Cinematography: David Abel
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by David Abel. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Titles found: 58
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
Direction Mark Sandrich
Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Randolph Scott · Betty Grable
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
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Irene Rich · Huntley Gordon · Lilyan Tashman · Otis Harlan
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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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The Secret Call
1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Walker
Cast Richard Arlen · Peggy Shannon · William B. Davidson · Charles Trowbridge
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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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