Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story

By: Ehsan Khoshba​kht

Studio Stories – Part IX: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The Idea is compiling a list of 50 outstanding films of each studio. The list consists of artistic and stylistic triumphs, star vehicles, along with box office hits and the film that changed history of motion pictures.

Masterpieces and personal favorites, not on MUBI’s database:
The Seventh Cross
The Human Comedy
Random Harvest
Tortilla Flat

• 01
  Singin' in the Rain
  Stanley Donen
• 02
  The Big Parade
  King Vidor
• 03
  An American in Paris
  Vincente Minnelli
• 04
  Greed
  Erich von Stroheim
• 05
  The Band Wagon
  Vincente Minnelli
• 06
  The Wind
  Victor Sjöström
• 07
  The Asphalt Jungle
  John Huston
• 08
  The Crowd
  King Vidor
• 09
  Woman of the Year
  George Stevens
• 10
  Point Blank
  John Boorman
• 11
  On the Town
  Gene Kelly
• 12
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 13
  Dinner at Eight
  George Cukor
• 14
  The Dirty Dozen
  Robert Aldrich
• 15
  Gigi
  Vincente Minnelli
• 16
  The Bad and the Beautiful
  Vincente Minnelli
• 17
  Flesh and the Devil
  Clarence Brown
• 18
  A Night at the Opera
  Sam Wood
• 19
  The Shop Around the Corner
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 20
  The Philadelphia Story
  George Cukor
• 21
  Zabriskie Point
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 22
  Ninotchka
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 23
  That's Entertainment!
  Jack Haley Jr.
• 24
  Mutiny on the Bounty
  Frank Lloyd
• 25
  Doctor Zhivago
  David Lean
• 26
  Queen Christina
  Rouben Mamoulian
• 27
  The Thin Man
  W.S. Van Dyke
• 28
  Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
  Fred Niblo
• 29
  The Wizard of Oz
  Victor Fleming
• 30
  Silk Stockings
  Rouben Mamoulian
• 31
  Forbidden Planet
  Fred M. Wilcox
• 32
  Grand Hotel
  Edmund Goulding
• 33
  Freaks
  Tod Browning
• 34
  Boys Town
  Norman Taurog
• 35
  The Women
  George Cukor
• 36
  Adam's Rib
  George Cukor
• 37
  The Postman Always Rings Twice
  Tay Garnett
• 38
  Gaslight
  George Cukor
• 39
  Johnny Eager
  Mervyn LeRoy
• 40
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  Rouben Mamoulian
• 41
  The Big House
  George W. Hill
• 42
  The Mortal Storm
  Frank Borzage
• 43
  Ziegfeld Follies
  Vincente Minnelli
• 44
  Mrs. Miniver
  William Wyler
• 45
  Hallelujah!
  King Vidor
• 46
  Ryan's Daughter
  David Lean
• 47
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Richard Brooks
• 48
  Tarzan the Ape Man
  W.S. Van Dyke
• 49
  Thelma & Louise
  Ridley Scott
• 50
  He Who Gets Slapped
  Victor Sjöström