List of the best Sylvia Sidney movies: Fury(1936), Street Scene(1931), You Only Live Once(1937), Sabotage(1936), Thirty Day Princess(1934), The Trail of the Lonesome Pine(1936), Merrily We Go to Hell(1932), Jennie Gerhardt(1933), Accent on Youth(1935), Madame Butterfly(1932), Behold My Wife(1935), Ladies of the Big House(1931) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1936
90 Minutes
Sylvia Sidney Spencer Tracy Walter Abel Bruce Cabot Edward Ellis Walter Brennan Frank Albertson
wrongly accused girlfriend lawyer fiery intense america prison crime revenge revenge fall quest 1930s
When a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.
Drama
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Rose Maurrant
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.
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
86 Minutes
Sylvia Sidney Henry Fonda Barton MacLane William Gargan Jean Dixon Jerome Cowan Margaret Hamilton Ward Bond Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
secretary ex-convict public defender tense melodramatic passionate prison courtroom hotel on the run loyalty love morality law sacrifice temptation escape 1930s
The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1936
76 Minutes
Sylvia Sidney Oscar Homolka Desmond Tester John Loder Joyce Barbour Matthew Boulton S.J. Warmington William Dewhurst Austin Trevor Torin Thatcher Aubrey Mather
saboteur detective wife brother professor dark intense suspenseful london movie theater sabotage terrorism lie bomb working undercover mystery discovery 1930s
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1934
75 Minutes
Nancy Lane, Princess Catterina
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
Adventure
USA
1936
102 Minutes
June Tolliver
engineer cousin love interest father brother neighbor engaging tense kentucky coal mine countryside house city feud poverty family railroad love triangle death rivalry
A railroad man from the city befriends a mountain girl in a Kentucky family feud.
Comedy
USA
1932
78 Minutes
Joan Prentice
Sylvia Sidney Fredric March Adrianne Allen
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Romance
USA
1933
85 Minutes
Jennie Gerhardt
laundress mother father pregnant woman love interest cousin bleak disheartening emotional cincinnati chicago columbus, ohio europe death class struggle self-sacrifice lost loves accident sacrifice forbidden love
Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets George Brander, a United State Senator, who becomes infatuated with her. He helps her family and declares his wish to marry her.
Romance
USA
1935
77 Minutes
Linda Brown
Sylvia Sidney Herbert Marshall Philip Reed Holmes Herbert Catherine Doucet Astrid Allwyn
playwright secretary fiancée actor boss love interest playful lighthearted office apartment theater stage california beach may-december romance plays life imitating art jealousy misunderstanding marriage
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
Romance
USA
1932
86 Minutes
Cho-Cho San
naval officer young girl child bride geisha suitor emotional melodramatic japan bar family home abandonment misunderstanding cultural differences race relations shore leave lust love fall discovery
Lieutenant Pinkerton marries geisha-in-training but soon after abandons her and goes back to the US.
Drama
USA
1935
80 Minutes
Tonita Storm Cloud
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
76 Minutes
Kathleen Storm McNeil
Sylvia Sidney Gene Raymond Wynne Gibson Rockliffe Fellowes Earle Foxe Frank Sheridan Edna Bennett Fritzi Ridgeway Louise Beavers Miriam Goldina
Married couple is imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit.
Drama
1939
79 Minutes
Mary Rogers
Sylvia Sidney Leif Erickson Myron McCormick Hiram Sherman Sidney Lumet Muriel Hutchison Horace Sinclair
An old-money heir (Leif Erickson) falls in love with a girl (Sylvia Sidney) from one of the New York tenements he owns.
Crime, Drama
1935
84 Minutes
Mary Burns
woman gangster cellmate explorer government agent engaging intense suspenseful diner cell apartment hospital nightclub lake crime gangsters false accusations fugitives nursing romance
A gangster's (Alan Baxter) ex-girlfriend (Sylvia Sidney) finds true love with a man (Melvyn Douglas) who helps her hide.
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
82 Minutes
Nan Cooley
Gary Cooper Sylvia Sidney Paul Lukas Guy Kibbee William "Stage" Boyd Wynne Gibson Betty Sinclair Stanley Fields Terry Carroll Edward LeSaint Robert Homans
Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.
Drama
USA
1931
96 Minutes
Phillips Holmes Sylvia Sidney Frances Dee Irving Pichel Emmett Corrigan Charles Middleton
A poor factory worker, employed by a wealthy uncle, falls in love with a beautiful heiress but his happiness and promising future are jeopardized by a previous affair with a coworker he impregnated.
Drama
USA
1941
84 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Sylvia Sidney Eddie Albert Joan Leslie Sig Ruman Cliff Clark Charles Foy Frank Wilcox Clara Blandick Aldrich Bowker Garry Owen
animal trainer circus performer carnival worker sister girlfriend emotional melodramatic carnival small town carnivals lion taming romance jealousy discovery love transformation 1940s
After local grocery clerk rescues a baby from an escaped lion, a circus owner builds him into an attraction but balks when he falls in love with his sister.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
81 Minutes
Cecily Harrington
John Hodiak Sylvia Sidney Ann Richards John Howard Isobel Elsom Frederick Worlock Ernest Cossart Philip Tonge Anita Sharp-Bolster Billy Bevan
A newly married woman begins to suspect that her husband is a killer. Even worse, she soon comes to believe that she will be his next victim.
