Joan Crawford’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Joan Crawford has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1920s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?.
Recurring themes

Eyes Without a Face
1960
Drama · Horror

The Whip and the Body
1963
Drama · Horror

House by the River
1950
Thriller · Crime

The Bad Seed
1956
Thriller · Drama

Chatroom
2010
Drama · Thriller

Don't Bother to Knock
1952
Drama · Thriller

The Black Cat
1934
Horror · Thriller

The Hunger
1983
Horror · Drama

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Dir. Michael Curtiz · With Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott

On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.
Dir. Nicholas Ray · With Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge

Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?
Dir. David Miller · With Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame

On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder—a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.
Dir. Tod Browning · With Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford

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

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
Dir. William Castle · With Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Dir. Edmund Goulding · With Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford