Cast: Brian Aherne

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


Smilin' Through

1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Brian Aherne · Gene Raymond · Ian Hunter

Synopsis John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look...

7.6

56 votes

7.6

56 votes

I Confess

1953 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Montgomery Clift · Anne Baxter · Karl Malden · Brian Aherne

Synopsis In I Confess (1953), a priest in Quebec, Father Michael Logan, hears a murderer's confession but is bound by the sanctity of the confessional to keep it secret. When circumstantial evidence points to Logan as the suspect, he faces a...

7.6

10K votes

7.6

10K votes

Shooting Stars

1928 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith · A.V. Bramble

Cast Annette Benson · Brian Aherne · Donald Calthrop · Wally Patch

Synopsis The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks. Mae hatches a plot to kill her husband by putting a...

7.6

44 votes

7.6

44 votes

Underground

1928 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Elissa Landi · Brian Aherne · Nora Baring · Cyril McLaglen

Synopsis Bert, an electrician, and Bill, a London Underground porter both fall in love with shop worker Nell. But when Nell chooses Bill, Bert resorts to devious tactics.

7.0

33 votes

7.0

33 votes

The Locket

1946 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Laraine Day · Brian Aherne · Robert Mitchum · Gene Raymond

Synopsis Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.

6.8

386 votes

6.8

386 votes

Direction Buzz Kulik

Cast Brian Aherne · Pippa Scott · Sydney Pollack · Dave Willock

Synopsis Booth Templeton is a renowned stage actor who has reached a stage in his personal life where he has idealized his past. In particular he has fond memories of his first wife, Laura. After a stressful encounter at the theater,...

6.6

88 votes

6.6

88 votes

Juarez

1939 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Bette Davis · Brian Aherne · Claude Rains

Synopsis The newly named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juraez and democracy. He tries to appease the Mexicans but fails. Abraham Lincoln is supporting Juarez and asks the French to withdraw...

6.6

289 votes

6.6

289 votes

The song of songs

1933 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Brian Aherne · Lionel Atwill · Alison Skipworth

Synopsis Country orphan Lily goes to Berlin to stay with her tippling aunt, and soon meets Richard, handsome sculptor across the street. Persuaded half-reluctantly to pose for Richard, her physical charms (shown as fully as 1933 mores permitted) soon melt away...

6.5

177 votes

6.5

177 votes

Prince Valiant

1954 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Robert Wagner · James Mason · Janet Leigh · Debra Paget

Synopsis Cartoonist Hal Foster's medieval hero, the Scandinavian Prince Valiant, comes to the screen in all his Dutch-bob-haircut glory in this 1954 film directed by Henry Hathaway (Kiss of Death). Robert Wagner plays the title role and does a bang-up job...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Titanic

1953 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Clifton Webb · Barbara Stanwyck · Robert Wagner · Audrey Dalton

Synopsis Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes her two children and boards the Titanic for America. Her husband Richard also arranges passage on the doomed luxury liner in order to let him have...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Vigil in the Night

1940 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Carole Lombard · Brian Aherne · Anne Shirley · Julien Mitchell

Synopsis Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne loses her job, and gets a new one at a poorly equipped country hospital. There she falls in love with Dr....

6.3

113 votes

6.3

113 votes

My Sister Eileen

1942 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Rosalind Russell · Brian Aherne · Janet Blair · George Tobias

Synopsis Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living...

6.2

51 votes

6.2

51 votes

The Swan

1956 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Grace Kelly · Alec Guinness · Louis Jourdan · Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe...

6.1

772 votes

6.1

772 votes

The Best of Everything

1959 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Hope Lange · Stephen Boyd · Suzy Parker · Martha Hyer

Synopsis Amanda Farrow is a waspish, hard edged editor in a paperback publishing house. Jaded and embittered, she is involved in a disappointing affair with a married man and tends to take out her frustrations on the girls under her charge,...

5.9

118 votes

5.9

118 votes

I Live My Life

1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Joan Crawford · Brian Aherne · Aline MacMahon · Frank Morgan

Synopsis Kay, a bored society girl from New York, takes a trip to Greece-where she meets, Terry, an archaeologist. Kay flirts with Terry and he falls for Kay. Kay heads back to New York and Terry follows her to propose marriage....

5.9

29 votes

5.9

29 votes

Merrily We Live

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Constance Bennett · Brian Aherne · Alan Mowbray · Billie Burke

Synopsis A cynical writer (Brian Aherne), unwittingly infiltrates a loony house of philanthropists. Mrs. Emily Kilbourne (Billie Burke) runs a household that, due to her charitable nature, is as much a loony-bin as happy home. When he joins the menage, Aherne...

5.9

26 votes

5.9

26 votes

5.9

73 votes

The Lady in Question

1940 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Brian Aherne · Rita Hayworth · Glenn Ford · Irene Rich

Synopsis Columbia's The Lady in Question is a remake of the French Gribouille, a Raimu vehicle from 1939. Brian Aherne plays Andre Morestan, the seeming contently paterfamilias of a bourgeois Parisian family. Summoned for jury duty, Morestan at first believes that...

5.7

178 votes

5.7

178 votes