Cinematography: Ted Tetzlaff

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


Notorious

1946 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cary Grant · Ingrid Bergman · Claude Rains · Louis Calhern

Plot A beautiful woman with a tainted past (Ingrid Bergman) is enlisted by American agent Devlin (Cary Grant) to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work...

8.1

20K votes

8.1

20K votes

My Man Godfrey

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast William Powell · Carole Lombard · Gail Patrick · Alice Brady

Plot Director Gregory La Cava deftly balances satire, romance, and social comment in this 1936 classic, which echoes Frank Capra in its Depression-era subtext. The Bullocks are a well-heeled, harebrained Manhattan...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

7.3

658 votes

Easy Living

1937 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

7.3

650 votes

7.3

650 votes

The Talk of the Town

1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Cary Grant · Jean Arthur · Ronald Colman · Edgar Buchanan

Plot When accused arsonist Leopold Dilg escapes jail, he hides out in the home of old friend (and sweetheart) Nora. Nora happens to be renting a farmhouse to Supreme Court candidate...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

The More the Merrier

1943 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Jean Arthur · Joel McCrea · Charles Coburn · Richard Gaines

Plot It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty,...

6.8

620 votes

6.8

620 votes

Hands Across the Table

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Ralph Bellamy · Astrid Allwyn

Plot Beautiful manicurist Reggie Allen has a plan to marry for money. One of her clients, paraplegic ex-aviator Allen Macklyn, is rich and has an eye for Reggie. However, things get...

6.8

349 votes

6.8

349 votes

The Criminal Code

1930 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Walter Huston · Phillips Holmes · Constance Cummings · Mary Doran

Plot A young man's birthday celebration at a local speakeasy turns into a nightmare when he kills a man in self-defense! Bob Graham (Phillips Holmes), just twenty years old, is then...

6.8

330 votes

6.8

330 votes

The Enchanted Cottage

1945 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Dorothy McGuire · Robert Young · Herbert Marshall · Mildred Natwick

Plot A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a...

6.6

150 votes

6.6

150 votes

I Married a Witch

1942 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction René Clair

Cast Fredric March · Veronica Lake · Robert Benchley · Susan Hayward

Plot In 1672, two witches (Jennifer and her father Daniel) are burned by puritan Jonathan Wooley; in 1942, they re-materialize to plague his descendant Wallace Wooley, candidate for state governor. Wallace...

Max

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

You Were Never Lovelier

1942 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Fred Astaire · Rita Hayworth · Adolphe Menjou · Isobel Elsom

Plot The Acunas, a rich Argentine family, have the tradition that the daughters have to get married in order, oldest first. When sister #1 gets married, sisters #3 and #4 put...

6.5

618 votes

6.5

618 votes

The Lady is Willing

1942 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

6.1

386 votes

6.1

386 votes

Swing High, Swing Low

1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Dorothy Lamour · Anthony Quinn

Plot In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub...

6.0

139 votes

6.0

139 votes

True Confession

1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · John Barrymore · Una Merkel

Plot Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest (and therefore unsuccessful) lawyer. Helen starts a new job, and when...

6.0

53 votes

6.0

53 votes

The Princess Comes Across

1936 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Douglass Dumbrille · Alison Skipworth

Plot A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.

5.9

30 votes

5.9

30 votes

Love Before Breakfast

1936 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Carole Lombard · Preston Foster · Cesar Romero · Janet Beecher

Plot Kay Colby (Carole Lombard) is a Park Avenue beauty with two suitors: Bill Wadsworth (Cesar Romero), who she's engaged to, and Scott Miller (Preston Foster). To clear his way, Scott...

5.6

36 votes

5.6

36 votes

Three Wise Girls

1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Jean Harlow · Mae Clarke · Walter Byron · Marie Prevost

Plot Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married....

5.3

21 votes

5.3

21 votes

Lady of Secrets

1936 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Marion Gering

Cast Ruth Chatterton · Otto Kruger · Lionel Atwill · Marian Marsh

Plot Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.

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Not rated

Soldiers and Women

1930 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Edward Sloman

Cast Aileen Pringue · Grant Withers · Judith Wood · Walter McGrail

Plot Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is having affairs with two women, Brenda Ritchie and Helen Arnold, each of whom...

Not rated

Not rated

Men in Her Life

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Lois Moran · Charles Bickford · Victor Varconi · Don Dillaway

Plot A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a...

Not rated

Not rated