Charles Laughton Movies

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the...

Genre: History

Cast: Kirk Douglas

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Charles Laughton

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Boris Karloff

Attorney Anthony Keane agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine, who has been fingered in her husband's murder. From the start, the married lawyer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gregory Peck

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Laughton

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Laughton

United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Taylor

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Charles Laughton

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Martin

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Deanna Durbin

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rita Hayworth

In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ingrid Bergman

In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Laughton

Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Laughton

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of...

Genre: History

Cast: Charles Laughton

When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tyrone Power

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kent Smith

Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Charles Laughton

Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fredric March

The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Simmons

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Laughton

Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Bud Abbott

A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Deanna Durbin

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Laughton

Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Fonda

The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Charles Laughton

A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime, the student taunts police until they realize...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Charles Laughton

After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fredric March

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Laughton

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gilda Gray

Naval commander Charles Storm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tallulah Bankhead

Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ray Milland

While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carole Lombard

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Robert Taylor

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Laughton

A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Wyman

"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and...

Genre: History

Cast: Van Heflin

After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Laughton

A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Lamour

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carole Lombard

An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Laughton

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred Allen

As criminals assemble for a convention, a policeman investigates and is abducted. A young woman finds his whistle and blows it. The full forces of...

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Cast: Elsa Lanchester

Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Laughton

The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Laughton

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Laughton

A young cleaning woman in a boarding-house relieves the drudgery of her job by daydreaming that a foreign student at the house, who she believes is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elsa Lanchester

The family of the very wealthy but infirm Great Aunt Louisa await her untimely demise in the hopes of inheriting her great fortune.

Genre:

Cast: Elsa Lanchester

A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.

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Cast: Charles Laughton

An outlaw leader fakes a draw for a sick girl so he can help her escape

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Laughton

A Musical Revue featuring a number of prominent vaudeville and theatrical British artists of the day in songs, dances, dramatic and musical sketches.

Genre: Music

Cast: Heather Thatcher

Galileo, an eminent professor and scientist in the 17th century Venetian Republic, is short of money. A prospective student tells him about a novel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Brocco

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carey Wilson

When clerk Phineas V. Lambert receives his check in the mail, he shows little emotion. (Originally appeared as a segment of the film "If I Had a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Laughton

A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors'...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dana Andrews

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Otto Preminger

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kenneth Branagh

Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paulette Goddard

Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rick Baker

The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel by H. G. Wells—, which...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Stanley

A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

An assembled compilation of footage from rushes, outtakes, and behind-the-scenes moments featuring Charles Laughton directing The Night of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charles Laughton

A history of horror movies.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Anthony Perkins

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dick Cavett

Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aaron Christensen