The best Joan Winfield’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Joan Winfield’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 Joan Winfield.
Mildred Pierce
7.9/10
After her unfaithful husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful. However winning the approval of her spoiled daughter proves a greater challenge.
The Egyptian
6.5/10
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
Gentleman Jim
7.6/10
As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.
Mr. Skeffington
7.6/10
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
A Stolen Life
7.2/10
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
Johnny Belinda
7.7/10
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Mission to Moscow
5.4/10
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
The Unfaithful
6.8/10
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Murder on the Waterfront
5.1/10
A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.
The Jazz Singer
5.7/10
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.
Queen for a Day
6.9/10
Adapted from the TV and radio series of the same name, the producer of said show reads letters from three woman providing the framing story for this melodrama anthology film. The tales focus on parenting and family struggles.
I Was Framed
5.4/10
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
Dangerously They Live
6.4/10
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
Bullets for O'Hara
5.4/10
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
The Imperfect Lady
6.5/10
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
