The best Farley Granger’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best Farley Granger’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Farley Granger.
Rope
7.9/10
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Senso
7.4/10
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
O. Henry's Full House
7.2/10
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critic's acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
6.4/10
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.
They Live by Night
7.4/10
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
So Sweet, So Dead
6/10
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
Enchantment
7.2/10
Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.
Death Mask
4.7/10
Haunted by the drowning death of his own daughter, a police investigator embarks on an obsessive 10-year hunt for the identity of a dead boy, to the detriment of his family life.
The North Star
5.9/10
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941.
Edge of Doom
6.4/10
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
Roseanna McCoy
5.8/10
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.
Laura
6.8/10
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
The Naked Street
6.5/10
A reporter follows the story of a gangster (Anthony Quinn), his sister (Anne Bancroft) and her small-time hoodlum husband (Farley Granger).
The Purple Heart
6.5/10
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.
The Challengers
5.5/10
Racers compete in the Grand Prix.
The Story of Three Loves
6.8/10
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
6.5/10
A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
I Want You
6.5/10
The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veteran Martin Greer (Dana Andrews) wants to re-enlist, much to the dismay of his wife Nancy (Dorothy McGuire).
Our Very Own
6.7/10
Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister, Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.
The Imagemaker
4.7/10
Roger Blackwell has been a media advisor to countless politicians: probably one too many. He is set on using his experience to make a film about manipulation of the media by unscrupulous politicos.
