Direction: Howard Hawks

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


The Big Sleep

1946 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Lauren Bacall · John Ridgely · Martha Vickers

Plot It tells the story of private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart), hired by General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to deal with a blackmailer. The General has two daughters. One, Vivian (Lauren...

8.1

23K votes

8.1

23K votes

Rio Bravo

1959 · Movie · 141 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Wayne · Dean Martin · Ricky Nelson · Angie Dickinson

Plot John Wayne stars as the sheriff of a small western town who arrests a murderer and then must contend with the aggressive efforts of the killer's brother to free him...

8.0

22K votes

8.0

22K votes

Bringing Up Baby

1938 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Cary Grant · Charles Ruggles · May Robson

Plot David Huxley (Grant) is an absent-minded paleontologist who needs to finish the reconstruction of a dinosaur for an exhibit that can provide good money for the museum. At a meeting...

8.0

31K votes

8.0

31K votes

His Girl Friday

1940 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Bellamy · Gene Lockhart

Plot Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that they are going to get married the day...

8.0

11K votes

8.0

11K votes

Ball of Fire

1941 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Oskar Homolka · Henry Travers

Plot 8 Professors are in the 9th year of a 12 year encyclopedia writing project. The youngest is Bertram Potts who specializes in language and grammar. When Professor Potts discovers that...

7.9

6K votes

7.9

6K votes

To Have and Have Not

1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Walter Brennan · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Moran

Plot Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) is the owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie (Walter Brennan), a garrulous alky whose pet question to anyone and everyone...

7.9

12K votes

7.9

12K votes

Scarface

1932 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Paul Muni · Ann Dvorak · Karen Morley · Osgood Perkins

Plot Big Louis Costillo, last of the old-style gang leaders is slain, and his former bodyguard Tony Camonte is taken into custody. Since Costillo's body has never been found, the police...

7.9

13K votes

7.9

13K votes

El Dorado

1966 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Wayne · Robert Mitchum · James Caan · Charlene Holt

Plot Hired gunman Cole Thornton turns down a job with Bart Jason as it would mean having to fight an old sheriff friend. Some months later he finds out the lawman...

7.8

13K votes

7.8

13K votes

Red River

1948 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks · Arthur Rosson

Cast John Wayne · Montgomery Clift · Walter Brennan · Joanne Dru

Plot Tom Dunson (John Wayne) builds a cattle empire with his adopted son Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift). Together they begin a massive cattle drive north from Texas to the Missouri railhead....

7.8

12K votes

7.8

12K votes

Only Angels Have Wings

1939 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Jean Arthur · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell

Plot While waiting for her boat, Bonnie Lee stops at a small airport in South America. The pilots there deliver mail over a dangerous and usually foggy mountain pass. Geoff Carter,...

7.7

5K votes

7.7

5K votes

Man's Favorite Sport?

1964 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Rock Hudson · Paula Prentiss · Maria Perschy · John McGiver

Plot Roger Willoughby is considered to be a leading expert on sports fishing. He's written books on the subject and is loved by his customers in the sporting goods department at...

7.4

4K votes

7.4

4K votes

Sergeant York

1941 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · George Tobias · Joan Leslie

Plot True story of the farm boy who made the transition from religious pacifist to World War I hero. The Valley of the 3 Forks of the Wolf, located in the...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

The Big Sky

1952 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Kirk Douglas · Dewey Martin · Steven Geray · Elizabeth Threatt

Plot Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Hatari!

1962 · Movie · 159 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Wayne · Hardy Krüger · Elsa Martinelli · Bruce Cabot

Plot John Wayne and his ensemble cast cavort over the African landscape filling orders from zoos for wild animals. Bruce Cabot plays "the Indian", a womanizing sharpshooter who is gored by...

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

Monkey Business

1952 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Ginger Rogers · Charles Coburn · Marilyn Monroe

Plot Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of...

7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

The Thing from Another World

1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Christian Nyby · Howard Hawks

Cast Margaret Sheridan · Kenneth Tobey · Robert Cornthwaite · Douglas Spencer

Plot Scientist at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back...

7.0

8K votes

7.0

8K votes

I Was a Male War Bride

1949 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Ann Sheridan · Marion Marshall · Randy Stuart

Plot Captain Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan). Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry....

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Rio Lobo

1970 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Wayne · Jennifer O'Neill · Jorge Rivero · Jack Elam

Plot After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.

7.0

4K votes

7.0

4K votes

Land of the Pharaohs

1955 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Jack Hawkins · Joan Collins · Dewey Martin · Alex Minotis

Plot In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life". To this end he enlists...

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

O. Henry's Full House

1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · Howard Hawks · Henry King · Henry Koster

Cast Fred Allen · Anne Baxter · Jeanne Crain · Farley Granger

Plot This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop...

6.8

477 votes

6.8

477 votes