Direction: Edmund Goulding

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


Nightmare Alley

1947 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Tyrone Power · Joan Blondell · Coleen Gray · Helen Walker

Plot This relatively little-known film is widely hailed by fans of the macabre. Truly ahead of its time, NIGHTMARE ALLEY is set in the gritty, surrealistic world of traveling carnivals, where...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Razor's Edge

1946 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Tyrone Power · Gene Tierney · John Payne · Anne Baxter

Plot Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929,...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Old Maid

1939 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · Miriam Hopkins · George Brent · Donald Crisp

Plot Delia marries Jim, not Joe After Delia breaks her engagement to Clem and marries Jim, Clem promises to marry Delia's cousin Charlotte, but he dies at the battle of Vicksburg...

7.4

732 votes

7.4

732 votes

Dark Victory

1939 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Humphrey Bogart · Geraldine Fitzgerald

Plot The twenty-three years old wealthy sportswoman Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) has painful headaches and double-vision, and the family doctor, Dr. Parsons (Henry Travers), convinces her to go with her best...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Grand Hotel

1932 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Greta Garbo · John Barrymore · Joan Crawford · Wallace Beery

Plot Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

The Constant Nymph

1943 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Charles Boyer · Joan Fontaine · Brenda Marshall · Alexis Smith

Plot Fourteen-year-old Tessa is hopelessly in love with handsome composer Lewis Dodd, a family friend. Lewis adores Tessa, but has never shown any romantic feelings toward her. When Tessa's father dies,...

6.8

169 votes

6.8

169 votes

Mister 880

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Burt Lancaster · Dorothy McGuire · Edmund Gwenn · Millard Mitchell

Plot The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed...

6.6

289 votes

6.6

289 votes

The Dawn Patrol

1938 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

6.4

181 votes

6.4

181 votes

The Great Lie

1941 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Mary Astor · Lucile Watson

Plot Sandra and Pete elope but their marriage is invalid since she's not yet divorced. Sandra is, however, pregnant by Pete. Pete marries his former fiancée Maggie, then flies to South...

6.4

330 votes

6.4

330 votes

We Are Not Alone

1939 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Paul Muni · Jane Bryan · Flora Robson · Raymond Severn

Plot Dr. David Newcome (Paul Muni) lives with his wife Jessica (Flora Robson) and son Gerald (Raymond Severn)in the small English town of Calderbury. Jessica, conventional and somewhat stupid, is unable...

6.4

44 votes

6.4

44 votes

Of Human Bondage

1946 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Paul Henreid · Eleanor Parker · Alexis Smith · Edmund Gwenn

Plot A medical student risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress.

6.3

40 votes

6.3

40 votes

Love

1927 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast John Gilbert · Greta Garbo · George Fawcett · Emily Fitzroy

Plot In Czarist Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become Vronsky's mistress. Tragedy ensues when Vronsky chooses...

6.2

76 votes

6.2

76 votes

That Certain Woman

1937 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · Henry Fonda · Anita Louise · Ian Hunter

Plot <spoiler> Mary Donnell was married at sixteen to a gangster and soon widowed. She works for unhappily married lawyer Lloyd Rogers. A client's son Jack elopes with her, but his...

6.2

62 votes

6.2

62 votes

Everybody Does It

1949 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Paul Douglas · Linda Darnell · Celeste Holm · Charles Coburn

Plot Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera...

6.1

31 votes

6.1

31 votes

We're Not Married!

1952 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Ginger Rogers · Fred Allen · Victor Moore · Marilyn Monroe

Plot A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married. Annabel Norris,...

5.7

184 votes

5.7

184 votes

Reaching for the Moon

1930 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

5.4

44 votes

5.4

44 votes

Forever and a Day

1943 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding · Cedric Hardwicke · Frank Lloyd · Victor Saville

Cast Kent Smith · June Lockhart · Ray Milland · Claude Rains

Plot In this episodic, World War II film, an American (Kent Smith) travels to London to sell the stately old house that belongs to his family. While he's visiting the home,...

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Down Among the Sheltering Palms

1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast William Lundigan · Jane Greer · Mitzi Gaynor · Gene Lockhart

Plot World War II is over but Captain Willoby and his men must "occupy" remote Midi Island. The men are disgusted at not going home...until they meet the friendly island women....

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Mardi Gras

1958 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Pat Boone · Christine Carère · Tommy Sands · Sheree North

Plot A military school cadet wins a date with a French movie goddess, who happens to be the queen of the Mardi Gras Parade. The two fall in love, but then...

Not rated

Not rated

'Til We Meet Again

1940 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Merle Oberon · George Brent · Pat O'Brien · Geraldine Fitzgerald

Plot Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall...

Not rated

Not rated