Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck

July 16, 1907 · 119 years old

Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress. A film and television star, she was known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence and was a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank C…

Known For

45 titles
1
Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

1944 · 1h 47m · Movie

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

8.3
2
The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve

1941 · 1h 34m · Movie

A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.

7.7
3
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982 · 1h 28m · Movie

Film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from classic noir films appear as scenes from various movies interjected into the story.

6.8
4
Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe

1941 · 2h 2m · Movie

A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

7.6
5
Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire

1941 · 1h 51m · Movie

A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.

7.7
6
Christmas in Connecticut

Christmas in Connecticut

1945 · 1h 41m · Movie

A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.

7.3
7
Sorry, Wrong Number

Sorry, Wrong Number

1948 · 1h 29m · Movie

When neurotic bedridden wife Leona Stevenson overhears a murder plot on her telephone, she tries to piece the puzzle together and prevent the murder. Based on Lucille Fletcher's famous radio play.

7.3
8
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1946 · 1h 56m · Movie

A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier. Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.

7.4
9
Baby Face

Baby Face

1933 · 1h 11m · Movie

A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank by gleefully seducing her way to the top.

7.5
10
Remember the Night

Remember the Night

1940 · 1h 34m · Movie

Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.

7.5
11
Titanic

Titanic

1953 · 1h 38m · Movie

An unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the luxurious, ill-fated RMS Titanic.

7.0
12
Clash by Night

Clash by Night

1952 · 1h 45m · Movie

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

7.0
13
Forty Guns

Forty Guns

1957 · 1h 20m · Movie

Showdown in Arizona between the Bonnell brothers, U.S.Marshals, and Jessica Drummond, the iron-fist rancher who controls the territory.

7.0
14
Stella Dallas

Stella Dallas

1937 · 1h 46m · Movie

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.

7.4
15
Executive Suite

Executive Suite

1954 · 1h 44m · Movie

When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him.

7.4
16
Night Nurse

Night Nurse

1931 · 1h 12m · Movie

A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children.

7.0
17
The Bitter Tea of General Yen

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

1932 · 1h 28m · Movie

A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.

6.9
18
The Furies

The Furies

1950 · 1h 49m · Movie

A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon, but their relationship turns ugly only when he finds himself a new woman.

7.3
19
Union Pacific

Union Pacific

1939 · 2h 15m · Movie

In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.

7.0
20
Witness to Murder

Witness to Murder

1954 · 1h 23m · Movie

A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.

6.6
21
The Violent Men

The Violent Men

1955 · 1h 36m · Movie

A bitter land dispute causes a Civil War veteran to take extreme action.

6.9
22
Roustabout

Roustabout

1964 · 1h 41m · Movie

After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father.

6.0
23
Lady of Burlesque

Lady of Burlesque

1943 · 1h 31m · Movie

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before he strikes again.

6.3
24
The Mad Miss Manton

The Mad Miss Manton

1938 · 1h 20m · Movie

After the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

6.7
25
Walk on the Wild Side

Walk on the Wild Side

1962 · 1h 54m · Movie

Poor lovesick white-trash Dove Linkhorn arrives in New Orleans searching for his former girlfriend Hallie Gerard, an artist who works in The Doll House brothel, whose madam Jo Courtney considers her girls to be her property.

6.7
26
Crime of Passion

Crime of Passion

1956 · 1h 26m · Movie

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.

6.4
27
No Man of Her Own

No Man of Her Own

1950 · 1h 38m · Movie

A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad-crash victim and starts a new life with the woman's wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.

7.4
28
The Miracle Woman

The Miracle Woman

1931 · 1h 30m · Movie

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?

7.2
29
Forbidden

Forbidden

1932 · 1h 25m · Movie

A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.

6.9
30
My Reputation

My Reputation

1946 · 1h 34m · Movie

A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and becomes romantically involved with him despite pressures from friends and family.

7.0
31
The Purchase Price

The Purchase Price

1932 · 1h 8m · Movie

A torch singer becomes a farmer's mail-order bride.

6.4
32
Ladies They Talk About

Ladies They Talk About

1933 · 1h 9m · Movie

Attractive Nan, member of a bank-robbery gang, goes to prison thanks to evangelist Dave Slade...who loves her.

6.6
33
Ladies of Leisure

Ladies of Leisure

1930 · 1h 39m · Movie

An upper-crust artist hires a 'party girl' as a model; romance follows.

6.7
34
Blowing Wild

Blowing Wild

1953 · 1h 30m · Movie

In South America, after Jeff Dawson and Dutch Peterson's oil rigs are dynamited by local bandits, the two partners resort to risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise money.

6.4
35
Shopworn

Shopworn

1932 · 1h 12m · Movie

A poor woman and a man from an upper-class family fall in love, but his mother will go to any lengths to prevent their marriage.

6.4
36
Flesh and Fantasy

Flesh and Fantasy

1943 · 1h 34m · Movie

An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.

6.9