The best Janet Shaw’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Janet Shaw’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 Janet Shaw.
Waterloo Bridge
7.7/10
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.
Jezebel
7.4/10
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Sensation Hunters
5.4/10
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Broadway Musketeers
5.9/10
Nocturne
6.5/10
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
The Sisters
6.7/10
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
Alcatraz Island
5.7/10
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Escape
7/10
An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
They Won't Believe Me
7.2/10
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
The Old Maid
7.4/10
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
King of the Underworld
6.4/10
After the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board.
They Made Me a Criminal
6.8/10
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Girls on Probation
5.7/10
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Time Out Of Mind
5.9/10
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
Keep 'em Slugging
6.2/10
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Accidents Will Happen
6/10
A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.
The Front Page
Newspaper comedy based loosely on the 1928 stage-play and its subsequent film adaptations.
She Loved a Fireman
5.2/10
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
Comet Over Broadway
5.6/10
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
