Direction: George Cukor
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by George Cukor. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The Philadelphia Story
1940 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Cary Grant · Katharine Hepburn · James Stewart · Ruth Hussey
Plot Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) is a wealthy Main Line Philadelphia socialite who had divorced C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and is about to marry nouveau riche George Kittredge (John Howard)....
8.0
26K votes
8.0
26K votes
Gaslight
1944 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Charles Boyer · Ingrid Bergman · Joseph Cotten · Dame May Whitty
Plot Gregory Anton (Boyer) is a smooth and cunning gentleman who seduces and marries the gullible Paula Alquist (Bergman). They take up residence in Paula's childhood home, long abandoned since the...
8.0
8K votes
8.0
8K votes
Gone With the Wind
1939 · Movie · 238 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming · George Cukor · Sam Wood
Cast Vivien Leigh · Clark Gable · Olivia de Havilland · Leslie Howard
Plot When wealthy Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) learns that Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), whom she's secretly in love with, is engaged to Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), she decides...
7.9
57K votes
7.9
57K votes
Adam's Rib
1949 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Spencer Tracy · Judy Holliday · Tom Ewell
Plot Domestic and professional tensions mount when husband Adam Bonner and his wife Amanda work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
7.8
10K votes
7.8
10K votes
My Fair Lady
1964 · Movie · 170 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Audrey Hepburn · Rex Harrison · Stanley Holloway · Wilfrid Hyde-White
Plot Gloriously witty adaptation of the Broadway musical about Professor Henry Higgins, who takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined, dirty Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into...
7.6
27K votes
7.6
27K votes
Holiday
1938 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Cary Grant · Katharine Hepburn · Lew Ayres · Doris Dolan
Plot Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. When her family, with the exception of black-sheep Linda and drunken Ned, want Johnny to settle down to big business,...
7.5
3K votes
7.5
3K votes
Camille
1936 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Greta Garbo · Robert Taylor · Lionel Barrymore · Elizabeth Allan
Plot Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
A Star Is Born
1954 · Movie · 175 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Judy Garland · James Mason · Jack Carson · Charles Bickford
Plot Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Dinner at Eight
1933 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Marie Dressler · John Barrymore · Wallace Beery · Jean Harlow
Plot Millicent Jordan is pre-occupied with the plans she is making for a high-class dinner party. Her husband Oliver is in failing health, and he is also worried because someone is...
7.2
853 votes
7.2
853 votes
Born Yesterday
1950 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Judy Holliday · William Holden · Broderick Crawford · Howard St. John
Plot Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn. Brock hires newspaperman Paul Verrall...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
The Women
1939 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Norma Shearer · Joan Crawford · Rosalind Russell · Mary Boland
Plot Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
It Should Happen to You!
1954 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Judy Holliday · Peter Lawford · Jack Lemmon · Connie Gilchrist
Plot "It Should Happen To You" is the delightful, bubble-headed comedy about Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday), who decides that all one really needs to be famous is a gigantic billboard advertising...
7.0
930 votes
7.0
930 votes
A Woman's Face
1941 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Joan Crawford · Melvyn Douglas · Conrad Veidt · Osa Massen
Plot Anna Holm is a blackmailer, who because of a facial scar, despises everyone she encounters. When a plastic surgeon performs an operation to correct this disfigurement, Anna becomes torn between...
7.0
628 votes
7.0
628 votes
David Copperfield
1935 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Freddie Bartholomew · Frank Lawton · W.C. Fields · Roland Young
Plot England, 19th-century. When David's father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. When David's mother dies from...
7.0
958 votes
7.0
958 votes
Little Women
1933 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Joan Bennett · Paul Lukas · Frances Dee
Plot Josephine March and her three sisters Margaret, Amy, and Beth grow up with their mother's guidance while their father fights in the American Civil War (1861 to 1865). The vivacious...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
A Double Life
1947 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Ronald Colman · Signe Hasso · Edmond O'Brien · Shelley Winters
Plot The successful middle-aged Broadway actor Anthony "Tony" John is a dedicated lonely professional that still loves his former wife Brita. They are playing Othello for almost two years and Tony...
6.9
685 votes
6.9
685 votes
Les Girls
1957 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Gene Kelly · Mitzi Gaynor · Kay Kendall · Taina Elg
Plot After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren (Kay Kendall) is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele (Taina...
6.8
604 votes
6.8
604 votes
One Hour with You
1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch · George Cukor
Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Genevieve Tobin · Roland Young
Plot Dr. André Bertier and his wife Colette live happily until her flirtatious school friend, Mitzi Olivier, comes to visit them. Mitzi schemes to get André alone by pretending to be...
6.8
792 votes
6.8
792 votes
Wild Is the Wind
1957 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Anna Magnani · Anthony Quinn · Anthony Franciosa · Joseph Calleia
Plot A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love...
6.7
201 votes
6.7
201 votes
Rich and Famous
1981 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Jacqueline Bisset · Candice Bergen · Meg Ryan · David Selby
Plot Merry Noel (Candice Bergen) and Liz Hamilton (Jacqueline Bisset) become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries,...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes