List of the best George Cukor movies: The Philadelphia Story(1940), My Fair Lady(1964), Gaslight(1944), Born Yesterday(1950), A Star Is Born(1954), Adam's Rib(1949), Dinner at Eight(1933), Camille(1936), David Copperfield(1935), One Hour With You(1932), It Should Happen to You(1954), What Price Hollywood?(1932) ... ...
7.9/10
Romance
USA
1940
112 Minutes
Director
Cary Grant Katharine Hepburn James Stewart Ruth Hussey John Howard Roland Young John Halliday Virginia Weidler Mary Nash Henry Daniell Hillary Brooke
ex-wife ex-husband reporter wealthy man sister father amusing charming engaging philadelphia family home marriage love triangle wedding romance love discovery temptation 1940s
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
7.8/10
Musical
USA
1964
170 Minutes
Director
Audrey Hepburn Rex Harrison Stanley Holloway Wilfrid Hyde-White Gladys Cooper Jeremy Brett Theodore Bikel Isobel Elsom Mona Washbourne John Alderson John McLiam
professor pretty woman peasant suitor amusing charming winsome london aspirations wager class distinctions high society love discovery quest transformation 1900s
Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society.
7.8/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
114 Minutes
Director
Charles Boyer Ingrid Bergman Joseph Cotten Dame May Whitty Angela Lansbury Terry Moore
singer husband inspector maid dark uneasy brooding london italy household tower of london deception treasure murder opera revenge mystery pursuit 1880s
Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if it means driving his wife insane.
7.6/10
Drama, Comedy
USA
1950
103 Minutes
Director
Judy Holliday William Holden Broderick Crawford Howard St. John Frank Otto Larry Oliver Barbara Brown Grandon Rhodes Claire Carleton Smoki Whitfield Helen Eby-Rock
businessperson girlfriend journalist lawyer politician amusing playful lighthearted washington, d.c. hotel office love triangle corruption big business ambition education love transformation 1950s
A tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette, with unexpected results.
7.6/10
Musical
USA
1954
176 Minutes
Director
Judy Garland James Mason Jack Carson Charles Bickford Tommy Noonan Lucy Marlow Amanda Blake Irving Bacon Hazel Shermet James Brown Lotus Robb
actor actress emotional engaging touching hollywood, calif. movie set aging actors love ambition alcoholism love sacrifice transformation 1950s
A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
7.5/10
Romance
USA
1949
101 Minutes
Director
Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Judy Holliday Tom Ewell David Wayne Jean Hagen Hope Emerson Polly Moran Marvin Kaplan Paula Raymond Tommy Noonan
lawyer husband wife amusing engaging hilarious playful courtroom city household marriage love lawyers adultery love rivalry 1940s
Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
7.5/10
Comedy
USA
1933
113 Minutes
Director
Marie Dressler Jean Harlow John Barrymore Wallace Beery Lionel Barrymore Lee Tracy Edmund Lowe Billie Burke Madge Evans Jean Hersholt Karen Morley
businessperson socialite husband wife actor doctor engaging melodramatic playful household new york city social standing marriage social event quest wretched excess 1930s
Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
7.4/10
Romance
USA
1936
108 Minutes
Director
Greta Garbo Robert Taylor Lionel Barrymore Elizabeth Allan Jessie Ralph Henry Daniell
courtesan young man love interest father baron maid melodramatic emotional passionate paris chateau apartment opera house countryside forbidden love scandal love triangle wealth father/son relationship tuberculosis
A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.
7.4/10
Drama
USA
1935
130 Minutes
Director
W.C. Fields Freddie Bartholomew Basil Rathbone Lionel Barrymore Maureen O'Sullivan Madge Evans Edna May Oliver Lewis Stone Elizabeth Allan Roland Young Elsa Lanchester
young boy stepfather father ingénue blackmailer aunt melodramatic london family home office wealth family child abuse blackmail love triangle growing up rescue love 19th century
A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
7.2/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Director
Ernst Lubitsch Maurice Chevalier Jeanette MacDonald Genevieve Tobin Charles Ruggles Roland Young George Barbier Josephine Dunn Richard Carle Charles Judels Barbara Leonard
cheater husband wife mistress doctor intricate hedonistic disheartening profound paris house dinner party infidelity husband/wife relationship friendship secret seduction forbidden love wretched excess discovery
An unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one.
7.2/10
Comedy
USA
1954
81 Minutes
Director
Judy Holliday Jack Lemmon Peter Lawford Michael O'Shea Vaughn Taylor Connie Gilchrist Whit Bissell Walter Klavun
model actress businessman documentarian receptionist witty endearing new york city central park apartment office store publicity objectification advertising disillusionment fame quest rise love
When a young woman with dreams of fame rents a billboard to advertise herself, her life changes overnight.
7.1/10
Drama
USA
1932
88 Minutes
Director
Constance Bennett Lowell Sherman Neil Hamilton Gregory Ratoff Brooks Benedict Louise Beavers Eddie Anderson Bryant Washburn Florence Roberts Gordon De Main Heinie Conklin
actress movie star director producer husband engaging melodramatic hollywood, calif. restaurant movie set france fame movies marital problems alcoholism scandal rise transformation fall 1930s
The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.
7.0/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
104 Minutes
Director
Ronald Colman Signe Hasso Shelley Winters Edmond O'Brien Ray Collins Philip Loeb Millard Mitchell Joe Sawyer Charles La Torre Whit Bissell John Drew Colt
actor actress mistress striking dark chilling broadway theater new york city insanity actors murder transformation fall mystery 1940s
A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.
6.8/10
Comedy
East Germany
1952
103 Minutes
Director
matchmaker model optician secretary widow advertising executive playful tender powerful new york city doctor's office shop apartment coast matchmaking mistaken identity friendship romance aging deception
For the corpulent nobleman, Sir John Falstaff, the inn in the small English town of Windsor is the best of all places. Here he can indulge in excessive dining and intemperate drinking, as ... See full summary »
6.6/10
Musical
USA
1957
114 Minutes
Director
Gene Kelly Mitzi Gaynor Kay Kendall Taina Elg Jacques Bergerac Leslie Phillips Henry Daniell Patrick Macnee Stephen Vercoe Philip Tonge Owen McGiveney
dancer pretty woman love interest amusing lighthearted london paris stage song and dance female bonding competition romance affair discovery rivalry love 1950s
The former members of a dance troupe are suing because of recently published memoirs. Each one insists on own point of view.
6.5/10
Comedy
USA
1972
109 Minutes
Director
Maggie Smith Alec McCowen Louis Gossett Jr. Robert Stephens Cindy Williams Robert Flemyng José Luis López Vazquez Raymond Gérôme Daniel Emilfork Corinne Marchand John Hamill
banker aunt hippie former lover son fortuneteller amusing suspenseful london paris funeral apartment train boat family deception smuggling ransom travel adventure
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen) meets his Aunt Augusta Bertram (Dame Maggie Smith), an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him ... See full summary »
6.5/10
Drama
USA
1953
90 Minutes
Director
Spencer Tracy Jean Simmons Anthony Perkins Teresa Wright Mary Wickes Ian Wolfe Norma Jean Nilsson Dawn Bender
mother actress teen girl father student charming touching boston apartment theater father/daughter relationship acting ambition employment education theater growing up quest discovery 1910s
This is an account of the real life experience of actress/playwright Ruth Gordon.
6.5/10
Drama
USA
1932
70 Minutes
Director
John Barrymore Katharine Hepburn Billie Burke David Manners Henry Stephenson Paul Cavanagh Elizabeth Patterson Gayle Evers Julie Haydon
husband wife daughter fiancée moving melodramatic touching mansion england mental illness family marriage transformation love sacrifice 1920s
A man, Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in a mental asylum. However, he finds things are not the way they were when he left.
