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...
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...
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
Direction Mario Mattoli
Cast Totò · Liana Billi · Leo Brandi · Franco Caruso
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
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Wallace Reid · Gloria Swanson · Wanda Hawley · Theodore Roberts
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
Direction Mario Mattoli
Cast Totò · Isa Barzizza · Carlo Campanini · Franca Faldini
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
Direction Gregg C. Tallas · John Brahm · Arthur Ripley
Cast Maria Montez · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Dennis O'Keefe · Henry Daniell
5.9
51 votes
5.9
51 votes