List of the best Michael Curtiz movies: Casablanca(1942), Mildred Pierce(1945), Angels With Dirty Faces(1938), The Adventures of Robin Hood(1938), The Sea Hawk(1940), Captain Blood(1935), Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942), White Christmas(1954), The Breaking Point(1950), The Sea Wolf(1941), Kid Galahad(1937), The Unsuspected(1947) ... ...
8.5/10
Drama
USA
1942
102 Minutes
Director
Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman Paul Henreid Claude Rains Conrad Veidt Peter Lorre Sydney Greenstreet Dooley Wilson Marcel Dalio S.Z. Sakall Joy Page
expatriates nightclub owner resistance fighter nazi spy sad cool gripping casablanca paris nightclub airport world war ii rebellion virtue love triangle sacrifice 1940s
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1945
109 Minutes
Director
Joan Crawford Jack Carson Ann Blyth Zachary Scott Eve Arden Herman Brix Lee Patrick Moroni Olsen Jo Ann Marlowe George Tobias
restaurant owner daughter mother police detective melodramatic tense glendale, calif. murder social standing mother/daughter relationship investigation the great depression mystery sacrifice 1930s
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
7.9/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1938
97 Minutes
Director
James Cagney Pat O'Brien Humphrey Bogart Ann Sheridan George Bancroft William Pawley John Hamilton Earle Dwire William Worthington
gangster priest child lawyer gritty emotional hell's kitchen street friendship crime corruption gangs sacrifice growing up rise 1930s
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
7.9/10
Adventure, Action
USA
1938
102 Minutes
Michael Curtiz Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Basil Rathbone Claude Rains Patric Knowles Eugene Pallette Alan Hale Herbert Mundin Una O'Connor Melville Cooper
robin hood prince king sheriff of nottingham pretty woman outlaw thrilling cheery rousing forest england castle rebellion corruption royalty wealth quest adventure rescue middle ages
When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.
7.7/10
Adventure
USA
1940
127 Minutes
Director
Errol Flynn Brenda Marshall Flora Robson Claude Rains Donald Crisp Alan Hale Henry Daniell Una O'Connor Gilbert Roland
pirate ambassador pretty woman queen charming confident engaging england royal court spain expedition showdown armed conflict patriotism sailors romance adventure discovery quest rivalry
Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills on the sword.
7.7/10
Adventure
USA
1935
119 Minutes
Director
Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Basil Rathbone Lionel Atwill Ross Alexander Guy Kibbee Henry Stephenson George Hassell Forrester Harvey Frank McGlynn Robert Barrat
doctor pirate lady governor government official sailor brash confident thrilling england port royal, jamaica ship pirates treason slavery rebellion adventure transformation 17th century
A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
7.7/10
Musical
USA
1942
126 Minutes
Director
James Cagney Joan Leslie Walter Huston Richard Whorf George Tobias Irene Manning Rosemary DeCamp Jeanne Cagney S.Z. Sakall George Barbier Walter Catlett
george m. cohan father mother sister theatrical producer songwriter patriotic spirited new york city white house theater ambition actors show business patriotism family romance rise 1940s
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
7.6/10
Musical, Comedy, Other
USA
1954
120 Minutes
Director
Bing Crosby Danny Kaye Rosemary Clooney Vera-Ellen Dean Jagger Mary Wickes John Brascia Anne Whitfield Richard Shannon Grady Sutton Sig Ruman
singer sister general innkeeper veteran lighthearted amusing charming touching vermont inn battlefield new york city christmas financial crisis singing concert friendship rescue love
A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
7.5/10
Drama
USA
1950
97 Minutes
Director
An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.
7.5/10
Drama
USA
1941
90 Minutes
Director
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.
