Cast: Brian Aherne
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Brian Aherne. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 42
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
The Twilight Zone: The Trouble with Templeton (TV)
1960 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
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
The Great Garrick
1937 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction James Whale
Cast Brian Aherne · Olivia de Havilland · Edward Everett Horton · Melville Cooper
6.4
28 votes
6.4
28 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
Sylvia Scarlett
1935 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Cary Grant · Brian Aherne · Edmund Gwenn
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K 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
A Night to Remember
1942 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Richard Wallace
Cast Loretta Young · Brian Aherne · Jeff Donnell · William Wright
5.9
73 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