship romance smuggling suicide quest
When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.
Romance
USA
1941
94 Minutes
Jim Blake
Claudette Colbert Ray Milland Brian Aherne Binnie Barnes Walter Abel Grant Mitchell Mona Barrie Ernest Cossart James Rennie
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to... See full summary »
Adventure
UK
1963
116 Minutes
King Arthur
Cornel Wilde Jean Wallace Brian Aherne George Baker Archie Duncan Adrienne Corri Michael Meacham Iain Gregory Mark Dignam Reginald Beckwith John Barrie
lancelot king arthur guinevere knight rival confident suspenseful melodramatic castle battlefield bedroom camelot affair honor war duty round table love triangle discovery rivalry
Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love with Queen Guinevere.
Drama
USA|Canada
1953
95 Minutes
Willy Robertson
Montgomery Clift Anne Baxter Karl Malden Brian Aherne O.E. Hasse Roger Dann Dolly Haas Charles Andre Judson Pratt Ovila Légaré Gilles Pelletier
priest lawyer immigrant dark suspenseful tense quebec church courtroom murder religion false accusations confession forbidden love sacrifice temptation 1950s
A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.
Drama
USA
1961
116 Minutes
Stanton Corbett
Troy Donahue Connie Stevens Dorothy McGuire Lloyd Nolan Brian Aherne Grant Williams Natalie Schafer Kent Smith Bert Convy Guy Wilkerson
father wife daughter teenager mother suitor melodramatic emotional california house alaska chile hospital teen pregnancy death cover-up romantic dilemma relationships family forbidden love
Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a ten-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1953
97 Minutes
Captain E.J. Smith
Clifton Webb Barbara Stanwyck Robert Wagner Audrey Dalton Thelma Ritter Brian Aherne Richard Basehart Allyn Joslyn James Todd William Johnstone Charles B. Fitzsimons
husband wife captain son daughter socialite melodramatic moving sad cruise ship shipwreck failed romance divorce family dysfunction illegitimate child hms titanic escape love 1910s
An unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the ill-fated ship.
Adventure
USA
1954
100 Minutes
King Arthur
James Mason Robert Wagner Janet Leigh Sterling Hayden Debra Paget Victor McLaglen Donald Crisp Brian Aherne
prince king arthur knight viking princess villain spirited campy melodramatic camelot castle battlefield secret plans royalty sword battles training romance chivalry quest love
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.