7.2/10
Drama
USA
1937
101 Minutes
Director
Edward G. Robinson Bette Davis Humphrey Bogart Wayne Morris Jane Bryan Harry Carey Veda Ann Borg
boxer gangster mistress sister manager brooding gripping confident boxing ring farm nightclub boxing unrequited love mob fame rivalry revenge underdog 1930s
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
7.2/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
103 Minutes
Director
Claude Rains Joan Caulfield Audrey Totter Constance Bennett Hurd Hatfield Ted North Fred Clark Harry Lewis Jack Lambert Ray Walker Nana Bryant
radio host fiancé niece husband police detective brooding intricate suspenseful mansion office car dump art imitating life serial murders suicide memory loss marriage radio transformation mystery
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
7.2/10
Comedy
USA
1947
118 Minutes
Director
William Powell Irene Dunne Elizabeth Taylor Edmund Gwenn ZaSu Pitts Jimmy Lydon Martin Milner
father mother son schoolgirl maid amusing endearing new york city household father/son relationship family marriage parenthood authority transformation love 1890s
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
7.2/10
Drama
USA
1950
112 Minutes
Director
Kirk Douglas Lauren Bacall Doris Day Hoagy Carmichael Juano Hernandez Jerome Cowan Mary Beth Hughes Nestor Paiva Orley Lindgren Walter Reed Alex Gerry
music teacher jazz musician musician socialite engaging unrestrained jazz club lounge street jazz race relations obsession forbidden love rise sacrifice 1950s
A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.
7.1/10
Action
USA
1936
116 Minutes
Director
Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Patric Knowles Donald Crisp Henry Stephenson Nigel Bruce David Niven G.P. Huntley Jr. Spring Byington C. Henry Gordon E.E. Clive
military officer brother fiancée rajah soldier emotional patriotic rousing india military base palace battlefield love triangle battle of balaklava historical events crimean war revenge quest love 1850s
A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.
7.1/10
Western
USA
1939
104 Minutes
Director
Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Ann Sheridan Bruce Cabot Frank McHugh Alan Hale John Litel Victor Jory Henry Travers Henry O'Neill Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
sheriff deputy girl thief cattle rustler frenetic thrilling gutsy spirited dodge city, kan. train law and order american west frontier justice cattle drives adventure love pursuit revenge 1870s
A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
7.0/10
Biography
USA
1951
107 Minutes
Director
Burt Lancaster Charles Bickford Steve Cochran Phyllis Thaxter Dick Wesson Jack Big Head Suni Warcloud Al Mejia Hubert Jay Kerns Nestor Paiva Jim Moss
athlete coach wife spirited touching pennsylvania boarding school football field aspirations ambition olympic games love sports football underdog rise fall 1930s
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
7.0/10
Musical
USA
1958
116 Minutes
Director
Elvis Presley Carolyn Jones Dolores Hart Dean Jagger Liliane Montevecchi Walter Matthau Paul Stewart Vic Morrow
singer juvenile delinquent pharmacist club owner kept woman dark tense new orleans club school apartment unemployment troubled youth graduation jazz singing father/son relationship underdog temptation love
A troubled youth's singing sets New Orleans rockin'. With a sweet girl to love him and nightclubbers cheering, it seems he will shake off his past and head for the top. But will a mobster and his man-trap moll snare him in a life of crime?
7.0/10
Musical, Romance
USA
1948
99 Minutes
Director
Jack Carson Janis Paige Don DeFore Doris Day Oscar Levant S.Z. Sakall Fortunio Bonanova Eric Blore Franklin Pangborn
husband wife singer detective boyfriend playful lighthearted amusing household travel agency cruise ship cabin rio de janeiro stage marriage suspicion drinking romance false accusations impersonation
Romantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity.
6.9/10
Romance
USA
1938
90 Minutes
Director
Claude Rains Rosemary Lane John Garfield Lola Lane Priscilla Lane Gale Page Jeffrey Lynn Frank McHugh May Robson Dick Foran
musician father daughter composer suitor aunt melodramatic small town household hospital music family love triangle marriage rivalry love 1930s
Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, has passed on his love of music to his four early adult daughters - Thea, Emma, Kay and Ann - who live with him and his sister, the ... See full summary »
6.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1945
117 Minutes
Director
Rosalind Russell Jack Carson Robert Hutton Ray Collins Kathleen Lockhart Cora Sue Collins Ann Todd Andy Clyde Arthur Shields Helene Thimig Greta Grandstedt
businesswoman banker son husband father mother melodramatic emotional family home college office new england marriage self-respect infidelity business mother/child relationship growing up love quest
In the early 1900's (not the 1920s)
6.9/10
Western
USA
1961
107 Minutes
Director
John Wayne Stuart Whitman Lee Marvin Ina Balin Nehemiah Persoff Michael Ansara Patrick Wayne Bruce Cabot Joan O'Brien Jack Elam Edgar Buchanan
texas ranger native american outlaw gun runner gambler prisoner gritty rousing melodramatic texas mexico desert valley american west unlikely allies cowboys frontier justice violence romance adventure
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves dealing with the Comanches known as Comancheros.
