John Frankenheimer — Director (30)
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George Wallace (1997) [TV] IMDb TMDB
George Wallace
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Gary Sinise / Mare Winningham …
The miniseries follows the history of its namesake, from the 1950s when Wallace was a circuit court judge in Barbour County, to his tenure as the most powerful governor in Alabama's history. It depicts his symbolic "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", where Wallace attempted to block black students from entering the University of Alabama. It details his stance on racial segregation in Alabama at the time, which proved popular with his white constituents, and also depicts Wallace's rise as a presidential hopeful. This eventually leads to his attempted assassination—and his surprise victory in several states during the 1968 presidential election.
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All Fall Down (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
All Fall Down
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Eva Marie Saint / Warren Beatty …
other title: E il vento disperse la nebbia / Mein Bruder, ein Lump …
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 older woman named Echo O’Brien, he really gets his parents at each others’ throats.
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The Burning Season (1994) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Burning Season
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Raúl Juliá / Carmen Argenziano …
other title: Flammen des Widerstandes / La Forêt de tous les Dangers …
Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land. The rich and the powerful will stop at nothing, and frequently resort to murder
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Year of the Gun (1991) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Year of the Gun
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Andrew McCarthy / Valeria Golino …
other title: L'anno del terrore / Verliebt in die Gefahr …
American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend must struggle to stay alive.
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The Fourth War (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Fourth War
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Roy Scheider / Jürgen Prochnow …
other title: La quarta guerra / Den fjerde krig …
Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on opposite sides of the German-Czech border. Both men are responsible for a group of troops in their remote settings, and both have been shaped by their combat experiences and a shared aversion to their superiors' ways of doing things. After a defector is killed, things escalate into a full-fledged battle with serious geopolitical ramifications.
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52 Pick-Up (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
52 Pick-Up
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Roy Scheider / Ann-Margret …
other title: 52 gioca o muori / Afpresning …
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 him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
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The Comedian (1957) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
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.
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Dead Bang (1989) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
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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Grand Prix (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData Skybridge TMDB
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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The Challenge (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
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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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 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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The Train (1964) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban Skybridge TMDB WikiData
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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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.