Cinematography: George Barnes

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


Rebecca

1940 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Laurence Olivier · Joan Fontaine · George Sanders · Judith Anderson

Plot A naïve and somewhat simple young woman (Joan Fontaine), is working as a hired travel companion for decadent, rich ladies. On one of her assignments she ends up in Monte...

8.2

36K votes

8.2

36K votes

Spellbound

1945 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Gregory Peck · Michael Chekhov · Leo G. Carroll

Plot Dr. Anthony Edwardes, sent to replace Dr. Murchison as head of Green Manors mental hospital, is an impostor. When Murchinson calls the police, Edwardes leaves, followed by Dr. Constance Peterson,...

7.7

20K votes

7.7

20K votes

Street Scene

1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Walter Miller · Sylvia Sidney · William Collier Jr. · Estelle Taylor

Plot Based on the pullitzer prize winning broadway play, Street scene is a study in the daily lives of people...

7.6

459 votes

7.6

459 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

Jane Eyre

1943 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Orson Welles · Joan Fontaine · Margaret O'Brien · Peggy Ann Garner

Plot A Love Story Every Woman Would Die a Thousand Deaths to Live! Small plain and poor Jane Eyre comes to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Jesse James

1939 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Henry Fonda · Nancy Kelly · Randolph Scott

Plot The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother, Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Remember the Day

1941 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Claudette Colbert · John Payne · Shepperd Strudwick · Ann E. Todd

Plot Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell (Claudette Colbert), waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts (Shepperd Strudwick), recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the...

7.1

83 votes

7.1

83 votes

Force of Evil

1948 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Abraham Polonsky

Cast John Garfield · Beatrice Pearson · Thomas Gomez · Howland Chamberlain

Plot Based on an obscure crime novel titled Tucker's People, Abraham Polonsky's Force of Evil has attained classic status since its release in 1948, when film noir was thriving on the...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K 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

The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

6.9

81 votes

6.9

81 votes

That Uncertain Feeling

1941 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Merle Oberon · Melvyn Douglas · Burgess Meredith · Alan Mowbray

Plot Larry Baker (Melvyn Douglas) loves his job and married life, not realizing that his wife, Jill (Merle Oberon), is bored to tears and wishes that he would pay more attention...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Sadie Thompson

1928 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Gloria Swanson · Lionel Barrymore · Raoul Walsh · Blanche Friderici

Plot Sadie Thompson arrives in Pago-Pago to start a new life, but when extremist missionary Davidson lashes out against her lifestyle and tries to force her back to San Francisco, she...

6.8

162 votes

6.8

162 votes

Footlight Parade

1933 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

6.8

257 votes

6.8

257 votes

The Return of Frank James

1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Henry Fonda · Gene Tierney · Jackie Cooper · Henry Hull

Plot Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Marked Woman

1937 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Lola Lane · Isabel Jewell

Plot Set in the underworld of Manhattan, Marked Woman tells the story of a woman who dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters. The women of...

6.8

881 votes

6.8

881 votes

The Greatest Show on Earth

1952 · Movie · 153 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast James Stewart · Charlton Heston · Betty Hutton · Cornel Wilde

Plot To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

Bells of St. Mary's

1945 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Bing Crosby · Ingrid Bergman · Henry Travers · William Gargan

Plot Father O'Malley the unconventional priest from 'Going My Way' continues his work for the Catholic Church. This time he is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the...

6.7

826 votes

6.7

826 votes

Sister Kenny

1946 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Dudley Nichols

Cast Rosalind Russell · Dean Jagger · Alexander Knox · Beulah Bondi

Plot True story of Elizabeth Kenny, a young nurse in the Australian outback who, witnessing patients with polio, determined to come up with a treatment for the disease. She did but,...

6.6

73 votes

6.6

73 votes

The War of the Worlds

1953 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Gene Barry · Ann Robinson · Les Tremayne · Henry Brandon

Plot H.G. Well's classic novel is brought to life in this tale of alien invasion. The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills....

6.6

8K votes

6.6

8K votes

Something to Live For

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

6.6

59 votes

6.6

59 votes