List of the best King Vidor movies: The Crowd(1928), The Big Parade(1925), Street Scene(1931), Show People(1928), The Patsy(1928), Stella Dallas(1937), The Champ(1931), La Bohème(1926), The Fountainhead(1949), Northwest Passage(1940), The Citadel(1938), Bardelys the Magnificent(1926) ... ...
8.1/10
Drama
USA
1928
104 Minutes
Director
Eleanor Boardman James Murray Bert Roach Estelle Clark Daniel G. Tomlinson Dell Henderson Lucy Beaumont Freddie Burke Frederick Alice Mildred Puter
employee wife mother-in-law father-in-law son daughter endearing touching new york city family home office meaning of life family love growing up transformation 1920s
The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles and downfalls.
7.9/10
War
USA
1925
126 Minutes
Director
John Gilbert Renée Adorée Hobart Bosworth Claire McDowell Claire Adams Karl Dane Robert Ober Tom O'Brien Rosita Marstini
soldier father mother ingénue brother girlfriend emotional melodramatic france battlefield countryside family home farm world war i horrors of war young love family growing up love quest
A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
7.6/10
Drama
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Director
Sylvia Sidney William Collier Beulah Bondi Estelle Taylor Max Montor David Landau Matt McHugh Russell Hopton Greta Grandstedt Tom H. Manning Adele Watson
mother father daughter neighbor student bleak gritty new york city brownstone stoop poverty adultery aspirations gossip fall revenge transformation 1930s
Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.
7.6/10
Comedy
USA
1928
82 Minutes
Director
Marion Davies William Haines Dell Henderson Paul Ralli Tenen Holtz Harry Gribbon Sidney Bracey Polly Moran Albert Conti John Gilbert Mae Murray
actress actor studio head director father emotional charming studio hollywood, calif. theater ambition fame filmmaking love triangle love rise transformation 1920s
A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.
7.5/10
Comedy
USA
1928
64 Minutes
Director
Marion Davies Orville Caldwell Marie Dressler Dell Henderson Lawrence Gray Jane Winton
sister mother father boyfriend rival amusing cheeky heartwarming bedroom parlor sister relationship jealousy infatuation schemes impersonation rivalry love quest 1920s
An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her elder sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.
7.4/10
Drama
USA
1937
111 Minutes
Director
Barbara Stanwyck John Boles Dawn O'Day Barbara O'Neil Alan Hale Marjorie Main Edmund Elton George Walcott Gertrude Short Tim Holt Nella Walker
mother wife daughter husband father wealthy man melodramatic uneasy engaging camp massachusetts small town mill family home mother/daughter relationship divorce class distinctions marriage family relationships
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
7.3/10
Drama
USA
1931
86 Minutes
Director
Wallace Beery Jackie Cooper Irene Rich Roscoe Ates Edward Brophy Hale Hamilton Jesse Scott Marcia Mae Jones
boxer son mother stepfather horse emotional heartwarming moving melodramatic mexico boxing ring tijuana father/son relationship boxing redemption alcoholism separation mother/son relationship love fall
An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.
7.3/10
Drama
USA
1926
101 Minutes
Director
Lillian Gish John Gilbert Renée Adorée Edward Everett Horton Roy D'Arcy George Hassell David Mir Gene Pouyet Karl Dane Catherine Vidor Valentina Zimina
A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.
7.1/10
Drama
USA
1949
114 Minutes
Director
Gary Cooper Patricia Neal Raymond Massey Kent Smith Robert Douglas Henry Hull Ray Collins Moroni Olsen Jerome Cowan Paul Harvey Thurston Hall
architect socialite wealthy woman critic jealous person brooding dense intricate profound solemn united states quarry architecture jealousy love triangle self-destruction nonconformity quest rivalry love
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
7.1/10
Adventure
USA
1940
126 Minutes
Director
Spencer Tracy Robert Young Walter Brennan Ruth Hussey Nat Pendleton Robert Barrat Addison Richards Louis Hector Lumsden Hare Donald MacBride Isabel Jewell
frontiersman native american military officer gripping gritty canada wilderness village land wars cannibalism dangerous assignment rebellion quest 1750s
Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
7.1/10
Drama
UK
1938
112 Minutes
Director
Robert Donat Rosalind Russell Rex Harrison Ralph Richardson Emlyn Williams Penelope Dudley Ward Francis L. Sullivan Mary Clare Cecil Parker Nora Swinburne Edward Chapman
doctor wife miner gutsy engaging inspiring moving wales london mining town hypocrisy tuberculosis medicine aspirations wretched excess underdog 1930s
Andrew Manson (Robert Donat), a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his ... See full summary »
7.0/10
Drama, Romance, History
USA
1926
90 Minutes
Director
John Gilbert Eleanor Boardman Roy D'Arcy Lionel Belmore Emily Fitzroy George K. Arthur Arthur Lubin Theodore von Eltz Karl Dane Edward Connelly Fred Malatesta
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardelys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
7.0/10
Drama
USA
1949
96 Minutes
Director
Resentful of her small-town life, a married woman schemes to run off with a rich businessman.
7.0/10
Drama
USA
1934
74 Minutes
Director
Karen Morley Tom Keene Barbara Pepper Addison Richards John Qualen Lloyd Ingram Sidney Bracey Henry Hall Nellie V. Nichols Frank Minor
husband wife farmer carpenter plumber musician uplifting tense spirited apartment farm countryside great depression agriculture commune farming love triangle rise transformation temptation
A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune... and bread!
6.9/10
Western
USA
1955
89 Minutes
Director
Kirk Douglas Jeanne Crain Claire Trevor Richard Boone Jay C. Flippen William Campbell
drifter rancher gunslinger young man woman gripping rousing thrilling american west wyoming ranch range war cattle struggle uprising mysterious past rivalry adventure revenge 19th century
A drifter working as foreman for an iron-fist female rancher must chose sides between his attractive employer and the other neighboring settlers who are mistreated by her.