6.8/10
War
USA
1944
110 Minutes
Director
Humphrey Bogart Michèle Morgan Claude Rains Philip Dorn Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre George Tobias Victor Francen Helmut Dantine John Loder Konstantin Shayne
captain prisoner leader major convict gripping spirited thrilling ship prison marseilles, france world war ii prison break patriotism blackmail murder redemption sacrifice escape 1930s
Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.
6.8/10
Western
USA
1940
121 Minutes
Director
Errol Flynn Miriam Hopkins Randolph Scott Humphrey Bogart Frank McHugh Alan Hale Guinn "Big Boy" Williams John Litel Moroni Olsen Russell Hicks Douglas Dumbrille
southerner commander intelligence officer bandit friend engaging gripping rousing prison wagon train virginia city, nev. trail american civil war theft escape prisoners of war robbery pursuit escape sacrifice
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City in Nevada. Once there he finds that the former commander of his prison Vance Irby is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confederacy.
6.8/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1934
67 Minutes
Director
James Cagney Bette Davis Alice White Allen Jenkins Philip Reed Mayo Methot Alan Dinehart
confidence man love interest competitor friend girlfriend witness brash cheeky lighthearted new york city office hospital cruise ship deception inheritance unlikely romance mistaken identity ethics change of heart love
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
6.8/10
Horror
USA
1933
77 Minutes
Director
Lionel Atwill Fay Wray Glenda Farrell Frank McHugh Gavin Gordon Edwin Maxwell Holmes Herbert Arthur Edmund Carewe Allen Vincent Monica Bannister Matthew Betz
sculptor partner assistant fiancée reporter creepy tense london new york city wax museum obsession art murder love fall revenge 1930s
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
6.8/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1953
110 Minutes
Director
John Wayne Donna Reed Charles Coburn Tom Tully Sherry Jackson Marie Windsor Tom Helmore Dabbs Greer Leif Erickson Douglas Spencer Lester Matthews
coach daughter ex-wife priest football player social worker melodramatic rousing charming college new york city pool hall courtroom college athletics financial crisis trial custody father/daughter relationship football sports
An ex-football coach is hired by a small Catholic college to train its football team in the hopes of winning games and making money to save the school from bankruptcy.
6.8/10
Western
USA
1958
103 Minutes
Director
Alan Ladd Olivia de Havilland Dean Jagger David Ladd Cecil Kellaway Henry Hull
father son doctor dog farmer sheriff suspenseful melodramatic heartwarming illinois doctor's office farm wild west general store forest father/son relationship grief disability new town wrongful conviction
A Confederate veteran living in the Yankee North struggles with his son's shock induced muteness and the hate of the Northerners.
6.7/10
Drama
USA
1950
110 Minutes
Director
Gary Cooper Lauren Bacall Patricia Neal Jack Carson Donald Crisp Gladys George Elizabeth Patterson Jeff Corey Taylor Holmes Thurston Hall
In 1894, Brant Royle shocks the aristocratic tobacco growers of Kingsmont by planning to mass-produce cigarettes.
6.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
82 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis George Brent Roscoe Karns Winifred Shaw Walter Walker J. Carrol Naish Gordon Westcott Dorothy Dare June Martel Joseph Crehan J. Farrell MacDonald
reporter love interest editor polo player murderer confident passionate suspenseful newsroom street hospital courtroom bar ambition gender bias journalism crime investigation trial rivalry
A woman reporter tries to prove she's just as good as any man, but runs into trouble along the way.
