Direction: Vincente Minnelli

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


The Bad and the Beautiful

1952 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Lana Turner · Kirk Douglas · Walter Pidgeon · Dick Powell

Plot An egotistical producer, Jonathan Shields (Douglas), determined to prove himself the finest filmmaker of all, gladly steps all over those who helped him when he was starting out. Told from...

8.1

13K votes

8.1

13K votes

The Band Wagon

1953 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Fred Astaire · Cyd Charisse · Oscar Levant · Nanette Fabray

Plot Tony Hunter, a famous singer/dancer movie star, is feeling washed up and old hat (old top hat, tie and tails to be exact). The reporters are out for Ava Gardner,...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

Some Came Running

1958 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Frank Sinatra · Dean Martin · Shirley MacLaine · Martha Hyer

Plot Dave Hirsch, a writer and army veteran, returns to 1948 Parkman, Indiana, his hometown. His prosperous brother introduces him to Gwen French, a local teacher. But the more flamboyant Ginny...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Lust for Life

1956 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Kirk Douglas · Anthony Quinn · James Donald · Pamela Brown

Plot This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was in turn inspired by the written correspondence between Van...

7.4

6K votes

7.4

6K votes

An American in Paris

1951 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gene Kelly · Leslie Caron · Oscar Levant · Georges Guétary

Plot One of the greatest of 1950s screen musicals is a happy collaboration between the grace and athleticism of Gene Kelly and colourful palette of Vincente Minnelli. An American G.I. lingers...

7.3

13K votes

7.3

13K votes

Home from the Hill

1960 · Movie · 151 min. · United States

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Tea and Sympathy

1956 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

7.2

786 votes

7.2

786 votes

Designing Woman

1957 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gregory Peck · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Gray · Tom Helmore

Plot On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right away. However back at home they realize that they're living in different worlds and...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Brigadoon

1954 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gene Kelly · Cyd Charisse · Van Johnson · Elaine Stewart

Plot Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, on a hunting vacation in Scotland, discover a quaint and beautiful village, Brigadoon. Strangely, the village is not on any map, and soon Tommy...

7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

1962 · Movie · 153 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Glenn Ford · Ingrid Thulin · Charles Boyer · Paul Lukas

Plot Two rich families in Argentina have gathered to welcome Heinrich home after many years of medical studies in Germany. They are shocked when they hear that he has given up...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Madame Bovary

1949 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Jennifer Jones · Louis Jourdan · Van Heflin · James Mason

Plot French author Gustave Flaubert is on trial for writing the "indecent" novel "Madame Bovary." To prove that he wrote a moral tale, Flaubert narrates the story of beautiful Emma Bovary,...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Meet Me in St. Louis

1944 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Margaret O'Brien · Mary Astor · Lucille Bremer

Plot St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Two Weeks in Another Town

1962 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Kirk Douglas · Edward G. Robinson · Cyd Charisse · Daliah Lavi

Plot An actor trying to revive his career after a nervous breakdown finds the manipulative characters in his life seem to be standing in his way.

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Pirate

1948 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Gene Kelly · Walter Slezak · Gladys Cooper

Plot When Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne appeared in S. N. Behrmann's The Pirate on Broadway, there were no musical numbers whatsoever. But with Gene Kelly and Judy Garland in the...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Gigi

1958 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Leslie Caron · Maurice Chevalier · Louis Jourdan · Hermione Gingold

Plot Gaston (Jordan), the scion of a wealthy Parisian family finds emotional refuge from the superficial lifestyle of upper class Parisian 1900s society with the former mistress (Gingold) of his uncle...

6.8

7K votes

6.8

7K votes

The Clock

1945 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Robert Walker · James Gleason · Keenan Wynn

Plot Soldier Joe Allen is on a two-day leave in New York, and there he meets Alice. She agrees to show him the sights and they spend the day together. In...

6.8

239 votes

6.8

239 votes

Father of the Bride

1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Spencer Tracy · Elizabeth Taylor · Joan Bennett · Leo G. Carroll

Plot The comic trials and tribulations that beset a family, mostly the father, prior to their daughter's wedding day. Taylor and Tracy give wonderful performances and it's easy to understand why...

6.8

4K votes

6.8

4K votes

The Sandpiper

1965 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Eva Marie Saint · Charles Bronson

Plot Young Danny Reynolds and his mother Laura (Elizabeth Taylor) live an idyllic life near California's Big Sur. Laura teaches Danny at home. After Danny shoots a deer, authorities take the...

6.6

817 votes

6.6

817 votes

You Were There

1946 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Robert Taylor · Robert Mitchum · Edmund Gwenn

Plot Young bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.

6.5

685 votes

6.5

685 votes

Ziegfeld Follies

1945 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli · Lemuel Ayers · Roy Del Ruth · Robert Lewis

Cast Fred Astaire · William Powell · Judy Garland · Lucille Ball

Plot The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

6.4

313 votes

6.4

313 votes