Direction: Frank Capra
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Frank Capra. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Platinum Blonde
1931 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Loretta Young · Robert Williams · Jean Harlow · Don Dillaway
Plot Reporter 'Stew' Smith meets beautiful Ann Schuyler, a rich socialite, while covering the story of a scandal involving Ann's family. Ann takes a liking to the wisecracking Smith and the...
6.5
350 votes
6.5
350 votes
The Matinee Idol
1928 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Bessie Love · Johnnie Walker · Ernest Hilliard · Lionel Belmore
Plot A Broadway matinee idol famous for his black-face portrayals anonymously joins an amateur acting troupe and falls in love with the leading lady.
6.5
76 votes
6.5
76 votes
The Battle of Britain
1943 · Documentary · 54 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra · Anthony Veiller
Plot The official World War II US government account of Great Britain's stand against the Nazi war machine after the Dunkirk evacuation. In this installment of the "Why We Fight" propaganda...
6.4
34 votes
6.4
34 votes
Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War
1942 · Documentary · 52 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra · Anatole Litvak
Plot The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought. In this first installment of the "Why We...
6.4
318 votes
6.4
318 votes
The Strong Man
1926 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Harry Langdon · Priscilla Bonner · Gertrude Astor · William V. Mong
Plot A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. He becomes infatuated...
6.3
141 votes
6.3
141 votes
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays (TV)
1957 · Documentary · 54 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra · William T. Hurtz
Plot The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays is an examination of what cosmic rays are and how they work. It was written by Capra with Jonathan Latimer, a crime fiction...
6.2
25 votes
6.2
25 votes
Ladies of Leisure
1930 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Ralph Graves · Lowell Sherman · Marie Prevost
Plot Artist Jerry Strong, tiring of a wild party hosted by his Society fiancee Claire, takes a drive in the country and meets scantily clad Kay Arnold, self-proclaimed "party girl," who...
6.2
86 votes
6.2
86 votes
A Hole in the Head
1959 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Frank Sinatra · Eddie Hodges · Edward G. Robinson · Thelma Ritter
Plot Tony Manetta runs an unsuccessful Miami hotel, on which he can't meet the payments. Another liability is his weakness for dames (Shirl, his sexy current flame, is even less responsible...
6.2
734 votes
6.2
734 votes
Tunisian Victory
1944 · Documentary · 75 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra · Hugh Stewart
6.1
46 votes
6.1
46 votes
Long Pants
1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Harry Langdon · Gladys Brockwell · Alan Roscoe · Priscilla Bonner
Plot Harry Shelby (Harry Langdon) has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long...
6.1
129 votes
6.1
129 votes
Riding High
1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Bing Crosby · Coleen Gray · Charles Bickford · Frances Gifford
Plot RIDING HIGH is Frank Capra's remake of his own 1934 film Broadway Bill (AKA Strictly Confidential), in which romance and comedy play out against the backdrop of thoroughbred horse racing....
6.1
73 votes
6.1
73 votes
Here Comes the Groom
1951 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Bing Crosby · Jane Wyman · Franchot Tone · Alexis Smith
Plot Pete Garvey, foreign correspondent, has been running an impromptu adoption agency for war orphans in Paris, when an ultimatum from his erstwhile fiancée Emmadel Jones draws him back to Boston,...
6.0
247 votes
6.0
247 votes
War comes to America
1945 · Documentary · 70 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra · Anatole Litvak
6.0
38 votes
6.0
38 votes
Rain or Shine
1930 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Joe Cook · Louise Fazenda · Joan Peers · William Collier Jr.
Plot After her father's death, Mary Rainey takes over the Rainey Circus (which operates twice daily, rain or shine) but runs into financial troubles. In one bit reminiscent of the Marx...
6.0
30 votes
6.0
30 votes
Your Job in Germany (S)
1945 · Documentary · 13 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Adolf Hitler
6.0
23 votes
6.0
23 votes
Know Your Enemy: Japan
1945 · Documentary · 63 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra · Joris Ivens
Plot The hour-long film sought to educate American soldiers about their adversary's history and society, particularly the course up to the Pacific War, and the totalitarian nature of the Japanese state....
5.8
130 votes
5.8
130 votes
Dirigible
1931 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Jack Holt · Ralph Graves · Fay Wray · Hobart Bosworth
Plot A French explorer enlists the help of the US Navy in an expedition to the South Pole. There is competition between the airship division and fixed wing fliers, resolved in...
5.6
23 votes
5.6
23 votes
The Power of the Press
1928 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Jobyna Ralston · Mildred Harris · Philo McCullough
Plot Cub reporter Clem Rogers is rescued from writing weather reports when word comes that the district attorney has been murdered, and he is assigned to cover the story because he...
5.5
33 votes
5.5
33 votes
That Certain Thing
1928 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Viola Dana · Ralph Graves · Burr McIntosh · Aggie Herring
Plot Molly Kelly wants to marry a millionaire. When she runs into Andy Charles, heir to a restaurant fortune, she jumps at the chance and marries him. Andy's father if furious...
5.2
21 votes
5.2
21 votes
The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding House (S)
1922 · Movie · 12 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Mildred Owens · Ethan Allen · Olaf Skavlan
Plot Fultah Fisher runs a boarding house catering to seamen passing through the port. A girl known as Anne of Austria has had many lovers amongst the sailors, but presently she's...
4.8
27 votes
4.8
27 votes