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
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast Anne Baxter · William Eythe · Michael O'Shea · Vincent Price
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
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast Henry Hebert · Mollie King · Ethel Grey Terry · Rod La Rocque
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Her Code of Honor
1919 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast Florence Reed · William Desmond · Robert Frazer · Irving Cummings
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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...
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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.
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