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Best Humphrey Bogart movies

Today we present the best Humphrey Bogart movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from Humphrey Bogart:

TOP 25: High Sierra

Humphrey Bogart as: Roy Earle
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1941
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.


TOP 24: We're No Angels

Humphrey Bogart as: Joseph
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Release: 1955
Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.

TOP 23: Dark Victory

Humphrey Bogart as: Michael O'Leary
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1939
A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor.


TOP 22: Action in the North Atlantic

Humphrey Bogart as: Lt. Joe Rossi
Genre: Drama, War
Release: 1943
Lieutenant Joe Rossi is 1st Officer on a Liberty Ship in a great convoy bound from Halifax to Murmansk. After German subs crushed the convoy his ship loses the convoy and is heading alone to Murmansk. In spite of attacks by German planes and subs he get the ship safely to Murmansk.


TOP 21: And the Oscar Goes To...

Humphrey Bogart as: Himself
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Release: 2014
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.

TOP 20: The Desperate Hours

Humphrey Bogart as: Glenn Griffin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
Release: 1955
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.


TOP 19: The Harder They Fall

Humphrey Bogart as: Eddie Willis
Genre: Drama
Release: 1956
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.


TOP 18: The Petrified Forest

Humphrey Bogart as: Duke Mantee
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Release: 1936
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

TOP 17: The Caine Mutiny

Humphrey Bogart as: Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg
Genre: War
Release: 1954
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.


TOP 16: All Through the Night

Humphrey Bogart as: Gloves Donahue
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Release: 1942
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.


TOP 15: The Enforcer

Humphrey Bogart as: ADA Martin Ferguson
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 1951
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.

TOP 14: Dark Passage

Humphrey Bogart as: Vincent Parry
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Release: 1947
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.


TOP 13: Dead End

Humphrey Bogart as: 'Baby Face' Martin
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1937
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.


TOP 12: Sahara

Humphrey Bogart as: Sergeant Joe Gunn
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Release: 1943
Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.


TOP 11: The African Queen

Humphrey Bogart as: Charlie Allnut
Genre: Adventure, Romance
Release: 1952
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.

TOP 10: To Have and Have Not

Humphrey Bogart as: Steve Morgan
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller, War
Release: 1945
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.


TOP 9: The Roaring Twenties

Humphrey Bogart as: George Hally
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1939
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.


TOP 8: Sabrina

Humphrey Bogart as: Linus Larrabee
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1954
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and returns to capture David's attention, while falling in love with Linus.


TOP 7: Key Largo

Humphrey Bogart as: Frank McCloud
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1948
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.


TOP 6: In a Lonely Place

Humphrey Bogart as: Dixon 'Dix' Steele
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Romance
Release: 1950
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.

TOP 5: The Big Sleep

Humphrey Bogart as: Philip Marlowe
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1946
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.


TOP 4: Angels with Dirty Faces

Humphrey Bogart as: James Frazier
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1938
In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and demands the return of $100,000 deposited with his solicitor - prior to his jail term.


TOP 3: The Maltese Falcon

Humphrey Bogart as: Sam Spade
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Thriller
Release: 1941
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.


TOP 2: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Humphrey Bogart as: Fred C. Dobbs
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Release: 1948
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.


TOP 1: Casablanca

Humphrey Bogart as: Rick Blaine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1942
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

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