Direction: Charles Vidor

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Charles Vidor. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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