The best Joan Crawford’s romance movies
We present our ranking of the best Joan Crawford’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 Joan Crawford.
Grand Hotel
7.3/10
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Johnny Guitar
7.6/10
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.
Possessed
7.1/10
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.8/10
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
Dancing Lady
6.8/10
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
Possessed
6.9/10
Marian is a factory worker determined to leave the assembly line behind and move up in the world.
Humoresque
7.3/10
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
The Unknown
7.7/10
A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
Flamingo Road
7.1/10
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Strange Cargo
6.9/10
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Daisy Kenyon
6.8/10
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer named Dan O'Mara. O'Mara is married and has children. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
The Boob
5.4/10
To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.
Hollywood Canteen
7/10
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Chained
6.3/10
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
The Shining Hour
6.4/10
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
It's a Great Feeling
6.4/10
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
The Damned Don't Cry
7.1/10
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Female on the Beach
6.4/10
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent and Drummond Hall, her beachcomber neighbor, making themselves quite at home. Lynn soon has no doubts of what her scheming neighbors are up to, but she finds Drummond's physical charms hard to resist. And she still doesn't know what really happened to Eloise.
Today We Live
5.9/10
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
Reunion in France
6.3/10
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
