List of the best Vincente Minnelli movies: The Bad and the Beautiful(1952), Meet Me in St. Louis(1944), Home From the Hill(1960), Some Came Running(1958), Lust for Life(1956), Tea and Sympathy(1956), An American in Paris(1951), Father's Little Dividend(1951), Father of the Bride(1950), Cabin in the Sky(1943), Madame Bovary(1949), The Story of Three Loves(1953) ... ...
Drama
USA
1952
118 Minutes
Director
Lana Turner Kirk Douglas Walter Pidgeon Dick Powell Barry Sullivan Gloria Grahame Gilbert Roland Leo G. Carroll Vanessa Brown Paul Stewart Sammy White
movie star writer director producer brooding cool spirited tense engaging hollywood, calif. manipulation cheating hollywood ambition betrayal underdog fall rise wretched excess 1950s
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
Musical
USA
1944
113 Minutes
Director
Judy Garland Margaret O'Brien Leon Ames Lucille Bremer Tom Drake Mary Astor Marjorie Main June Lockhart Harry Davenport Joan Carroll Hugh Marlowe
sister mother father boy grandfather tailor airy charming spirited endearing heartwarming st. louis household love love triangle ball world's fair metamorphosis rivalry transformation
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Drama
USA
1960
150 Minutes
Director
Robert Mitchum Eleanor Parker George Peppard George Hamilton Everett Sloane Luana Patten Anne Seymour Constance Ford Ken Renard Ray Teal Hilda Haynes
wealthy man son mother girl shopkeeper shocking melodramatic texas family home grocery store cabin wilderness cemetery infidelity father/son relationship wealth family dysfunction growing up rise 1960s
Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.
Drama
USA
1958
137 Minutes
Director
Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Shirley MacLaine Martha Hyer Arthur Kennedy Nancy Gates Leora Dana Betty Lou Keim Larry Gates Stephen Apostle Pec Connie Gilchrist
writer woman teacher gambler brother brooding sad indiana small town fair drinking love triangle marriage war fall wretched excess 1940s
A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.
Biography
USA
1956
122 Minutes
Director
Kirk Douglas Anthony Quinn Everett Sloane James Donald Pamela Brown Niall MacGinnis Noel Purcell Henry Daniell Lionel Jeffries Eric Pohlmann
paul gauguin painter brother intense creative emotional france countryside holland vincent van gogh ambition mental illness art quest discovery fall 19th century
The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.
Drama
USA
1956
122 Minutes
Director
Deborah Kerr John Kerr Leif Erickson Edward Andrews Darryl Hickman Norma Crane Dean Jones Jacqueline de Wit Tom Laughlin Ralph Votrian Steve Terrell
student teacher wife father tramp melodramatic emotional prep school homosexuality infidelity friendship bullying love growing up discovery forbidden love 1950s
A new senior at a boy's prep school, finds himself harassed by the machismo culture of his classmates and the unfeelingly behavior by his father, only being treated with decency by his roommate and with affection by the coach's wife.
Musical, Romance
USA
1951
113 Minutes
Director
Gene Kelly Leslie Caron Oscar Levant Georges Guétary Nina Foch Eugene Borden Martha Barnattre Ann Codee George Davis Hayden Rorke Paul Maxey
painter singer patron heiress dancer love interest touching lighthearted paris nightclub restaurant affair song and dance celebration world war ii money love rivalry 1950s
Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
Comedy
USA
1951
82 Minutes
Director
Spencer Tracy Joan Bennett Elizabeth Taylor Don Taylor Billie Burke Moroni Olsen Richard Rober Marietta Canty Russ Tamblyn Tom Irish Hayden Rorke
father mother daughter son-in-law mother-in-law father-in-law amusing endearing touching united states household parenthood love family old age love growing up 1950s
The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.
Comedy
USA
1950
93 Minutes
Director
Spencer Tracy Elizabeth Taylor Joan Bennett Don Taylor Billie Burke Leo G. Carroll Moroni Olsen Melville Cooper Taylor Holmes Paul Harvey Frank Orth
father bride daughter mother groom amusing playful endearing america household church wedding marriage family aging parenthood love growing up 1950s
The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.
Musical
USA
1943
98 Minutes
Director
Ethel Waters Busby Berkeley Eddie Anderson Lena Horne Louis Armstrong Rex Ingram Kenneth Spencer John "Bubbles" Sublett Oscar Polk Mantan Moreland Willie Best
gambler wife sexy woman angel demon best friend amusing heartwarming playful bar church family home heaven purgatory gambling fidelity good deeds religion afterlife rivalry
A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.
Romance
USA
1949
115 Minutes
Director
Jennifer Jones Van Heflin Louis Jourdan James Mason Christopher Kent Gene Lockhart Frank Allenby Gladys Cooper John Abbott Harry Morgan George Zucco
wife husband doctor lawyer wealthy man disheartening emotional hedonistic sultry france small town adultery ambition love wealth marriage love fall temptation wretched excess
A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers and run up ruinous debts.
Drama
USA
1953
122 Minutes
Director
Moira Shearer Gottfried Reinhardt Leslie Caron Kirk Douglas Pier Angeli Ethel Barrymore Farley Granger James Mason Agnes Moorehead Zsa Zsa Gabor
governess trapeze artist choreographer ballerina boy witch melodramatic touching sad ocean liner rome london accidental death love romance wishes ambition traveling love metamorphosis
An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.
Musical
USA
1954
108 Minutes
Director
Gene Kelly Van Johnson Cyd Charisse Elaine Stewart Barry Jones Hugh Laing Albert Sharpe Virginia Bosler Jimmy Thompson Tudor Owen Owen McGivney
good guy love interest friend villager heartwarming mushy scotland mountain village love fable magic loss enchantment love 1950s
Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
Comedy
USA
1957
118 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Lauren Bacall Dolores Gray Sam Levene Tom Helmore Mickey Shaughnessy Jesse White Chuck Connors Edward Platt Alvy Moore Carol Veazie
reporter designer husband wife mobster charming amusing new york city romance crime investigative journalism love pursuit 1950s
A sportswriter and a fashion-designer marry after a whirlwind romance, and discover they have little in common.
Musical
USA
1958
116 Minutes
Director
Leslie Caron Maurice Chevalier Louis Jourdan Hermione Gingold Eva Gabor Jacques Bergerac Isabel Jeans John Abbott Monique van Vooren Lydia Stevens Edwin Jerome
wealthy man pretty woman mistress grandmother playful spirited uplifting paris love wealth high society love growing up transformation 1900s
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
116 Minutes
Director
Katharine Hepburn Robert Taylor Robert Mitchum Edmund Gwenn Marjorie Main Jayne Meadows Billy McLain
wife businessman brother father manager ex-girlfriend tense melodramatic striking washington, d.c. virginia family home san francisco ranch marriage secret past family history obsession suspicion murder
Middle-aged bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.
Drama
Mexico|USA
1962
153 Minutes
Director
Glenn Ford Ingrid Thulin Charles Boyer Lee J. Cobb Paul Henreid Paul Lukas Yvette Mimieux Karl Boehm Harriet MacGibbon Kathryn Givney Marcel Hillaire
nazi patriarch grandchild pilot nephew playboy bleak emotional fiery gripping powerful argentina germany france family death betrayal honor world war ii rivalry
In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.
