The best Melville Cooper’s drama movies

Melville Cooper

Melville Cooper

15/10/1896- 31/03/1973
Today we present the best Melville Cooper’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Melville Cooper’s movies.
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Rebecca

Rebecca
8.1/10
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

Random Harvest

Random Harvest
7.9/10
An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.

Moonfleet

Moonfleet
6.6/10
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/07/1940
  • Character: Mr. Collins
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel
7.3/10
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

Diane

Diane
6.1/10
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.

Dramatic School

Dramatic School
6.2/10
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and assembles gas meters at night.

The Dawn Patrol

The Dawn Patrol
7.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 24/12/1938
  • Character: Sergeant Watkins
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.

Holy Matrimony

Holy Matrimony
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/08/1943
  • Character: Dr. Caswell
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.

Enchantment

Enchantment
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1948
  • Character: Jeweler
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.

The Private Life of Don Juan

The Private Life of Don Juan
6.3/10
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.

The Red Danube

The Red Danube
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 14/10/1949
  • Character: Private David Moonlight
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/02/1937
  • Character: William
A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.

Immortal Sergeant

Immortal Sergeant
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 29/04/1943
  • Character: Pilcher
During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.

Women Are Like That

Women Are Like That
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/04/1938
  • Character: Mainwaring
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.

Tovarich

Tovarich
7.1/10
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.

The Imperfect Lady

The Imperfect Lady
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/11/1946
  • Character: Lord Montglyn
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.

The Underworld Story

The Underworld Story
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/07/1950
  • Character: Maj. Redford
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

The Gorgeous Hussy

The Gorgeous Hussy
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 28/08/1936
  • Character: Cuthbert
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.

The Calendar

The Calendar
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/10/1931
  • Character: Mr. Wayne
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest

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