Search results for "John Frankenheimer"
The Horsemen

The Horsemen

The Horsemen
IMDb: 6.2
109

In the poor, desolate northern provinces of the mountainous feudal Sunni kingdom of Afghanistan (before the Soviet-engineered republican revolutions), the status of the proud men and their clans is determined…

Path to War

Path to War

Path to War
IMDb: 7.3
165

A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider’s look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside the LBJ White House…

Genre: Drama, History
The Gypsy Moths

The Gypsy Moths

The Gypsy Moths
IMDb: 6.3
107

Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Reindeer Games

Reindeer Games

Reindeer Games
IMDb: 5.8
124

After assuming his dead cellmate’s identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.

Year of the Gun

Year of the Gun

Year of the Gun
IMDb: 5.6
111

In this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade’s terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome….

The Challenge

The Challenge

The Challenge
IMDb: 6.2
109

Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one…

Genre: Action, Drama
Prophecy

Prophecy

Prophecy
IMDb: 5.5
102

When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Verne and his wife, Maggie, are sent in to mediate. Chief John Hawks insists…

French Connection II

French Connection II

French Connection II
IMDb: 6.7
119

“Popeye” Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.

Black Sunday

Black Sunday

Black Sunday
IMDb: 6.8
143

An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl.

The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh
IMDb: 7.2
178

Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free…

Genre: Drama
Seconds

Seconds

Seconds
IMDb: 7.6
107

A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone they want to be and the organisation surgically alters the customer to look like…

The Train

The Train

The Train
IMDb: 7.8
133

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France’s greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train…

Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Grand Prix

Grand Prix

Grand Prix
IMDb: 7.2
176

The story tells about the confrontation of four first-class racers of Formula 1. Each of the competitors had their own additional motivation to become a champion. Their world is a…

Genre: Action, Drama
Seven Days in May

Seven Days in May

Seven Days in May
IMDb: 7.8
118

A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate
IMDb: 7.9
126

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw…

Birdman of Alcatraz

Birdman of Alcatraz

Birdman of Alcatraz
IMDb: 7.8
147

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud’s life gains new meaning when he happens upon…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Young Savages

The Young Savages

The Young Savages
IMDb: 6.9
103

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.

Ronin

Ronin

Ronin
IMDb: 7.2
122

A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals’ hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or…

Andersonville

Andersonville

Andersonville
IMDb: 7.3
167

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy’s most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes of a company of Union soldiers captured at the Battle…

The Young Stranger

The Young Stranger

The Young Stranger
IMDb: 6.6
84

The lack of communication between a wealthy film producer and his troubled teenage son after the boy is involved in an altercation at a movie theater leads to even more…

Genre: Drama
52 Pick-Up

52 Pick-Up

52 Pick-Up
IMDb: 6.4
110

Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Dead Bang

Dead Bang

Dead Bang
IMDb: 6.1
105

Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation takes Beck inside the violent world of hate groups and…

The Holcroft Covenant

The Holcroft Covenant

The Holcroft Covenant
IMDb: 5.6
112

A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find…

Genre: Action, Thriller
The Fourth War

The Fourth War

The Fourth War
IMDb: 5.6
91

Cold War drama about two gung-ho border commanders (Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow) who carry out their own private war against each other on the German – Czechoslovakia border.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
I Walk the Line

I Walk the Line

I Walk the Line
IMDb: 6.5
97

Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love…

Genre: Drama
All Fall Down

All Fall Down

All Fall Down
IMDb: 6.8
111

Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry. When Berry-Berry begins yet another meaningless love affair, this time with an…

Genre: Drama
The Island of Dr. Moreau

The Island of Dr. Moreau

The Island of Dr. Moreau
IMDb: 4.5
96

A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal…

Against the Wall

Against the Wall

Against the Wall
IMDb: 6.6
111

Based on the true story of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.