The best Alex Gerry’s drama movies

Alex Gerry

Alex Gerry

06/10/1904- 18/05/1993
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Alex Gerry’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Alex Gerry.
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Lili

Lili
7.3/10
Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?

The Breaking Point

The Breaking Point
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/10/1950
  • Character: Mr. Phillips (uncredited)
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.

All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1955
  • Character: George Warren
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.

Whirlpool

Whirlpool
6.7/10
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.

House by the River

House by the River
7/10
Louis Hayward stars as a wealthy man who tries to seduce the family maid. She resists, and he kills her. Long jealous of his brother Lee Bowman, Hayward does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Hayward's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Jane Wyatt. Originally, director Lang had proposed that the unfortunate maid be a black woman, but was over ruled

Back Street

Back Street
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/10/1961
  • Character: Mr. Venner
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and he leaves town without her. Later she learns he's married. Determined to make it as a fashion designer, Rae moves to New York and becomes a great success. One day she happens to meet Paul again and again there's that spark but he's still married so, as a form of escape, Rae moves to Rome to set up shop. Once again she meets Paul and finally they begin an actual affair since Paul's shrewish, drunken wife, Liz, won't give him a divorce. Time passes, the affair continues whenever time and place permit, but then, Paul's young son finds out about Rae and Rae's back-street world begins to crumble.

Invitation

Invitation
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/01/1952
  • Character: Mr. Redwick
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.

A House Is Not a Home

A House Is Not a Home
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/08/1964
  • Character: Doctor
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.

The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 14/02/1953
  • Character: Uncle Louie
As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who'd hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowfully, Cantor Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the "Kol Nidre" in his ailing father's absence.

The Eddie Cantor Story

The Eddie Cantor Story
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 25/12/1953
  • Character: David Tobias
Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.

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