Direction: John M. Stahl

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by John M. Stahl. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Leave Her to Heaven

1945 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Gene Tierney · Cornel Wilde · Jeanne Crain · Vincent Price

Plot Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) meets and falls desperately in love with Richard Harland (Cornell Wilde), an author who resembles her late father. Ellen is pathologically possessive of Richard, jealous of...

7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K votes

Back Street

1932 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Irene Dunne · John Boles · June Clyde · George Meeker

Plot A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

7.3

315 votes

7.3

315 votes

Only Yesterday

1933 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Margaret Sullavan · John Boles · Edna May Oliver · Billie Burke

Plot A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but...

7.1

63 votes

7.1

63 votes

Imitation of Life

1934 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Claudette Colbert · Warren William · Rochelle Hudson · Ned Sparks

Plot Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have had a hard time making ends meet since Bea's husband died. Help comes in the form of Delilah Johnson, who agrees to work...

7.1

642 votes

7.1

642 votes

The Keys of the Kingdom

1944 · Movie · 137 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Gregory Peck · Vincent Price · Thomas Mitchell · Rose Stradner

Plot A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as...

7.0

653 votes

7.0

653 votes

Holy Matrimony

1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Monty Woolley · Gracie Fields · Laird Cregar · Una O'Connor

Plot From Arnold Bennett's novel "Buried Alive". An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet to escape the attentions of the press.

7.0

129 votes

7.0

129 votes

Magnificent Obsession

1935 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Irene Dunne · Robert Taylor · Charles Butterworth · Betty Furness

Plot The life of spoiled Robert Merrick (Robert Taylor) is saved through the use of a hospital's only pulmotor, which results in the death of Dr. Hudson, a selfless, brilliant surgeon...

6.6

317 votes

6.6

317 votes

When Tomorrow Comes

1939 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Irene Dunne · Charles Boyer · Barbara O'Neil · Onslow Stevens

Plot Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness,...

6.5

114 votes

6.5

114 votes

The Walls of Jericho

1948 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Cornel Wilde · Linda Darnell · Anne Baxter · Kirk Douglas

Plot After County Attorney Dave Connors helps Julian Norman with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman, she leaves Jericho, Kansas to college to study for a law degree.A few years later, Algeria...

6.4

124 votes

6.4

124 votes

The Foxes of Harrow

1947 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Rex Harrison · Maureen O'Hara · Richard Haydn · Victor McLaglen

Plot Frank Yerby's Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. 20th Century-Fox boiled the novel down into 118 minutes' worth of essentials for...

6.3

142 votes

6.3

142 votes

Immortal Sergeant

1943 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Henry Fonda · Maureen O'Hara · Thomas Mitchell · Allyn Joslyn

Plot Out on patrol in the war-time desert a Canadian corporal reminisces about the woman he has left behind in London and ponders whether she will fall for the charms of...

6.2

199 votes

6.2

199 votes

Father Was a Fullback

1949 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Fred MacMurray · Maureen O'Hara · Betty Lynn · Rudy Vallee

Plot Football coach George Cooper has as many problems managing his football team as he has at home dealing with his daughters, Ellen and Connie.

5.6

73 votes

5.6

73 votes

The Eve of St. Mark

1944 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

5.4

51 votes

5.4

51 votes

A Letter of Introduction

1938 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Andrea Leeds · George Murphy · Edgar Bergen

Plot An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to...

5.4

114 votes

5.4

114 votes

Parnell

1937 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Clark Gable · Myrna Loy · Edna May Oliver · Edmund Gwenn

Plot The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to free his country from English rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on...

5.3

31 votes

5.3

31 votes

Suspicious Wives

1921 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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Her Code of Honor

1919 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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Memory Lane

1926 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Eleanor Boardman · Conrad Nagel · William Haines · John Steppling

Plot Mary, on the day of her wedding to Jimmie, finds she has not lost her affection for another sweetheart, Joe. A confrontation arises when Jimmie discovers that Joe has come...

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A Lady Surrenders

1930 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Conrad Nagel · Rose Hobart · Genevieve Tobin · Basil Rathbone

Plot A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he marries...

Not rated

Not rated

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

1949 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Mark Stevens · June Haver · S.Z. Sakall · Charlotte Greenwood

Plot A song plugger vows to turn an opera composer’s music into popular hits.

Not rated

Not rated