Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

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


Double Indemnity

1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Fred MacMurray · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward G. Robinson · Tom Powers

Plot Unsuspecting Mr. Dietrichson becomes increasingly accident prone after his icily calculating wife (Barbara Stanwyck) encourages him to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by a smooth-talking insurance agent (Fred MacMurray)....

8.4

32K votes

8.4

32K votes

Ball of Fire

1941 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Oskar Homolka · Henry Travers

Plot 8 Professors are in the 9th year of a 12 year encyclopedia writing project. The youngest is Bertram Potts who specializes in language and grammar. When Professor Potts discovers that...

7.9

6K votes

7.9

6K votes

Meet John Doe

1941 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward Arnold · Walter Brennan

Plot Gary Cooper stars as a nobody hired by a newspaper as part of a stunt to play a man that says he will commit suicide Christmas Eve because he's tired...

7.6

6K votes

7.6

6K votes

There's Always Tomorrow

1955 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Fred MacMurray · Joan Bennett · William Reynolds

Plot Fred MacMurray is a toy company executive whose wife (Joan Bennett) and kids (Gigi Perreau, William Reynolds and Judy Nugent) take him for granted. Barbara Stanwyck is Fred's former girl...

7.5

940 votes

7.5

940 votes

The Lady Eve

1941 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Henry Fonda · Charles Coburn · Eugene Pallette

Plot Barbara Stanwyck stars as Jean Herrington, a sly con artist aboard a transatlantic ocean liner who happens to run across Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), a snake expert returning from a...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

Stella Dallas

1937 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Boles · Anne Shirley · Alan Hale

Plot Working-class Stella Martin marries high-end Stephen Dallas and soon they have a daughter named Laurel. But Stephen's incessant demands of Stella to become what she isn't leads to their eventual...

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1946 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Van Heflin · Lizabeth Scott · Kirk Douglas

Plot In 1928, young heiress Martha Ivers fails to run off with friend Sam Masterson, and is involved in fatal events. Years later, Sam returns to find Martha the power behind...

7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

This Is Elvis

1981 · Documentary · 101 min. · United States

7.3

76 votes

7.3

76 votes

7.3

658 votes

Sorry, Wrong Number

1948 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Burt Lancaster · Ann Richards · Wendell Corey

Plot Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for he husband to return home, she picks up the phone and accidentally overhears a conversation between...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K 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

No Man of Her Own

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Lund · Jane Cowl · Phyllis Thaxter

Plot Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) is a pregnant girl who assumes a new identity and whose past catches up with her in blackmail and murder.

7.2

519 votes

7.2

519 votes

Baby Face

1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · George Brent · Donald Cook · Alphonse Ethier

Plot Lily Powers (Baby Face) has to do more than serve drinks at her father's run-down speakeasy in a small industrial town. His death gives her the chance to get to...

7.0

410 votes

7.0

410 votes

The Furies

1950 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Wendell Corey · Walter Huston · Judith Anderson

Plot The 1870s, New Mexico territory: T.C. Jeffords is a cattle baron who built his ranch, the Furies, from scratch. He borrows from banks, pays hired hands with his own script...

7.0

550 votes

7.0

550 votes

The File on Thelma Jordon

1949 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Wendell Corey · Paul Kelly · Joan Tetzel

Plot Thelma Jordon, late one night, shows up in the office of married Assistant DA Cleve Marshall. Before Cleve can stop himself, he and Thelma are involved in an illicit affair....

6.9

511 votes

6.9

511 votes

Forty Guns

1957 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Barry Sullivan · Dean Jagger · John Ericson

Plot Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is a despotic landowner who, with a posse of hired guns, has made herself the law of Cochise County, Arizona, with the weak-willed sheriff Ned Logan...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

All I Desire

1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Richard Carlson · Lyle Bettger · Marcia Henderson

Plot In 1900, Naomi Murdoch deserted her small-town family to go on the stage. Some ten years later, daughter Lily invites Naomi back to see her in the Riverdale high school...

6.9

356 votes

6.9

356 votes

Union Pacific

1939 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Akim Tamiroff · Robert Preston

Plot This is Cecil B. De Mille's version of the trouble and hardships involved in the building of the famous transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler is hired to insure that the Union...

6.9

659 votes

6.9

659 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

Walk on the Wild Side

1962 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Laurence Harvey · Capucine · Jane Fonda · Anne Baxter

Plot At the Doll House, a 1930's New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by...

6.8

743 votes

6.8

743 votes