Musical
USA
1946
110 Minutes
George Sidney William Powell Charles Walters Vincente Minnelli Judy Garland Fred Astaire Lucille Ball Fanny Brice Lena Horne
singer dancer actor actress comedian spirited spectacular charming lighthearted theater new york city song and dance show business love 1940s
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. looks down from Heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
Drama
USA
1955
124 Minutes
Director
Richard Widmark Lauren Bacall Charles Boyer Gloria Grahame Lillian Gish John Kerr Susan Strasberg Oscar Levant Paul Stewart Tommy Rettig
psychiatrist wife activities director medical director patient engaging intense uneasy melodramatic clinic library artist's studio office politics psychiatry mental illness power struggle battle of sexes experiments rivalry
At a private psychiatric clinic, the daily dramas and interactions between the doctors, nurses, administrators, benefactors and patients are accentuated by the personal and family crises of these individuals.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1970
129 Minutes
Director
Barbra Streisand Yves Montand Bob Newhart Larry Blyden Simon Oakland Jack Nicholson John Richardson Pamela Brown Irene Handl Roy Kinnear Peter Crowcroft
fiancé psychiatrist heavy smoker coquette amusing creative new york city classroom office hypnosis past life regression love triangle discovery transformation 1970s
A troubled young woman who visits a psychotherapist to help her quit smoking undergoes hypnosis and finds herself reliving a tragic Victorian romance from a past life.
Fantasy
USA
1955
113 Minutes
Director
Howard Keel Ann Blyth Dolores Gray Vic Damone Monty Woolley Sebastian Cabot Jay C. Flippen Mike Mazurki Jack Elam Ted de Corsia Julie Robinson
poet caliph thief wazir daughter cheeky intricate amusing baghdad market palace marriage poetry mistaken identity romance love escape ancient times
A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.
Drama
USA
1965
116 Minutes
Director
Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton Eva Marie Saint Charles Bronson Robert Webber James Edwards Torin Thatcher Tom Drake Douglas Henderson Morgan Mason Dusty Cadis
artist illegitimate son minister headmaster teacher wife brooding melodramatic powerful passionate monterey, calif. boarding school church beach house guilt single mothers love triangle doomed romance infidelity mother/son relationship
A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
Comedy
USA
1964
117 Minutes
Director
Tony Curtis Debbie Reynolds Pat Boone Joanna Barnes Ellen Burstyn Laura Devon Martin Gabel Roger C. Carmel
Womanizing Charlie is shot by an angry husband and falls in the sea. He arrives home after his memorial as a cute, amnesic woman. His old friend helps her/him.
Musical
USA
1945
108 Minutes
Director
Fred Astaire Lucille Bremer Frank Morgan Mildred Natwick Mary Nash Leon Ames
con artist partner heiress aunt guardian angel hilarious frenetic heartwarming latin america convent inheritance swindling opposites attract religion deception change of heart love transformation quest 1940s
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
Italy|USA
1976
99 Minutes
Director
movie star countess count melodramatic offbeat press conference italy hotel stardom fantasy world memory aspirations life lessons imagination growing up transformation 1970s
A simple young woman helps eccentric old countess deal with her old age and she introduces the young woman to a world of upper class society.
Drama
1962
106 Minutes
Director
Kirk Douglas Edward G. Robinson Cyd Charisse George Hamilton Claire Trevor Daliah Lavi Rosanna Schiaffino
director wife actor woman leading man doctor emotional frenetic inspiring amusing mental institution hollywood, calif. new england rome movie set apartment alcoholism mental breakdown failing career hollywood
An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to make a comeback in Rome.
Musical, Comedy
1943
102 Minutes
Director
Red Skelton Eleanor Powell Richard Ainley Patricia Dane Sam Levene Thurston Hall John Hodiak Butterfly McQueen Marjorie Gateson Andrew Tombes
broadway star cleaner actor fiancé socialite amusing charming emotional intricate store nightclub theater hotel marriage of convenience infidelity class distinctions impersonation sabotage unlikely romance underdog
An assistant tailor (Red Skelton) courts a New York dancer (Eleanor Powell) and exposes wartime spies.
Musical
1953
112 Minutes
Director
Fred Astaire Cyd Charisse Oscar Levant Nanette Fabray Jack Buchanan James Mitchell Robert Gist
movie star director writer choreographer ballerina spectacular playful new york city new haven, conn. central park apartment broadway theater show business musical performance egoism friendship manipulation ambition quest love
Two playwrights bring a movie dancer (Fred Astaire) to New York for a Broadway show with a ballerina (Cyd Charisse).