John Frankenheimer — Director (19)
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Manchurian Candidate
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Frank Sinatra / Laurence Harvey …
other title: Và e uccidi / Kandidaten fra Manchuriet …
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 is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Birdman of Alcatraz
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Burt Lancaster / Karl Malden …
other title: L'uomo di Alcatraz / Manden fra Alcatraz …
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 a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
1960s burtlancaster crime drama fridaythrillerclub
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Seconds (1966) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB
Seconds
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Rock Hudson / Salome Jens …
other title: Operazione diabolica / Manden, der skiftede ansigt …
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.
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Ronin (1998) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Ronin
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Robert De Niro / Jean Reno …
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 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of recovering the case.
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Path to War (2003) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban
Path to War
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Michael Gambon / Donald Sutherland …
other title: Path to War - L'altro Vietnam / Path to War - Entscheidung im Weißen Haus …
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 leading up to and during the Vietnam War.
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Andersonville (1996) [Movie] WikiData IMDb
Andersonville
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Jarrod Emick / Frederic Forrest …
other title: Andersonville, le camp de la mort
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 of Cold Harbor, VA, in June 1864, and shipped to the camp in southern Georgia. A private, Josiah Day, and his sergeant try to hold their company together in the face of squalid living conditions, inhumane punishments, and a gang of predatory fellow prisoners called the Raiders.
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The Train (1964) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB WikiData TMDB Douban
The Train
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Burt Lancaster / Paul Scofield …
other title: Il treno / Toget …
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 to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
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The Fixer (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Fixer
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Alan Bates / Dirk Bogarde …
other title: L'uomo di Kiev / Ein Mann wie Hiob …
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kyiv. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
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99 and 44/100% Dead (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
99 and 44/100% Dead
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Richard Harris / Edmond O'Brien …
other title: Attento sicario: Crown è in caccia / König Ballermann …
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.
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The Challenge (1982) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Challenge
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Scott Glenn / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: L'ultima sfida / Dræbende sværd …
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 who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the behest of the businessman, Rick undertakes samurai training from the other brother, but joins his cause. He also becomes romantically involved with the samurai's daughter.
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Grand Prix (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Grand Prix
director: John Frankenheimer actor: James Garner / Eva Marie Saint …
other title: Grande Prémio
The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles.
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Dead Bang (1989) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Dead Bang
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Don Johnson / Penelope Ann Miller …
other title: Dead Bang - A colpo sicuro / Dead Bang - Kurzer Prozess …
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 white supremacists, who are hatching a deadly plot to attack even more innocent people. Beck must also confront his own personal demons, including his growing problem with alcohol, if he wants to track down and stop the violent neo-Nazis before it is too late.
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The Holcroft Covenant (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Holcroft Covenant
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Michael Caine / Anthony Andrews …
other title: Il ritorno delle aquile / O Documento Holcroft …
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 it.
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The Comedian (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Comedian
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Mickey Rooney / Kim Hunter …
Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.