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1. Dead Man's Shoes (1913)
10 min | Drama, Short
Tom and Mabel were sweethearts, but Tom did not seem to get on in a business way, so Mabel started him for the West. Tom blew in his little stake before leaving, and arrived out West broke ... See full summary »
Director: Wallace Reid | Stars: George Field, Vivian Rich, Frank Borzage, Jean Durrell
Votes: 13
2. Intolerance (1916)
Passed | 163 min | Drama, History
The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, F.A. Turner
Votes: 16,727 | Gross: $2.18M
3. The Mortal Storm (1940)
Passed | 100 min | Drama
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan
Votes: 6,046
4. Lucky Star (1929)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Paul Fix
Votes: 1,520
5. 7th Heaven (1927)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard, Albert Gran
Votes: 4,166 | Gross: $3.92M
6.
Screen Directors Playhouse (1955–1956)
Episode:
A Ticket for Thaddeus
(1956)
30 min | Drama
A Polish refugee and new citizen gets involved in a slight car accident, but he doesn't fully understand American life, and believes he will be sent to a concentration camp.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Raymond Bailey, Clem Bevans, Russ Conway, Alan Hale Jr.
Votes: 63
7. The First Year (1926)
75 min | Comedy
One of the films that Borzage shot under contract for Fox before he began his run of box-office hits. This is a comedy built up around the disastrous dinner that a couple of newlyweds ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Matt Moore, Katherine Perry, John Patrick, Frank Currier
Votes: 31
8. History Is Made at Night (1937)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive
Votes: 2,497
9. Street Angel (1928)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston, Henry Armetta
Votes: 2,571 | Gross: $3.71M
10. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
G | 133 min | Documentary, Family, Musical
The second installment in the "That's Entertainment" trilogy features more classic scenes from MGM's vast musical library with the addition of comedy and drama films.
Director: Gene Kelly | Stars: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 2,436 | Gross: $6.54M
11. The River (1928)
84 min | Drama, Romance
A naïve young man is working on a logging camp beside a turbulent river. When it closes for winter, he opts to stay for the experience. He meets a woman who was the girlfriend of the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, Ivan Linow, Margaret Mann
Votes: 662
12. Lazybones (1925)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Buck Jones, Madge Bellamy, Virginia Marshall, Edythe Chapman
Votes: 574
13. Little Man, What Now? (1934)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale, Catherine Doucet
Votes: 641
14. Man's Castle (1933)
75 min | Drama, Romance
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 1,769
15. Screen Directors Playhouse (1955–1956)
30 min | Drama
Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
Stars: Arthur Q. Bryan, Bill Erwin, George Sanders, Macdonald Carey
Votes: 175
16. Desire (1936)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
An automotive engineer bound for a holiday in Spain meets a sultry jewel thief.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley
Votes: 2,824
17. Three Comrades (1938)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Romance
The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young
Votes: 2,078
18. The Gun Woman (1918)
50 min | Western
A saloon owner loans her lover the money to buy a house, which he has led her to believe they will live in after they're married. Instead, he takes the money and buys a saloon in another town.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Texas Guinan, Ed Brady, Francis McDonald, Walter Perkins
Votes: 31
19. Moonrise (1948)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Danny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 2,973
20. This Is Your Life (1950–1987)
30 min | Biography, Family, Reality-TV
Each week, an unsuspecting celebrity would be lured by some ruse to a location near the studio. The celebrity would then be surprised with the news that they are to be the featured guest. ... See full summary »
Stars: Ralph Edwards, Bob Warren, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope
Votes: 314
21. His Butler's Sister (1943)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Music
A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 557
22. Till We Meet Again (1944)
Passed | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Occupied France, World War II. The American pilot John is shot down and taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice Clothilde is interested in him and is willing to help him ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Ray Milland, Barbara Britton, Walter Slezak, Lucile Watson
Votes: 232
23. In the Switch Tower (1915)
Short, Drama
Bill Wharton, his own worst enemy, because of his heavy drinking, has descended from being the best engineer on the division to a wiper. In a bar-room fight, one of the railroad men is ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Edwards | Stars: Walter Edwards, Frank Borzage, Louis Morrison, Louis Durham
Votes: 13
24. No Greater Glory (1934)
Approved | 74 min | Drama, War
Frail Nemecsek, a lonely boy craving belonging, idolizes charismatic Boka, leader of a gang, in an evocative depiction of youth's pain and war's senselessness.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frankie Darro, George P. Breakston, Jimmy Butler, Jackie Searl
Votes: 510
25. Strange Cargo (1940)
Passed | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure (Ian Hunter).
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre
Votes: 2,974
26. The Nth Commandment (1923)
80 min | Drama
Flattered by the attentions of dapper song plugger Jimmie Fitzgibbons, department store clerk Sarah Juke is nearly lured away from her true love, Harry Smith. After they marry, Harry ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Colleen Moore, James Morrison, Eddie Phillips, Charlotte Merriam
Votes: 23
27. The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
Passed | 97 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Spring Byington, Natalie Thompson
Votes: 323
28. The Battle of Gettysburg (1913)
48 min | Drama, War
A young woman's sweetheart fights for the Union, while her brother fights for the Confederates, in the pivotal 1863 battle of the U.S. Civil War.
