Cinematography: Karl Struss

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


The Great Dictator

1940 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Paulette Goddard · Jack Oakie · Reginald Gardiner

Plot In the 1930s, Tomania falls under the control of dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who dreams of world domination. In the Jewish district of the capital lives a barber who looks so...

Max

8.6

84K votes

8.6

84K votes

Sunrise

1927 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast George O'Brien · Janet Gaynor · Margaret Livingston · Bodil Rosing

Plot A farmer (George O' Brien) lives happily with his wife (Janet Gaynor) until he meets an attractive woman from the city (Margaret Livingstone). The farmer falls in love with this...

8.4

14K votes

8.4

14K votes

Limelight

1952 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Claire Bloom · Nigel Bruce · Sydney Chaplin

Plot An old clown (Charles Chaplin), after preventing the suicide of a young dancer (Claire Bloom), takes care of her and tries to teach her everything he knows about theater so...

Max

8.3

13K votes

8.3

13K votes

Ben-Hur

1925 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Ramon Novarro · May McAvoy · Francis X. Bushman · Betty Bronson

Plot Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1931 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Fredric March · Miriam Hopkins · Rose Hobart · Holmes Herbert

Plot Henry "Harry" Jekyll is a well respected member of London society. In his personal life, he is pre-engaged to Muriel Carew, the daughter of a brigadier general. In his professional...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Poverty and Nobility

1954 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

6.9

111 votes

6.9

111 votes

The Fly

1958 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast David Hedison · Patricia Owens · Vincent Price · Herbert Marshall

Plot In Montreal, the industrial François Delambre (Vincent Price) is called late night by his sister-in-law Helene Delambre (Patricia Owens). She tells him that she has just killed her beloved husband...

6.9

5K votes

6.9

5K votes

Island of Lost Souls

1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Charles Laughton · Bela Lugosi · Richard Arlen · Leila Hyams

Plot An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

6.8

990 votes

6.8

990 votes

The Sign of the Cross

1932 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Fredric March · Charles Laughton · Claudette Colbert · Elissa Landi

Plot After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old Christians are...

6.8

540 votes

6.8

540 votes

Sparrows

1926 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Mary Pickford · Roy Stewart · Mary Louise Miller · Gustav von Seyffertitz

Plot Molly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.

6.6

63 votes

6.6

63 votes

The Affairs of Anatol

1921 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

6.5

27 votes

6.5

27 votes

Abraham Lincoln

1930 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Walter Huston · Una Merkel · William L. Thorne · Lucille La Verne

Plot D.W. Griffith's first talking movie is the biography of Lincoln from his birth in a log cabin to his entry into politics and his years of power before his assassination...

6.5

478 votes

6.5

478 votes

The Story of Temple Drake

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Jack La Rue · William Gargan · William Collier Jr.

Plot A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let...

6.4

55 votes

6.4

55 votes

Suspense

1946 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Belita · Barry Sullivan · Bonita Granville · Albert Dekker

Plot Frank Leonard (Albert Dekker), the proprietor of an ice-skating revue, promotes a strong-arming peanut-vendor named Joe Morgan (Barry Sullivan) at the show to a management position based on suggestions he...

6.2

64 votes

6.2

64 votes

The Battle of the Sexes

1928 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Jean Hersholt · Phyllis Haver · Belle Bennett · Don Alvarado

Plot Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into...

6.2

48 votes

6.2

48 votes

The Macomber Affair

1947 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Zoltan Korda

Cast Gregory Peck · Joan Bennett · Robert Preston · Reginald Denny

Plot Robert Wilson leads safaris on the Kenyan savannah. On this occasion, he takes Mr. and Mrs. Macomber out to chase buffalo. The obnoxius ways of Margaret Macomber make the three...

6.2

180 votes

6.2

180 votes

Neapolitan Turk

1953 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

6.2

26 votes

6.2

26 votes

Journey Into Fear

1943 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Norman Foster · Orson Welles

Cast Joseph Cotten · Dolores del Rio · Orson Welles · Everett Sloane

Plot A US Navy engineer, returning to the US with his wife from a conference, finds himself pursued by Nazi agents, who are out to kill him. Without a word to...

6.1

859 votes

6.1

859 votes

Four Frightened People

1934 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Claudette Colbert · Herbert Marshall · Mary Boland · William Gargan

Plot Four passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. In order to reach safety they have to trek through the jungle, facing wild...

5.9

33 votes

5.9

33 votes

Siren of Atlantis

1949 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

5.9

51 votes

5.9

51 votes