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Frank Sinatra has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Manchurian Candidate.
1956
Drama · Comedy

The Manchurian Candidate
1962 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%MGM+ · Included

On the Town
1949 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Man with the Golden Arm
1955 · Movie · Actor
Top 32%Prime Video · Included

Von Ryan's Express
1965 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Prime Video · Included

Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Guys and Dolls
1955 · Movie · Actor
Top 41%Prime Video · Included

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury

A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
Dir. Charles Vidor · With Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen · With Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Dir. Michael Anderson · With David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine

A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a Salvation Army missionary to Havana, and unexpectedly they fall for each other. And the bet has a hidden motive ... classic song and dance ensues!
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Dir. George Sidney · With Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly

With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.
Dir. Charles Walters · With Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra

The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
Dir. Lewis Allen · With Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason

Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
Dir. Lewis Milestone · With Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.