6 Best Jean Parker Movies

By Vlad Zakh · April 8, 2026

Drama feel good

Jean Parker brought a gentle, luminous presence to Hollywood in the 1930s and earned acclaim for tender performances as devoted daughters and sisters. Little Women, Lady for a Day and Gabriel Over the White House are early highlights, The Ghost Goes West transports a Scottish ghost to Florida, Sequoia bonds a wilderness-raised woman with a deer and a mountain lion, and Rasputin and the Empress rounds out the list.

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The Ghost Goes West (1935)

TMDB ★ 7.0

Jean Parker appears as a Scottish ghost is transported with his ancestral castle to modern-day Florida.

Directed by René Clair · 1h 35m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: Criterion Channel, FlixFling · Rent or buy: FlixFling

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Sequoia (1935)

TMDB ★ 6.4

Jean Parker features in this family adventure about a young woman raised in the wilderness who forms a deep bond with a deer and a mountain lion.

Directed by Chester M. Franklin & Edwin L. Marin · 1h 08m

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Little Women (1933)

TMDB ★ 7.1

Four sisters navigate love, ambition and hardship while growing up during the Civil War.

Directed by George Cukor · 1h 55m · Rated NR

Where to watch

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

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Lady for a Day (1933)

TMDB ★ 7.2

A poor street vendor's desperate lie to impress her visiting daughter draws in an unlikely group of helpers.

Directed by Frank Capra · 1h 36m · Rated NR

Where to watch

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

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Gabriel Over the White House (1933)

TMDB ★ 6.6

C. Henry Gordon appears in this political fantasy about a corrupt, indifferent president who is transformed into a radical reformer after a near-fatal accident.

Directed by Gregory La Cava · 1h 26m · Rated NR

Where to watch

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

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Rasputin and the Empress (1932)

TMDB ★ 6.2

Diana Wynyard features in this historical drama about a mystical, manipulative monk who gains dangerous influence over the doomed Russian imperial family.

Directed by Richard Boleslawski · 2h 01m · Rated NR

Where to watch

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

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Vlad Zakh

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.