List of the best Leo McCarey movies: Make Way for Tomorrow(1937), Duck Soup(1933), The Awful Truth(1937), Ruggles of Red Gap(1935), An Affair to Remember(1957), Love Affair(1939), The Bells of St. Mary's(1945), Going My Way(1944), Six of a Kind(1934), Good Sam(1948), Belle of the Nineties(1934), The Kid From Spain(1932) ... ...
Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Director
Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell Porter Hall Barbara Read Maurice Moscovich Elisabeth Risdon Minna Gombell Ray Mayer
husband wife son daughter daughter-in-law young boy bleak emotional somber family home aging poverty family marriage grief love sacrifice 1930s
An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
Comedy
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Director
Groucho Marx Harpo Marx Chico Marx Zeppo Marx Margaret Dumont Raquel Torres Louis Calhern Leonid Kinskey Charles Middleton Edgar Kennedy
marx brothers widow wealthy woman leader ambassador amusing hilarious wild freedonia war espionage infatuation transformation quest 1930s
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Comedy
USA
1937
92 Minutes
Director
Irene Dunne Cary Grant Ralph Bellamy Alex D'Arcy Cecil Cunningham Molly Lamont Esther Dale Joyce Compton Robert Allen Robert Warwick Mary Forbes
husband wife neighbor heiress music teacher mother amusing charming hilarious madcap new york city apartment marriage reconciliation divorce new love love transformation 1930s
A married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.
Comedy
USA
1935
92 Minutes
Director
Charles Laughton Mary Boland Charles Ruggles ZaSu Pitts Roland Young Leila Hyams Maude Eburne Lucien Littlefield Leota Lorraine James Burke Dell Henderson
valet earl rancher wife neighbor amusing paris washington state boomtown family home club saloon class distinctions mistaken identity wealth social standing immigration transformation adventure 1910s
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Romance
USA
1957
115 Minutes
Director
Cary Grant Deborah Kerr Richard Denning Neva Patterson Cathleen Nesbitt Robert Q. Lewis Charles Watts Fortunio Bonanova
ladies' man fiancée child emotional passionate france new york city empire state building cruise ship love romance deception wedding christmas accident forbidden love quest 1950s
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
Comedy, Drama
USA
1939
87 Minutes
Director
Irene Dunne Charles Boyer Maria Ouspenskaya Lee Bowman Astrid Allwyn Maurice Moscovich Scotty Beckett Ferike Boros
playboy frenchman singer love interest grandmother fiancé tender mushy endearing cruise ship atlantic ocean new york city empire state building madeira, portugal affair chance meeting romance accident love sacrifice
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, after he has had a chance to earn a decent living.
Other, Drama
USA
1945
126 Minutes
Director
Bing Crosby Ingrid Bergman Henry Travers William Gargan Ruth Donnelly Joan Carroll Martha Sleeper Rhys Williams
priest nun businessman child airy heartwarming tender mushy melodramatic new york city catholic school school catholic church resilience friendship confrontation rivalry transformation fall rescue
At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.
Musical
USA
1944
130 Minutes
Director
Bing Crosby Barry Fitzgerald Rise Stevens Gene Lockhart Frank McHugh James Brown Jean Heather Stanley Clements Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer Porter Hall
priest singer altar boy mother airy heartwarming tender church golf course opera house new york city roman catholicism show business troubled youth quest forbidden love 1940s
When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.
Comedy
USA
1934
62 Minutes
Director
W.C. Fields George Burns Gracie Allen Charles Ruggles Mary Boland Bradley Page Grace Bradley Alison Skipworth
husband wife sheriff colleague man woman hysterical madcap nevada open road hotel pool hall bank road trip robbery chase second honeymoon frame-ups investigation adventure
When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.
Comedy
USA
1948
113 Minutes
Director
Gary Cooper Ann Sheridan Ray Collins Edmund Lowe Joan Lorring Clinton Sundberg Minerva Urecal Louise Beavers Dick Ross Lora Lee Michel Matt Moore
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.
Comedy
USA
1934
73 Minutes
Director
Mae West Roger Pryor Johnny Mack Brown Katherine DeMille John Miljan James Donlan Stuart Holmes Harry Woods
Ruby Carter, the American Beauty queen of the night club-sporting world, shifts her operations from St. Louis to New Orleans (which kind of belies the Western genre designation), mostly to ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1932
96 Minutes
Director
Eddie Cantor Lyda Roberti Robert Young Ruth Hall John Miljan Noah Beery J. Carrol Naish Robert E. O'Connor Stanley Fields
college student bank robber detective girlfriend madcap airy charming dorm college car border bullring mistaken identity bullfighting college robbery jealousy friendship adventure escape
An innocent man accused of robbing banks masquerades as a bullfighter to escape the police.
Romance
USA
1931
81 Minutes
Director
Gloria Swanson Ben Lyon Arthur Lake Monroe Owsley Barbara Kent Maude Eburne Henry Kolker Nella Walker
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
Drama
USA
1962
126 Minutes
Director
William Holden Clifton Webb France Nuyen Athene Seyler Martin Benson Edith Sharpe Robert Lee Marie Yang Andy Ho Burt Kwouk Weaver Levy
priest colonel cook nun friend mother dark charming intense melodramatic china mission village bedroom garden war rape religion communism riots
During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.
Comedy
1929
20 Minutes
Director
Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Tom Kennedy Sam Lufkin James Finlayson Jack Hill Harry Bernard Jean Harlow
Comedy
1928
20 Minutes
Director
Comedy
1958
106 Minutes
Director
Paul Newman Joanne Woodward Joan Collins Jack Carson Dwayne Hickman Tuesday Weld Gale Gordon Tom Gilson O.Z. Whitehead Ralph Osborn III Stanley Livingston
public relations specialist political activist temptress captain schoolgirl general amusing lighthearted cheeky madcap putnam landing, conn. military base washington, d.c. hotel parade military industrial complex small-town life protest misunderstanding marriage
A Connecticut couple (Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward) are called to action by a sexpot (Joan Collins) and a hush-hush Army project in their midst.