Sort by Year - Earliest Feature Films With Ida Lupino

1. The Love Race (1931)

81 min

A mix-up with suitcases lands a wealthy racing driver (Stanley Lupino) into an embarrassing situation with his fiancée at a party.

Director: Lupino Lane | Stars: Stanley Lupino, Jack Hobbs, Dorothy Boyd, Dorothy Bartlam

Votes: 41

2. Her First Affaire (1932)

71 min | Drama

A headstrong young girl falls completely for a writer of trashy novels, and insinuates herself into his household, all to the chagrin of her erstwhile fiancé.He conspires with the author's wife to show the girl how foolish she's been.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Ida Lupino, George Curzon, Diana Napier, Helen Haye

Votes: 97

3. The Ghost Camera (1933)

66 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Henry Kendall, John Mills, Victor Stanley, George Merritt

Votes: 487

4. I Lived with You (1933)

100 min | Comedy, Romance

In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of ... See full summary »

Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Ursula Jeans, Ida Lupino, Minnie Rayner, Cicely Oates

Votes: 216

5. Money for Speed (1933)

73 min | Drama, Sport

Motorcycle speedway champion Big Bill Summers (Cyril McLaglen) has amorous intentions towards attractive young Jane (Ida Lupino). After Bill's rival on the dirt tracks, Mitch (John Loder), ... See full synopsis »

Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: John Loder, Ida Lupino, Cyril McLaglen, Moore Marriott

Votes: 32

6. Prince of Arcadia (1933)

80 min | Musical

In this specimen of Ruritania, a prince prefers a simple girl to a pretentious princess who has aspirations to become an actress.

Director: Hanns Schwarz | Stars: Carl Brisson, Margot Grahame, Ida Lupino, Annie Esmond

7. High Finance (1933)

67 min | Drama

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Director: George King | Stars: Gibb McLaughlin, Ida Lupino, John Batten, John H. Roberts

8. Search for Beauty (1934)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason

Votes: 717

9. Ready for Love (1934)

Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance

Marigold Tate (Lupino) runs away from boarding school to stay with her retired aunt. She faces hostility from the locals, who display bigotry and snobbery towards her. During a witchcraft ... See full summary »

Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Richard Arlen, Ida Lupino, Marjorie Rambeau, Junior Durkin

Votes: 74

10. Come On, Marines! (1934)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Richard Arlen, Ida Lupino, Roscoe Karns, Grace Bradley

Votes: 70

11. Peter Ibbetson (1935)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A Victorian-era architect commissioned by the Duke of Towers to design his stables falls in love with the Duchess.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Ida Lupino

Votes: 2,506

12. Paris in Spring (1935)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Mary Ellis, Tullio Carminati, Ida Lupino, Lynne Overman

Votes: 71

13. Smart Girl (1935)

69 min | Drama

A young woman lands a job as a clerk at a hat company in danger of going broke. She befriends the owner and persuades him to try some of her more daring designs

Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Ida Lupino, Kent Taylor, Gail Patrick, Joseph Cawthorn

Votes: 38

14. Anything Goes (1936)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles, Ida Lupino

Votes: 505

15. One Rainy Afternoon (1936)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Actor Philippe Martin and his married date Yvonne plan to neck in a darkened cinema, but he gets the wrong seat and mistakenly kisses lovely Monique, a publisher's daughter. An absurd ... See full summary »

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Francis Lederer, Ida Lupino, Hugh Herbert, Roland Young

Votes: 303

16. The Gay Desperado (1936)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy

Chivo, a singer who works in a movie theater providing live entertainment, is invited by music-loving Mexican bandit Braganza to join his band. Braganza also kidnaps people to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Nino Martini, Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, Harold Huber

Votes: 303

17. Yours for the Asking (1936)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance

Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear that he could ... See full summary »

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: George Raft, Dolores Costello, Ida Lupino, Reginald Owen

Votes: 192

18. Artist and Models (1937)

Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Musical

Mac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) wants an ... See full summary »

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen, Gail Patrick

Votes: 360

19. Let's Get Married (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy

Political kingmaker Joe Quinn (Walter Connally) attempts to elevate his daughter's ambitious suitor, George Willoughby (Reginald Denny), into the the higher echelons of politics by getting ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Ida Lupino, Walter Connolly, Ralph Bellamy, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 56

20. Sea Devils (1937)

Passed | 88 min | Action, Romance

A Coast Guard mate (Victor McLaughlin) wants his daughter (Ida Lupino) to marry a crewman (Donald Woods), but she loves someone else (Preston Foster).

