Cinematography: Alfred Gilks

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Alfred Gilks. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


An American in Paris

1951 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gene Kelly · Leslie Caron · Oscar Levant · Georges Guétary

Plot One of the greatest of 1950s screen musicals is a happy collaboration between the grace and athleticism of Gene Kelly and colourful palette of Vincente Minnelli. An American G.I. lingers...

7.3

13K votes

7.3

13K votes

Ruggles of Red Gap

1935 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Charles Laughton · Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · ZaSu Pitts

Plot While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage...

6.9

294 votes

6.9

294 votes

Beyond the Rocks

1922 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Rudolph Valentino · Gloria Swanson · Edythe Chapman · Raymond Blathwayt

Plot Love, duty, and the scent of narcissus. Theodora, a young and penniless aristocrat, marries a much older man, self-made millionaire grocer Josiah Brown, so that her father and spinster sisters...

6.3

61 votes

6.3

61 votes

The Milky Way

1936 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Harold Lloyd · Adolphe Menjou · Helen Mack · Verree Teasdale

Plot Director Leo McCarey's charmingly funny THE MILKY WAY stars the fabulous silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd in one of his first talkies. Softie milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd) ducks at just the...

6.3

649 votes

6.3

649 votes

Little Miss Marker

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Dorothy Dell · Charles Bickford · Shirley Temple

Plot The film tells the story of "Marky" (Temple), whose father gives her to a gangster-run gambling operation as a "marker" (collateral) for a bet. When the man loses his bet...

5.9

29 votes

5.9

29 votes

And Sudden Death

1936 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Randolph Scott · Frances Drake · Tom Brown · Billy Lee

Plot An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing...

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Old Ironsides

1926 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction James Cruze

Cast Charles Farrell · Esther Ralston · Wallace Beery · George Bancroft

Plot Early in the 19th century, the USS Constitution is launched as part of an effort to stop piracy in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, a young man determined to go to sea...

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Sick Abed

1920 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

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Red Hair

1928 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Clarence G. Badger

Cast Clara Bow · Lane Chandler · William Austin · Jacqueline Gadsden

Plot A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also happen to be the guardians of a...

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Get Your Man

1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Clara Bow · Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Josef Swickard · Josephine Dunn

Plot A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that...

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Two Weeks with Love

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Jane Powell · Ricardo Montalban · Louis Calhern · Ann Harding

Plot The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez...

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People Will Talk

1935 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Santell

Cast Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland · Leila Hyams · Dean Jagger

Plot Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter,Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask,...

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A Tailor Made Man

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast William Haines · Dorothy Jordan · Joseph Cawthorne · Marjorie Rambeau

Plot John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor’s shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way...

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Dancing Co-Ed

1939 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction S. Sylvan Simon

Cast Lana Turner · Richard Carlson · Ann Rutherford · Artie Shaw

Plot Right before the dancing Tobius' ought to film a new production, his wife tells Freddy Tobius that she's pregnant. So the producer desperately has to seek a replacement and starts...

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Peck's Bad Boy

1921 · Movie · 51 min. · United States

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You're Telling Me!

1934 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast W.C. Fields · Joan Marsh · Buster Crabbe · Adrienne Ames

Plot A hard-drinking, socially-awkward inventor wrecks his daughter's chances of marriage into a rich family and bungles his own chances of success by selling one of his more practical inventions.

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Tom and Jerry (TV)

1955 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Peter Lawford · Nancy Gates · Frank Fay · Marie Windsor

Plot A priest tries to save a marriage that appears to be headed for the rocks in time for Christmas.

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Bright Road

1953 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Gerald Mayer

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Philip Hepburn · Harry Belafonte · Barbara Randolph

Plot Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.

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Straight from the Shoulder

1936 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Ralph Bellamy · Katherine Locke · David Holt · Andy Clyde

Plot Curt Hayden (Ralph Bellamy), a witness from the mob, is hidden away in a remote mountain cabin for his own safety. Accompanying Hayden is his young son Johnny (David Holt),...

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