117 James Mason Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

An advertising executive Roger Thornhill's life goes upside down when he is mistaken for a certain George Kaplan. He is kidnapped, almost killed, framed for a murder and chased around by men led by Phillip Vandamm. As he sets out to prove his innocence and find the real Kaplan, he is helped by Eve Kendall, who is not what she appears to be.

The one-hour Special features the Sesame Street gang as they get accidently locked overnight in Metropolitan Museum. By closing time, Big Bird goes looking for Snuffy while the group searches for him through exhibits. Big Bird and Snuffy help an Egyptian Prince’s ghost solve a riddle and turn into star. Reading a sign by the pictures, Cookie Monster sings, ‘Don’t Eat the Pictures….’

A Star is Born is a musical romantic drama film which revolves around Norman, a popular actor, who meets Esther, a newcomer, and decides to help her in her career. However, with age and alcoholism, his own career starts going on a downward spiral.    

In order to restore his career and self-respect, a lawyer takes up a medical malpractice case to trial, rather than settling it outside of court. However, he has to go against a powerful attorney Edward Concannon.

European professor, Humbert Humbert, moves to Beardsley, Ohio, on work assignment. When he rents a room in widow Charlotte Haze’s house, he gets obsessed with her alluring teenage daughter, Lolita, and marries Charlotte just to be near Lolita. After Charlotte’s accidental death, he is sure of having his own way, but has not taken into account Lolita’s interest in other males.

During the Second World War, Captain Rolf Steiner, a reputed member of the German military, who is also a recipient of the Iron Cross, earns jealousy from one of his comrades, Captain Hauptmann Stransky.  Stransky, who badly wants the Iron Cross as well, clashes with Steiner while leading soldiers into battle along the Russian front. 

In 1866, Professor Pierre M Aronnax and his assistant come across reports of a giant sea monster that is attacking ships in the Pacific Ocean. They are asked to investigate the disappearances, and therefore they set out on an expedition. But soon they discover that the monster is actually an advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.   

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is leading the German troops against the Allied forces during the Second World War. His performance on the battlefield makes him a national hero, and even the respect of his enemies. However, Adolf Hitler is not pleased with his tactics. He soon gets involved in an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler.

This biographical drama film tells the story of Julius Caesar, who manages to defeat Pompey the Great, and returns to Rome. Do to his successful conquests, in tne eyes of other high-ranking Romans, he becomes a dictator. Therefore together they conspire to get rid of him.

Ed, a schoolteacher, has been suffering from bouts of severe pain and blackouts. After collapsing at his home one night, he is hospitalized. He is diagnosed with a disease named polyarteritis nodosa, a rare inflammation of the arteries. After learning from doctors that he has only months to live, he agrees to an experimental treatment, which involves doses of the cortisone hormone. Although he makes a remarkable recovery, he soon begins to show some unusual side effects. Soon, it seems that his mental health may be declining.

Veteran Nazi-hunter Ezra Lieberman receives information about a group of former Nazis, led by infamous Dr. Josef Mengele, hatching some sinister plan in South America. Dr. Mengele, who has cloned Hitler 95 times, is raising them in Brazil to create the Fourth Reich. Determined to thwart the dreadful plan, Lieberman tracks down Mengele to confront him in the presence of a Hitler clone.

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a science fiction adventure film which revolves around a geologist and his assistant who decide to go on an expedition to find the center of the Earth. The travel to a volcano in Iceland, from where they plan to begin their journey. Two other people decide to join them, but problem arises when a rival scientist decides to follow them as well.

Evil Under the Sun is a mystery drama film which revolves around Hercule Poirot, a skilled detective who goes to an island which is frequently visited by the rich. Things get complicated when a murder occurs, and everyone seems to have an alibi.

The Blue Max is a war drama film which tells the story of a German corporal named Bruno Stachel, a soldier during the First World War, who decides to leave fighting in the trenches to become a fighter pilot in the German Army Air Service. Due to his humble origins, he wants to prove himself, and sets his eyes on winning the ‘Blue Max’, which is Germany’s highest medal for valour, for which he needs to shoot down twenty enemy aircrafts.

The successful brain surgeon Michael Joyce falls in love with a married woman, Emma Wright; but later they amicably decide to part ways. When Emma suddenly falls to her death from a high window, Michael senses a foul play and tries to investigate. He suspects that Emma’s jealous sister-in-law Kate is behind this death and decides to avenge by taking her life.

After learning about the mass murderer Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror, renowned private detective Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate. He finds that the police are not of much help, as they refuse to share important details of the case with him. However, Holmes carries forward his investigation and seeks the assistance of psychic Robert Lees, hoping that he can set him on the right path.

In a working class family, the father Rafe attempts to deal with his children sternly, while the mother Hilda tries to deal with them leniently. Rafe’s method of dealing with them rubs them the wrong way, and he eventually ends up locking horns with Hilda. 

Based on a novel of the same name, this film revolves around the story of Brodie, a hatmaker living in the 19th century, who is quite arrogant and cruel, and keeps his family in fear and submission. However, misfortune strikes his life, after he gives a job to Dennis, the former lover of his mistress. Meanwhile, Dennis also plans to marry Brodie’s daughter in order to gain a big dowry.

This technicolour anthology film presents three stories narrated by three passengers on board a cruiser. The relationship between a ballet choreographer and a ballerina with a heart condition is featured in the first. In the second, a boy miraculously converts into a young man and charms his governess. In the third, a failed trapeze artist along with a suicidal woman perform a daring circus act. 

Renowned Irish author, Oscar Wilde, lands up in court clashing with the powerful Marquess of Queensberry, who is father to Wilde’s young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. What starts as a libel case by Wilde turns in to the writer’s own trial for indecency and homosexuality. The subsequent imprisonment and humiliation start the downfall of Oscar Wilde.

A quarterback who is determined to win the Super Bowl, meets with an accident, and is taken away from his body by an angel, although it is not his time to die.  However, he is allowed to return in the body of a millionaire, who had been murdered recently.

Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius decides that his loyal and trustworthy General Livius should be the one to succeed him. However, before he could announce this, the friends of his son Commodus, poisons him, so that they can secure their political futures. Commodus becomes the new leader, but he turns out to be quite corrupt, arrogant and ineffectual. Livius accepts him as the ruler, but changes his mind, after he threatens to kill Aurelius’s daughter.

Adapted from Anton Chekhov's play, the film examines the artistic and emotional conflict among a group of characters. Fading leading lady Irina Arkadina has come to visit her brother with her lover Trigorin, a successful hack writer.  Her son, Konstantin, is also an aspiring writer; but neither Irina nor Trigorin thinks much of him. Then there is Nina, with whom Konstantin is in love. 

After stealing the money of gangster, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico, where he thinks of leading an honest life.   

Sweet-natured, attractive Clarissa Richmond is chosen by heartless, Marquis of Rohan, as his bride only to provide him with an heir. When she meets old school friend, Hesther Shaw, who is a penurious actress in drama troupe, Clarissa brings her home. Envious of Clarissa’s riches, conniving Hesther plots to replace Clarissa as Rohan’s wife, and simultaneously, encourages Clarissa’s association with gentleman-turned-highwayman, Rokeby. 

David Charleston is a cynical newspaper reporter who feels that the political unrest going on is going to lead to another war with Germany, but people ignore his warnings. Therefore, he decides to give up his career as a journalist and begins to work as a lighthouse watchman far away. His life takes a turn when he is visited by the ghosts of Captain Joshua Stuart, and his passengers.

During Queen Elizabeth I’s tenure, when navy officer Richard Ingolby is killed in Spanish war, his son Michael offers to infiltrate Spanish court disguised as one of the conspirators. He then finds their plan to send an armada to destroy the British navy. The ageing Elizabeth is taken in by Michael’s valor but is jealous of pretty lady-in-waiting, Cynthia, who has won Michael’s love.

I Met a Murderer is a crime thriller romantic drama film which tells the story of a farmer named Mark, who is living an unhappily married life with his wife Martha. Since his only companion is his dog, he loses his temper when Martha kills the animal. In a fit of rage, he kills Martha. He is forced to flee, and eventually, he meets a young woman in a caravan, who begins to fall for him, and decides to write a book on him. Meanwhile, the police is also hunting for Mark.  

When Fanny returns home in 1880 after completing boarding school, she watches her father being killed by Lord Manderstoke; also, her mother dies soon thereafter. Fanny discovers that her family ran a bordello and her real father is a revered politician. When she meets him, she falls for his young advisor, Harry Somerford. However, Lord Manderstoke persists in creating trouble for her. 

Charade is a mystery drama film which tells the story of a woman Regina, whose husband passes away after which she is harassed by three men. She decides to seek help from a charming stranger named Peter, but soon finds herself in a world of lies.

On watching news about two bomb threats, Jim Molnar realizes that he has been tricked into making those bombs by his ex army friend Hoplin.. But he cannot do anything as he and his wife, Joan, and daughter Patty are being held hostage by Hoplin, who is determined to collect $500,000 ransom. After negotiation, the gang sends Joan to collect the ransom, keeping Jim and Patty hostages. 

Small-time diamond merchant, Howard R. Chesser, is asked to supervise the cutting of a massive diamond owned by Clyde Massey. Unfortunately, when the diamond is stolen from him, he has to plan a major heist at The System, a vault full of gems, with the help of his girlfriend and inside man, Watts. 

Married for five years, chemical engineer, Lorenzo Xavier Vega, has been neglecting his wife, Susan, because he is too busy inventing a new insecticide. When Susan’s guardian angel appears and advises her to support her husband, she decides to accompany her husband on a camping trip. Unfortunately, everything starts going wrong. 

Peter Vadassy is wrongly accused of espionage, after a French secret agent and a photo lab technician discover incriminating surveillance photos on his camera. Although he is just a medical student on holiday, he is threatened with deportation. He decides to investigate himself to find the spy who had framed him.

This adventure crime drama film tells the story of a bloody mutiny at sea planned by a band of dishonest seamen aboard the S S Berwind, and the attempt of the new captain to suppress it. 

A female school teacher becomes the prime suspect after the man who insulted her on the bus, ends up dead.  

Unable to bring down ruthless drug lord Jacques Brizzard, US Intelligence Agent Steve Ventura, stationed in Paris, hires a hitman, who turns out to be an old friend, John Deray. As Deray accepts the contract and infiltrates into Brizzard's mansion, Ventura decides to cancel the contract, while Brizzard attempts to frame Deray after running a background check.

In this adaptation of Alec Waugh's 1955 novel, Island in the Sun, a political battle for the legislative office of Santa Marta rages on between an affluent white candidate, Maxwell Fleury and strong black union leader, David Boyeur. As the candidates compete against one another, interracial affairs happen, long kept family secrets are revealed, jealousy rocks a marriage and then a murder takes place.

Escape from Zahrain is an action adventure film, which tells the story of a group of revolutionary college students who rescue a captured guerrilla fighter after his execution is order by the leader of the country.  After the rescue, they attempt to get him to a safe location outside the country. 

Botany Bay is a 1952 drama film, which takes us to the year 1787. It tells us the story of a wrongly imprisoned medical student, who is being shipped along with other prisoners to Botany Bay. He also finds himself being victimized by the ship’s captain.  

Cop-Out is a crime drama film which tells the story of John Sawyer, who is now a drunkard, although he once used to be one of the finest barristers. When his daughter’s lover is wrongly accused of murder, he decides to pull himself together, and defend the young man in court.

Paul Delville who is a professor at a Florida college, and his wife, are expecting visitors from Sweden, who are their former colleagues. However, they are surprised to see that their young and beautiful daughter Katrin has arrived alone. Things get even more complicated when Katrin announces that she wants Paul to have a baby with her, as she wishes an offspring with both brains and beauty.   

Yellowbeard is an adventure action comedy film which tells the story of infamous pirate Yellowbeard, who breaks out of prison. The only thing on his mind now is recovering the treasure that he buried a long time ago. However, the problem is that his map has been tattooed on the head of his son. Things seem even worse because a number of rivals are also planning to beat him to the treasure.

When coldhearted millionaire Charles Calvert denies his sons any share of his money, the half-brothers, Stefane and Antony, plan to rob his money with help of con-artist Duffy. Charles decides to transport $2,000,000 from Morocco to France by his yacht, which gives Duffy a chance to steal at the sea. Though the heist is successful, the story takes an unexpected turn here.   

A group of ex-GIs and German soldiers assemble 30 years after WWII and conspire to retrieve the Nazi gold hidden in Soviet-occupied E. Germany. Only an imprisoned Nazi war criminal, who was ordered to bury the treasure, knows the location. So the treasure-hunters must spring him from the Siegfried military prison, make him divulge the details and then penetrate across the Iron Curtain. 

This comedy drama film tells us the story of a tough Lieutenant Colonel named Clifford Southey and a refined Captain named Brett Aimsley. They used to clash during the wartime, and even during the peacetime, when they are no longer in the army, their personal battle continues.

On her father’s death anniversary, an Indian princess celebrates his memory in her apartment in London. She spends time with her father’s ex-tutor Cyril Sahib.

During a vacation in Asia, the wife of an Interpol agent gets caught up in the latter’s corrupt dealings.

Hero’s Island is an action adventure drama film which tells the story of a widow and her children living in a small island, who are threatened by murderous fishermen. However, she finds help from a mysterious shipwrecked stranger, a kind-hearted sailor and a former slave.

This war drama film tells the story of two British soldiers, who, during the Second World War, join forces with a French clerk and a soldier, to gain information regarding the German soldiers.

After robbing a bank, Roy King and his gang flee to Mexico, where Roy meets and marries lovely Alicia, only to lose her to revolutionary Montero and while leaving, she also takes away all his money. Despite that, he agrees to collaborate with Montero to rob the Mexican government arsenal and succeeds. But will he get his due? 

This fantasy thriller film revolves around a man who has a power that is able to change a person’s nature into the opposite. He soon faces a villain whose intent is global domination.

After a resort in Australia burns down, the American co-owner decides to investigate whether the fire was deliberately set or if it was a genuine accident.