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Preston Foster, Ida Lupino, Donald Woods

Votes: 222

21. Fight for Your Lady (1937)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Romance

Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: John Boles, Jack Oakie, Ida Lupino, Margot Grahame

Votes: 197

22. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

Approved | 85 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

The master sleuth hunts his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, who is planning the crime of the century.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, Alan Marshal

Votes: 7,330

23. The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)

Passed | 71 min | Adventure, Mystery

A group of spies is after the plans for an anti-aircraft gun, and the leader uses the opportunity to embroil the Lone Wolf in the plot. Trying to settle an old score, this shady character ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth, Virginia Weidler

Votes: 785

24. The Lady and the Mob (1939)

Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Society-lady Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed 25 cents to pay for gang 'protection.' She ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Fay Bainter, Ida Lupino, Lee Bowman, Henry Armetta

Votes: 272

25. The Light That Failed (1939)

Passed | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Dick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. He struggles to complete his masterpiece, the portrait of Bessie Broke, a cockney girl, before his eyesight fails him.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Muriel Angelus, Ida Lupino

Votes: 511

26. High Sierra (1940)

Passed | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 18,836

27. They Drive by Night (1940)

Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino

Votes: 8,619

28. Ladies in Retirement (1941)

Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 1,743

29. The Sea Wolf (1941)

Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Drama

After being fished out of the sea by a sailer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox

Votes: 4,331

30. Out of the Fog (1941)

Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell, Eddie Albert

Votes: 2,210

31. Moontide (1942)

Approved | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In California, Bobo and his mooching pal Tiny are doing odd jobs and getting drunk and they hide a secret about the unsolved murder of sailor Pop Kelly but suicidal waitress Anna, saved by Bobo, unravels the mystery.

Directors: Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang | Stars: Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains

Votes: 2,150

32. Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world... See full summary »

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Monty Woolley, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Sara Allgood

Votes: 240 | Gross: $0.20M

33. Forever and a Day (1943)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, History

During World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the house and who is ... See full summary »

Directors: Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox, René Clair | Stars: George Kirby, Doreen Munroe, May Beatty, Connie Leon

Votes: 759

34. Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

Passed | 127 min | Comedy, Musical

Two producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all-star cast, but the egotism of radio personality Eddie Cantor disrupts their plans.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Dennis Morgan, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis

Votes: 2,109

35. The Hard Way (1943)

Passed | 109 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Embittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson

Votes: 1,439

36. Hollywood Canteen (1944)

Passed | 124 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Bette Davis, John Garfield, The Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny

Votes: 2,490

37. In Our Time (1944)

Approved | 110 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A young woman traveling to Poland with her employer meets a count, and they fall in love as World War II begins.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Nancy Coleman, Mary Boland

Votes: 603

38. Pillow to Post (1945)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

A traveling saleswoman convinces an army lieutenant to pose as her husband so that she can rent an apartment during the World War II housing shortage.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ida Lupino, Sydney Greenstreet, William Prince, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 632

39. The Man I Love (1946)

96 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Music

A homesick, no-nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Eventually she falls in love with a down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Martha Vickers

Votes: 1,235

40. Devotion (1946)

Passed | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery

Genius authors Emily and Charlotte Brontë fall in love with their curate as they seek to get their work published.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet

Votes: 999

41. Escape Me Never (1947)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance

Errol Flynn stars as Sebastian Dubrok, a penniless composer who marries a young widow with a baby son, although he is in love with his brother's fiancée.

Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, Gig Young

Votes: 659

42. Deep Valley (1947)

Passed | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A girl living with her parents on an isolated California farm falls in love with a chain-gang convict working at a nearby highway construction site, and sets out to help him when he escapes.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris, Fay Bainter

Votes: 1,046

43. Road House (1948)

Passed | 95 min | Action, Drama, Film-Noir

A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark

Votes: 3,059

44. Lust for Gold (1949)

Passed | 90 min | Romance, Western

Fortune seeker Barry Storm stumbles onto some clues that may lead him to the fabulous Lost Dutchman Mine, but others have tried and been murdered.

Directors: S. Sylvan Simon, George Marshall | Stars: Ida Lupino, Glenn Ford, Gig Young, William Prince

Votes: 1,645

45. Outrage (1950)

Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.

Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke, Raymond Bond

Votes: 1,748

46. Woman in Hiding (1950)

Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After her father is killed in an accident, mill heiress Deborah Chandler marries the plant manager, Selden Clark, but his motives are suspicious.

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff, Peggy Dow

Votes: 1,064

47. On Dangerous Ground (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.

Directors: Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper

Votes: 7,875

48. Hard, Fast and Beautiful! (1951)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Tennis prodigy Florence Farley is torn between romance and her mother's ambitions.

Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Claire Trevor, Sally Forrest, Carleton G. Young, Robert Clarke

Votes: 648

49. On the Loose (1951)

Passed | 78 min | Drama

Shunned by her self-absorbed parents, a teenage girl's need for love and attention drives her to delinquency and a suicide attempt - an act that finally brings her parents to their senses.

Director: Charles Lederer | Stars: Joan Evans, Melvyn Douglas, Lynn Bari, Robert Arthur

Votes: 195

50. Beware, My Lovely (1952)

Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely war widow.

Director: Harry Horner | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes, Barbara Whiting

Votes: 2,111