Direction: Michael Curtiz

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Michael Curtiz. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Casablanca

1942 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ingrid Bergman · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains

Synopsis In Casablanca (1942), Rick Blaine, a cynical American expatriate, runs a popular nightclub in the Moroccan city during World War II. When his former lover, Ilsa Lund, unexpectedly arrives with her husband, Victor Laszlo, a renowned resistance leader, Rick's world...

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8.4

96K votes

8.4

96K votes

Mildred Pierce

1945 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Joan Crawford · Jack Carson · Ann Blyth · Zachary Scott

Synopsis A ditched wife and mother (Joan Crawford) is forced to become a waitress. She constructs an empire of eateries, only to be disappointed by her rotten daughter (Ann Blyth) and a ferret-faced new husband (Zachary Scott).

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7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K votes

Angels With Dirty Faces

1938 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast James Cagney · Pat O'Brien · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan

Synopsis Gangster Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) returns from prison to make a name for himself in the crime world. He's soon discovered by the Dead End Kids, who idolize him, and childhood pal Father Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien). The good Father...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

Captain Blood

1935 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Lionel Atwill · Basil Rathbone

Synopsis The quintessential swashbuckler. Irsih doctor Peter Blood is wrongly sentenced to deportation and slavery to the Caribbean. There he amuses himself with insults at DE Havilland. He plans an escape and now seeking vengeance forms an alliance with the French...

7.3

8K votes

7.3

8K votes

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1938 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz · William Keighley

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Basil Rathbone · Claude Rains

Synopsis The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) follows the legendary outlaw Robin Hood as he leads a band of Merry Men in Sherwood Forest to fight against the tyranny of Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. With King Richard the...

7.2

28K votes

7.2

28K votes

Young Man with a Horn

1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Lauren Bacall · Doris Day · Mary Beth Hughes

Synopsis As a boy, orphan and dropout Rick Martin finds his only outlet in music. Through chance-met black jazzman Art Hazzard, he develops into a great trumpeter...too great for jazz-hating Jack Chandler, leader of the dance band he joins. But before...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

Kid Galahad

1937 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Wayne Morris

Synopsis Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

7.1

581 votes

7.1

581 votes

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1936 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Patric Knowles · Nigel Bruce

Synopsis Major Vickers is an officer at the 27th Lancers in India 1856. When the regiment is on maneuver, the barracks are attacked by Surat Khan and his soldiers who massacre British women and children. This leaves an inextinguishable memory and...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

The Sea Wolf

1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ida Lupino · John Garfield · Alexander Knox

Synopsis An odd group of people find themselves aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner captained by the hard taskmaster, Wolf Larson. George Leach is the on the run from the police as is Ruth Webster who has escaped from a women's...

7.0

742 votes

7.0

742 votes

The Sea Hawk

1940 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Flora Robson · Brenda Marshall · Claude Rains

Synopsis The Sea Hawk (1940) follows the daring adventures of Captain Geoffrey Thorpe, a privateer for Queen Elizabeth I, as he battles Spanish forces threatening England. Set during the Anglo-Spanish War, Thorpe and his crew embark on risky missions to thwart...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

6.9

377 votes

The Unsuspected

1947 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Joan Caulfield · Claude Rains · Audrey Totter · Constance Bennett

Synopsis A girl has been murdered. A woman cannot remember a man who claims to be her husband. Her uncle hosts a radio murder mystery show called "The Unsuspected". Who killed the girl? Why? And who is this mystery husband?

6.9

331 votes

6.9

331 votes

Mission to Moscow

1943 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Walter Huston · Ann Harding · Oskar Homolka · George Tobias

Synopsis Mission to Moscow was made at the behest of F.D.R. in order to garner more support for the Soviet Union during WWII. It was from the book by Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. Ambassador To Russia. The movie covers the...

6.8

198 votes

6.8

198 votes

Flamingo Road

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Joan Crawford · David Brian · Sydney Greenstreet · Zachary Scott

Synopsis A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

6.8

373 votes

6.8

373 votes

Dodge City

1939 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Ann Sheridan · Bruce Cabot

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

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Bright Leaf

1950 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

6.8

387 votes

6.8

387 votes

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

1932 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Spencer Tracy · Bette Davis · Arthur Byron · Lyle Talbot

Synopsis Sent to Sing Sing prison, influential crook Spencer Tracy is unregenerate and refuses to adhere to the rules. While in solitary confinement, Tracy reconsiders his attitude. Thanks to the correctional facility's compassionate warden (Arthur Byron), Tracy becomes a model prisoner,...

6.7

560 votes

6.7

560 votes

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast James Cagney · Joan Leslie · Walter Huston · Rosemary DeCamp

Synopsis A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family's vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions...

6.7

947 votes

6.7

947 votes

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Bette Davis · Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Donald Crisp

Synopsis A romantic drama film based on the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I (played by Bette Davis) and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (played by Errol Flynn).

6.6

853 votes

6.6

853 votes

The Comancheros

1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast John Wayne · Stuart Whitman · Ina Balin · Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis 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 known as Comancheros.

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes