Direction: Tod Browning
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Tod Browning. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 62
Freaks
1932 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Wallace Ford · Leila Hyams · Olga Baclanova · Roscoe Ates
Synopsis The story involves duplicitous trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) seducing sideshow midget Hans (Earles) for his inheritance. Hans’ reluctant friends, the other sideshow attractions, resist allowing her into their clan, until Hans maintains her love is genuine.
8.2
22K votes
8.2
22K votes
The Unknown
1927 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Joan Crawford · Norman Kerry · Nick de Ruiz
Synopsis Alonzo, one of the star attractions of Zanzi's gypsy circus, is an "armless wonder" who hurls knives with his feet at his attractive assistant Nanon, Zanzi's daughter. In reality, Alonzo is a perfectly armed thief, with the unique distinction of...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
The Devil-Doll
1936 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Maureen O'Sullivan · Frank Lawton · Robert Greig
Synopsis An escaped Devil's Island convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those that framed him.
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
West of Zanzibar
1928 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Lionel Barrymore · Mary Nolan · Warner Baxter
Synopsis Magician Phroso's wife Anna leaves him for another man, named Crane, who fights with Phroso and leaves him paralyzed. Later Anna returns and he finds her dead, leaving behind a daughter. For 18 years Phroso, known as "Dead Legs" by...
7.1
309 votes
7.1
309 votes
Dracula
1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Bela Lugosi · Helen Chandler · David Manners · Dwight Frye
Synopsis After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in actuality a vampire. Renfield is drugged by the eerily hypnotic...
7.1
7K votes
7.1
7K votes
The Unholy Three
1925 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Mae Busch · Matt Moore · Victor McLaglen
Synopsis Three sideshow performers leave their lives of captivity and become "The Unholy Three." Echo the ventriloquist assumes the role of a kindly old grandmother who runs a bird shop. Tweedledee, the "twenty inch man," becomes her grandbaby, and Hercules is...
7.0
351 votes
7.0
351 votes
The Blackbird
1926 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Owen Moore · Renée Adorée · Doris Lloyd
Synopsis Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
6.4
125 votes
6.4
125 votes
The Show
1927 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Lionel Barrymore · Edward Connelly
6.4
132 votes
6.4
132 votes
Mark of the Vampire
1935 · Movie · 58 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Elizabeth Allan · Bela Lugosi · Lionel Atwill
Synopsis Sir Karell Borotyn appears to have been killed by Count Mora, a vampire believed to haunt the local village. Now his daughter Irena is the count's next target. Enter Professor Zelen, an expert on vampires who's sent in to prevent...
6.3
890 votes
6.3
890 votes
Where East Is East
1929 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Lupe Velez · Estelle Taylor · Lloyd Hughes
Synopsis "Tiger" Haynes (Chaney) is a animal trapper in China who lives with his beautiful daughter, Toyo (Velez). Toyo soon becomes romantically involved with Bobby (Hughes), who turns out to be the son of one of Tiger's old friends. Tiger puts...
6.2
97 votes
6.2
97 votes
London After Midnight
1927 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Polly Moran · Henry B. Walthall · Marceline Day
Synopsis The abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?
6.1
234 votes
6.1
234 votes
The Road to Mandalay
1926 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Lois Moran · Owen Moore · Henry B. Walthall
Synopsis East meets West -- you'll meet thrills such as you've never imagined possible in this powerful film, Chaney's greatest role!
6.0
56 votes
6.0
56 votes
The Mystic
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Aileen Pringue · Conway Tearle · Mitchell Lewis · Robert Ober
6.0
45 votes
6.0
45 votes
Miracles for Sale
1939 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Robert Young · Florence Rice · Frank Craven · Henry Hull
Synopsis Mike Morgan creates the illusions that magicians use in their shows. While his business is Miracles for Sale, his hobby is exposing fake spiritualists. At the club, he is invited to attend the calling from the other world by Sabbatt,...
5.9
101 votes
5.9
101 votes
The Thirteenth Chair
1929 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Conrad Nagel · Leila Hyams · Margaret Wycherly · Helene Millard
Synopsis Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel a true "bounder" Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a...
5.8
81 votes
5.8
81 votes
The Wicked Darling
1919 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Priscilla Dean · Wellington A. Playter · Lon Chaney · Spottiswoode Aitken
Synopsis Kent Mortimer has been financially ruined, and while attending a dress ball with his fiancee, Adele Hoyt, he tells her that he must sell his household goods to pay off his debts. Adele cooly breaks the engagement, and returns all...
5.8
83 votes
5.8
83 votes
Outside the Law
1920 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Priscilla Dean · Ralph Lewis · E. Alyn Warren
5.7
78 votes
5.7
78 votes
Fast Workers
1933 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast John Gilbert · Robert Armstrong · Mae Clarke · Muriel Kirkland
Synopsis Gunner and Bucker are pals who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner has not failed. But...
5.6
59 votes
5.6
59 votes
The Electric Alarm (S)
1915 · Movie · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Charles Gorman · Lilian Webster · Lucy Payton · A.E. Freeman
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The Fatal Glass of Beer (S)
1916 · Movie · 20 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Jack Brammall · Elmo Lincoln · Tully Marshall · Teddy Sampson
Synopsis An ex-convict reunites with his father.
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