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Howard Hawks Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Howard Hawks directed 27 films in our catalog, from 1926 to 1970. Top of the list is The Big Sleep ('1946), at 7.9 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Red River, 7.7 on IMDb against 96 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Big Sleep '1946 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 7.9 | 96% | 86 | 7.6 | Howard Hawks |
| 2 | Rio Bravo '1959 | Western / Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 93 | 7.8 | Howard Hawks |
| 3 | Bringing Up Baby '1938 | Comedy / Romance | 7.8 | 97% | 91 | 7.5 | Howard Hawks |
| 4 | His Girl Friday '1940 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 7.8 | 99% | 94 | 7.4 | Howard Hawks |
| 5 | To Have and Have Not '1945 | Romance / War | 7.8 | 97% | 90 | 7.4 | Howard Hawks |
| 6 | Red River '1948 | Western / Drama | 7.7 | 100% | 96 | 7.3 | Howard Hawks |
| 7 | Scarface '1932 | Crime / Action / Drama / Thriller | 7.7 | 98% | 90 | 7.4 | Howard Hawks |
| 8 | Sergeant York '1941 | War / Drama | 7.7 | 81% | - | 7.2 | Howard Hawks |
| 9 | Ball of Fire '1941 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 7.7 | 100% | 78 | 7.4 | Howard Hawks |
| 10 | Only Angels Have Wings '1939 | Romance / Drama | 7.6 | 100% | 86 | 7.3 | Howard Hawks |
| 11 | El Dorado '1966 | Western / Drama | 7.5 | 96% | 85 | 7.4 | Howard Hawks |
| 12 | Hatari! '1962 | Comedy / Action | 7.1 | 65% | - | 6.8 | Howard Hawks |
| 13 | Twentieth Century '1934 | Comedy / Romance | 7.3 | 86% | - | 6.8 | Howard Hawks |
| 14 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes '1953 | Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 88% | - | 7.3 | Howard Hawks |
| 15 | The Big Sky '1952 | Western / Romance | 6.9 | 89% | - | 6.6 | Howard Hawks |
| 16 | A Song Is Born '1948 | Comedy / Musical | 6.9 | 50% | - | 6.4 | Howard Hawks |
| 17 | I Was a Male War Bride '1949 | Comedy / Romance / War | 7.0 | 76% | - | 6.9 | Howard Hawks |
| 18 | Man's Favorite Sport? '1964 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 60% | - | 7.0 | Howard Hawks |
| 19 | Monkey Business '1952 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 74% | - | 6.7 | Howard Hawks |
| 20 | Air Force '1943 | Action / Drama / War | 7.0 | 82% | - | 6.5 | Howard Hawks |
| 21 | The Dawn Patrol '1930 | War / Drama / Action | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Howard Hawks |
| 22 | The Criminal Code '1931 | Crime / Drama | 6.9 | - | - | 6.1 | Howard Hawks |
| 23 | Barbary Coast '1935 | Romance / Western / Drama | 6.8 | 92% | - | 6.4 | Howard Hawks |
| 24 | A Girl in Every Port '1928 | Comedy | 6.5 | - | - | 6.0 | Howard Hawks |
| 25 | Rio Lobo '1970 | Western | 6.7 | 71% | 55 | 6.5 | Howard Hawks |
| 26 | Land of the Pharaohs '1955 | Drama | 6.6 | 80% | 65 | 6.5 | Howard Hawks |
| 27 | Fig Leaves '1926 | Comedy | 6.1 | - | - | 5.9 | Howard Hawks |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.