Peter Yates — Director (18)
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Roommates (1995) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Roommates
director: Peter Yates actor: Peter Falk / D. B. Sweeney …
other title: Un adorabile testardo / Companheiros de Quarto …
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
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Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Mother, Jugs & Speed
director: Peter Yates actor: Raquel Welch / Bill Cosby …
other title: Codice 3: emergenza assoluta / Emergência Maluca …
To beat out competing ambulance services, an ace driver, an office secretary/paramedic and a suspended cop resort to some outrageous behavior to help people in distress. They're a crew whose condition is even more critical than their clients!
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Eyewitness (1981) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Eyewitness
director: Peter Yates actor: William Hurt / Sigourney Weaver …
other title: Uno scomodo testimone / Der Augenzeuge …
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There's been a murder in the office building, and Tony suspects that Daryll may have insight into the crime, a notion that he furthers to stay close to her. However, when those behind the killing begin to think that he really knows something, they target the pair to keep their secrets hidden.
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The House on Carroll Street (1988) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The House on Carroll Street
director: Peter Yates actor: Kelly McGillis / Jeff Daniels …
other title: Labirinto mortale / Pesadelo na Rua Carroll …
A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house, being conducted largely in German and involving her HUAC prosecutor. She begins to investigate, enlisting the help of the FBI Agent initially detailed to surveil her.
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An Innocent Man (1989) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
An Innocent Man
director: Peter Yates actor: Tom Selleck / F. Murray Abraham …
other title: Un uomo innocente / Tre år i helvede …
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
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Eleni (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Eleni
director: Peter Yates actor: Kate Nelligan / John Malkovich …
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
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Suspect (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Suspect
director: Peter Yates actor: Cher / Dennis Quaid …
other title: Suspect - Presunto colpevole / Under mistanke …
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.
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Summer Holiday (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Summer Holiday
director: Peter Yates actor: Cliff Richard / Lauri Peters …
other title: Holiday für dich und mich / Vacances d'été …
1960s musical showcasing Cliff Richard. Four bus mechanics working for London Transport strike up a deal with the company: they do up a one of the company's legendary red double decker buses and take it to southern Europe as a mobile hotel. If it succeeds, they will be put in charge of a whole fleet. While on the road in France they pick up three young British ladies whose car breaks down and offer to take them to their next singing job in Athens. They also pick up a stowaway, who hides the fact that she's a famous American pop star on the run, chased by the media and her parents.
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Robbery (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Robbery
director: Peter Yates actor: Stanley Baker / Joanna Pettet …
other title: Rapina al treno postale / Überfall …
In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.
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The Hot Rock (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Hot Rock
director: Peter Yates actor: Robert Redford / George Segal …
other title: La pietra che scotta / Vier schräge Vögel …
Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
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The Dresser (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
The Dresser
director: Peter Yates actor: Albert Finney / Tom Courtenay …
other title: Il servo di scena / O Companheiro …
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
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Krull (1983) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban Skybridge
Krull
director: Peter Yates actor: Ken Marshall / Lysette Anthony …
other title: Krull - Além da Imaginação / 혹성의 위기 …
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.
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Bullitt (1968) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban Skybridge TMDB IMDb
Bullitt
director: Peter Yates actor: Steve McQueen / Robert Vaughn …
other title: 布利特 / 浑身是胆 …
Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.
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Breaking Away (1979) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb Skybridge
Breaking Away
director: Peter Yates actor: Dennis Christopher / Dennis Quaid …
other title: All American Boys / Udbrud …
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends' and parents' annoyance.