Search results for "Richard Brooks"

Wrong Is Right (1982)

Wrong Is Right (1982)

Wrong Is Right (1982)
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117

Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Bite the Bullet (1975)

Bite the Bullet (1975)

Bite the Bullet (1975)
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132

At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a…

$ (1971)

$ (1971)

$ (1971)
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121

A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Happy Ending (1969)

The Happy Ending (1969)

The Happy Ending (1969)
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112

When Fred asked for Mary’s hand in marriage, she thought she had the happy ending she only read about in fairy tales. Now it’s 16 years later; Fred has had…

Genre: Drama
In Cold Blood (1967)

In Cold Blood (1967)

In Cold Blood (1967)
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134

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions…

The Professionals (1966)

The Professionals (1966)

The Professionals (1966)
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117

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

Lord Jim (1965)

Lord Jim (1965)

Lord Jim (1965)
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154

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment…

Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
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120

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Elmer Gantry (1960)

Elmer Gantry (1960)

Elmer Gantry (1960)
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146

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis’ novel of the same…

Genre: Drama
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
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108

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous…

Genre: Drama
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
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145

Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant…

Genre: Drama, History
Something of Value (1957)

Something of Value (1957)

Something of Value (1957)
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113

As Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of…

Genre: Drama, War
The Catered Affair (1956)

The Catered Affair (1956)

The Catered Affair (1956)
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94

An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter’s wedding.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Last Hunt (1956)

The Last Hunt (1956)

The Last Hunt (1956)
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108

A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.

Genre: Western
Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Blackboard Jungle (1955)
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101

Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)

The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)

The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
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116

Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Take the High Ground! (1953)

Take the High Ground! (1953)

Take the High Ground! (1953)
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101

Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Battle Circus (1953)

Battle Circus (1953)

Battle Circus (1953)
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90

A young Army nurse, Lt Ruth McGara, newly assigned to the 66th MASH during the Korean War, attracts the sexual attention of the unit’s commander Dr. (MAJ) Jed Webbe. Webbe,…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Deadline – U.S.A. (1952)

Deadline – U.S.A. (1952)

Deadline – U.S.A. (1952)
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87

With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Crisis (1950)

Crisis (1950)

Crisis (1950)
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96

An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he’s forced to operate on a South American dictator.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller