List of the best Otto Preminger movies: Anatomy of a Murder(1959), Advise and Consent(1962), The Man With the Golden Arm(1955), Bunny Lake Is Missing(1965), Angel Face(1952), Porgy and Bess(1959), Bonjour Tristesse(1958), Whirlpool(1949), Carmen Jones(1954), The Cardinal(1963), The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell(1955), The Moon Is Blue(1953) ... ...
8.0/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1959
160 Minutes
Director
James Stewart Lee Remick Ben Gazzara Arthur O'Connell Eve Arden Kathryn Grant Joseph N. Welch Brooks West George C. Scott Murray Hamilton Orson Bean
attorney soldier prosecutor wife business partner district attorney gripping intense courtroom michigan small town hotel murder trial rape secret anger fear mystery quest
In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
7.7/10
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA
1962
140 Minutes
Director
Henry Fonda Charles Laughton Don Murray Walter Pidgeon Peter Lawford Gene Tierney Franchot Tone Lew Ayres Burgess Meredith Paul Ford George Grizzard
politician senator president fiery tense washington, d.c. politics political intrigue ambition competition discovery rivalry 1960s
Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
7.4/10
Drama
USA
1955
119 Minutes
Director
Frank Sinatra Eleanor Parker Kim Novak Arnold Stang Darren McGavin Robert Strauss George Mathews John Conte Doro Merande George E. Stone Emile Meyer
con artist drug dealer drummer ex-girlfriend wife dark gritty prison poker tournament stage staircase drug addiction music second chance prison wretched excess temptation 1950s
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
7.3/10
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1965
107 Minutes
Director
Laurence Olivier Carol Lynley Keir Dullea Noel Coward Martita Hunt Finlay Currie The Zombies
mother brother superintendent landlord retiree daughter creepy brooding dark uneasy london school scotland yard missing persons insanity siblings investigation mystery quest 1960s
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
7.3/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1952
91 Minutes
Director
Robert Mitchum Jean Simmons Mona Freeman Herbert Marshall Leon Ames Barbara O'Neil Kenneth Tobey Raymond Greenleaf Griff Barnett Robert Gist Morgan Farley
beautiful woman love interest father stepmother sister young man disturbing intense beverly hills, calif. mansion murder manipulation cover-up double life obsessive love jealousy revenge quest transformation 1950s
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
7.1/10
Musical, Drama, Romance
USA
1959
138 Minutes
Director
Sidney Poitier Rouben Mamoulian Dorothy Dandridge Sammy Davis Jr. Pearl Bailey Brock Peters Leslie Scott Diahann Carroll Ruth Attaway Clarence Muse Everdinne Wilson
poor person drug addict african-american disabled person drug dealer beautiful woman emotional melodramatic sultry charleston, s.c. shantytown catfish row love triangle poverty drug addiction romantic dilemma hard times difficult decision underdog love
A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly- if only everyone else would allow them to.
6.9/10
Drama
UK|USA
1958
94 Minutes
Director
Deborah Kerr David Niven Jean Seberg Mylène Demongeot Geoffrey Horne Walter Chiari Martita Hunt Jean Kent David Oxley Elga Andersen Jeremy Burnham
adulterer playboy party girl mistress widower daughter brooding emotional french riviera loss grief sex jealousy love rivalry 1960s
Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.
6.8/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1949
97 Minutes
Director
Gene Tierney Richard Conte Jose Ferrer Bruce Hamilton
beautiful woman wife husband hypnotist police detective suspenseful dark los angeles household department store crime deception hypnosis murder kleptomania marriage mystery pursuit 1940s
A woman suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an attempt to cure her. Soon afterwards, she's found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there, and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.
6.8/10
Musical
USA
1954
105 Minutes
Director
Dorothy Dandridge Harry Belafonte Pearl Bailey Olga James Diahann Carroll Roy E. Glenn Sr. Nick Stewart Joe Adams Brock Peters Sandy Lewis Mauri Lynn
sexy woman soldier fugitive love interest sergeant emotional sultry suspenseful louisiana nightclub chicago army camp jealousy seduction love triangle war murder obsession forbidden love rivalry
Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1963
175 Minutes
Director
Tom Tryon Romy Schneider Carol Lynley John Huston Dorothy Gish Maggie McNamara Bill Hayes Cameron Prud'Homme Cecil Kellaway Loring Smith
priest cardinal student sister inspiring profound passionate austria boston rome vienna church racism catholic church nazism spiritual crisis abortion forbidden love rise temptation
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
6.8/10
Drama, History
USA
1955
100 Minutes
Director
Gary Cooper Charles Bickford Ralph Bellamy Rod Steiger Elizabeth Montgomery Fred Clark James Daly Jack Lord Peter Graves Darren McGavin Robert F. Simon
colonel general congressman major lawyer tense inspiring gripping rousing courtroom law office washington, d.c. military base billy mitchell court-martial trial aviation rebellion military incompetence rivalry
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
6.7/10
Comedy
USA
1953
99 Minutes
Director
William Holden David Niven Maggie McNamara Tom Tully Dawn Addams Fortunio Bonanova Gregory Ratoff Hardy Kruger Johanna Matz
young woman playboy girlfriend father lighthearted cheeky charming new york city apartment store window ledge bedroom battle of sexes virginity father/son relationship may-december romance false accusations quest temptation 1950s
Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.
6.7/10
Drama, History
USA
1960
207 Minutes
Director
Paul Newman Eva Marie Saint Ralph Richardson Peter Lawford Lee J. Cobb Sal Mineo John Derek Hugh Griffith Gregory Ratoff Felix Aylmer David Opatoshu
soldier nurse refugee young girl emotional gripping passionate israel ship cyprus palestine war holocaust journey redemption quest escape rescue 1940s
The state of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
6.6/10
Western
USA
1954
91 Minutes
Director
Robert Mitchum Marilyn Monroe Rory Calhoun Tommy Rettig Murvyn Vye Douglas Spencer Ed Hinton Don Beddoe Claire Andre Jack Mather Edmund Cobb
farmer son singer boyfriend miner ex-convict thrilling melodramatic pacific northwest boomtown saloon river countryside robbery revenge greed gold father/son relationship survival pursuit
The titular river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son, and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand and care for the others.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1949
89 Minutes
Director
Jeanne Crain Madeleine Carroll George Sanders Richard Greene Martita Hunt John Sutton Hugh Dempster Richard Ney Virginia McDowall Hugh Murray
Lord Windermere appears to all -including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons... See full summary »
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1947
140 Minutes
Director
courtesan soldier king charles ii earl highwayman privateer emotional passionate england farm prison london theater court social climbing nobility marriage rebellion survival loss
In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
6.5/10
Comedy
USA
1936
62 Minutes
Director
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
6.4/10
Drama, History
USA|UK
1957
110 Minutes
Director
Jean Seberg Richard Widmark Richard Todd Anton Walbrook John Gielgud Felix Aylmer Archie Duncan Harry Andrews
In 1456, French King Charles VII recalls the story of how he met the seventeen-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc, entrusted her with the command of the French Army, and ultimately burned her at the stake as a heretic.
6.4/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1951
85 Minutes
Director
Charles Boyer Linda Darnell Michael Rennie Constance Smith Francoise Rosay Judith Evelyn
doctor young woman love interest wife rival war hero suspenseful quebec small town family home doctor's office gossip deception small-town life infidelity mystery 1950s
Respectable citizens receive anonymous letters revealing their adulterous relationships.
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
1937
81 Minutes
Director
Ann Sothern Jack Haley Mary Boland John Carradine Walter Catlett Maurice Cass Alan Dinehart Etienne Girardot E.E. Clive Margaret McWade Margaret Seddon
A young lawyer is unable to get the Pembertons to sign a land sale contract until their daughter falls in love with him.
