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  • Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (1934)

    1. It Happened One Night

    19341h 45mApproved87Metascore
    8.1 (117K)
    A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter Connolly
  • James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, and Edward Arnold in You Can't Take It with You (1938)

    2. You Can't Take It with You

    19382h 6mApproved
    7.8 (29K)
    The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean ArthurJames StewartLionel Barrymore
  • James Stewart and Donna Reed in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

    3. It's a Wonderful Life

    19462h 10mPG89Metascore
    8.6 (530K)
    An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel Barrymore
  • James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, and Eugene Pallette in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

    4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    19392h 9mApproved73Metascore
    8.1 (127K)
    A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartJean ArthurClaude Rains
  • Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

    5. Arsenic and Old Lace

    19441h 58mApproved
    7.9 (77K)
    Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murderers.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsCary GrantPriscilla LaneRaymond Massey
  • Bette Davis, Peter Falk, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Thomas Mitchell, and Arthur O'Connell in Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

    6. Pocketful of Miracles

    19612h 16mApproved
    7.1 (8.4K)
    New York bootlegger Dave the Dude and his girlfriend Elizabeth "Queenie" Martin try to turn boozy street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when Annie learns that her daughter Louise is marrying the son of a Spanish count.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsGlenn FordBette DavisHope Lange
  • Edward G. Robinson, Frank Sinatra, Carolyn Jones, Eleanor Parker, and Thelma Ritter in A Hole in the Head (1959)

    7. A Hole in the Head

    19592hApproved
    6.2 (3K)
    Widower Tony is trying to keep a small Miami hotel afloat while raising a 12-year-old son. He's forced to ask his harried brother Mario for help, but he'll only bail Tony out if he quits his bohemian lifestyle and marries a sensible woman.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsFrank SinatraEdward G. RobinsonEleanor Parker
  • Bing Crosby, Anna Maria Alberghetti, James Barton, Jacques Gencel, Alexis Smith, Franchot Tone, Beverly Washburn, and Jane Wyman in Here Comes the Groom (1951)

    8. Here Comes the Groom

    19511h 53mApproved
    6.3 (1.3K)
    Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsBing CrosbyJane WymanAlexis Smith
  • Bing Crosby and Coleen Gray in Riding High (1950)

    9. Riding High

    19501h 52mApproved
    6.2 (615)
    A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsBing CrosbyColeen GrayCharles Bickford
  • Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Angela Lansbury, and Van Johnson in State of the Union (1948)

    10. State of the Union

    19482h 4mApproved
    7.2 (4.5K)
    An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsSpencer TracyKatharine HepburnVan Johnson
  • Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in Meet John Doe (1941)

    11. Meet John Doe

    19412h 2mApproved63Metascore
    7.6 (16K)
    A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckEdward Arnold
  • Ronald Colman in Lost Horizon (1937)

    12. Lost Horizon

    19372h 12mApproved
    7.6 (15K)
    When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsRonald ColmanJane WyattEdward Everett Horton
  • Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

    13. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    19361h 55mApproved
    7.8 (24K)
    A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperJean ArthurGeorge Bancroft
  • Myrna Loy and Warner Baxter in Broadway Bill (1934)

    14. Broadway Bill

    19341h 44mG
    6.6 (1.2K)
    A runaway heiress and her sister's husband join forces to race the latter's fast horse, Broadway Bill.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsWarner BaxterMyrna LoyWalter Connolly
  • Glenda Farrell, Guy Kibbee, Barry Norton, Jean Parker, May Robson, and Warren William in Lady for a Day (1933)

    15. Lady for a Day

    19331h 36mApproved
    7.4 (5K)
    A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsWarren WilliamMay RobsonGuy Kibbee
  • Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, and Toshia Mori in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)

    16. The Bitter Tea of General Yen

    19321h 28mPassed
    6.9 (4.6K)
    A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsBarbara StanwyckNils AstherToshia Mori
  • Pat O'Brien, Constance Cummings, and Walter Huston in American Madness (1932)

    17. American Madness

    19321h 15mPassed
    7.4 (2.5K)
    Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all on the same day.
    DirectorsFrank CapraAllan DwanRoy William NeillStarsWalter HustonPat O'BrienKay Johnson
  • Barbara Stanwyck in Forbidden (1932)

    18. Forbidden

    19321h 25mApproved
    6.9 (2.2K)
    A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsBarbara StanwyckAdolphe MenjouRalph Bellamy
  • Jean Harlow, Robert Williams, and Loretta Young in Platinum Blonde (1931)

    19. Platinum Blonde

    19311h 29mApproved
    6.7 (3.9K)
    A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean HarlowLoretta YoungRobert Williams
  • The Miracle Woman (1931)

    20. The Miracle Woman

    19311h 30mPassed
    7.2 (2.6K)
    After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsBarbara StanwyckDavid MannersSam Hardy
  • Dirigible (1931)

    21. Dirigible

    19311h 40mApproved
    6.3 (809)
    Jack Bradon is tasked to reach the South Pole with a dirigible.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsJack HoltFay WrayRalph Graves
  • Ladies of Leisure (1930)

    22. Ladies of Leisure

    19301h 39mApproved
    6.7 (1.8K)
    An upper-crust artist hires a 'party girl' as a model; romance follows.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsBarbara StanwyckRalph GravesLowell Sherman
  • Ralph Graves and Jack Holt in Flight (1929)

    23. Flight

    19291h 50mApproved
    6.0 (418)
    A Marine flyer and his flight school mentor fall for the same beautiful nurse.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsJack HoltLila LeeRalph Graves
  • The Donovan Affair (1929)

    24. The Donovan Affair

    19291h 23mPassed
    5.9 (130)
    The lights go out at a high-society dinner party and one of the guests is murdered. The police are summoned and Inspector Killian shows up with his assistant Carney. In order to get a clear picture of what took place, Killany decides to have the crime re-enacted (with a substitute for the murdered man). The lights are turned out, and another man is murdered. This doesn't faze the Inspector one little bit, and he asks for a third re-enactment. The suspect list dwindles.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsJack HoltDorothy RevierWilliam Collier Jr.
  • Ricardo Cortez, Lina Basquette, and Jean Hersholt in The Younger Generation (1929)

    25. The Younger Generation

    19291h 15mPassed
    6.3 (413)
    Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean HersholtLina BasquetteRicardo Cortez

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