6.5/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1960
118 Minutes
Director
Marilyn Monroe Yves Montand Tony Randall Frankie Vaughan Wilfrid Hyde-White David Burns Michael David Mara Lynn Dennis King Jr. Joe Besser Madge Kennedy
billionaire actress beautiful woman publicist amusing playful theater new york city mistaken identity deception romance song and dance wealth theater production love transformation 1960s
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
6.4/10
Adventure
USA
1956
110 Minutes
Director
Ava Gardner Stewart Granger Bill Travers Abraham Sofaer Francis Matthews Marne Maitland Peter Illing Edward Chapman Freda Jackson Lionel Jeffries Alan Tilvern
colonel communist general railroad worker woman melodramatic emotional india train train station love triangle revolution race relations indian independence movement love sacrifice rivalry 1940s
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
1930
82 Minutes
Director
Fredric March Ina Claire Mary Brian Henrietta Crosman Charles Starrett Arnold Korff Frank Conroy
family matriarch actor actress manager daughter brother melodramatic amusing lighthearted new york city broadway theater family home family acting love retirement theater relationships transformation sacrifice
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her ... See full summary »
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
1941
94 Minutes
Director
Greta Garbo Melvyn Douglas Constance Bennett Roland Young Robert Sterling Ruth Gordon Frances Carson
ski instructor magazine editor ex-girlfriend business partner secretary hilarious spirited melodramatic idaho ski resort new york city apartment newsroom marriage trust commitment impersonation deception city vs. country love
After a ski instructor catches her husband flirting with an old flame, she decides to pose as her (fictitious) twin sister in an attempt to keep him faithful.
6.3/10
Drama
USA
1950
108 Minutes
Director
Lana Turner Ray Milland Tom Ewell Louis Calhern Ann Dvorak Barry Sullivan Margaret Phillips Jean Hagen Phyllis Kirk Sara Haden Hermes Pan
model wealthy man wife executive lawyer melodramatic kansas new york city montana success forbidden love affair love fame forbidden love fall 1950s
A girl from Kansas arrives to New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.
6.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
94 Minutes
Director
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.
6.2/10
Comedy
USA
1933
83 Minutes
Director
Constance Bennett Gilbert Roland Anita Louise Violet Kemble Cooper Phoebe Foster Grant Mitchell Charles Starrett Minor Watson
heiress gigolo sister wife husband mistress emotional witty england estate aristocracy marriage of convenience scandal humiliation infidelity sister relationship fall forbidden love 1930s
Although the British upper class may be thought our betters in society, but they are certainly not our betters, and perhaps our equals, in morality.
6.2/10
War
USA
1944
130 Minutes
Director
Jane Ball Richard Benedict Lee J. Cobb Jeanne Crain Mark Daniels Jo-Carroll Dennison Peter Lind Hayes Judy Holliday Lon McCallister Jim Nolan Edmond O'Brien
barber best friend cadet wife sergeant pilot engaging emotional air force base flying air force military life war training friendship pursuit underdog rise 1940s
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the... See full summary »
6.2/10
Romance
USA
1947
91 Minutes
Director
Greer Garson Robert Mitchum Richard Hart Morris Ankrum George Zucco Cecil Humphreys David Hoffman
patient woman psychiatrist soldier husband friend touching melodramatic emotional psychiatrist's office prison camp cottage paris normandy coast romance guilt betrayal love triangle prisoners of war world war ii
Released from a POW camp at the end of WW2, a French soldier tricks the wife of a fellow French POW into believing her husband was killed by the Germans, and seduces the grieving woman but the 'dead' husband eventually returns home.
6.1/10
Drama
USA
1931
83 Minutes
Director
Tallulah Bankhead Clive Brook Phoebe Foster Alexander Kirkland Osgood Perkins Elizabeth Patterson Eric Blore Ed Gargan
Tarnished Lady is a 1931 Pre-Code American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart is based on his short story, A Story of a New York Lady.
6.0/10
Biography
USA
1960
145 Minutes
Director
Charles Vidor Dirk Bogarde Capucine Genevieve Page Patricia Morison Ivan Desny Martita Hunt Lou Jacobi Albert Rueprecht Marcel Dalio Lyndon Brook
pianist wife princess prince manager duchess emotional melodramatic rousing passionate switzerland paris concert hall vienna kiev, ukraine rome franz liszt divorce new love classical music
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Sir Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
6.0/10
Romance
USA
1935
81 Minutes
Director
Joan Crawford Robert Montgomery Franchot Tone Edna May Oliver Charles Ruggles Arthur Treacher Gail Patrick Vivienne Osborne Joan Fontaine David Horsley
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
6.0/10
Comedy
USA
1942
93 Minutes
Director
Norma Shearer Robert Taylor George Sanders Frank McHugh Elizabeth Patterson Chill Wills
wealthy woman songwriter ex-boyfriend partner maid judge charming madcap tender palm beach, fla. casino house bedroom courtroom love triangle servitude gambling unrequited love change of heart deception
A wealthy woman, trying to discourage a former boyfriend from pursuing her, hires a young songwriter who needs money to pay off his gambling debts to pretend to be her boyfriend. The ... See full summary »
6.0/10
Western
USA
1960
100 Minutes
Director
Anthony Quinn Sophia Loren Eileen Heckart Margaret O'Brien Steve Forrest Edmund Lowe Ramon Novarro George Mathews Ed Binns Frank Silvera Iron Eyes Cody
actor actress gunslinger banker mother native american playful crafty witty theater cheyenne, wyo. saloon house show business old west journey debt performance quest escape
Story of theatrical troupe that travels through the Old West.