6.7/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1935
68 Minutes
Director
Warren William Margaret Lindsay Errol Flynn Claire Dodd Donald Woods Allen Jenkins Philip Reed Winifred Shaw Warren Hymer Olin Howland Henry Kolker
perry mason friend ex-husband husband detective attorney engaging suspenseful law office mortuary apartment police station dinner party house law bigamy blackmail murder investigation accidental death
Perry interrupts his vacation plans when an ex-girlfriend, now newly married, asks him to help her with murder and bigamy charges.
6.6/10
Western
USA
1959
86 Minutes
Director
U.S. Marshal Bovard comes to a small border town to identify and arrest a fugitive, but the whole town seems determined to prevent the Marshal from doing his job.
6.6/10
Comedy
USA
1949
99 Minutes
Director
Jane Wyman Dennis Morgan Eve Arden Robert Douglas Allyn Joslyn
researcher company president engineer fiancé singer sailor madcap frenetic mushy long island, n.y. bay submarine nightclub house government secrets romance submarine deception investigation discovery
A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.
6.6/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1949
101 Minutes
Director
Jack Carson Doris Day Lee Bowman Adolphe Menjou Eve Arden S.Z. Sakall Selena Royle Edgar Kennedy Sheldon Leonard Franklin Pangborn
singer agent radio personality single mother love interest positive charming uplifting los angeles new york city nightclub radio station romantic dilemma radio performers fame music industry show business love underdog rise
An agent must search for a new personality to replace a popular singer who refuses to renew his radio contract. He finds one in the form of a single mother, but complications soon occur.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1934
65 Minutes
Director
Kay Francis Ricardo Cortez Lyle Talbot Warner Oland Ruth Donnelly Reginald Owen Hobart Cavanaugh David Torrence Rafaela Ottiano Halliwell Hobbes Etienne Girardot
political refugee surgeon gunrunner pimp prostitute beautiful woman tense melodramatic sultry mandalay, myanmar rangoon, myanmar brothel boat city poverty prostitution organized crime blackmail secret past new life
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
6.6/10
Biography
USA
1952
109 Minutes
Director
Will Rogers Jr. Jane Wyman
vaudevillian cowboy actor comedian wife woodrow wilson inspiring positive emotional incredible santa monica, calif. oklahoma st. louis world's fair stage new york city rodeo show business great depression will rogers
The homespun humorist and social critic starts as a cowboy and goes on to vaudeville, movies, radio.
6.5/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1939
110 Minutes
Director
Priscilla Lane Rosemary Lane Lola Lane Gale Page Claude Rains Jeffrey Lynn John Garfield Frank McHugh May Robson Dick Foran Eddie Albert
father daughter sister widow fiancé doctor emotional somber household hospital wedding engagement pregnancy adoption matchmaking music death discovery love rescue
Three of the four musically inclined daughters of Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, are settling into their lives as wives, but not all is well. Thea Lemp has long ... See full summary »
6.5/10
Adventure
USA
1941
133 Minutes
Director
Errol Flynn Fred MacMurray Ralph Bellamy Alexis Smith Regis Toomey Allen Jenkins Craig Stevens Herb Anderson Moroni Olsen Addison Richards Louis Jean Heydt
pilot doctor best friend surgeon girlfriend intense fiery engaging airplane san diego hospital laboratory aviation medical experiments navy surgery research death discovery quest
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
6.5/10
War
USA
1951
100 Minutes
Director
William Holden Nancy Olson Frank Lovejoy Gene Evans Dick Wesson Paul Picerni Katharine Warren Ross Ford Ron Hagerthy Amelia Kova Robert Roark
During World War II in Italy, an American sergeant and WAC lieutenant take time out for romance.
6.5/10
Drama
USA
1935
95 Minutes
Director
Paul Muni Karen Morley William Gargan Barton MacLane John Qualen J. Carrol Naish Vince Barnett Henry O'Neill Tully Marshall Mae Marsh Sara Haden
miner best friend union boss scab thug melodramatic rousing fiery pennsylvania mine labor strike worker's rights friendship courage immigration rivalry quest revenge rise 1930s
An immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.