6.2/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1970
112 Minutes
Director
Liza Minnelli Ken Howard Robert Moore James Coco Kay Thompson Fred Williamson Ben Piazza Emily Yancy Leonard Frey Clarice Taylor James Beard
girlfriend mental patient paraplegic boyfriend neighbor bleak disturbing intense inspiring hospital apartment discrimination homosexuality friendship disfigurement illness rise underdog adventure 1970s
Junie Moon's face has been disfigured by ill-gotten burns, and she depends on her wit and her friends, Warren and Arthur, to cope. Yearning for independence, the three leave the hospital ... See full summary »
6.2/10
Comedy
USA
1971
101 Minutes
Director
Diane Cannon James Coco Jennifer O'Neill Ken Howard Nina Foch Laurence Luckinbill Louise Lasser Burgess Meredith Sam Levene William Redfield James Beard
housewife art director mistress magazine editor doctor mother sad unrestrained witty new york city hospital apartment failing marriage coma infidelity grief discovery transformation wretched excess 1970s
While awaiting the outcome of her husband's surgery, Julie Messinger discovers he has been having affairs.
6.1/10
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1979
115 Minutes
Director
Nicol Williamson Richard Attenborough Derek Jacobi Iman Robert Morley Ann Todd John Gielgud Joop Doderer
When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.
5.9/10
Musical
USA
1948
89 Minutes
Director
Betty Grable Ernst Lubitsch Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Cesar Romero Walter Abel Reginald Gardiner Harry Davenport Virginia Campbell
countess newlywed colonel duke baron amusing charming frenetic castle italy invasion royalty ghosts ancestry romance forbidden love temptation 16th century
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years ... See full summary »
5.8/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1943
74 Minutes
Director
It is a toss-up as to who is most displeased when Patrolman Moe Finkelstein is given the duty of guarding the German consulate run by Karl Baumer; neither Moe nor Baumer is too happy with ... See full summary »
5.8/10
Drama
USA
1967
146 Minutes
Director
Michael Caine Jane Fonda Robert Hooks John Phillip Law Diahann Carroll Faye Dunaway Burgess Meredith Robert Reed George Kennedy Frank Converse Loring Smith
farmer racist klansman teacher profound gutsy emotional gritty georgia united states farm small town farming sharecropping partnership race relations extortion quest rivalry underdog
Following World War II, a northern cannery negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land 's owned by Julie Warren and has ... See full summary »
5.5/10
Comedy
USA
1944
72 Minutes
Director
lieutenant wealthy girl mother father best friend neighbor charming witty spirited lighthearted california military base barracks newlyweds military life class distinctions female bonding world war ii growing up love
A young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house with other soldiers and their wives. Her spoiled ways cause resentment from the other wives ... See full summary »
5.2/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1975
126 Minutes
Director
Peter O'Toole Richard Attenborough Cliff Gorman Claude Dauphin John V. Lindsay Peter Lawford
In a bold coup, a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaire's five daughters on board. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European... See full summary »
4.8/10
Comedy
USA
1968
97 Minutes
Director
Jackie Gleason Groucho Marx Carol Channing Frankie Avalon Fred Clark Michael Constantine Frank Gorshin John Phillip Law
mobster wife crime boss activist warden prisoner offbeat outlandish amusing prison san francisco california lsd consciousness crime imprisonment disillusionment assassination discovery escape
Infamous psychedelic all-star comedy about ex-gangster Tony Banks, who's called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
1944
88 Minutes
Director
Gene Tierney Dana Andrews Clifton Webb Vincent Price Judith Anderson Dorothy Adams James Flavin Clyde Fillmore Ralph Dunn Grant Mitchell Kathleen Howard
police detective businesswoman columnist boyfriend wealthy woman housekeeper dark intricate suspenseful new york city apartment police station cabin murder investigation infatuation unrequited love mistaken identity mystery pursuit
An arrogant New York columnist (Clifton Webb) taunts a detective (Dana Andrews) obsessed with a slain woman's (Gene Tierney) portrait.
8.0/10
War
USA
1953
120 Minutes
William Holden Otto Preminger Robert Strauss Don Taylor Harvey Lembeck Richard Erdman Peter Graves Neville Brand Sig Ruman Michael Moore Peter Baldwin
prisoner of war spy guard pilot sergeant nazi engaging gripping suspenseful tense germany prison camp world war ii prisoners of war loyalty imprisonment escape mystery quest 1940s
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
5.8/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1943
74 Minutes
Director
It is a toss-up as to who is most displeased when Patrolman Moe Finkelstein is given the duty of guarding the German consulate run by Karl Baumer; neither Moe nor Baumer is too happy with ... See full summary »
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