Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Frank Capra has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including It's a Wonderful Life.
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Comedy · Drama
It's a Wonderful Life
1946 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%Prime Video · Included
It Happened One Night
1934 · Movie · Director
Top 3%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · Movie · Director
Top 3%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 · Movie · Director
Top 9%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
Pocketful of Miracles
1961 · Movie · Director
Top 16%Prime Video · Included
Meet John Doe
1941 · Movie · Director
Top 23%Prime Video · Included
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Dir. Frank Capra · With James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.
Dir. Frank Capra · With James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
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
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori
