J. Lee Thompson — Director (33)
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Caboblanco (1980) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Caboblanco
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Charles Bronson / Jason Robards …
other title: Højt spil i Cabo Blanco / Der Schatz von Caboblanco …
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
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Tiger Bay (1959) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Tiger Bay
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: John Mills / Horst Buchholz …
other title: Questione di vita o di morte / Les Yeux du témoin …
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.
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The Weak and the Wicked (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Weak and the Wicked
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Glynis Johns / Diana Dors …
other title: Penitenziario, braccio femminile
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
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No Trees in the Street (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
No Trees in the Street
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Sylvia Syms / Herbert Lom …
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
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The Chairman (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Chairman
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Gregory Peck / Anne Heywood …
other title: La lunga ombra gialla / Verdens farligste mand …
An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to fail, he can be eliminated at the push of a button!
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Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Woman in a Dressing Gown
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Yvonne Mitchell / Anthony Quayle …
other title: L'adultero / Die Frau im Morgenrock
A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.
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Return from the Ashes (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Return from the Ashes
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Maximilian Schell / Samantha Eggar …
other title: Dimensione della paura / Eine Tür fällt zu …
A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.
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Ice Cold in Alex (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB Skybridge
Ice Cold in Alex
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: John Mills / Sylvia Syms …
other title: Birra ghiacciata ad Alessandria / Sob o Sol da África …
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.
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Taras Bulba (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Taras Bulba
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Tony Curtis / Yul Brynner …
other title: Taras il magnifico / Kosakken Taras Bulba
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.
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The Ambassador (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Ambassador
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Robert Mitchum / Ellen Burstyn …
other title: I guerrieri del vento / Farligt brændpunkt …
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
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Mackenna's Gold (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Mackenna's Gold
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Gregory Peck / Omar Sharif …
other title: L'oro di Mackenna / Mackenna's Guld …
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
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The Passage (1979) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Passage
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Anthony Quinn / James Mason …
other title: Casablanca passage / Farlig passage …
During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.
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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Charles Bronson / Kay Lenz …
other title: Il giustiziere della notte 4 / En mand ser rødt 4: Hævnen …
After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey takes on the local drug cartel.
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The Evil That Men Do (1984) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Evil That Men Do
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Charles Bronson / José Ferrer …
other title: Professione giustiziere / Voldens Helvede …
A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Maher) employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.
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The Yellow Balloon (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Yellow Balloon
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Andrew Ray / Kathleen Ryan …
other title: Il tunnel del terrore / Amenaza siniestra …
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.