Howard Hawks

Howard Hawks films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 14 films on Boxlist

Known for The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo and Red River.

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Directed by Howard Hawks

  1. The Big Sleep

    The Big Sleep

    1946 · Film

    7.7/10 · TMDB

    Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

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  2. Rio Bravo

    Rio Bravo

    1959 · Film

    7.9/10 · TMDB

    The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies - a disgraced...

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  3. Red River

    Red River

    1948 · Film

    7.4/10 · TMDB

    Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil...

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  4. Bringing Up Baby

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938 · Film

    7.6/10 · TMDB

    David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

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  5. To Have and Have Not

    To Have and Have Not

    1945 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

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  6. Scarface

    Scarface

    1932 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

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  7. Only Angels Have Wings

    Only Angels Have Wings

    1939 · Film

    7.4/10 · TMDB

    Geoff Carter is the head of a crumbling air freight service in desperate need of a replacement pilot. He is forced to hire a descredited aviator who arrives with his wife, Carter's ex-lover. Meanwhile, traveler Bonnie Lee tries to get...

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  8. Ball of Fire

    Ball of Fire

    1941 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving...

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  9. El Dorado

    El Dorado

    1966 · Film

    7.4/10 · TMDB

    Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

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  10. His Girl Friday

    His Girl Friday

    1940 · Film

    7.4/10 · TMDB

    Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one...

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  11. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    1953 · Film

    7.3/10 · TMDB

    Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only...

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  12. Sergeant York

    Sergeant York

    1941 · Film

    7.3/10 · TMDB

    Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American...

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  13. Hatari!

    Hatari!

    1962 · Film

    6.6/10 · TMDB

    A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos. Will the arrival of a female wildlife photographer change their ways?

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  14. Rio Lobo

    Rio Lobo

    1970 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.

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