Movies by Actor - Melvyn Douglas (87 [Missing: 15]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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Tonight or NeverA young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer. | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Romance | 6.5 (1.4K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
As You Desire MeAn officer tries to convince an amnesiac bar entertainer that she is his long-lost lover. | 1932 | George Fitzmaurice | Drama,Romance | 6.4 (691 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Broken Wing, TheIn a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a misnomer indeed!)is, he proves unable to charm Lolita, the shapely daughter of his neighbor, a big-time rancher. Lolita expects bette | 1932 | Lloyd Corrigan | Drama,Romance | 5.5 (27 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Old Dark House, TheSeeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate. | 1932 | James Whale | Adventure,Comedy,Drama | 7.1 (10.7K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
PrestigeA woman travels to a French penal colony in Indo China to be with her fiancée, the commander. She arrives to find that he is now an alcoholic. | 1931 | Tay Garnett | Adventure,Drama | 5.7 (277 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
The Wiser SexNA | 1932 | | Comedy,Drama | | | Not Available |
Counsellor at LawSuccessful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns his wife has been unfaithful. | 1933 | William Wyler | Comedy,Drama | 7.6 (1.2K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
NaganaNA | 1933 | | Adventure,Drama,Romance | | | Not Available |
Vampire Bat, TheWhen corpses drained of blood begin to show up in a European village, vampirism is suspected to be responsible. | 1933 | Frank R. Strayer | Drama,Horror,Mystery | 5.8 (2.5K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Dangerous CornerAn unexpected suicide prompts much speculation about honesty and theft. | 1934 | Phil Rosen | Mystery | 6.0 (310 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Woman in the DarkA paroled prisoner hits a man attacking a woman. He runs away scared that he may have killed him - he did not. From a book "Woman in the Dark" by Dashiell Hammett. | 1934 | Phil Rosen | Crime,Drama | 6.0 (414 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Annie OakleyA romanticized biography of the famous sharpshooter. | 1935 | George Stevens | Biography,Drama,Western | 6.7 (1.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Lone Wolf Returns, TheOnce a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his old habits when he is tempted by the emerald | 1935 | Roy William Neill | Adventure,Crime,Mystery | 6.9 (140 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Mary Burns, FugitiveA young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to a long prison term. However, the authorities permit her to escape... | 1935 | William K. Howard | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 6.8 (291 votes) | 84 | 20221116 |
People's Enemy, TheMoney was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became rich what he craved for was respectability. So why not marry a lovely society lady? A | 1935 | Crane Wilbur | Action,Crime,Drama | 5.9 (45 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
She Married Her BossAn efficient secretary at a department store marries her boss, but discovers that taking care of him at home is a lot different to taking care of him at work. | 1935 | Gregory La Cava | Comedy,History,Mystery | 6.6 (632 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
And So They Were MarriedA bitter divorcée and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting married again, they begin to fall for each other. Their children, how | 1936 | Elliott Nugent | Comedy,Romance | 6.0 (387 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Gorgeous HussyPresident Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both. | 1936 | Clarence Brown | Drama,History | 5.6 (1.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Theodora Goes WildThe author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who'd be scandalized if they knew. | 1936 | Richard Boleslawski | Comedy,Mystery,Romance | 7.2 (2.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
AngelA woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man. | 1937 | Ernst Lubitsch | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 7.3 (2.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Captains CourageousA spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work. | 1937 | Victor Fleming | Adventure,Drama,Family | 8.0 (9.4K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
I Met Him in ParisKay Denham, romanced in Paris by friends Gene and George, can't figure out why George disapproves of Gene. | 1937 | Wesley Ruggles | Comedy,Romance | 6.1 (431 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
I'll Take RomanceAn opera manager tries to woo a contract-breaking soprano into performing in Buenos Aires. | 1937 | Edward H. Griffith | Music,Romance | 6.0 (130 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Women of GlamourA triangle romance involving Gloria Hudson (Virginia Bruce), a gold-digger from the wrong side of the tracks, a socialite, Carol Coulter (Leona Maricle), and Richard Stark (Melvyn Douglas), a wealthy artist. Fritz Eagan (Reginald Den | 1937 | Gordon Wiles | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 6.5 (49 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Arsene Lupin ReturnsA woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène L | 1938 | George Fitzmaurice | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 6.7 (471 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Fast CompanyA husband and wife team who are in rare books and are skillful at recovering stolen volumes for insurance companies become involved in the murder of a fence. | 1938 | Edward Buzzell | Comedy,Drama,Mystery | 6.6 (568 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Shining Hour, TheA nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law. | 1938 | Frank Borzage | Drama,Romance | 6.3 (1.1K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
