George Cukor’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
George Cukor has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Gaslight.
Recurring themes

Pygmalion
1938
Comedy · Drama

City Lights
1931
Comedy · Drama

Pillion
2025
Romance · Drama

An Ideal Husband
1999
Drama · Comedy

Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction
2023
Romance · Comedy

Moliere
2007
Romance · Drama

Unfaithfully Yours
1948
Comedy · Romance

Irma la Douce
1963
Romance · Comedy

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir. George Cukor · With Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten

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

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Dir. George Cukor · With Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway
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

Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.
Dir. George Cukor · With Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden

A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Dir. George Cukor · With Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Dir. George Cukor · With Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Dir. George Cukor · With Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
Dir. George Cukor · With Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.
Dir. George Cukor · With Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Dir. George Cukor · With Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
Dir. George Cukor · With Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall