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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) more movies like this

directed by Frank Capra
featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers

This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt guiding force of a bank in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls. As the film opens, it's Christmas Eve, 1946, and George, who has long considered himself a failure, faces financial ruin and arrest and is seriously ...

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) more movies like this

directed by Frank Capra
featuring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee, Beulah Bondi, Eugene Pallette, Harry Carey

Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal) roles. The film opens as a succession of reporters shout into telephones announcing the death of Senator Samuel Foley. Senator Joseph Paine (Claude Rains), the state's senior senator, puts in a call to Governor Hubert "Happy" ...

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Harvey

Harvey (1950) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Victoria Horne

This whimsical fantasy about a local drunk's 6' 3 1/2" imaginary rabbit pal was a smash hit (and a Pulitzer Prize winner) on Broadway and was then adapted into this likeable farce that's also an allegory about tolerance. James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd, a wealthy tippler whose sunny philosophy and inebriated antics are tolerated by most of ...

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) more movies like this

directed by John Ford
featuring John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien

Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford waits for an answer. The film opens in 1910, with distinguished and influential U.S. senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) returning to the dusty little frontier town where they met and ...

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Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle (1958) more movies like this

directed by Richard Quine
featuring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Elsa Lanchester

John Van Druten's stage comedy Bell Book and Candle starred Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer on Broadway. The 1958 filmed version stars James Stewart and Kim Novak, fresh from their successful teaming in Hitchcock's Vertigo. Novak plays Gillian Holroyd, a genuine, bonafide witch. Falling in love with publisher Sheperd Henderson (Stewart), Gillian ...

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The Glenn Miller Story

The Glenn Miller Story (1954) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Mann
featuring James Stewart, June Allyson, Charles Drake, George Tobias, Henry Morgan

The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller's rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of his era. June Allyson is on hand as Miller's wife, Helen, who learns the value of patience when Glenn spends his wedding night jamming with Gene Krupa and Louis Armstrong. Given an officer's commission during World War II, ...

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You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You (1938) more movies like this

directed by Frank Capra
featuring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, Spring Byington

Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play You Can't Take It With You was transformed into a paean to populism by director Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin. This is the story of the zany Sycamore household, presided over by Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), a former businessman who has turned his ...

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The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story (1940) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard

We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife, Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn). Adding insult to injury, Tracy breaks one of C.K.'s precious golf clubs. He gallantly responds by knocking her down on her million-dollar keester. A couple of years after the breakup, Tracy is ...

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Vertigo

Vertigo (1958) more movies like this

directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones

Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French novel D'entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit. It opens as Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) realizes he has vertigo, a condition resulting in ...

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Rear Window

Rear Window (1954) more movies like this

directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr

Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the ...

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The Shootist (1976) more movies like this

directed by Don Siegel
featuring John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Bill McKinney, James Stewart

About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging Western gunfighter John Bernard Books (John Wayne), "You have a cancer." Knowing that his death will be painful and lingering, Books is determined to be shot in the line of "duty." In his remaining two months, Books settles scores with old enemies, including gambler ...

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That's Entertainment! (1974) more movies like this

directed by Jack Haley, Jr.
featuring Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Donald O'Connor, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli, James Stewart, Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, Peter Lawford

It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off artifacts from past movie triumphs, enjoyed one of its biggest box-office hits with That's Entertainment, a compilation of musical highlights from the studio's golden days. Onscreen hosts Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, ...

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Rose Marie (1936) more movies like this

directed by W.S. Van Dyke
featuring Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, James Stewart, Reginald Owen, Allan Jones

It was standard operating procedure at MGM to cast their favorite singing team of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in new versions of old operettas, then retain only the music, drastically altering the plotlines to conform to popular tastes. This was the treatment afforded the Rudolf Friml-Herbert Stothart-Oscar Hammerstein-Otto Harbach musical ...

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Shenandoah (1965) more movies like this

directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
featuring James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Rosemary Forsyth

The year is 1863. Wealthy Virginia landowner Charlie Anderson (James Stewart), a man of peace despite his autocratic behavior, steadfastly refuses to take sides in the Civil War. Bit by bit, Anderson's isolationism--and his way of living--is torn apart. Charlie's daughter, Jannie Anderson (Rosemary Forsyth) falls in love with Confederate soldier ...

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No Highway in the Sky (1951) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Ronald Squire

Henry Koster directs the 1951 aviation drama No Highway in the Sky, based on the novel by Nevil Shute. James Stewart stars as Theodore Honey, a widower and single parent to 11-year-old Elspeth (Janette Scott). He's also an absent-minded engineer who has formed a scientific theory about metal fatigue in a specific model of aircraft. He tries to ...

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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, John Saxon, Reginald Gardiner, Marie Wilson

Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson adapted the novel by author Edward Streeter, whose work was also the basis of Father of the Bride (1950), into this domestic comedy. James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara star as Roger and Peggy Hobbs, a St. Louis couple with a large brood who desire a seaside vacation. Renting a cottage by the ocean is just the first step ...

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Rope (1948) more movies like this

directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier

Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case, the plot concerns two implicitly homosexual college chums, played by Farley Granger and John Dall. Their heads filled with Nietzchean philosophy by their kindly professor ...

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Call Northside 777 (1948) more movies like this

directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker, Betty Garde, E.G. Marshall

In this documentary-inspired thriller, P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) is a reporter who is asked by his editor to look into a potential story: their newspaper has been carrying an ad offering a substantial reward for information regarding the murder of a policeman that occurred eleven years ago. It turns out the ad was placed by a cleaning woman ...

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An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) more movies like this

directed by Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells
featuring Philip Glasser, James Stewart, Dom DeLuise, Cathy Cavadini, John Cleese, Erica Yohn, Nehemiah Persoff

In this animated sequel to An American Tale, Fievel Mousekewitz strikes out from not-so-enthralling New York City in a wagon train headed West. Helping propel the departure is a crafty cat named Cat R. Waul who tells our Fievel that out West the cats and mice get along just fine. Once on the trail, Fievel finds that the cat's real plan is mice ...

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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) more movies like this

directed by Robert Aldrich
featuring James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine

Based on Elleston Trevor's novel, The Flight of the Phoenix opens with a well-staged plane crash in the middle of the Sahara desert. The pilot (James Stewart) and the navigator (Richard Attenborough) do their best to maintain order among the survivors, a group of oil men not well-suited for survival in the desert wastes. Some of those who appear ...

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The Shop Around the Corner (1940) more movies like this

directed by Ernst Lubitsch
featuring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden

The Shop Around the Corner is adapted from the Hungarian play by Nikolaus (Miklos) Laszlo. Budapest gift-shop clerk Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and newly hired shopgirl Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) hate each other almost at first sight. Kralik would prefer the company of the woman with whom he is corresponding by mail but has never met. Novak ...

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The Far Country (1955) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Mann
featuring James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan, John McIntire

One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take on the ruthlessness of the frontier. Set in the Yukon, Stewart and his friends are driving cattle to market from Wyoming to Canada, where the boom towns pay top dollar for beef. When they arrive in Skagway, the corrupt ...

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Anatomy of a Murder (1959) more movies like this

directed by Otto Preminger
featuring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, George C. Scott, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant

Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Traver (the pseudonym for Michigan Supreme Court justice John D. Voelker), Anatomy of a Murder stars James Stewart as seat-of-the-pants Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler. Through the intervention of his alcoholic mentor, Parnell McCarthy (Arthur O'Connell), Biegler accepts the case of one Lt. Manion (Ben ...

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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) more movies like this

directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Daniel Gélin, Ralph Truman

The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own original 1934 version. This two-hour remake (45 minutes longer than the first film) features more stars, a lusher budget, and the plaintive music of Bernard Herrmann (who appears on-camera, typecast as a symphony conductor). ...

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Broken Arrow (1950) more movies like this

directed by Delmer Daves
featuring James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael, Will Geer

Indian scout Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns (through an uncomfortably close encounter) that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities. Befriending the sagacious Apache leader Cochise (Jeff Chandler), Jeffords ensures ...

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