The best Lana Turner’s drama movies

Lana Turner

Lana Turner

08/02/1921- 29/06/1995
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The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers
7.1/10
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice
7.4/10
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1952
  • Character: Georgia Lorrison
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

Peyton Place

Peyton Place
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/12/1957
  • Character: Constance MacKenzie
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.8/10
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

Johnny Eager

Johnny Eager
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/12/1941
  • Character: Lisbeth 'Liz' Bard
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's daughter for revenge, then falls in love.

The Prodigal

The Prodigal
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/05/1955
  • Character: Samarra
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.

Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk
6.6/10
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

Ziegfeld Girl

Ziegfeld Girl
6.7/10
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.

Betrayed

Betrayed
6.1/10
Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry bombshell Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always Rings Twice") team-up in this intriguing WWII drama. Suspected of being a Nazi spy, Dutch-resistance member Turner is given a last chance mission to redeem herself. Gable is an American colonel who falls in love with her. Co-starring Victor Mature ("My Darling Clementine") and Oscar-nominee Louis Calhern ("The Asphalt Jungle").

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/10/1959
  • Character: Lora Meredith
Lora Meredith, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway, has a chance encounter with Annie Johnson, a black single mother. Annie becomes the caretaker of Lora's daughter, Susie, while Lora pursues her stage career. Both women deal with the difficulties of motherhood: Lora's thirst for fame threatens her relationship with Susie, while Annie's light-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane, struggles with her African-American identity.

Homecoming

Homecoming
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 29/04/1948
  • Character: Lt. Jane 'Snapshot' McCall
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home.

Mr. Imperium

Mr. Imperium
4.9/10
A pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch. The both will have their clandestine romance interfered with by their changing circumstances.

The Sea Chase

The Sea Chase
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 04/06/1955
  • Character: Elsa Keller
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.

Madame X

Madame X
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1966
  • Character: Holly Parker
A woman married to a wealthy socialite, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had been romantically pursuing her, and is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak with the aid of alcohol and unsavory men, eventually returning to the city of her downfall, where she murders a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Amazingly, she is represented at her murder trial by her now adult son, who is a public defender. Hoping to continue to protect her son, she refuses to give her real name and is known to the court as the defendant, "Madame X."

Diane

Diane
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryRomance
  • Release: 12/01/1956
  • Character: Diane de Poitiers - Countess de Breze
Asked by Francis I (Pedro Armendáriz) to tutor his son (Roger Moore), Diane de Poitiers (Lana Turner) becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.

Cass Timberlane

Cass Timberlane
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/11/1947
  • Character: Virginia 'Jinny' Marshland
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.

Love Has Many Faces

Love Has Many Faces
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/02/1965
  • Character: Kit Jordan
A woman (Lana Turner) lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband (Cliff Robertson) who married her for her money.

The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 05/09/1952
  • Character: Crystal Radek
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

A Life of Her Own

A Life of Her Own
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1950
  • Character: Lily Brannel James
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.

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