Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz

December 24, 1886

Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 — April 10, 1962), born Manó Kaminer, was a Hungarian-American film director. He had early credits as Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész. He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the United States. The best-known were The Adventures o…

Known For

32 titles
1
Casablanca

Casablanca

1943 · 1h 42m · Movie

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

8.5
2
White Christmas

White Christmas

1954 · 2h 0m · Movie

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

7.5
3
The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1938 · 1h 42m · Movie

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.

7.9
4
Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce

1945 · 1h 51m · Movie

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

7.9
5
Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces

1938 · 1h 37m · Movie

A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

7.9
6
Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942 · 2h 6m · Movie

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

7.6
7
Captain Blood

Captain Blood

1935 · 1h 59m · Movie

After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.

7.7
8
The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk

1940 · 2h 7m · Movie

Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for an attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills with the sword.

7.6
9
The Comancheros

The Comancheros

1961 · 1h 47m · Movie

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves dealing with the Comanches known as Comancheros.

6.8
10
Mystery of the Wax Museum

Mystery of the Wax Museum

1933 · 1h 17m · Movie

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

6.8
11
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939 · 1h 46m · Movie

A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.

7.0
12
Dodge City

Dodge City

1939 · 1h 44m · Movie

A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.

7.1
13
The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1936 · 1h 55m · Movie

A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.

7.0
14
Passage to Marseille

Passage to Marseille

1944 · 1h 49m · Movie

Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.

6.8
15
The Breaking Point

The Breaking Point

1950 · 1h 37m · Movie

An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.

7.5
16
The Egyptian

The Egyptian

1954 · 2h 19m · Movie

In ancient Egypt, a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaoh's court where he witnesses palace intrigues and learns dangerous royal secrets.

6.5
17
The Sea Wolf

The Sea Wolf

1941 · 1h 40m · Movie

After being fished out of the sea by a sailing ship, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore, and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.

7.5
18
Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail

1940 · 1h 50m · Movie

In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

6.2
19
The Kennel Murder Case

The Kennel Murder Case

1933 · 1h 13m · Movie

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

6.8
20
Flamingo Road

Flamingo Road

1949 · 1h 34m · Movie

A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.

7.0
21
The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead

1936 · 1h 6m · Movie

After hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.

6.6
22
20,000 Years in Sing Sing

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

1932 · 1h 18m · Movie

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing prison cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but the tough but compassionate warden is able to effect change in him.

6.8
23
Virginia City

Virginia City

1940 · 2h 1m · Movie

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate prison and is sent to Virginia City, Nevada, where he finds out that the former commander of his prison, Vance Irby, is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confeder...

6.8
24
Four Daughters

Four Daughters

1938 · 1h 30m · Movie

A musician is blessed with four musical prodigies, all girls, and cursed when a troubled young composer enters the lives of his daughters.

6.9
25
Anthony Adverse

Anthony Adverse

1936 · 2h 21m · Movie

In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.

6.3
26
Captains of the Clouds

Captains of the Clouds

1942 · 1h 54m · Movie

Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF but are deemed too old to be fliers.

6.4
27
The Hangman

The Hangman

1959 · 1h 27m · Movie

U.S. Marshal Bovard comes to a small border town to identify and arrest a fugitive, but the whole town seems determined to prevent the Marshal from doing his job.

6.6
28
Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark

1928 · 2h 15m · Movie

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

6.6
29
The Scarlet Hour

The Scarlet Hour

1956 · 1h 35m · Movie

An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.

6.9
30
The Keyhole

The Keyhole

1933 · 1h 9m · Movie

Anne Brooks is being blackmailed by her old dancing partner Maurice. They married when she was young but broke up after which he said he was getting a quickie divorce. Anne married the much older millionaire Schuyler Brooks only t...

6.5
31
Bright Lights

Bright Lights

1935 · 1h 22m · Movie

Joe and Fay Wilson are a happily married vaudeville team. But when a reporter discovers, that one of the chorus girls in the troupe is a slightly eccentric heiress, who bugs sometimes out to do something strange (e.g. being a chor...

6.3
32
Sodom and Gomorrah

Sodom and Gomorrah

1922 · 2h 30m · Movie

When the old multimillionaire Jackson Harber wants to marry the young model Mary, she hesitates, but her mother convinces her that this is her chance to lead a life in luxury and leisure. The engagement is celebrated with an extra...

5.9