6 Best Joseph Schildkraut Movies

By Vlad Zakh · July 31, 2026

Joseph Schildkraut built a distinguished career from silent epics to his Oscar-winning performance and became one of Hollywood’s most respected dramatic actors. The Diary of Anne Frank hides a Jewish family in an Amsterdam attic, The Shop Around the Corner has bickering coworkers falling in love as secret pen pals, Marie Antoinette follows a doomed queen into revolution, and The Crusades forges a political marriage in a holy war. The King of Kings and Orphans of the Storm round out the list.

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

TMDB ★ 7.2

Joseph Schildkraut appears as a Jewish family hides in a cramped Amsterdam attic for two years to escape the Nazis.

Directed by George Stevens · 2h 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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The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

IMDb ★ 8.0 RT 99% Metacritic 96

Two bickering coworkers are secretly, unknowingly falling in love as anonymous pen pals.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch · 1h 39m · Rated NR

7 wins

Where to watch

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

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Marie Antoinette (1938)

TMDB ★ 6.6

The doomed French queen's extravagant reign unravels amid growing revolutionary unrest.

Directed by W.S. Van Dyke · 2h 29m · Rated NR

Where to watch

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

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The Crusades (1935)

TMDB ★ 6.4

C. Henry Gordon is in this DeMille epic about a reluctant king who leads a holy war to reclaim Jerusalem, forging an unlikely marriage of political convenience.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille · 2h 05m

Where to watch

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

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The King of Kings (1927)

TMDB ★ 6.4

H.B. Warner stars in a dramatisation of the final years of the life of Jesus Christ.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille · 2h 35m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Artiflix · Rent or buy: Amazon Video

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Orphans of the Storm (1921)

TMDB ★ 6.8

Creighton Hale features in this Griffith silent about two orphaned sisters who are separated amid the chaos and danger of the French Revolution.

Directed by D.W. Griffith · 2h 30m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, Philo, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, MGM Plus, Fandor Amazon Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, 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 Joseph Schildkraut Movies

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Marie Antoinette (1938)

The Crusades (1935)

The King of Kings (1927)

Orphans of the Storm (1921)

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