Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz

December 24, 1886

Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 — April 10, 1962), born Manó Kaminer, was a Hungarian-American film director. He had early credits as Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész. He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the United States. The best-known were The Adventures o…

Known For

47 titles
1
Casablanca

Casablanca

1943 · 1h 42m · Movie

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

8.5
2
White Christmas

White Christmas

1954 · 2h 0m · Movie

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

7.5
3
The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1938 · 1h 42m · Movie

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.

7.9
4
Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce

1945 · 1h 51m · Movie

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

7.9
5
Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces

1938 · 1h 37m · Movie

A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

7.9
6
Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942 · 2h 6m · Movie

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

7.6
7
Captain Blood

Captain Blood

1935 · 1h 59m · Movie

After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.

7.7
8
We're No Angels

We're No Angels

1955 · 1h 46m · Movie

Three Devil's Island escapees hide out in the house of a kindly merchant and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises.

7.3
9
The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk

1940 · 2h 7m · Movie

Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for an attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills with the sword.

7.6
10
The Comancheros

The Comancheros

1961 · 1h 47m · Movie

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves dealing with the Comanches known as Comancheros.

6.8
11
Mystery of the Wax Museum

Mystery of the Wax Museum

1933 · 1h 17m · Movie

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

6.8
12
King Creole

King Creole

1958 · 1h 56m · Movie

A troubled youth's singing sets New Orleans rockin'. With a sweet girl to love him and nightclubbers cheering, it seems he will shake off his past and head for the top. But will a mobster and his man-trap moll snare him in a life ...

7.0
13
Life with Father

Life with Father

1947 · 1h 58m · Movie

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

7.1
14
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939 · 1h 46m · Movie

A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.

7.0
15
Dodge City

Dodge City

1939 · 1h 44m · Movie

A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.

7.1
16
The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1936 · 1h 55m · Movie

A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.

7.0
17
Marked Woman

Marked Woman

1937 · 1h 36m · Movie

A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.

7.1
18
Passage to Marseille

Passage to Marseille

1944 · 1h 49m · Movie

Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.

6.8
19
Doctor X

Doctor X

1932 · 1h 16m · Movie

A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

6.4
20
The Breaking Point

The Breaking Point

1950 · 1h 37m · Movie

An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.

7.5
21
The Egyptian

The Egyptian

1954 · 2h 19m · Movie

In ancient Egypt, a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaoh's court where he witnesses palace intrigues and learns dangerous royal secrets.

6.5
22
The Sea Wolf

The Sea Wolf

1941 · 1h 40m · Movie

After being fished out of the sea by a sailing ship, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore, and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.

7.5
23
Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail

1940 · 1h 50m · Movie

In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

6.2
24
The Kennel Murder Case

The Kennel Murder Case

1933 · 1h 13m · Movie

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

6.8
25
Young Man with a Horn

Young Man with a Horn

1950 · 1h 52m · Movie

A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.

7.2
26
Flamingo Road

Flamingo Road

1949 · 1h 34m · Movie

A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.

7.0
27
The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead

1936 · 1h 6m · Movie

After hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.

6.6
28
20,000 Years in Sing Sing

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

1932 · 1h 18m · Movie

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing prison cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but the tough but compassionate warden is able to effect change in him.

6.8
29
Virginia City

Virginia City

1940 · 2h 1m · Movie

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate prison and is sent to Virginia City, Nevada, where he finds out that the former commander of his prison, Vance Irby, is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confeder...

6.8
30
Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas

1948 · 1h 39m · Movie

Romantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity.

7.0
31
Jim Thorpe -- All-American

Jim Thorpe -- All-American

1951 · 1h 47m · Movie

The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.

6.9
32
Four Daughters

Four Daughters

1938 · 1h 30m · Movie

A musician is blessed with four musical prodigies, all girls, and cursed when a troubled young composer enters the lives of his daughters.

6.9
33
Anthony Adverse

Anthony Adverse

1936 · 2h 21m · Movie

In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.

6.3
34
My Dream Is Yours

My Dream Is Yours

1949 · 1h 41m · Movie

An agent must search for a new personality to replace a popular singer who refuses to renew his radio contract. He finds one in the form of a single mother, but complications soon occur.

6.6
35
Captains of the Clouds

Captains of the Clouds

1942 · 1h 54m · Movie

Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF but are deemed too old to be fliers.

6.4
36
The Hangman

The Hangman

1959 · 1h 27m · Movie

U.S. Marshal Bovard comes to a small border town to identify and arrest a fugitive, but the whole town seems determined to prevent the Marshal from doing his job.

6.6