Cast: Marilyn Monroe

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


All About Eve

1950 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Bette Davis · Anne Baxter · George Sanders · Celeste Holm

Plot Margo Channing (Bette Davis), leading dame of the New York stage, is pushed aside by a fresh-faced fan who becomes her understudy, the duplicitous Eve (Anne Baxter). Eve’s humble background...

8.5

34K votes

8.5

34K votes

Some Like It Hot

1959 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Jack Lemmon · Tony Curtis · George Raft

Plot Two men (Lemmon and Curtis) hide from the mafia in an all girls band after they witness a murder, and find it hard to keep their cover as women when...

8.3

81K votes

8.3

81K votes

The Asphalt Jungle

1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Sterling Hayden · Louis Calhern · Sam Jaffe · Jean Hagen

Plot Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewellery store. He...

8.1

12K votes

8.1

12K votes

The Misfits

1961 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Clark Gable · Marilyn Monroe · Montgomery Clift · Eli Wallach

Plot Roslyn Tabor (Marilyn Monroe) befriends three cowboys while in Reno to obtain a divorce, and is extremely upset when she realizes they plan to trap wild horses to sell them...

7.4

6K votes

7.4

6K votes

Clash by Night

1952 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Paul Douglas · Robert Ryan · Marilyn Monroe

Plot Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck) returns to the safe haven of her hometown, a small fishing community in Monterey, California. Upon her arrival, she is befriended by young woman (Marilyn Monroe)...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Monkey Business

1952 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Ginger Rogers · Charles Coburn · Marilyn Monroe

Plot Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of...

7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

The Seven Year Itch

1955 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Tom Ewell · Marilyn Monroe · Oskar Homolka · Carolyn Jones

Plot In summertime in Manhattan, the plain and average Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) sends his wife and son for vacation in the country. Sherman is the key man of a publishing...

7.1

14K votes

7.1

14K votes

Niagara

1953 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Joseph Cotten · Jean Peters · Denis O'Dea

Plot George and Rose Loomis are honeymooning at a Niagara Falls motel. She plots with Ted Patrick to do him in, but all does not go smoothly. For one thing, after...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

Marilyn, Last Sessions (TV)

2008 · Documentary · 90 min. · France

7.0

409 votes

7.0

409 votes

Billy Wilder Speaks

2006 · Documentary · 71 min. · United States

Direction Volker Schlöndorff · Gisela Grischow

Cast Billy Wilder · Jean Arthur · Humphrey Bogart · James Cagney

Plot Billy Wilder discusses his life and films in interviews filmed by Volker Schlondorff over two weeks in 1988.

6.9

615 votes

6.9

615 votes

Arthur Miller: Writer

2017 · Documentary · 98 min. · United States

Direction Rebecca Miller

Cast Arthur Miller · Marilyn Monroe

Plot Rebecca Miller's film is a portrait of her father, his times and insights, built around impromptu interviews shot over many years in the family home.

Max

6.9

50 votes

6.9

50 votes

O. Henry's Full House

1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · Howard Hawks · Henry King · Henry Koster

Cast Fred Allen · Anne Baxter · Jeanne Crain · Farley Granger

Plot This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop...

6.8

477 votes

6.8

477 votes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Jane Russell · Charles Coburn · Tommy Noonan

Plot Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man...

6.8

7K votes

6.8

7K votes

Bert Stern: Original Madman

2012 · Documentary · 87 min. · United States

Direction Shannah Laumeister

Cast Louis Armstrong · George Avakian · Brigitte Bardot · Zak Barnett

Plot In the unconventional documentary Becoming Bert Stern, the original mad-man photographer reveals himself for the first time...

6.8

68 votes

6.8

68 votes

River of No Return

1954 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Robert Mitchum · Marilyn Monroe · Rory Calhoun · Tommy Rettig

Plot Matt Calder, who lives on a remote farm with his young son Mark, helps two unexpected visitors who lose control of their raft on the nearby river. Harry Weston is...

6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (TV)

2001 · Documentary · 117 min. · United States

Direction Patty Ivins Specht

Cast James Coburn · Gene Allen · Steve Allen · George Barris

Plot Documentary about the moviestar's last months including her tumultuous love affairs, drug and alcohol dependency, depression and eventual firing from her final film, 20th Century Fox's "Something's Got To Give"....

6.6

131 votes

6.6

131 votes

Blitzed!

2020 · Documentary · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bruce Ashley · Michael Donald

Cast David Bowie · Boy George · Michele Clapton · Culture Club

Plot Out of one small London venue called The Blitz came a generation of outrageous teenagers, working class and art school kids, who would define the look, the sound, the style...

6.5

51 votes

6.5

51 votes

Let's Make Love

1960 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Yves Montand · Tony Randall · Frankie Vaughan

Plot A millionaire is out to destroy a show that makes fun of him, until he meets cast member Monroe. To get closer to her he joins the cast and hires...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Don't Bother to Knock

1952 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

6.5

945 votes

6.5

945 votes

Bus Stop

1956 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Don Murray · Arthur O'Connell · Betty Field

Plot Innocent rodeo cowboy Bo falls in love with cafe singer Cherie in Phoenix. She tries to run away to Los Angeles but he finds her and forces her to board...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes