88% The Band Wagon 112 min, PASSED, [Comedy, Musical, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [07 Aug 1953]Ratings: IMDB 7.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
Actors: Cyd Charisse, Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, Oscar Levant
Plot: A pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition.
Writer: Betty Comden (story by), Adolph Green (story by)
Language: English, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
88% Meet Me in St. Louis 113 min, [Comedy, Drama, Family] [Vincente Minnelli] [01 Jan 1945]Ratings: IMDB 7.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 1 nomination.
Actors: Judy Garland, Lucille Bremer, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
Plot: In the year leading up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.
Writer: Irving Brecher (screen play), Fred F. Finklehoffe (screen play), Sally Benson (based on the novel by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB
87% Lust for Life 122 min, APPROVED, [Biography, Drama] [Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor(co-director)] [15 Sep 1956]Ratings: IMDB 7.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations.
Actors: Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Kirk Douglas, Pamela Brown
Plot: The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.
Writer: Norman Corwin (screen play), Irving Stone (based on the novel by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
87% The Clock 90 min, PASSED, [Drama, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann] [25 May 1945]Ratings: IMDB 7.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: James Gleason, Judy Garland, Keenan Wynn, Robert Walker
Plot: In 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.
Writer: Robert Nathan (screenplay), Joseph Schrank (screenplay), Paul Gallico (story), Pauline Gallico (story)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
87% Home from the Hill 150 min, [Drama, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [19 May 1960]Ratings: IMDB 7.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations.
Actors: Eleanor Parker, George Hamilton, George Peppard, Robert Mitchum
Plot: Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.
Writer: Harriet Frank Jr. (screenplay), Irving Ravetch (screenplay), William Humphrey (novel)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
87% The Bad and the Beautiful 118 min, PASSED, [Drama, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [09 Feb 1953]Ratings: IMDB 7.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 96%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 5 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 7 nominations.
Actors: Dick Powell, Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon
Plot: An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
Writer: Charles Schnee (screenplay), George Bradshaw (story)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB
83% On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 129 min, G, [Comedy, Drama, Fantasy] [Vincente Minnelli] [17 Jun 1970]Ratings: IMDB 6.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Actors: Barbra Streisand, Bob Newhart, Larry Blyden, Yves Montand
Plot: A troubled young woman who visits a psychotherapist to help her quit smoking undergoes hypnosis and finds herself reliving a tragic Victorian romance from a past life.
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner (play), Alan Jay Lerner (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
83% Two Weeks in Another Town 107 min, APPROVED, [Drama] [Vincente Minnelli] [21 Dec 1962]Ratings: IMDB 6.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Actors: Cyd Charisse, Edward G. Robinson, George Hamilton, Kirk Douglas
Plot: After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
Writer: Charles Schnee (screenplay), Irwin Shaw (novel)
Language: English, Italian Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
83% Father's Little Dividend 82 min, [Comedy, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [27 Apr 1951]Ratings: IMDB 6.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors: Don Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Spencer Tracy
Plot: In this sequel to Father of the Bride (1950), newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, leaving her father having to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.
Writer: Albert Hackett (screenplay), Frances Goodrich (screenplay), Edward Streeter (characters)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
83% An American in Paris 114 min, [Drama, Musical, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [11 Nov 1951]Ratings: IMDB 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 95%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 6 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations.
Actors: Gene Kelly, Georges Guétary, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
Plot: Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner (story by), Alan Jay Lerner (screen play by)
Language: English, French, German Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
82% Father of the Bride 92 min, [Comedy, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [16 Jun 1950]Ratings: IMDB 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 93%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Don Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Spencer Tracy
Plot: The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.
Writer: Frances Goodrich (screenplay), Albert Hackett (screenplay), Edward Streeter (novel)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
82% Till the Clouds Roll By 132 min, UNRATED, [Biography, Musical] [Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney] [03 Jan 1947]Ratings: IMDB 6.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Actors: Judy Garland, June Allyson, Kathryn Grayson, Lucille Bremer, Robert Walker, Van Heflin
Plot: Biography of songwriter, Broadway pioneer, Jerome Kern. Unable to find immediate success in the USA, Kern sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva.
Writer: Guy Bolton (story), George Wells (story adaptation), Myles Connolly (screenplay), Jean Holloway (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB
77% Cabin in the Sky 98 min, PASSED, [Musical, Fantasy] [Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley] [09 Apr 1943]Ratings: IMDB 7.3/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 82%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong
Plot: A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.