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1952
91 Minutes
Director
Shirley Yamaguchi Don Taylor Cameron Mitchell Marie Windsor Philip Ahn James Bell
Korean War veteran returns home to rural Salinas, California with his new Japanese wife, whom he met at a war hospital. The couple are forced to deal with the sometimes subtle, sometimes ... See full summary »
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1944
151 Minutes
Director
Brian Donlevy Ann Richards Walter Abel John Qualen Stephen McNally Mary McLeod Bob Lowell Barbara Bedford
immigrant brother wife son teacher union organizer confident inspiring ellis island minnesota mine chadley college factory detroit immigration family patriotism america citizenship factories
Stefan Dangos immigrates to America and works his way up from the iron mines and steel mills to become a great American success story as an industrialist.
6.8/10
Western
USA
1946
130 Minutes
Director
Jennifer Jones Gregory Peck Joseph Cotten Lionel Barrymore Lillian Gish Herbert Marshall Walter Huston Butterfly McQueen Charles Bickford Tilly Losch Harry Carey
orphan aunt senator outlaw rancher son passionate tense ranch desert texas love-hate relationship love triangle doomed romance cross-cultural romance family dysfunction love revenge rivalry 19th century
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
6.7/10
Drama
USA
1952
82 Minutes
Director
Jennifer Jones Charlton Heston Karl Malden Tom Tully Barney Phillips James Anderson Josephine Hutchinson Phyllis Avery Herbert Heyes Myra Marsh Charles Cane
widow businessman brother old flame gold digger dark tense melodramatic suspenseful american south country club swamp murder poverty marriage of convenience second chance morality love transformation rise
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
6.7/10
Drama
USA
1921
80 Minutes
Director
Lloyd Hughes Madge Bellamy Joseph Bennett Claire McDowell Winifred Greenwood Frank Brownlee Julia Brown Lillian Leighton
husband wife father rival mother melodramatic uneasy north carolina small town city household river reputation deception father/daughter relationship false accusations small-town life schemes rivalry transformation
John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law's meddling, thinks Tilly has left him,... See full summary »
6.6/10
Romance
USA
1940
90 Minutes
Director
Clark Gable Hedy Lamarr Oscar Homolka Felix Bressart Eve Arden Sig Ruman Natasha Lytess Vladimir Sokoloff Edgar Barrier John Piccori Mikhail Rasumny
journalist streetcar driver valet lighthearted playful patriotic moscow father/daughter relationship communism censorship love marriage love escape transformation 1940s
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
6.6/10
Western
USA
1936
95 Minutes
Director
Fred MacMurray Jack Oakie Jean Parker Lloyd Nolan Edward Ellis Bennie Bartlett Frank Shannon Frank Cordell
ranger friend bandit boy daughter orphan gripping confident texas range town ranch crime friendship texas rangers loyalty law and order moral dilemma transformation quest
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
6.5/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1951
91 Minutes
Director
Ruth Roman Richard Todd Mercedes McCambridge Zachary Scott Darryl Hickman Frank Conroy Kathryn Givney Rhys Williams
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
6.5/10
Drama
USA
1932
75 Minutes
Director
lawyer wife salesgirl emotional solemn sad london naples, italy venice, italy swimming pool infidelity infatuation scandal forgiveness reputation forbidden love fall 1930s
London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shop-girl who is out to have him. Told in flashback.
6.2/10
Drama, History
USA
1959
139 Minutes
Director
Yul Brynner Gina Lollobrigida George Sanders David Farrar Marisa Pavan John Crawford Laurence Naismith José Nieto Alejandro Rey Harry Andrews Julio Peña
king queen son brother pharaoh daughter sultry spectacular somber israel temple palace religion war seduction father/son relationship fall forbidden love 10th century b.c.
After becoming king of ancient Israel, Solomon faces threats coming from his jealous dispossessed brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh and the scheming Queen of Sheba.
6.2/10
Drama
USA
1920
60 Minutes
Director
Fred Turner Harry Todd Bobby Kelso Willis Marks Lillian Leighton James Corrigan Claire McDowell Charles Arling Florence Vidor Irene Yeager Carol Marshall
A lonely old riverboat man is left a child by a dying mother. The old man and the boy grow to love one another. The village snoop feels the child would be better off in an orphanage and the... See full summary »
6.1/10
Romance
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Director
Dolores del Río Joel McCrea John Halliday Skeets Gallagher Lon Chaney Bert Roach Napoleon Pukui Sofia Ortega Agostino Borgato
sailor beautiful woman king prince princess handsome man melodramatic sultry passionate polynesia south pacific tropical island volcano hut ship interracial relationship arranged marriage language barrier ritual sacrifice shipwreck
A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.
6.0/10
Comedy
USA
1930
75 Minutes
Director
Marion Davies Elliott Nugent Raymond Hackett Franklin Pangborn Julia Faye William Holden Donald Ogden Stewart Sally Starr George Davis Ruby Lafayette
young woman businessman jeweler ex-convict daughter butler airy hilarious witty house garden dining room career aspirations mishaps unintended consequences new romance dinner party business scheme love quest
Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.
Comedy
1948
107 Minutes
Director
Burgess Meredith Leslie Fenton Paulette Goddard Fred MacMurray Hugh Herbert James Stewart Dorothy Lamour Victor Moore Eilene Janssen Henry Fonda William Demarest
clerk musician actress magician wife editor amusing lighthearted los angeles newsroom household stage studio impersonation repentance deception babies relationships journalism quest
Musicians, Hollywood extras and others tell a reporter (Burgess Meredith) how children affect their lives.
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