Direction: Tod Browning

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


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

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

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

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 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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