6 Best Hedy Lamarr Movies

By Vlad Zakh · January 26, 2026

Hedy Lamarr was marketed as the most beautiful woman in Hollywood, but her best roles revealed real dramatic range behind the glamour, alongside a groundbreaking career as an inventor. Samson and Delilah has a Philistine woman destroying an Israelite’s strength, White Cargo obsesses a Congo plantation manager, H.M. Pulham, Esq. reflects on a passionate romance given up, and Comrade X has an American journalist in Moscow help a Soviet conductor escape. Boom Town and Algiers round out the list.

Samson and Delilah (1949)

TMDB ★ 6.5

A Philistine woman is tasked with discovering and destroying the source of a powerful Israelite's strength.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille · 2h 14m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: Marquee TV Amazon Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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White Cargo (1942)

TMDB ★ 5.8

Hedy Lamarr features in this drama about a rubber plantation manager in the Congo who becomes dangerously obsessed with a seductive local woman.

Directed by Richard Thorpe · 1h 28m · Rated NR

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H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)

TMDB ★ 6.6

A conventional Boston businessman reflects on the passionate romance he gave up for a stable, respectable life.

Directed by King Vidor · 2h 00m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, YouTube, Fandango At Home · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, YouTube

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Comrade X (1940)

TMDB ★ 6.6

An American journalist in Moscow poses as a spy to help a Soviet tram conductor escape to the West.

Directed by King Vidor · 1h 30m · Rated NR

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Boom Town (1940)

TMDB ★ 6.9

Two wildcatting oilmen's decades-long friendship and rivalry is complicated by fortune, failure and the same woman.

Directed by Jack Conway · 1h 59m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Algiers (1938)

TMDB ★ 6.7

A jewel thief hiding in the Casbah falls for a visiting Frenchwoman, risking capture by the police.

Directed by John Cromwell · 1h 36m

Where to watch

Stream: Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, Philo, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, YouTube TV · Rent: Amazon Video, Fandango At Home, FlixFling · Buy: Fandango At Home, FlixFling

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Hedy Lamarr Movies

Samson and Delilah (1949)

White Cargo (1942)

H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)

Comrade X (1940)

Boom Town (1940)

Algiers (1938)

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