5.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1940
115 Minutes
Director
Joan Crawford Fredric March Ruth Hussey John Carroll Rita Hayworth Nigel Bruce Bruce Cabot Rose Hobart Rita Quigley Romaine Callender Marjorie Main
wife husband daughter friend lover cool melodramatic docks mansion newport, r.i. train station house self-discovery cult marriage drinking motherhood spirituality quest transformation
Susan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious transformation. On her return to America, Susan takes on the task of spreading her new found ... See full summary »
5.8/10
Drama
USA
1933
75 Minutes
Director
Constance Bennett Joel McCrea Paul Lukas Jobyna Howland Walter Pidgeon Sterling Holloway
Actress Judy Carroll, from the gas-house district has been trained, educated and developed so well by her manager, that not even the publicity-seeking world of the theater has guessed her ... See full summary »
5.6/10
Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
Soviet Union|USA
1976
99 Minutes
Director
Elizabeth Taylor Jane Fonda Ava Gardner Cicely Tyson Patsy Kensit Harry Andrews Georgiy Vitsin Nadezhda Pavlova
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl ( Patsy Kensit ) and her brother Tyltyl ( Todd Lookinland ), are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness (Nedezhda Pavlova) by the ... See full summary »
5.6/10
Drama
USA
1962
125 Minutes
Director
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Jane Fonda Claire Bloom Shelley Winters Glynis Johns Ray Danton Ty Hardin Andrew Duggan John Dehner Harold J. Stone Corey Allen
Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four ... See full summary »
5.5/10
Drama, Romance
USA
1930
80 Minutes
Director
Walter Huston Kay Francis Kenneth MacKenna Jobyna Howland Paul Cavanagh Eric Kalkhurst Oscar Apfel Gordon McLeod
Marya is the wife of medical student Victor Sablin, who finds it impossible to deal with military life when he is inducted into the Russian army during World War I.
Drama
1942
100 Minutes
Director
Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Richard Whorf Margaret Wycherly Forrest Tucker Frank Craven
widow reporter secretary son mother suspenseful tense shocking estate office mansion deception war murder journalism love mystery discovery escape 1940s
A reporter (Spencer Tracy) interviews a patriot's widow (Katharine Hepburn) for a biography, but he makes a startling discovery.
Drama
1979
100 Minutes
Director
Katharine Hepburn Ian Saynor Bill Fraser Patricia Hayes Anna Massey
teacher student spinster squire pregnant woman coal miner moving uplifting village school glansarno, wales education coal mining troubled youth poverty illegitimate child discovery quest sacrifice 1890s
A spinster schoolteacher (Katharine Hepburn) cultivates a gifted student (Ian Saynor) among illiterate miners in 1890s Wales.
Drama
1969
116 Minutes
Director
Anouk Aimée Dirk Bogarde Robert Forster Anna Karina Philippe Noiret Michael York John Vernon Jack Albertson Cliff Gorman George Baker Elaine Church
seducer banker schoolteacher ambassador politician intense passionate unrestrained alexandria, egypt seduction adultery israeli-palestinian conflict weapons espionage forbidden love mystery 1940s
A woman takes advantage of her friends and family in order to send arms to Israel to protect her position in Egypt.
Drama
1949
112 Minutes
Director
Spencer Tracy Deborah Kerr Ian Hunter Leueen MacGrath James Donald Mervyn Johns Felix Aylmer Walter Fitzgerald Tilsa Page Ernest Jay Colin Gordon
father mother son lover doctor dark melodramatic disturbing london family father/son relationship alcoholism self-destruction fall wretched excess forbidden love 1930s
A businessman's desire to protect his corrupt son's fortune leads to tragedy in this adaptation of the British play.
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