Direction: Charles Vidor
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Charles Vidor. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 35
Gilda
1946 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Rita Hayworth · Glenn Ford · George Macready · Joseph Calleia
Plot Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on...
7.7
31K votes
7.7
31K votes
A Song to Remember
1945 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Paul Muni · Merle Oberon · Cornel Wilde · Stephen Bekassy
Plot Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a duke's home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor,...
6.5
266 votes
6.5
266 votes
The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Charles Laughton · Jon Hall · Peggy Drake · Victor Francen
Plot After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and...
6.5
45 votes
6.5
45 votes
Blind Alley
1939 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Chester Morris · Ralph Bellamy · Ann Dvorak · Joan Perry
Plot Gangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient
6.5
139 votes
6.5
139 votes
Cover Girl
1944 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Rita Hayworth · Gene Kelly · Phil Silvers · Lee Bowman
Plot Rusty Parker, a red-headed leggy dancer at Danny McGuire's Night Club in Brooklyn, wants to be a successful Broadway star. She enters a contest to be a 'Cover Girl' as...
6.4
613 votes
6.4
613 votes
Ladies in Retirement
1941 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Ida Lupino · Louis Hayward · Evelyn Keyes · Elsa Lanchester
Plot The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.
6.4
145 votes
6.4
145 votes
Love Me or Leave Me
1955 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Doris Day · James Cagney · Cameron Mitchell · Robert Keith
Plot Jazz Age singing sensation Ruth Etting had looks, ambition and a haunting, smoketinged voice. It took more than that to make her a star. It took Marty 'The Gimp' Snyder,...
6.4
401 votes
6.4
401 votes
The Swan
1956 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Grace Kelly · Alec Guinness · Louis Jourdan · Agnes Moorehead
Plot Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit...
6.1
772 votes
6.1
772 votes
Thunder in the East
1952 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Alan Ladd · Deborah Kerr · Charles Boyer · Corinne Calvet
Plot During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an...
6.1
43 votes
6.1
43 votes
Together Again
1944 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Irene Dunne · Charles Boyer · Charles Coburn · Mona Freeman
Plot Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on...
6.0
34 votes
6.0
34 votes
A Farewell to Arms
1957 · Movie · 152 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Rock Hudson · Jennifer Jones · Vittorio De Sica · Oskar Homolka
Plot Frederick Henry, an American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Italian forces in the First World War, is wounded and falls in love with his attending nurse, the...
6.0
803 votes
6.0
803 votes
Hans Christian Andersen
1952 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Danny Kaye · Farley Granger · Zizi Jeanmaire · Joseph Walsh
Plot A completely fabricated biography of the famous Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen featuring several of his stories and a ballet performance of "The Little Mermaid".
6.0
397 votes
6.0
397 votes
Song Without End
1960 · Movie · 141 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor · George Cukor
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Capucine · Geneviève Page · Patricia Morison
Plot Buoyed by an Academy Award-winning score, this powerful musical biography began shooting under the direction of Charles Vidor, but when he became ill, George Cukor completed the film. SONG WITHOUT...
6.0
125 votes
6.0
125 votes
The Mask of Fu Manchu
1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Charles Brabin · Charles Vidor
Cast Boris Karloff · Lewis Stone · Karen Morley · Charles Starrett
Plot Sir Lionel Barton leads a British expedition to Mongolia to find the Golden Death Mask and Scimitar of Genghis Khan. They are in a race to find the artifacts before...
5.8
529 votes
5.8
529 votes
The Desperadoes
1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Randolph Scott · Glenn Ford · Claire Trevor · Evelyn Keyes
Plot When Cheyenne Rogers (Glenn Ford), a hunted gunman, rides into Red Valley, he meets and falls in love with Allison MacLeod (Evelyn Keyes). Trying to go straight, Cheyenne is enmeshed...
5.7
202 votes
5.7
202 votes
The Lady in Question
1940 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Brian Aherne · Rita Hayworth · Glenn Ford · Irene Rich
Plot Columbia's The Lady in Question is a remake of the French Gribouille, a Raimu vehicle from 1939. Brian Aherne plays Andre Morestan, the seeming contently paterfamilias of a bourgeois Parisian...
5.7
178 votes
5.7
178 votes
Rhapsody
1954 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Vittorio Gassman · John Ericson · Louis Calhern
Plot A rich, young woman, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he plans to finish his study of violin at the conservatory. A...
5.7
143 votes
5.7
143 votes
The Loves of Carmen
1948 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Rita Hayworth · Glenn Ford · Victor Jory · Arnold Moss
Plot Don Jose Lizarabengoa (Glenn Ford), a soldier in the Dragoons, has just arrived in Seville from Nevara. Soon after his arrival, he takes a walk to familiarize himself with the...
5.5
244 votes
5.5
244 votes
The Joker Is Wild
1957 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Frank Sinatra · Mitzi Gaynor · Jeanne Crain · Eddie Albert
Plot Frank Sinatra plays Joe E. Lewis, a famous comedian of the 1930s-50s. When the movie opens, Lewis is a young, talented singer who performs in speakeasies. When he bolts one...
5.4
43 votes
5.4
43 votes
It's a Big Country
1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown · Don Hartman · John Sturges · Richard Thorpe
Cast Ethel Barrymore · Keefe Brasselle · Gary Cooper · Nancy Reagan
Plot The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious tolerance to the dangers of self-centeredness and myopic reasoning.
5.3
34 votes
5.3
34 votes