Cinematography: David Abel

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


Top Hat

1935 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Helen Broderick

Plot Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale...

7.4

7K votes

7.4

7K votes

History is Made at Night

1937 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Charles Boyer · Jean Arthur · Leo Carrillo · Colin Clive

Plot Divorcee Irene Vail falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back... Film critic Andrew Sarris once said that HISTORY IS MADE...

7.0

312 votes

7.0

312 votes

Merrily We Go to Hell

1932 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Fredric March · Adrianne Allen · Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Plot An aspiring playwright (Frederic March) with a drinking problem marries an heiress (Sylvia Sidney) whose father (George Irving) is skeptical of March’s intentions. When March carries on an affair with...

6.9

131 votes

6.9

131 votes

The Gay Divorcee

1934 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Alice Brady

Plot Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Swing Time

1936 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Betty Furness · Victor Moore

Plot Lucky is tricked into missing his wedding to Margaret by the other members of Pop's magic and dance act, and has to make $25000 to be allowed to marry her....

6.8

979 votes

6.8

979 votes

Shall We Dance?

1937 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Eric Blore

Plot Ballet star Pete "Petrov" Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer he's fallen for but barely knows, musical star Linda Keene. By the time...

6.8

705 votes

6.8

705 votes

Follow the Fleet

1936 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

6.4

502 votes

6.4

502 votes

Holiday Inn

1942 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Bing Crosby · Fred Astaire · Marjorie Reynolds · Virginia Dale

Plot Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the...

6.3

230 votes

6.3

230 votes

Ann Vickers

1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Irene Dunne · Walter Huston · Conrad Nagel · Bruce Cabot

Plot As the Great War breaks out, Ann Vickers, a serious, independent and forthright woman, falls for an officer who jilts her before she can tell him she's pregnant. After an...

6.0

45 votes

6.0

45 votes

Madame Butterfly

1932 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Marion Gering

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Cary Grant · Charles Ruggles · Irving Pichel

Plot Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton is on shore-leave in Japan. He and his buddy Lieutenant Barton, out for a night on the town, stop in at a local establishment to check out...

6.0

45 votes

6.0

45 votes

Follow the Boys

1944 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast George Raft · Vera Zorina · Grace McDonald · Charley Grapewin

Plot During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as...

5.3

25 votes

5.3

25 votes

This Man Is Mine

1934 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Irene Dunne · Constance Cummings · Ralph Bellamy · Kay Johnson

Plot Toby Dunlap (Irene Dunne) is married to Jim (Ralph Bellamy). Jims old flame Fran (Constance Cummings) comes to visit and causes all kinds of trouble. Jud McCrae (Charles Starrett) is...

5.2

26 votes

5.2

26 votes

I Dream Too Much

1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Lily Pons · Henry Fonda · Eric Blore · Osgood Perkins

Plot Jonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with...

5.0

30 votes

5.0

30 votes

The Case of the Curious Bride

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Warren William · Margaret Lindsay · Donald Woods · Claire Dodd

Plot Rhoda Montaine learns that her first husband, Gregory Moxley, is still alive, which makes things awkward for her, since she has remarried Carl, the son of wealthy C. Phillip Montaine....

5.0

28 votes

5.0

28 votes

The Forbidden Woman

1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Paul L. Stein

Cast Jetta Goudal · Ivan Lebadeff · Leonid Snegoff · Josephine Norman

Plot A colonel of the French army in North Africa believes his brother, a sensitive musician, to be in love with the colonel's wife and so arranges for his brother to...

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Unseen Forces

1920 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Franklin

Cast Sylvia Breamer · Rosemary Theby · Conrad Nagel · Robert Cain

Plot As children, Clyde meets Miriam, and seem to fall in love, but when they get older, a misunderstanding prevents their marrying, and he instead takes Winifred, a social climber, resulting...

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Don't Tell the Wife

1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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Criminal Lawyer

1937 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne · Edward Killy

Cast Lee Tracy · Margot Grahame · Eduardo Ciannelli · Erik Rhodes

Plot Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads...

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Not rated

The Secret Call

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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Cockeyed Cavaliers

1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Thelma Todd · Dorothy Lee

Plot Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.

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