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