6.4/10
Drama
USA
1931
81 Minutes
Director
John Barrymore Marian Marsh Donald Cook Charles Butterworth Luis Alberni Carmel Myers Andre Luguet Frankie Darro Boris Karloff Mae Madison
A crippled man finds a boy and vows to make him a great dancer.
6.4/10
Horror
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Director
Lionel Atwill Fay Wray Lee Tracy Preston Foster Robert Warwick Mae Busch
doctor daughter reporter police officer serial killer dark creepy thrilling emotional laboratory long island, n.y. estate murder supernatural experiments journalism science mystery pursuit love
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
6.4/10
War
USA
1942
113 Minutes
Director
James Cagney Dennis Morgan Brenda Marshall Alan Hale George Tobias Reginald Gardiner Reginald Denny Russell Arms Paul Cavanagh Clem Bevans J.M. Kerrigan
bush pilot fiancée doctor daughter storekeeper commanding officer spirited canada england plane crash aviation world war ii air force adventure sacrifice 1940s
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF but are deemed too old to be fliers.
6.3/10
Biography
USA
1961
106 Minutes
Director
Bradford Dillman Dolores Hart Stuart Whitman Pedro Armendáriz Cecil Kellaway Eduard Franz Athene Seyler Finlay Currie Mervyn Johns Russell Napier John Welsh
god saint nun priest merchant inspiring powerful italy assisi religion catholic church canonization charity sacrifice rise metamorphosis 13th century
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
6.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1960
107 Minutes
Director
Tony Randall Eddie Hodges Archie Moore Patty McCormack Neville Brand Mickey Shaughnessy Josephine Hutchinson
huckleberry finn slave runaway alcoholic con artist charming playful st. petersburg, miss. raft mississippi river friendship running away slavery rafting growing up adventure escape 1840s
Mark Twain's 1851 story about two runaway friends, a fostered white boy and an escaped black slave, who sailed on a raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom and adventure.
6.3/10
Biography
USA
1957
118 Minutes
Director
Ann Blyth Paul Newman Richard Carlson Gene Evans Alan King Cara Williams Virginia Vincent Walter Woolf King Dorothy Green Edward Platt Warren Douglas
singer broadway producer broadway star bootlegger boyfriend alcoholic bleak melodramatic brooding broadway theater hospital new york city chicago nightclub carnival musical performance rise to stardom alcoholism romance helen morgan
Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
6.2/10
Musical, Gay & Lesbian
USA
1946
128 Minutes
Director
Cary Grant Alexis Smith Ginny Simms Jane Wyman Eve Arden Victor Francen Alan Hale Dorothy Malone
composer nurse friend singer grandfather mother touching inspiring new haven, conn. yale indiana new york city theater hospital aspirations music world war i love cole porter show business
A fictionalized biopic of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
6.2/10
Drama, History
USA
1934
81 Minutes
Director
Kay Francis Leslie Howard William Gargan Philip Reed Irving Pichel Walter Byron Cesar Romero J. Carrol Naish Ivan F. Simpson Gregory Gaye Halliwell Hobbes
It's 1917. In Russia, the Communist revolution is in full swing. Stephen 'Steve' Locke is a British agent in Russia. The main task of Steve is to prevent the Bolsheviks, led by Joseph ... See full summary »
6.1/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1959
97 Minutes
Director
artist wife townsperson child friend sheriff uneasy gripping tense small town connecticut family home mental illness mob mentality missing persons false accusations marital problems infidelity pursuit rivalry
A struggling artist in a small town becomes the prime suspect when his wife mysteriously disappears.
6.1/10
Western
USA
1938
90 Minutes
Director
George Brent Olivia de Havilland Claude Rains Margaret Lindsay John Litel Tim Holt Barton MacLane Henry O'Neill Marcia Ralston George "Gabby" Hayes Sidney Toler
farmer miner son daughter girlfriend brother engaging tense san francisco mine household office mining family feud greed rivalry transformation 1870s
Hydraulic Mining versus Sacramento Valley Farming.
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