List of the best Ida Lupino movies: The Trouble With Angels(1966), Road House(1948), On Dangerous Ground(1951), Ladies in Retirement(1941), The Hard Way(1942), The Hitch-Hiker(1953), Deep Valley(1947), Woman in Hiding(1949), Out of the Fog(1941), Outrage(1950), The Bigamist(1953), The Man I Love(1946) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1966
112 Minutes
Director
Rosalind Russell Hayley Mills June Harding Binnie Barnes Mary Wickes Louise Hovick Camilla Sparv
student nun mother superior prankster friend classmate amusing cheeky tender boarding school catholic school pennsylvania boarding-school life boredom religion teenage rebellion coming of age growing up 1960s
Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy For Girls keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) and her staff of bewildered Sisters.
Crime, Drama
USA
1948
95 Minutes
Lily Stevens
Ida Lupino Cornel Wilde Richard Widmark Celeste Holm O.Z. Whitehead Robert Karnes George Andre Beranger Ian MacDonald Grandon Rhodes Marion Marshall
manager singer cashier owner bartender best friend dark melodramatic nightclub bowling alley country road border love triangle infatuation framed jealousy schemes pursuit escape 1940s
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
Crime, Drama
USA
1951
82 Minutes
Mary Malden
Ida Lupino Robert Ryan Ward Bond Charles Kemper Anthony Ross Ed Begley Ian Wolfe Sumner Williams Gus Schilling Frank Ferguson Cleo Moore
police detective sister killer father partner captain dark gritty brooding new york city police station apartment countryside cabin investigation brother/sister relationship murder mental breakdown blindness redemption
Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
92 Minutes
Ellen Creed
Ida Lupino Louis Hayward Evelyn Keyes Elsa Lanchester Edith Barrett Isobel Elsom Emma Dunn Clyde Cook Queenie Leonard
actress retiree housekeeper sister nephew melodramatic chilling england household countryside deception murder family isolation revenge fall 1940s
The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.
Drama
USA
1942
109 Minutes
Ida Lupino Dennis Morgan Joan Leslie Jack Carson Gladys George Faye Emerson Paul Cavanagh Leona Maricle Roman Bohnen Ray Montgomery Jacqueline Wells
singer sister band leader dancer somber sad dark broadway theater stage new york city small town sister relationship fame success singing love triangle rise fall 1940s
Embittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1953
71 Minutes
Director
hitchhiker sociopath victim hostage escaped convict creepy suspenseful chilling california mexico car hostage situation manhunt serial murders survival pursuit escape 1950s
Two fishermen pick up a psychotic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
Drama
USA
1947
104 Minutes
Libby Saul
Ida Lupino Dane Clark Wayne Morris Fay Bainter Henry Hull Willard Robertson Rory Mallinson Jack Mower Harry Strang Eddie Dunn Ralph Dunn
A farm girl falls in-love with a chain-gang convict working at a nearby highway construction site and sets-out to help him when he escapes.
Drama
USA
1949
92 Minutes
Deborah Chandler Clark
Ida Lupino Howard Duff Stephen McNally John Litel Peggy Dow Taylor Holmes Irving Bacon Joe Besser Don Beddoe Peggie Castle
After her father is killed in an accident, mill heiress Deborah Chandler marries the plant manager, Selden Clark, but his motives are suspicious.
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
93 Minutes
Stella Goodwin
Ida Lupino John Garfield Thomas Mitchell Eddie Albert George Tobias Leo Gorcey John Qualen Aline MacMahon
tailor cook daughter gangster auctioneer dark melodramatic brooklyn, n.y. pier ocean courtroom friendship extortion organized crime father/daughter relationship marriage conspiracy rivalry temptation escape
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Drama
USA
1950
75 Minutes
Director
Mala Powers Michael Ames Robert Clarke Raymond Bond Lilian Hamilton Rita Lupino Hal March Kenneth Patterson Jerry Paris Angela Clarke Roy Engel
A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.
Drama
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Director
Edmond O'Brien Joan Fontaine Ida Lupino Edmund Gwenn Jane Darwell Kenneth Tobey John Maxwell Peggy Maley Mack Williams James Todd James Young
bigamist wife waitress son investigator business partner melodramatic emotional san francisco los angeles family home hotel courtroom office bigamy marriage deception adoption double life forbidden love
A man secretly married to two women feels the pressure of his deceit.
Drama
USA
1946
96 Minutes
Petey Brown
Ida Lupino Robert Alda Herman Brix Andrea King Martha Vickers Alan Hale Dolores Moran John Ridgely Don McGuire Warren Douglas Craig Stevens
A homesick, no-nonsense, lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast, and eventually falling in love with down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.
Crime, Drama
USA
1954
81 Minutes
Lilli Marlowe
detective partner singer police chief dark gripping suspenseful new york city los angeles drugstore nightclub racetrack trailer police corruption theft investigation singing romance greed quest
When 2 detectives steal $80,000 from a dead robber, one of them suffers from a guilty conscience which could lead to murder.
Drama
USA
1944
110 Minutes
Ida Lupino Paul Henreid Nancy Coleman Mary Boland Victor Francen Alla Nazimova Michael Chekhov Marek Windheim Ivan Triesault John Bleifer
aristocrat count american wife antique dealer rousing emotional warsaw, poland estate wedding world war ii class distinctions love nazis invasion royalty love sacrifice rivalry 1930s
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1952
77 Minutes
Helen Gordon
Ida Lupino Robert Ryan Taylor Holmes Barbara Whiting James Williams O.Z. Whitehead Dee Pollock
schizophrenic murderer widow tenant veteran handyman tense suspenseful intense mansion small town home invasion insanity murder hostage situation escape 1910s
A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely war widow.
Biography
USA
1946
107 Minutes
Emily Bronte
Ida Lupino Paul Henreid Olivia de Havilland Sydney Greenstreet Nancy Coleman Arthur Kennedy Dame May Whitty Victor Francen Montagu Love Ethel Griffies Odette Myrtil
author artist sister brother melodramatic emotional england household writing romance emily bronte charlotte bronte anne bronte love 19th century
Genius authors Emily and Charlotte Bronte fall in love with their curate as they seek to get their work published.
Drama
USA
1951
79 Minutes
Director
Claire Trevor Sally Forrest Carleton G. Young Robert Clarke Kenneth Patterson Marcella Cisney Joseph Kearns William Hudson
teen girl love interest mother father tennis player melodramatic tense spirited santa monica, calif. country club new york city tennis court wimbledon mother/daughter relationship tennis deception new love ambition manipulation growing up
Tennis prodigy Florence Farley is torn between romance and her mother's ambitions.
Drama
1950
82 Minutes
Director
Sally Forrest Keefe Brasselle Hugh O'Brian Eve Miller Larry Dobkin Rita Lupino
Drama
1950
82 Minutes
Director
A dancer (Sally Forrest) with polio learns to walk again thanks to therapy, her fiance (Keefe Brasselle) and a fellow patient (Hugh O'Brian).
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
100 Minutes
Marie Garson
Humphrey Bogart Ida Lupino Alan Curtis Arthur Kennedy Joan Leslie Henry Hull Henry Travers Barton MacLane Jerome Cowan Cornel Wilde Donald MacBride
gangster ex-convict criminal girlfriend dark brooding cool california mountain sierra nevada mountains los angeles casino crime love murder heist escape fall love 1940s
After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
Drama
USA
1942
94 Minutes
Anna
Jean Gabin Ida Lupino Thomas Mitchell Claude Rains Helene Reynolds Ralph Byrd Chester Gan Arthur Aylesworth Arthur Hohl William Halligan Victor Sen Yung
longshoreman waitress friend doctor reverend bartender dark brooding gripping barge bar san pablo, calif. betrayal jealousy murder accident suicide attempt alcoholism mystery love
In California, Bobo and his mooching 'pal' Tiny are doing odd jobs and getting drunk and they hide a secret about the unsolved murder of sailor Pop Kelly but suicidal waitress Anna, saved by Bobo, unravels the mystery.
Drama
USA
1955
111 Minutes
Marion Castle
Jack Palance Ida Lupino Rod Steiger Shelley Winters Wendell Corey Jean Hagen Ilka Chase Everett Sloane Wesley Addy Paul Langton Nick Dennis
actor wife agent tabloid reporter producer gripping frenetic brooding hollywood, calif. movie studio blackmail movies scandal marriage hit and run escape temptation wretched excess rivalry 1950s
Hollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover-up to protect his valuable career.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1936
86 Minutes
Jane
Nino Martini Ida Lupino Leo Carrillo Harold Huber James Blakeley Stanley Fields Mischa Auer
gangster singer henchman kidnapper heiress manager frenetic madcap outlandish movie theater radio station mexico opera house movies kidnapping idolization performance radio quest adventure
Chivo, a singer who works in a movie theater providing live entertainment, is and apprehended by a music-loving Mexican bandit Braganza who wants to make Chivo part of his band. Braganza, who admires American gangsters, also kidnaps Jane and her rich boyfriend, Bill. to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1937
97 Minutes
Paula Sewell, Paula Monterey
Jack Benny Ida Lupino Richard Arlen Gail Patrick Ben Blue Judy Canova Cecil Cunningham Donald Meek
ad executive girlfriend model business owner socialite chairman winsome lighthearted witty new york city office miami pool ballroom advertising beauty pageant business deal career vs. love big break love triangle
Mac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) wants an ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1947
101 Minutes
Errol Flynn Ida Lupino Eleanor Parker Gig Young Reginald Denny Isobel Elsom Albert Basserman Ludwig Stossel Frank Puglia Anthony Caruso
It is Venice, 1900, and Fenella is engaged to composer Caryl Dubrok until she hears that an unmarried woman named Gemma and child is staying with a composer named Dubrok. So the engagement ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1934
77 Minutes
Buster Crabbe Ida Lupino Toby Wing James Gleason Robert Armstrong Gertrude Michael Roscoe Karns Verna Hillie Pop Kenton Frank McGlynn
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
Romance
USA
1936
75 Minutes
Francis Lederer Ida Lupino Hugh Herbert Roland Young Erik Rhodes Joseph Cawthorn Countess Liev de Maigret Donald Meek Georgia Caine Richard Carle Mischa Auer
actor young woman mistress fiancé father husband lighthearted playful paris movie theater courtroom jail ice-skating rink theater reputation romance acting mishaps scandal father/daughter relationship
Actor Philippe Martin and his married date Yvonne plan to neck in a darkened cinema, but he gets the wrong seat and mistakenly kisses lovely Monique, a publisher's daughter. An absurd ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1934
67 Minutes
"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1933
68 Minutes
Henry Kendall Ida Lupino John Mills Victor Stanley George Merritt Felix Aylmer
chemist amateur sleuth young woman detective coroner maid suspenseful chilling gripping engaging tense melodramatic england seaside murder investigation amateur detectives photograph search jewelry theft missing persons
As part of Rainey's circus, Dad Denton returns to the town where he is supposedly wanted for murder. When his old enemy McDonald spots him with out his clown makeup, he sets his men up to ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1972
73 Minutes
Andy Griffith Ida Lupino Michael Brandon James A. Watson Jr. Tim McIntire Susanne Benton Connie Sawyer Joseph Mell Victoria Carroll Squire Fridell Virginia Vincent
superintendent veteran bank robber wife girlfriend accomplice tense suspenseful new york city apartment building bar bank bank heist deception kidnapping guilt vietnam war temptation wretched excess 1970s
In the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, a mild-mannered professor decides to live out all of his daydreams, travelling across the country and adopting a different persona in each city.
Crime, Drama
USA
1978
90 Minutes
Mrs. Morton
Teenagers plot the robbery of an armored car.
Drama
USA
1941
90 Minutes
Ruth Webster
Edward G. Robinson John Garfield Ida Lupino Alexander Knox Gene Lockhart Barry Fitzgerald Stanley Ridges David Bruce
fugitive captain writer woman doctor dark gritty gripping ferry ship cabin deck boat insanity seafaring sadism writers blindness escape escape
After being fished out of the sea by a sealer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
85 Minutes
Ann Brandon
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Ida Lupino Alan Marshal Terry Kilburn George Zucco E.E. Clive Mary Gordon
sherlock holmes doctor watson nemesis beautiful woman brother crafty intricate thrilling suspenseful london tower of london 221b baker street death theft revenge investigation revenge rivalry mystery quest
The master sleuth hunts his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, who is planning the crime of the century.
Drama
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Director
Edmond O'Brien Joan Fontaine Ida Lupino Edmund Gwenn Jane Darwell Kenneth Tobey John Maxwell Peggy Maley Mack Williams James Todd James Young
bigamist wife waitress son investigator business partner melodramatic emotional san francisco los angeles family home hotel courtroom office bigamy marriage deception adoption double life forbidden love
A man secretly married to two women feels the pressure of his deceit.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1972
100 Minutes
Elvira Bonner
Steve McQueen Robert Preston Ida Lupino Ben Johnson Joe Don Baker Barbara Leigh Mary Murphy Bill McKinney Sandra Deel Don "Red" Barry Dub Taylor
rodeo rider father brother mother spirited engaging arizona rodeo small town aging family dysfunction competition rodeo aspirations father/son relationship sports rivalry underdog 1970s
Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts.
Comedy
USA
1939
66 Minutes
Lila Thorne
Fay Bainter Lee Bowman Ida Lupino Henry Armetta Warren Hymer Harold Huber Forbes Murray Joe Sawyer Tom Dugan Joe Caits Jim Toney
dowager son daughter-in-law laundry owner racketeer thief hilarious patriotic heartwarming small town laundromat house mob mother/son relationship vigilantism marriage extortion freedom revenge underdog
Society-woman Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed twenty-five-cents to pay for gang 'protection.... See full summary »
Drama
1939
97 Minutes
Bessie Broke
Ronald Colman Walter Huston Ida Lupino Muriel Angelus Dudley Digges Ernest Cossart Ferike Boros Pedro de Cordoba Colin Tapley Fay Helm Ronald Sinclair
artist painter model friend doctor soldier melodramatic sad sudan port said, egypt london battlefield artist's studio doctor's office art blindness doomed romance friendship suicide painting
Kipling's Dick Heldar (Ronald Colman), wounded in the Sudan, tries to finish a painting before he goes blind.
Drama
USA
1940
93 Minutes
Lana Carlsen
George Raft Humphrey Bogart Ann Sheridan Ida Lupino Gale Page Alan Hale Roscoe Karns John Litel Henry O'Neill George Tobias Charles Halton
truck driver brother business owner wife girlfriend uneasy gritty suspenseful cool california courtroom false accusations murder mental breakdown brotherhood dangerous job affair forbidden love transformation 1940s
When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.
Fantasy
USA
1935
88 Minutes
Agnes
Gary Cooper Ann Harding John Halliday Ida Lupino Douglas Dumbrille Virginia Weidler Dickie Moore Doris Lloyd Gilbert Emery Donald Meek Christian Rub
architect duchess duke employee best friend love interest dreamy passionate powerful paris england stable dining room prison romance dreams jealousy death prison second chance
A Victorian-era architect, commissioned by the Duke of Towers to design his stables, falls in love with the Duchess.
Musical
USA
1936
92 Minutes
Hope Harcourt
Bing Crosby Ethel Merman Charles Ruggles Ida Lupino Grace Bradley Arthur Treacher Robert McWade Richard Carle Margaret Dumont Jerry Tucker Ed Gargan
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1969
97 Minutes
Mama Dolores
Neville Brand James Drury Doug McClure Peter Brown William Smith Philip Carey Fernando Lamas Rhonda Fleming Ida Lupino Royal Dano Randy Boone
Wyoming cowhand and gambler Trampas is sent by his employer to Mexico to buy a bull but in Laredo he unwillingly joins three Texas Rangers on a dangerous mission into Mexico.