Cast: Bela Lugosi

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Bela Lugosi. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Ninotchka

1939 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Greta Garbo · Melvyn Douglas · Bela Lugosi · Ina Claire

Synopsis Ninotchka is a stern, straightlaced Communist Party member sent to Paris to finish the sale of Grand Duchess Swana's jewels for the Soviet government. But, while studying the frivolous materialism of Paris, Ninotchka meets Leon, Swana's lawyer and sometime lover,...

8.0

15K votes

8.0

15K votes

He Who Gets Slapped

1924 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast Lon Chaney · Norma Shearer · John Gilbert · Tully Marshall

Synopsis Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who...

7.5

590 votes

7.5

590 votes

Dracula

1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Bela Lugosi · Helen Chandler · David Manners · Dwight Frye

Synopsis After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in actuality a vampire. Renfield is drugged by the eerily hypnotic...

7.1

7K votes

7.1

7K votes

The Body Snatcher

1945 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Henry Daniell · Edith Atwater

Synopsis In Edinburgh in 1831, renowned surgeon and now teacher of anatomy Dr. MacFarlane, has been paying John Gray, a cabman, to clandestinely bring him exhumed bodies of the recently deceased for classroom demonstration purposes. With cemeteries being increasingly guarded, Gray...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Island of Lost Souls

1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Charles Laughton · Bela Lugosi · Richard Arlen · Leila Hyams

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

6.8

990 votes

6.8

990 votes

The Black Cat

1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · David Manners · Julie Bishop

Synopsis The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie film that was surprisingly morbid and perverse for its time. Peter (David Manners) and Joan Allison (Julie Bishop) are honeymooning in...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

The Raven

1935 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Lester Matthews · Irene Ware

Synopsis A wealthy judge coaxes the brilliant but eccentric neurological surgeon Dr. Vollin (Lugosi), who also has an obsessive penchant for Edgar Allen Poe, out of retirement to save the life of his daughter, a dancer crippled and brain damaged in...

6.5

837 votes

6.5

837 votes

The Wolf Man

1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction George Waggner

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Claude Rains · Warren William · Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis Upon the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. He visits a gypsy camp with village girl Jenny Williams, who is attacked by Bela, a gypsy who has turned into a werewolf....

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

Mark of the Vampire

1935 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Elizabeth Allan · Bela Lugosi · Lionel Atwill

Synopsis Sir Karell Borotyn appears to have been killed by Count Mora, a vampire believed to haunt the local village. Now his daughter Irena is the count's next target. Enter Professor Zelen, an expert on vampires who's sent in to prevent...

6.3

890 votes

6.3

890 votes

Son of Frankenstein

1939 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Basil Rathbone · Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Lionel Atwill

Synopsis Wolf Frankenstein, son of Henry Frankenstein, returns with his wife, to his fathers estate to claim his inheritance. When he arrives with his family he recieves a hostile reception from locals. While exploring his fathers laboratory he comes across crooked...

6.3

544 votes

6.3

544 votes

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Bela Lugosi · Lon Chaney Jr.

Synopsis The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey (Costello) and Chick Young (Abbott) is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein's monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. Dracula awakens and escapes with...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

The Black Cat

1941 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Basil Rathbone · Hugh Herbert · Broderick Crawford · Bela Lugosi

Synopsis Greedy heirs gather to wait for the death of Henrietta Winslow. Murder, thunder claps, howling cats, gun shots, screams in the night, hidden passages -- all the proper ingredients.

6.1

129 votes

6.1

129 votes

King of Jazz

1930 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John Murray Anderson

Cast Paul Whiteman · John Boles · Laura La Plante · Jeannette Loff

Synopsis King of Jazz is a 1930 motion picture starring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. The film's title was taken from Whiteman's controversial, self-conferred appellation. Although using the word to describe Whiteman's music seems absurd today, at the time the film...

6.1

28 votes

6.1

28 votes

The Invisible Ray

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Lambert Hillyer

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Frances Drake · Frank Lawton

Synopsis A scientist becomes contaminated resulting in the death of anything he touches.

6.0

122 votes

6.0

122 votes

Black Friday

1940 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Stanley Ridges · Anne Nagel

Synopsis When his friend Professor Kingsely (Ridges) is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac (Karloff) saves his life by means of an illegal operation that transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon's brain. Unfortunately, the operation has a disasterous Jeckll...

5.9

140 votes

5.9

140 votes

The Thirteenth Chair

1929 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Conrad Nagel · Leila Hyams · Margaret Wycherly · Helene Millard

Synopsis Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel a true "bounder" Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a...

5.8

81 votes

5.8

81 votes

The Corpse Vanishes

1942 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Wallace Fox

Cast Bela Lugosi · Luana Walters · Tristram Coffin · Minerva Urecal

Synopsis A scientist, aided by an old hag & her two sons - a malicious dwarf and a brutish moron, kills virgin brides, steals their bodies, & extracts gland fluid to keep his ancient wife alive and young.

5.8

283 votes

5.8

283 votes

The Dark Eyes of London

1939 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Walter Summers

Cast Bela Lugosi · Hugh Williams · Greta Gynt · Edmon Ryan

Synopsis Scotland Yard inspector Larry Holt is asked to investigate the case of five bodies that have been found in The Thames apparently drowned, during the last eight months. The investigation takes him to the Greenwich Insurance Co with whom many...

5.8

154 votes

5.8

154 votes