List of the best Edmund Goulding movies: Nightmare Alley(1947), The Old Maid(1939), Dark Victory(1939), The Dawn Patrol(1938), Grand Hotel(1932), The Great Lie(1941), Mister 880(1950), We Are Not Alone(1939), White Banners(1938), The Constant Nymph(1943), That Certain Woman(1937), The Trespasser(1929) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
111 Minutes
Director
geek mind reader psychiatrist strong man con artist dark incredible carnival hotel chicago con game ambition rise fall 1940s
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
Drama
USA
1939
95 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis Miriam Hopkins George Brent Donald Crisp Jane Bryan Louise Fazenda James Stephenson Jerome Cowan William Lundigan Cecilia Loftus
adoptive mother cousin daughter father mother emotional melodramatic united states american civil war illegitimate child mother/daughter relationship self-sacrifice sacrifice rivalry 1880s
The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever.
Drama
USA
1939
106 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis George Brent Humphrey Bogart Geraldine Fitzgerald Ronald Reagan Cora Witherspoon Henry Travers Virginia Brissac Dorothy Peterson Charles Richman Herbert Rawlinson
heiress stableman doctor best friend housekeeper emotional sad mushy long island, n.y. new york city estate stable vermont terminal illness love triangle death courage love transformation 1930s
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity.
War, Drama
USA
1938
103 Minutes
Director
Errol Flynn David Niven Basil Rathbone Donald Crisp Melville Cooper Barry Fitzgerald Carl Esmond Peter Willes Morton Lowater Michael Brooke James Burke
commander military officer pilot brutal rousing france military base horrors of war dangerous job air force friendship death world war i sacrifice transformation rivalry 1910s
British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.
Drama
USA
1932
115 Minutes
Director
Greta Garbo Joan Crawford John Barrymore Wallace Beery Lionel Barrymore Lewis Stone Jean Hersholt Ferdinand Gottschalk Tully Marshall Mary Carlisle
thief businessperson ballerina accountant secretary melodramatic passionate hotel berlin restaurant corruption romance ambition illness fall underdog transformation 1930s
A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
Romance
USA
1941
107 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis George Brent Mary Astor Lucile Watson Hattie McDaniel Grant Mitchell Jerome Cowan Sam McDaniel Thurston Hall Russell Hicks Olin Howland
sweetheart pianist pilot maid mother manager melodramatic cheeky gutsy new york city maryland country house arizona rivalry marriage divorce death adoption deception quest
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.
Comedy
USA
1950
90 Minutes
Director
Burt Lancaster Dorothy McGuire Edmund Gwenn Millard Mitchell Minor Watson Howard St. John
secret service agent counterfeiter neighbor salesman old man crafty endearing lighthearted amusing new york city counterfeit money investigation secret life friendship community pursuit discovery 1940s
Gentle romantic comedy about a Secret Service Agent trying to catch a cold case counterfeiter and a United Nations translator.
Drama
USA
1939
112 Minutes
Director
doctor governess young boy wife bleak dark shocking solemn england theater house accident death gossip poison execution fall 1910s
A husband hires a lonely pretty young woman to work as a nanny for his son. His wife becomes instantly jealous and things take turn for the worst. In the background, World War II is in the air, and anti-German sentiment is on the rise.
Drama
USA
1938
88 Minutes
Director
Claude Rains Fay Bainter Jackie Cooper Bonita Granville Henry O'Neill Kay Johnson James Stephenson J. Farrell MacDonald William Pawley John Ridgely Mary Field
housekeeper inventor teen boy daughter wife mechanic emotional moving indiana small town house inventions theft family mother/son relationship mentorship science love rise 1910s
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1943
106 Minutes
Director
Charles Boyer Joan Fontaine Alexis Smith Charles Coburn Brenda Marshall Dame May Whitty Peter Lorre Joyce Reynolds Jean Muir Montagu Love Edward Ciannelli
The daughter of a musical mentor is hopelessly in love with her cousin's husband, a handsome composer.
