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
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Ginger Rogers · David Niven · Burgess Meredith · Stephen McNally
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
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Deanna Durbin · Franchot Tone · Walter Brennan · Robert Stack
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