Drama
1983
81 Minutes
Grandmother
Dina Merrill Sylvia Sidney April Lerman
A 13-year-old's growing pains are further complicated by her mother's mental illness and need for institutionalization.
War
1945
98 Minutes
James Cagney Sylvia Sidney Wallace Ford Rosemary DeCamp Robert Armstrong John Emery Leonard Strong Frank Puglia John Halloran Marvin Miller Rhys Williams
reporter colonel captain police officer politician beautiful woman tense thrilling tokyo newsroom ship on the run american embassy japan idealism murder corruption newspapers running away imperialism
The U.S. editor (James Cagney) of a Tokyo newspaper smuggles out a Japanese military plan several years before World War II.
Drama
USA
1973
93 Minutes
Mrs. Pritchett
Joanne Woodward Martin Balsam Sylvia Sidney Dori Brenner Win Forman Tresa Hughes Peter Marklin Ron Richards Charley Oberley Minerva Pious Helen Ludlam
wife mother husband daughter dark emotional family home farm france battlefield family death mother/child relationship childhood transformation 1970s
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor ... See full summary »
Horror, Sci-Fi, Crime, Drama
USA
1976
91 Minutes
Elizabeth Mullin
Tony Lo Bianco Sandy Dennis Richard Lynch Deborah Raffin Sylvia Sidney Sam Levene Robert Drivas Mike Kellin
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
Romance
1982
100 Minutes
Marney
Diane Cannon Barry Newman Hart Bochner Melanie Chartoff Sylvia Sidney Eric Walker Gay Hagen Frank Delsi Andra Millian Richard Hochberg Heather Hobbs
Living two separate lives, a bicoastal fashion designer has a husband in New York and a husband in Los Angeles.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
1977
96 Minutes
Mrs. Carrie Rill
Bo Svenson Yvette Mimieux Robert Logan Clint Walker Sylvia Sidney Michael J. London Thomas W. Babson Kathy Christopher Anne McEncroe Jacquie Bolts Richard Jamison
A skier (Bo Svenson) and his wife (Yvette Mimieux) visit a friend's ski resort during a man-beast's rampage.
Drama
1980
103 Minutes
Felicity
Joanne Woodward Christopher Plummer Valerie Harper James Broderick Sylvia Sidney Melinda Dillon Ben Masters Curtiss Marlowe John Considine
Drama
USA|Japan
1992
115 Minutes
Becky
Shirley MacLaine Kathy Bates Jessica Tandy Marcello Mastroianni Marcia Gay Harden Sylvia Sidney Joe Pantoliano Mathew Branton Bob Dishy Charles Cioffi Louis Guss
At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1988
92 Minutes
Juno
Michael Keaton Alec Baldwin Geena Davis Jeffrey Jones Catherine O'Hara Winona Ryder Sylvia Sidney Robert Goulet Glenn Shadix Dick Cavett Annie McEnroe
ghost husband sculptor daughter wife quirky amusing spirited country house new england small town afterlife ghosts haunted houses death art exploitation quest escape 1980s
The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Horror
UK|USA
1978
108 Minutes
Aunt Marion
William Holden Lee Grant Jonathan Scott-Taylor Robert Foxworth Nicholas Pryor Lew Ayres Sylvia Sidney Lance Henriksen Lucas Donat Allan Arbus Meshach Taylor
orphan aunt uncle cousin antichrist chilling gory creepy chicago military academy museum satanism death archaeology supernatural evil transformation rise metamorphosis growing up
Damien the Antichrist, now about to turn thirteen years old, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.
Drama
1977
150 Minutes
Dora Bloch
Peter Finch Martin Balsam Horst Buchholz Charles Bronson John Saxon Jack Warden Sylvia Sidney Yaphet Kotto Robert Loggia James Woods Dinah Manoff
commando hostage terrorist government official yitzhak rabin passenger intense suspenseful airplane airport uganda israel terrorism stand-off hijacking commando assault israeli-palestinian conflict quest rescue 1970s
Israeli commandos raid Uganda's airport in 1976 to free hostages from Palestinian-terrorist hijackers.
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
91 Minutes
Elsie Braden
Victor Mature Richard Egan Stephen McNally Virginia Leith Tommy Noonan Lee Marvin Margaret Hayes J. Carrol Naish Sylvia Sidney Ernest Borgnine Dorothy Patrick
criminal father son husband wife farmer dark emotional small town mine bank household farm arizona bank heist voyeurism father/son relationship infidelity hostage situation violence
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
Comedy
USA
1996
103 Minutes
Jack Nicholson Glenn Close Annette Bening Pierce Brosnan Danny DeVito Martin Short Sarah Jessica Parker Michael J. Fox Rod Steiger Lukas Haas Natalie Portman
u.s. president first lady congressman scientist military officer alien campy unrestrained playful creative washington, d.c. new york city nevada las vegas kansas alien invasion first contact nuclear war apocalypse world superpowers
Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.