Drama
USA
1937
93 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis Henry Fonda Ian Hunter Anita Louise Donald Crisp Hugh O'Connell Katharine Alexander Mary Philips Minor Watson Ben Welden Sidney Toler
bootlegger widow secretary attorney playboy father melodramatic disheartening emotional chicago apartment europe marriage illegitimate child inheritance elopement love custody battle forbidden love sacrifice
Mary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client's son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she's pregnant.
Drama
USA
1929
100 Minutes
Director
Gloria Swanson Robert Ames Purnell Pratt William Holden Henry B. Walthall Kay Hammond Blanche Frederici
The trial and tribulations of a strong-willed woman who elopes and gives birth out of wedlock without telling her ex-husband.
Comedy
USA
1932
90 Minutes
Director
Marion Davies Robert Montgomery Billie Dove James Gleason Jimmy Durante ZaSu Pitts Sidney Toler Douglas Dumbrille Sarah Padden Louise Carter
showgirl young woman friend performer boyfriend father emotional spirited amusing new york city theater tenement house stage speakeasy family home show business friendship relationships love triangle career aspirations
Two young women find their friendship strained when one wins a role in a Broadway show, and the other's boyfriend begins to fall for her.
Drama
USA
1946
105 Minutes
Director
Eleanor Parker Paul Henreid Alexis Smith Edmund Gwenn Janis Paige Patric Knowles Henry Stephenson Marten Lamont Isobel Elsom Una O'Connor Eva Moore
medical student waitress author friend patient daughter dark emotional london school restaurant apartment hospital paris self-destruction pregnancy poverty abandonment love triangle obsessive love
A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help.
Drama
USA
1934
90 Minutes
Director
Norma Shearer Robert Montgomery Herbert Marshall Mrs. Patrick Campbell Skeets Gallagher Ralph Forbes
husband old flame wife aristocrat aunt secretary endearing emotional melodramatic italy mediterranean coast resort mansion england marriage trust gossip reunion wrongfully accused class distinctions
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years.
Drama
USA
1935
71 Minutes
Director
Ann Harding Herbert Marshall Maureen O'Sullivan Louis Hayward Henry Stephenson Margaret Seddon George Hassell Eily Malyon Claudelle Kaye
Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.
Musical
USA
1930
77 Minutes
Edwin H. Knopf Richard Arlen Ernst Lubitsch Dorothy Arzner Edmund Goulding Victor Schertzinger Jean Arthur
A musical revue that basically has Paramount stars and contract-players doing things some had never done on screen, and wouldn't again; such as Ruth Chatteron , in a French-café setting ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1958
107 Minutes
Director
Pat Boone Christine Carère Tommy Sands Sheree North Gary Crosby Fred Clark Dick Sargent Barrie Chase
frenchwoman actress cadet young man movie star friend touching amusing wild new orleans parade party virginia military academy hollywood, calif. fame schemes deception assumed identity unlikely romance
A military school cadet Boone wins a date with a French movie goddess (Carère) who happens to be the queen of the "Mardi Gras" parade. They fall in love, but Carère's movie studio wants to capitalize on this newly found love for publicity.
Comedy
USA
1930
74 Minutes
Director
Douglas Fairbanks Bebe Daniels Edward Everett Horton Jack Mulhall Claude Allister June MacCloy Walter Walker Helen Jerome Eddy Bing Crosby Bill Elliott Bud Geary
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
1943
91 Minutes
Director
Dorothy McGuire Robert Young Ina Claire Reginald Gardiner Olga Baclanova Jean Howard
wife husband mother neighbor singer endearing winsome connecticut small town family home marriage small-town life mother/child relationship illness growing up love 1940s
A Connecticut bride (Dorothy McGuire) tries to adjust to her new husband (Robert Young) and her mother's (Ina Claire) imminent death.
Romance
1940
99 Minutes
Director
Merle Oberon George Brent Pat O'Brien Geraldine Fitzgerald Binnie Barnes Frank McHugh Eric Blore Henry O'Neill George Reeves Frank Wilcox Doris Lloyd
dying person convict police officer con artist countess melodramatic mushy sad cruise ship hong kong death dark secrets romance terminal illness execution forbidden love pursuit 1940s
A dying woman (Merle Oberon) and condemned man (George Brent) fall in love on a ship from Hong Kong to San Francisco.