List of the best Stanley Donen movies: Singin' in the Rain(1952), Charade(1963), Two for the Road(1967), On the Town(1949), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers(1954), Damn Yankees(1958), Funny Face(1957), Bedazzled(1967), Indiscreet(1958), The Pajama Game(1957), The Little Prince(1974), The Grass Is Greener(1960) ... ...
Musical, Comedy
USA
1952
102 Minutes
Director
Gene Kelly Debbie Reynolds Donald O'Connor Jean Hagen Millard Mitchell Rita Moreno Douglas Fowley Cyd Charisse Madge Blake King Donovan
actor singer actress friend songwriter filmmaker emotional playful witty hollywood new york city street movie set silent movies movie making song and dance love triangle jealousy media love
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1963
114 Minutes
Director
Cary Grant Audrey Hepburn Walter Matthau James Coburn George Kennedy Ned Glass Jacques Marin Paul Bonifas Dominique Minot Thomas Chelimsky
widow boyfriend thief police officer cool suspenseful charming paris french alps ski resort office hideout street crime heist investigation money world war ii mystery pursuit
Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?
Romance
UK
1967
112 Minutes
Director
Audrey Hepburn Albert Finney Eleanor Bron William Daniels Claude Dauphin Nadia Gray Jacqueline Bisset
architect wife client mistress ex-girlfriend daughter hilarious tender emotional creative france italy highway restaurant car marriage courtship infidelity aging road trip
A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1949
98 Minutes
Director
Gene Kelly Gene Kelly Frank Sinatra Ann Miller Vera-Ellen Betty Garrett Jules Munshin Alice Pearce Florence Bates
sailor actress anthropologist cab driver lighthearted playful new york city ship street empire state building museum coney island friendship freedom romance military shore leave adventure love quest
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Musical
USA
1954
103 Minutes
Director
Howard Keel Jane Powell Russ Tamblyn Jeff Richards Tommy Rall Marc Platt Matt Mattox Jacques d'Amboise Virginia Gibson Julie Newmeyer Ruta Kilmonis
woman brother mountain man townsperson father love interest heartwarming rousing lighthearted cabin mountain barn oregon manners banishment kidnapping marriage courtship mob mentality transformation
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1958
110 Minutes
Director
fan wife devil baseball player temptress reporter charming amusing lighthearted washington, d.c. family home baseball field fandom baseball contract supernatural marriage new life love metamorphosis
A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the league pennant.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1957
103 Minutes
Director
Audrey Hepburn Fred Astaire Kay Thompson Michel Auclair Suzy Parker Ruta Kilmonis Robert Flemyng Sue England
photographer model bookseller magazine editor philosopher frenchman amusing heartwarming playful greenwich village paris museum eiffel tower bookstore fashion modeling travel romance photography love
An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.
Comedy
UK
1967
104 Minutes
Director
Peter Cook Dudley Moore Eleanor Bron Raquel Welch Robert Russell Barry Humphries Parnell McGarry Daniele Noel Howard Goorney Michael Bates Bernard Spear
cook devil waitress sexy woman outlandish charming spirited london restaurant wishes infatuation love desire fantasy temptation discovery rise love 1960s
A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.
Romance
UK
1958
100 Minutes
Director
Cary Grant Ingrid Bergman Cecil Parker Phyllis Calvert David Kossoff Megs Jenkins Oliver Johnston Middleton Woods
actress diplomat banker wife love interest charming passionate london apartment banquet hall restaurant love triangle marriage affair nato foreign relations deception forbidden love quest 1950s
An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him...even though he's already married.
Musical, Romance
USA
1957
101 Minutes
Director
Doris Day John Raitt Carol Haney Eddie Foy Jr. Buzz Miller Ralph Chambers
factory worker superintendent foreman bookkeeper father activist spirited amusing campy iowa factory office household restaurant street labor factories trade unions strike jealousy
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
Musical, Kids & Family
UK|USA
1974
88 Minutes
Director
Richard Kiley Steven Warner Bob Fosse Gene Wilder Joss Ackland Clive Revill Donna McKechnie Victor Spinetti
A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.
Comedy
UK
1960
105 Minutes
Director
Cary Grant Deborah Kerr Robert Mitchum Jean Simmons Moray Watson
tourist husband wife millionaire oil baron airy amusing witty tender moving emotional endearing castle england love triangle infidelity wealth loss of money love fall
Victor and Hilary have guided tours in their English mansion. A US oil tycoon "bumps" into Hilary during a tour and charms his way into her heart. Meanwhile, Hattie pursues Victor.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1966
105 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Sophia Loren Alan Badel Kieron Moore Carl Duering John Merivale Duncan Lamont George Coulouris Ernest Clark Harold Kasket Gordon Griffin
professor spy villain femme fatale politician amusing engaging middle east england espionage investigation assassination dangerous assignment romance deception quest adventure discovery 1960s
Story of international intrigue involving a university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics.
Biography
USA
1954
132 Minutes
Director
Jose Ferrer Merle Oberon Helen Traubel Doe Avedon Walter Pidgeon Paul Henreid Tamara Toumanova Paul Stewart Isobel Elsom David Burns Jim Backus
composer wife singer musician melodramatic charming theater new york city music romance success love rise 1920s
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1953
82 Minutes
Director
Gower Champion Debbie Reynolds Marge Champion Kurt Kaszner Helen Wood Bob Fosse Richard Anderson William Ching Lurene Tuttle Larry Keating Donna Martell
singer dancer producer choreographer rival husband endearing charming airy amusing broadway theater stage apartment theater aspirations difficult decision competition musical revue rivalry rise
The star of an upcoming Broadway production, Janet Hallson, walks out during rehersals. The producers of the show, Ted Sturgis, Leo Belney and Bob Dowdy begin to search a replacement. After... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1983
110 Minutes
Director
Michael Caine Joseph Bologna Michelle Johnson Valerie Harper Demi Moore José Lewgoy
middle-aged man father friend daughter wife playful emotional rio de janeiro são paulo beach brazil vacation father/daughter relationship may-december romance infidelity friendship marital problems temptation forbidden love 1980s
Best friends and their daughters vacation in Rio de Janeiro only for one to fall for the other's daughter.
Romance
USA
1952
81 Minutes
Director
Elizabeth Taylor Larry Parks Tom Tully Josephine Hutchinson Ann Doran Elinor Donahue Kathleen Freeman Doreen McCann Alex Gerry Richard Wessel
agent dance instructor mother father client spirited cheery winsome emotional connecticut new york city nightclub bar baseball field hotel music industry courtship deception commitment family
The dancing teacher Anastacia "Stacie" Macaboy (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) falls in love with the smart theatre agent Jud Parker (Larry Parks). He likes her, too, but does not want to give up ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1957
105 Minutes
Director
Cary Grant Jayne Mansfield Suzy Parker Leif Erickson Ray Walston Larry Blyden Nathaniel Frey Werner Klemperer Jack Mullaney Ben Wright Michael Ross
pilot pr person war profiteer fiancée bombshell witty amusing charming san francisco hotel airport honolulu bar navy shore leave world war ii romance adventure love 1940s
In 1944, three Navy pilots stationed in Hawaii and a P.R. officer go on a 4-day leave to San Francisco where they party with a good crowd in the executive suite of a busy hotel.
Comedy
UK
1960
100 Minutes
Director
Yul Brynner Mitzi Gaynor Noel Coward Barry Foster Eric Pohlmann George Coulouris Guy Deghy Warren Mitchell
gangster girlfriend king ruler police chief doctor cheeky winsome wild greece island villa exile double-cross money laundering financial troubles theft unlikely allies adventure discovery
An American gangster is exiled from the United States for criminal activity and is sent back to the Greek island where he was born. Once on the island, he is watched by a corrupt local ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1969
100 Minutes
Director
Richard Burton Rex Harrison Cathleen Nesbitt Beatrix Lehmann Royston Starr Jake Kavanagh Dermot Kelly
homosexual hairdresser mother hustler business partner boyfriend amusing sad witty touching london barbershop apartment nightclub relationships mother/son relationship aging homosexuality love love
Charles Dyer (Sir Rex Harrison) and Harry Leeds (Richard Burton) are a couple that have been living together for nearly twenty years. Both earn a living as hairdressers in the West End of ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1975
118 Minutes
Director
Gene Hackman Liza Minnelli Burt Reynolds Geoffrey Lewis John Hillerman Robby Benson Michael Hordern Anthony Holland John McLiam Val Avery Louis Guss
smuggler best friend cabaret performer criminal police captain engaging playful boat mexico club alcohol love triangle crime mobsters prohibition jealousy love pursuit 1930s
A trio of rum-runners during prohibition in the 1930s engage in a menage-a-trois after business hours.
Sci-Fi
UK
1980
88 Minutes
Director
Farrah Fawcett Kirk Douglas Harvey Keitel Douglas Lambert Ed Bishop Christopher Muncke
scientist robot researcher engaging gripping madcap shocking spirited space station spacecraft scientific experiments robotics space space exploration science fiction mystery pursuit adventure 1980s
Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot robot.
Musical, Comedy
1955
102 Minutes
Director
Gene Kelly Gene Kelly Dan Dailey Cyd Charisse Dolores Gray Michael Kidd David Burns Jay C. Flippen Steve Mitchell Hal March Paul Maxey
veteran friend program coordinator gangster tv personality charming amusing new york city bar television studio friendship reunion world war ii television failure debt quest transformation pursuit 1940s
A talk-show staffer (Cyd Charisse) puts a fight manager (Gene Kelly), adman (Dan Dailey) and cook on TV 10 years after they parted as GIs.
Comedy
1978
106 Minutes
Director
George C. Scott Trish Van Devere Harry Hamlin Red Buttons Eli Wallach Ann Reinking Jocelyn Brando Michael Kidd Kathleen Beller Barry Bostwick Art Carney
boxer producer gangster beautiful woman daughter diva witty hilarious lighthearted boxing ring nightclub new york city broadway theater boxing broadway loss of innocence redemption song and dance world war i transformation
Old-movie parodies: "Dynamite Hands," about a boxing law student (Harry Hamlin) ; "Baxter's Beauties of 1933," about a producer's (George C. Scott) show.