The best Barbara Stanwyck’s drama movies on Apple iTunes
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Barbara Stanwyck’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 Barbara Stanwyck.
Double Indemnity
8.3/10
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
Baby Face
7.5/10
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Night Nurse
7/10
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
Titanic
7/10
Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the unsinkable Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.
Sorry, Wrong Number
7.3/10
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
Clash by Night
7/10
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
Executive Suite
7.4/10
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
My Reputation
7/10
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
6.8/10
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.
No Man of Her Own
7.3/10
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
Annie Oakley
6.6/10
Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
These Wilder Years
6.8/10
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
East Side, West Side
6.9/10
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
Ladies They Talk About
6.6/10
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