That Certain AgeA teenage girl clashes with her newspaper publisher father's star reporter while he stays in their country guest house, but soon finds herself falling in love with him. | 1938 | Edward Ludwig | Comedy,Musical | 6.7 (358 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
There's Always a WomanAn investigator for the district attorney and his amateur-sleuth wife compete to solve a murder mystery. | 1938 | Alexander Hall | Comedy,Crime,Mystery | 6.7 (815 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Toy Wife, TheThe beautiful and frivolous wife of a plantation owner in antebellum Louisiana proves unsatisfactory at running the household, leading her serious-minded husband to enlist the help of her unmarried sister. | 1938 | Richard Thorpe | Drama,History,Romance | 5.8 (368 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Amazing Mr. Williams, TheKenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it | 1939 | Alexander Hall | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 6.5 (484 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Good Girls Go to ParisA Midwesterner waitress, scheming to gold-dig her way to Paris, gets mixed up with a wealthy New York family. | 1939 | Alexander Hall | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 6.7 (460 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
NinotchkaA stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest. | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch | Comedy,Romance | 7.9 (20.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Tell No TalesMichael Cassidy is the editor of a failing newspaper. A scoop would be welcome to boost the sales and to avoid closure. To this end, he decides to personally track down a gang of kidnappers. | 1939 | Leslie Fenton | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 6.6 (390 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
There's That Woman AgainBill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook. | 1938 | Alexander Hall | Comedy,Crime,Mystery | 6.0 (198 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
He Stayed For BreakfastIn Paris, the estranged wife of a wealthy banker hides a fiery communist fugitive in her apartment. | 1940 | Alexander Hall | Comedy | 6.3 (174 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Third Finger, Left HandA single magazine editor pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues, but complications ensue when she meets a potential suitor. | 1940 | Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy,Romance | 6.9 (953 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
This Thing Called LoveA woman insists to her new husband that they must remain celibate for the first three months of their marriage, which he tries desperately to get around. | 1940 | Alexander Hall | Comedy | 6.3 (168 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Too Many HusbandsLong-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband. | 1940 | Wesley Ruggles | Comedy,Romance | 6.5 (1.5K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Our WifeJerry Marvin, a talented musician and composer, wallows in drunken self-pity after he is divorced by his wife Babe. Along comes new love Susan, who rescues Jerry and provides him with fresh inspiration to complete his trumpet concert | 1941 | John M. Stahl | Comedy,Romance | 6.3 (238 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
That Uncertain FeelingA psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage. | 1941 | Ernst Lubitsch | Comedy | 6.7 (2.6K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Two-Faced WomanAfter a ski instructor catches her husband flirting with an old flame, she decides to pose as her (fictitious) twin sister in an attempt to keep him faithful. | 1941 | George Cukor | Comedy,Mystery,Romance | 6.3 (1.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Woman's Face, AA female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman. | 1941 | George Cukor | Drama,Film-Noir,Thriller | 7.2 (3.3K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
They All Kissed the BrideDivine Crawford who gives all - in this really funny comedy , she donated all her salary from this movie to the Red Cross after Carole Lombard's plane crashed . | 1942 | Alexander Hall | Comedy,Romance | 6.1 (718 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
We Were DancingTwo titled aristocrats support themselves by being professional house guests in the homes of star-struck American nouveau riche. | 1942 | Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy,Romance | 6.1 (437 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Three Hearts For JuliaWorld War II home front romantic comedy in which a war correspondent's wife wants a divorce along with his help in choosing her next husband. | 1943 | Richard Thorpe | Comedy,War | 5.8 (201 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Guilt of Janet Ames, TheAn obsessively bitter war widow and one of the men her husband saved in WW2 meet. He tries to convince her the sacrifice was necessary, but her problem isn't that simple. And can she help him with his wartime emotional scars he hides | 1947 | Henry Levin | Drama,Mystery,Romance | 6.3 (530 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Sea Of Grass, TheOn America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals. | 1947 | Elia Kazan | Drama,Western | 6.3 (2.2K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream HouseA man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think. | 1948 | H.C. Potter | Comedy,Romance | 7.3 (11.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
My Own True LoveAn Englishman's (Melvyn Douglas) fiancee (Phyllis Calvert) comforts his son (Philip Friend) who has lost a leg and a family in World War II. | 1949 | Compton Bennett | Drama,Romance | 5.6 (48 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Great Sinner, TheA young writer goes to Wiesbaden to write about gambling and gamblers, only to ultimately become a compulsive gambler himself. Losing all his wealth, as well as his moral fibre, he commits the ultimate degradation of robbing a church | 1949 | Robert Siodmak, Mervyn LeRoy | Drama | 6.6 (1.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Woman's Secret, AFailed singer Marian Washburn confesses she shot her friend, successful singer Susan Caldwell, but her manager Luke Jordan and Detective Fowler doubt her story and cannot establish a reasonable motive. | 1949 | Nicholas Ray | Drama,Film-Noir,Mystery | 6.1 (1.6K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
My Forbidden PastBarbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800's. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. Barbara's family is of the high society stratum | 1951 | Robert Stevenson | Crime,Drama,Romance | 6.1 (922 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
On the LooseShunned by her self-absorbed parents, a teenage girl's need for love and attention drives her to delinquency and a suicide attempt - an act that finally brings her parents to their senses. | 1951 | Charles Lederer | Drama | 6.0 (185 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Billy BuddWhen a good-hearted sailor accidentally kills the master-at-arms, his superiors have to decide whether to hang him or set him free. | 1962 | Peter Ustinov | Adventure,Drama,War | 7.8 (4.2K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
HudHonest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash. | 1963 | Martin Ritt | Drama,Western | 7.8 (21.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
Advance to the RearA Union army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent to the Western territory. Southern spies try to figure out what they're up to. | 1964 | George Marshall | Comedy,War,Western | 5.9 (779 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Americanization of Emily, TheAn American Naval Officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission. | 1964 | Arthur Hiller | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 7.4 (5.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
RaptureAgnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union. | 1965 | John Guillermin | Drama | 7.2 (932 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
Companions in NightmareNA | 1968 | | Drama,Mystery | | | Not Available |
Crucible, TheIn the Puritan New England town of Salem, Massachusetts, a group of girls go dancing in the forest with a black slave named Tituba. While dancing, they are caught by the local minister, Reverend Parris. One of the girls, Parris's ... | 1967 | Alex Segal | Drama,History | 7.8 (103 votes) | 135 | 20220531 |
HotelA historical New Orleans hotel struggles to financially survive while the dramas of its various guests unfold. | 1967 | Richard Quine | Drama | 6.6 (1.4K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
Hunters Are for KillingNA | 1970 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
I Never Sang For My FatherA man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California. | 1970 | Gilbert Cates | Drama | 7.5 (2.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Death Takes a HolidayDeath takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman. | 1971 | Robert Butler | Drama,Fantasy,Romance | 7.2 (300 votes) | 73 | 20240609 |
The Going Up of David LevNA | 1973 | | Drama,Family | | | Not Available |
Candidate, TheBill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment. | 1972 | Michael Ritchie | Comedy,Drama | 7.0 (10.8K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
One Is a Lonely NumberA young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her. After uncovering | 1972 | Mel Stuart | Drama | 6.1 (357 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Death Squad, TheWhen petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a group of his fellow officers who think the criminals were treated too leniently by the courts. | 1974 | Harry Falk | Crime,Drama | 5.2 (105 votes) | 75 | 20230126 |
Murder or MercyNA | 1974 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Tenant, TheA bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. | 1976 | Roman Polanski | Drama,Thriller | 7.6 (42.8K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
Intimate StrangersNA | 1977 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Twilight's Last GleamingAn imprisoned rogue USAF general with a secret personal agenda, escapes the brig and takes over an ICBM silo, threatening to start WW3. | 1977 | Robert Aldrich | Drama,Thriller | 6.8 (3.3K votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
A Gift to LastNA | 1976 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Being ThereAfter the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics. | 1979 | Hal Ashby | Comedy,Drama | 8.0 (70.9K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
Seduction of Joe Tynan, TheRespected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time | 1979 | Jerry Schatzberg | Drama | 6.1 (1.7K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
Changeling, TheAfter the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at a long-vacant Seattle mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic. | 1980 | Peter Medak | Horror,Mystery | 7.2 (33.4K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
Tell Me a RiddleTouching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco. | 1980 | Lee Grant | Drama | 6.2 (207 votes) | 90 | 20220723 |
Ghost StoryTwo generations of men find themselves haunted by the presence of a spectral woman. When the son of one of the elderly men returns to his hometown after his brother's mysterious death, they attempt to unravel her story. | 1981 | John Irvin | Drama,Horror,Thriller | 6.3 (8.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Hot Touch, TheA master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of the forgeries, are making a bundle. An art dealer figures out their scheme but agrees to keep quiet if they forge some art lost in WWII | 1981 | Roger Vadim | Crime,Drama | 5.0 (141 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Lamp at MidnightNA | 1966 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Once Upon a TractorNA | 1965 | | Comedy,Short | | | Not Available |
Inherit the WindNA | 1965 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
The Lives of Benjamin FranklinNA | 1974 | | Biography,Drama,History | | | Not Available |
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8NA | 1939 | | Documentary,Short,Sport | | | Not Available |
The ChoiceNA | 1969 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
A Very Close FamilyNA | 1964 | | Drama | | | Not Available |