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Cary Grant has 32 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1980s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including North by Northwest.
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Christmas in Connecticut
1945
Comedy · Romance

Adam's Rib
1949
Comedy · Romance

Shall We Dance
1937
Comedy · Romance

Pillow Talk
1959
Comedy · Romance

Let's Make Love
1960
Comedy · Romance

Move Over, Darling
1963
Comedy · Romance

Cluny Brown
1946
Romance · Comedy

The Lady Eve
1941
Comedy · Romance

North by Northwest
1959 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Charade
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Prime Video · Included

The Philadelphia Story
1940 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Tubi · Free w/ ads

His Girl Friday
1940 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%MGM+ · Included

Operation Petticoat
1959 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Only Angels Have Wings
1939 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Prime Video · Included

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.
Dir. Stanley Donen · With Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Dir. Frank Capra · With Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Dir. George Cukor · With Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy

A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
Dir. George Cukor · With Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
Dir. Leo McCarey · With Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy

Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
Dir. George Stevens · With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
Dir. Leo McCarey · With Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
Dir. Henry Koster · With Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke

During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with her pupils in tow!
Dir. Ralph Nelson · With Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard

Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.
Dir. Garson Kanin · With Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott

An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
Dir. H. C. Potter · With Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas

After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
Dir. Irving Reis · With Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
Dir. Norman Z. McLeod · With Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
Dir. Carl Reiner · With Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd

Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. While talking about this subject with her sister, in walks Philip Adams and she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
Dir. Stanley Donen · With Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker

Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.
Dir. Delbert Mann · With Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
Dir. George Stevens · With Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Dir. Melville Shavelson · With Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.
Dir. Stanley Donen · With Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum

In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
Dir. Josef von Sternberg · With Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant
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