Direction: Clarence Brown
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Clarence Brown. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Flesh and the Devil
1926 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Greta Garbo · John Gilbert · Lars Hanson · William Orlamond
Plot This silent film is a romantic melodrama about two childhood friends, Leo and Ulrich, who grow up to be soldiers in Germany. Leo becomes infatuated with Felicitas, the wife of...
7.5
590 votes
7.5
590 votes
Anna Karenina
1935 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Greta Garbo · Fredric March · Basil Rathbone · Maureen O'Sullivan
Plot Anna Karenina (Garbo), a young Russian woman trapped in a loveless marriage, meets and falls in love with Count Vronsky (Fredric March), a member of the Russian army. Karenin (Basil...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
A Woman of Affairs
1928 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Greta Garbo · John Gilbert · Lewis Stone · Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Plot Even when Diana, Neville and David played together as children, Diana knew that she loved Nevs. But Morton, Nevs' father, did not like any Merrick. Since Nevs did not have...
6.9
73 votes
6.9
73 votes
Intruder in the Dust
1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast David Brian · Claude Jarman Jr. · Juano Hernández · Porter Hall
Plot In 1940s Mississippi two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.
6.9
210 votes
6.9
210 votes
Possessed
1931 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Wallace Ford · Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Plot Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true,...
6.8
143 votes
6.8
143 votes
The Yearling
1946 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Gregory Peck · Jane Wyman · Claude Jarman Jr. · Chill Wills
Plot Clarence Brown directed this award-winning adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a poor pioneer family struggling to eke out a living in the Florida backwoods--and the coming...
6.8
718 votes
6.8
718 votes
Edison, the Man
1940 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Spencer Tracy · Rita Johnson · Lynne Overman · Charles Coburn
Plot In 1940, MGM produced two pictures spanning the life of legendary inventor and thinker Thomas Alva Edison. This sequel to YOUNG TOM EDISON (starring Mickey Rooney) is a thought-provoking portrait...
6.7
569 votes
6.7
569 votes
The Last of the Mohicans
1920 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown · Maurice Tourneur
Cast Wallace Beery · Barbara Bedford · Alan Roscoe · Lillian Hall
Plot As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron...
6.7
185 votes
6.7
185 votes
Sadie McKee
1934 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Joan Crawford · Gene Raymond · Franchot Tone · Edward Arnold
Plot The life of Sadie McKee takes many twists and turns. She starts as the daughter of the cook for the well off Alderson family. Lawyer Michael Alderson likes Sadie but...
6.7
82 votes
6.7
82 votes
Anna Christie
1930 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Greta Garbo · Charles Bickford · George F. Marion · Marie Dressler
Plot In New York, the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge Chris Christofferson receives a letter from his estranged twenty year old daughter Anna "Christie" Christofferson telling that she will leave...
6.6
344 votes
6.6
344 votes
Song of Love
1947 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Paul Henreid · Robert Walker · Henry Daniell
Plot Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
6.5
212 votes
6.5
212 votes
Conquest
1937 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown · Gustav Machatý
Cast Greta Garbo · Charles Boyer · Reginald Owen · Alan Marshal
Plot A polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to make Poland independent.
6.5
187 votes
6.5
187 votes
The White Cliffs of Dover
1944 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Irene Dunne · Alan Marshal · Roddy McDowall · Frank Morgan
Plot It tells the story of an American girl who travels abroad to England and falls in love with an English aristocrat. The girl marries the Englishman but their honeymoon is...
6.4
113 votes
6.4
113 votes
The Eagle
1925 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Rudolph Valentino · Vilma Bánky · Louise Dresser · Albert Conti
Plot Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest,...
6.4
154 votes
6.4
154 votes
Inspiration
1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Greta Garbo · Robert Montgomery · Lewis Stone · Marjorie Rambeau
Plot Yvonne is a Parisian woman with a disreputable past. When this past returns to haunt her, she decides to leave her boyfriend in order to presever his honor. Later, she...
6.3
80 votes
6.3
80 votes
The Human Comedy
1943 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Mickey Rooney · Frank Morgan · James Craig · Marsha Hunt
Plot Recently-deceased Matthew Macauley looks down upon his family in small-town Ithaca, where eldest son Marcus has departed to await deployment for combat in the Second World War. This leaves middle...
6.2
143 votes
6.2
143 votes
The Rains Came
1939 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Myrna Loy · Tyrone Power · George Brent · Brenda Joyce
Plot The year is 1938 in British India, and our story takes place in the picturesque city of Ranchipur, presently sweltering under the heat, with locals praying for much needed rains...
6.2
269 votes
6.2
269 votes
Chained
1934 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Otto Kruger · Stuart Erwin
Plot A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men.
6.2
79 votes
6.2
79 votes
A Free Soul
1931 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Norma Shearer · Clark Gable · Leslie Howard
Plot Stephen Ashe, an upper class alcoholic defense attourney, successfully defends local mobster Ace Wilfong in a murder case. After his daughter Jan Ashe breaks her engagement to polo player Dwight...
6.1
137 votes
6.1
137 votes
Wife vs. Secretary
1936 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Clark Gable · Jean Harlow · Myrna Loy · May Robson
Plot The wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband's relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional.
6.1
104 votes
6.1
104 votes