# Douglas Sirk's films, ranked

The great Universal melodramas and the German films before them: Sirk's best, ordered from the BFI's ten essential films, the Chicago Reader and The Playlist.

- 49 votes · 12 items
- Jul 22, 2020 · Mitchell King
- https://even.best/en/l/3276/douglas-sirk-s-films-ranked

## Top 12

1. **All That Heaven Allows (1955)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Jane Wyman, a widow, falls for her gardener Rock Hudson.
2. **Magnificent Obsession (1954)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — The film that made Rock Hudson a star, with Jane Wyman.
3. **There's Always Tomorrow (1956)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck meet again.
4. **Final Accord (1936)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A melodrama built around Beethoven's Ninth.
5. **Imitation of Life (1959)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Lana Turner and a mother and daughter divided by the colour line; his last Hollywood film.
6. **To New Shores (1937)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Zarah Leander transported to an Australian penal colony.
7. **All I Desire (1953)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Barbara Stanwyck returns to the family she left.
8. **The Tarnished Angels (1957)** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Barnstorming pilots, from William Faulkner's Pylon.
9. **A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — A German soldier on leave, from Erich Maria Remarque.
10. **Shockproof (1949)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A parole officer falls for the woman he supervises, written by Samuel Fuller.
11. **Written on the Wind (1956)** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — An oil dynasty in Texas; Oscar for Dorothy Malone.
12. **La Habanera (1937)** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Zarah Leander in Puerto Rico, one of his last German films.

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