Search results for "Joseph L. Mankiewicz"
Cleopatra (1963)

Cleopatra (1963)

Cleopatra (1963)
IMDb: 7.0
192 min

Julius Caesar (Sir Rex Harrison), 48 B.C. pursues Pompey, from Pharsalia into Egypt. After deposing Cleopatra VII (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII(Richard O’Sullivan) is now the supreme ruler. He…

All About Eve

All About Eve

All About Eve
IMDb: 8.3
138 min

Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), is backstage waiting to see her idol Margo Channing, a talented but old Broadway star (Bette Davis). As Eve tells Eve, she’s seen Margo at every…

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Genre: Drama
Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls
IMDb: 7.1
150 min

Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that…

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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
There Was a Crooked Man…

There Was a Crooked Man…

There Was a Crooked Man…
IMDb: 6.9
126 min

Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a…

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Genre: Western
The Barefoot Contessa

The Barefoot Contessa

The Barefoot Contessa
IMDb: 7.0
128 min

Many people recalled Maria Vargas and her impact on their lives at Maria Vargas’s funeral. Harry Dawes, a writer/director who was not very well-known, met her at an incontinence nightclub….

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Genre: Drama
Dragonwyck

Dragonwyck

Dragonwyck
IMDb: 7.0
103 min

For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas’…

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5 Fingers

5 Fingers

5 Fingers
IMDb: 7.7
108 min

During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
House of Strangers

House of Strangers

House of Strangers
IMDb: 7.4
101 min

Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
IMDb: 7.3
120 min

Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition will lead to tyranny. The people of Rome are on their side until Antony, Caesar's right-hand man,…

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Genre: Drama, History
Sleuth (1972)

Sleuth (1972)

Sleuth (1972)
IMDb: 8.0
138 min

Andrew Wyke is a famous and successful author of detective novels. Milo Tindle comes to him with a strange request, that Mr Wyke divorce his wife so that Tindle can…

No Way Out

No Way Out

No Way Out
IMDb: 7.4
106 min

The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Somewhere in the Night

Somewhere in the Night

Somewhere in the Night
IMDb: 7.1
110 min

During World War II, a soldier is hit by a grenade that deforms his face and leaves him with amnesia. Sometime later, he is recovered and learns that his name…

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
IMDb: 7.9
104 min

In 1900, Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney), widowed for one year, decides to move out of her controlling in-law's house in London to the English seaside with her adolescent daughter Anna…

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People Will Talk

People Will Talk

People Will Talk
IMDb: 7.4
110 min

Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witch hunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
The Quiet American

The Quiet American

The Quiet American
IMDb: 6.8
120 min

In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure in pre-war Indochina, Audie Murphy plays an innocent Young American opposite the older, cynical Brit Sir Michael…

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Genre: Romance, Thriller, War
The Honey Pot

The Honey Pot

The Honey Pot
IMDb: 6.8
150 min

Inspired by a performance of his favorite play, "Volpone," twentieth century millionaire Cecil Fox (Sir Rex Harrison) devises an intricate plan to trick three of his former mistresses into believing…

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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Suddenly, Last Summer

Suddenly, Last Summer

Suddenly, Last Summer
IMDb: 7.6
114 min

A wealthy harridan, Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn), attempts to bribe Dr. John Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift), a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans, Louisiana mental hospital that is desperately in need…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives
IMDb: 7.7
103 min

Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks she is just a gold digger. Rita Phipps makes as much…

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Genre: Romance