Cinematography: Joseph A. Valentine

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


Rope

1948 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart · John Dall · Farley Granger · Cedric Hardwicke

Plot Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley and as a consequence decide to murder...

8.1

35K votes

8.1

35K votes

Seventh Heaven (7th Heaven)

1927 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Gladys Brockwell · David Butler

Plot Chico (Charles Farrell) is a street cleaner who works in Paris. Diane (Janet Gaynor) is an unlucky woman who is abused by her elder sister. One day, Chico saves her...

7.8

1K votes

7.8

1K votes

Shadow of a Doubt

1943 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Teresa Wright · Joseph Cotten · Macdonald Carey · Henry Travers

Plot Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and her younger sister. She wishes something exciting wold happen and knows exactly what they need:...

7.6

11K votes

7.6

11K votes

Possessed

1947 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Joan Crawford · Raymond Massey · Van Heflin · Geraldine Brooks

Plot A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she's taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital....

6.9

587 votes

6.9

587 votes

Next Time We Love

1936 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Margaret Sullavan · James Stewart · Ray Milland · Grant Mitchell

Plot A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.

6.8

63 votes

6.8

63 votes

Saboteur

1942 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Priscilla Lane · Robert Cummings · Otto Kruger · Alan Baxter

Plot A forerunner to Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST, SABOTEUR is the story of defense plant worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings), who stands falsely accused of planning a factory explosion that killed...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

Tomorrow Is Forever

1946 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Claudette Colbert · Orson Welles · George Brent · Lucile Watson

Plot Elizabeth and John say good-bye as John leaves to go to war. When the war ends, Elizabeth receives a telegram that John has been killed in action. She finds comfort...

6.7

105 votes

6.7

105 votes

Sleep, My Love

1948 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Claudette Colbert · Robert Cummings · Don Ameche · Rita Johnson

Plot Wealthy Sutton Place housewife Alison Courtland wakes up screaming on a train that left New York's Grand Central Station for Boston. The doctor who treats her on the train says...

6.6

804 votes

6.6

804 votes

One Hundred Men and a Girl

1937 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Leopold Stokowski · Adolphe Menjou · Alice Brady

Plot The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski...

6.6

116 votes

6.6

116 votes

The Gay Deception

1935 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Francis Lederer · Frances Dee · Benita Hume · Alan Mowbray

Plot Mirabel wins a $5,000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she...

6.6

22 votes

6.6

22 votes

Unfinished Business

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Irene Dunne · Robert Montgomery · Preston Foster · Eugene Pallette

Plot Small town girl (Dunne) Meets and falls for a playboy type (Foster) on a train to New York. For him, the fling is over when they arrive, but she continues...

6.4

91 votes

6.4

91 votes

The Wolf Man

1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction George Waggner

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Claude Rains · Warren William · Ralph Bellamy

Plot Upon the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. He visits a gypsy camp with village girl Jenny Williams, who is attacked...

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

Guest Wife

1945 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Claudette Colbert · Don Ameche · Dick Foran · Charles Dingle

Plot Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris's wife, Mary, is none to...

6.2

38 votes

6.2

38 votes

Joan of Arc

1948 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Ingrid Bergman · José Ferrer · Francis L. Sullivan · Ward Bond

Plot In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to...

6.1

734 votes

6.1

734 votes

The Rage of Paris

1938 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Danielle Darrieux · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Mischa Auer · Helen Broderick

Plot Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problem is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her...

6.0

155 votes

6.0

155 votes

Magnificent Doll

1946 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

6.0

145 votes

6.0

145 votes

First Love

1939 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Robert Stack · Eugene Pallette · Helen Parrish

Plot In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially...

5.9

30 votes

5.9

30 votes

Nice Girl?

1941 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

5.9

25 votes

5.9

25 votes

My Little Chickadee

1940 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast Mae West · W.C. Fields · Joseph Calleia · Dick Foran

Plot Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. On the train she meets con man Cuthbert J. Twillie and pretends...

5.8

36 votes

5.8

36 votes

Three Smart Girls

1936 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Barbara Read · Nan Grey · Ray Milland

Plot The three Craig sisters, in Switzerland with their ten-years-divorced mother, run away to New York to prevent their father from marrying calculating socialite Donna Lyons. The overpowering vivacity of the...

5.7

30 votes

5.7

30 votes