Directors: Charles Giblyn, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Willard Mack, Charles Edler, Ann Little, Joe King
Votes: 40
29. After Tomorrow (1932)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Romance
Engaged couple faces financial and family troubles that obstruct their marriage.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Farrell, Marian Nixon, Minna Gombell, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 329
30. The Valley of Silent Men (1922)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
The hunter becomes the hunted as Corporal James Kent (Lew Cody), of the Canadian Royal Mounted, fighting for his life, is guided to a secret valley, a refuge for wanted men, by a ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Alma Rubens, Lew Cody, Joe King, Mario Majeroni
Votes: 52
31. Young as You Feel (1931)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Will Rogers, Fifi D'Orsay, Lucien Littlefield, Don Dillaway
Votes: 48
32. Society for Sale (1918)
60 min | Drama
Successful model, Phyllis Clyne, convinces a down-and-out nobleman, Billy, to pass her off in society as titled gentry. They fall in love and when it turns out that her late father actually was a lord, they decide they now can marry.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: William Desmond, Gloria Swanson, Herbert Prior, Charles Dorian
Votes: 27
33. Mannequin (1937)
Passed | 95 min | Drama
Affluent Hennessey falls for Jessie who is married to good-for-nothing Eddie. To provide a better life for Jessie Hennessey wants to marry her, and Eddie even approves of the plan, hoping to profit from it financially.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 1,484
34.
Screen Directors Playhouse (1955–1956)
Episode:
The Day I Met Caruso
(1956)
Drama
A ten-year-old girl meets famed opera singer Enrico Caruso on a train between Boston and New York. She admonishes him for his extravagant lifestyle, but she is softened up somewhat when Caruso begins to sing arias from her favorite operas.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Lotfi Mansouri, Sandy Descher, Bill Walker, Emily Lawrence
Votes: 73
35. Secrets (1933)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A New England society girl braves the West to help her husband build his fortune.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Mary Pickford, Leslie Howard, C. Aubrey Smith, Blanche Friderici
Votes: 713 | Gross: $0.70M
36. Stranded (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Romance
A construction engineer with a heart of steel courts a social worker with a heart of gold, while fighting a protection racketeer that tries to derail the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Kay Francis, George Brent, Patricia Ellis, Donald Woods
Votes: 564
37. Liliom (1930)
94 min | Drama
Liliom learns his wife is pregnant and robs a bank. During the getaway, he is killed and given a chance to return to Earth. He quickly learns the only way to make his wife and daughter happy is to leave them with cherished memories.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Farrell, Rose Hobart, Estelle Taylor, H.B. Warner
Votes: 507
38. Seven Sweethearts (1942)
Passed | 98 min | Musical, Romance
Henry falls in love with Billie, one of seven daughters of an eccentric hotel owner. Billie loves him back but refuses marriage because family tradition demands that the eldest daughter must marry first.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Marsha Hunt, Cecilia Parker, Peggy Moran
Votes: 555
39. The Lady (1925)
96 min | Drama
A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has left gambling in casinos and then dies, ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Wallace MacDonald, Brandon Hurst, Alfred J. Goulding
Votes: 173 | Gross: $0.19M
40. The Pilgrim (1916)
28 min | Short, Western
A wandering cowboy is hired by a ranch owner. When the other cowboys show the newcomer their refusal he turns to his donkey pal and his usual loneliness. Then his boss'daughter comes home ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frank Borzage, Ann Little, Jack Richardson, Dick La Reno
Votes: 85
41. The Pitch o' Chance (1915)
25 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Rocky bets on "everything, anything and nothing at all". On one occasion he wins a high bet including the saloon bully's gal, thanks to a cheat played by a girl competitor who wants the man... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frank Borzage, Helene Rosson, Jack Richardson, Lizette Thorne
Votes: 74
42. A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Romance, War
An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips
Votes: 6,825
43. Bad Girl (1931)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Minna Gombell, Frank Darien
Votes: 1,605
44. The Shining Hour (1938)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance
A nightclub dancer marries into high society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas
Votes: 1,295 | Gross: $0.94M
45. The Circle (1925)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Drama
An unhappy woman considers leaving her dull husband for another man.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Eleanor Boardman, Malcolm McGregor, Alec B. Francis, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 699
46. I've Always Loved You (1946)
Approved | 117 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, Bill Carter, Maria Ouspenskaya
Votes: 369
47. Big City (1937)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
To avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton's wife Anna and put her on a ship to deport her. The mayor is speaker at a boxers' banquet where Joe pleads for... See full summary »
Directors: Frank Borzage, George B. Seitz | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Luise Rainer, Charley Grapewin, Janet Beecher
Votes: 645
48. Smilin' Through (1941)
Passed | 100 min | Musical, Romance
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because at his wedding years ago, his bride Moonyean was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, Moonyean's 5-year-old orphaned niece... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond, Ian Hunter
Votes: 457 | Gross: $1.89M
49. Disputed Passage (1939)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance, War
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Howard, Judith Barrett
Votes: 161
50. Young America (1932)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Already in trouble with the law, Arthur and his friend Nutty break into a drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. The druggist's wife, Mrs. Doray, asks for custody. When he hears... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Doris Kenyon, Tommy Conlon, Ralph Bellamy
Votes: 272