Writer: Joseph Schrank (screen play), Lynn Root (based upon the book of the musical play by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
77% Some Came Running 137 min, APPROVED, [Drama, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [18 Dec 1958]Ratings: IMDB 7.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations.
Actors: Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Martha Hyer, Shirley MacLaine
Plot: Dave Hirsch, a writer and an army veteran winds up in his small Indiana hometown, to the dismay of his respectable older brother. He meets and befriends various different characters and tries to figure out what to do with his life.
Writer: James Jones (novel), John Patrick, Arthur Sheekman
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
77% Brigadoon 108 min, PASSED, [Fantasy, Musical, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [08 Sep 1954]Ratings: IMDB 6.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 85%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win.
Actors: Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart, Gene Kelly, Van Johnson
Plot: Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner (screenplay), Alan Jay Lerner (musical)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
74% Bells Are Ringing 126 min, [Comedy, Musical, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [14 Nov 1960]Ratings: IMDB 7.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 78%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations.
Actors: Dean Martin, Eddie Foy Jr., Fred Clark, Judy Holliday
Plot: A Brooklyn answering service operator becomes involved in the lives of her clients, including a struggling playwright with whom she begins to fall in love.
Writer: Betty Comden (screen play), Adolph Green (screen play), Betty Comden (musical play "Bells Are Ringing"), Adolph Green (musical play "Bells Are Ringing")
Language: English, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
73% Designing Woman 118 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [16 May 1957]Ratings: IMDB 6.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 78%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations.
Actors: Dolores Gray, Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Sam Levene
Plot: A sportswriter and a fashion-designer marry after a whirlwind romance, and discover they have little in common.
Writer: George Wells
Language: English, Italian Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
73% Tea and Sympathy 122 min, APPROVED, [Drama] [Vincente Minnelli] [05 Nov 1956]Ratings: IMDB 7.3/10, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations.
Actors: Deborah Kerr, Edward Andrews, John Kerr, Leif Erickson
Plot: Tom Lee is a sensitive boy of 17 whose lack of interest in the "manly" pursuits of sports, mountain climbing and girls labels him "sister-boy" at the college he is attending. Head master ...
Writer: Robert Anderson (screenplay), Robert Anderson (based on the play by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
72% Gigi 115 min, G, [Comedy, Musical, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [04 Aug 1958]Ratings: IMDB 6.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 77%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 9 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 9 nominations.
Actors: Hermione Gingold, Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier
Plot: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner (screen play), Colette (based on the novella by)
Language: English, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
72% The Cobweb 134 min, [Drama] [Vincente Minnelli] [07 Jun 1955]Ratings: IMDB 6.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Lauren Bacall, Richard Widmark
Plot: At an exclusive psychiatric clinic, the doctors and staff are about as crazy as the patients. The clinic head, Dr. Stewart McIver, thinks that it would be good therapy for his patients to ...
Writer: John Paxton (screenplay), William Gibson (additional dialogue), William Gibson (novel)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
71% Madame Bovary 114 min, PASSED, [Drama, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [23 Jan 1950]Ratings: IMDB 7.1/10, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: James Mason, Jennifer Jones, Louis Jourdan, Van Heflin
Plot: A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers and run up ruinous debts.
Writer: Robert Ardrey (screenplay), Gustave Flaubert (novel)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB
70% The Story of Three Loves 122 min, APPROVED, [Drama, Fantasy, Music] [Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt] [26 Mar 1953]Ratings: IMDB 7.0/10, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Ethel Barrymore, James Mason, Kirk Douglas, Leslie Caron, Pier Angeli
Plot: An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.
Writer: John Collier (segment), George Froeschel (adaptation), George Froeschel, Arnold Lipp (story), Jan Lustig (adaptation), Jan Lustig (segment), Jacques Maret (story), Ladislao Vajda (story)
Language: English, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
70% The Reluctant Debutante 94 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [25 Dec 1958]Ratings: IMDB 7.0/10, External Reviews
Awards: 2 nominations.
Actors: John Saxon, Kay Kendall, Rex Harrison, Sandra Dee
Plot: A teenage American girl while visiting her father, is thrown into London society during the "Debutante Season".
Writer: William Douglas-Home (play), William Douglas-Home (screenplay), Julius J. Epstein
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
70% The Pirate 102 min, APPROVED, [Adventure, Comedy, Musical] [Vincente Minnelli] [11 Jun 1948]Ratings: IMDB 7.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 71%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Gene Kelly, Gladys Cooper, Judy Garland, Walter Slezak
Plot: A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.
Writer: Albert Hackett (screenplay), Frances Goodrich (screenplay), S.N. Behrman (play)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
70% Yolanda and the Thief 108 min, APPROVED, [Fantasy, Musical, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [23 Apr 1946]Ratings: IMDB 6.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, External Reviews
Actors: Frank Morgan, Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Mildred Natwick
Plot: Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing ...
Writer: Jacques Théry (story), Ludwig Bemelmans (story), Irving Brecher (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB
70% Ziegfeld Follies 110 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Musical] [Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, Merrill Pye, Charles Walters] [08 Apr 1946]Ratings: IMDB 6.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 75%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Fanny Brice, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, William Powell
Plot: The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. looks down from Heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
Writer: David Freedman, Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB
68% The Courtship of Eddie's Father 118 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Drama, Family] [Vincente Minnelli] [27 Mar 1963]Ratings: IMDB 6.8/10, External Reviews
Awards: 3 nominations.
Actors: Dina Merrill, Glenn Ford, Ron Howard, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens
Plot: Eddie thinks it is time for his father to remarry. However, in his opinion his father's taste in women leaves much to be desired. He believes the girl next door would be a far better choice...
Writer: John Gay (screenplay), Mark Toby (based on the novel by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
67% The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 153 min, APPROVED, [Drama, War] [Vincente Minnelli] [12 Jul 1962]Ratings: IMDB 6.7/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Boyer, Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Lee J. Cobb
Plot: In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.
Writer: Robert Ardrey (screenplay), John Gay (screenplay), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (novel)
Language: English Country: USA, Mexico More Info: IMDB
67% The Bribe 98 min, [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir] [Robert Z. Leonard, Vincente Minnelli] [25 Aug 1949]Ratings: IMDB 6.7/10, External Reviews
Actors: Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Robert Taylor, Vincent Price
Plot: Federal agent Rigby, in Central America to trace stolen plane engines, falls for the gorgeous wife of the chief suspect.
Writer: Marguerite Roberts (screenplay), Frederick Nebel (short story)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
63% The Sandpiper 117 min, TV-14, [Drama] [Vincente Minnelli] [23 Jun 1965]Ratings: IMDB 6.3/10, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations.
Actors: Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Richard Burton
Plot: A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wed headmaster of an Episcopal boarding school in California.
Writer: Martin Ransohoff (story), Irene Kamp (adaptation), Louis Kamp (adaptation), Dalton Trumbo, Michael Wilson
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
63% Goodbye Charlie 116 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Fantasy, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [18 Nov 1964]Ratings: IMDB 6.3/10, External Reviews
Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Joanna Barnes, Pat Boone, Tony Curtis
Plot: Shot by a jealous husband, Charley falls out a porthole and is lost at sea only to find himself returned as an attractive blond woman. His best friend is staying at his house as he puts ...
Writer: George Axelrod (play), Harry Kurnitz (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
60% Panama Hattie 79 min, [Comedy, Musical] [Norman Z. McLeod, Roy Del Ruth, Vincente Minnelli] [01 Sep 1942]Ratings: IMDB 6.0/10, External Reviews
Actors: Ann Sothern, Ben Blue, Rags Ragland, Red Skelton
Plot: Hattie Maloney runs a saloon in Panama where assorted characters congregate where they frequently sing and dance Cole Porter numbers. An upper class gentleman arrives and sparks fly between...
Writer: Jack McGowan (screenplay), Wilkie C. Mahoney (screenplay), Herbert Fields (based on the play by), Buddy G. DeSylva (based on the play by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
54% The Long, Long Trailer 96 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [19 Feb 1954]Ratings: IMDB 7.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 38%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Desi Arnaz, Keenan Wynn, Lucille Ball, Marjorie Main
Plot: Nicky and Tacy are going to be married. Nicky wants to save up money for a house, but Tacy dreams of starting off with their own home on wheels--a trailer. After the two are hitched, they ...
Writer: Clinton Twiss (novel), Albert Hackett (screenplay), Frances Goodrich (screenplay)
Language: English, Spanish Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
51% A Matter of Time 97 min, PG, [Drama, Fantasy, Romance] [Vincente Minnelli] [31 Oct 1976]Ratings: IMDB 5.1/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Liza Minnelli, Spiros Andros
Plot: A simple young woman helps eccentric old countess deal with her old age and she introduces the young woman to a world of upper class society.
Writer: Maurice Druon (novel), John Gay (screenplay)
Language: English Country: Italy, USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia