Kirk Douglas — Actor (70)
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A Gunfight (1971) WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Gunfight
director: Lamont Johnson actor: Johnny Cash / Kirk Douglas …
other title: Quattro tocchi di campana / Gunfight - Rivalen des Todes …
Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Tenneray comes up with the idea to stage a duel to the death in a bullfight arena, with the ticket proceeds going to the winner.
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Holocaust 2000 (1977) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Holocaust 2000
director: Alberto De Martino actor: Kirk Douglas / Agostina Belli …
other title: Fem minutter i tolv / Holocauste 2000 …
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
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The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The List of Adrian Messenger
director: John Huston actor: George C. Scott / Kirk Douglas …
other title: I 5 volti dell'assassino / Den sidste på listen …
Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without asking him the reason why he should do so.
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The Master Touch (1972) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Un uomo da rispettare
director: Michele Lupo actor: Kirk Douglas / Giuliano Gemma …
other title: Un uomo da rispettare / Ein achtbarer Mann …
A master thief, just out of prison, concocts a risky final score that would net him over a million dollars.
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Lonely are the Brave (1962) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Lonely are the Brave
director: David Miller actor: Kirk Douglas / Gena Rowlands …
other title: Solo sotto le stelle / De tapre er ensomme …
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Bad and the Beautiful
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Lana Turner / Kirk Douglas …
other title: Il bruto e la bella / Stadt der Illusionen …
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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Oscar (1991)
Oscar
director: John Landis actor: Sylvester Stallone / Marisa Tomei …
other title: Oscar - Un fidanzato per due figlie / Oscar - A Mala das Trapalhadas …
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.
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Trumbo (2007)
Trumbo
director: Peter Askin actor: Joan Allen / Michael Douglas …
other title: Trumbo y la lista negra
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. Trumbo was one of several writers, directors, and actors who invoked the First Amendment in refusing to answer questions under oath. They were blacklisted and imprisoned. We follow Trumbo to prison, to exile in Mexico with his family, to poverty, to the public shunning of his children, to his writing under others' names, and to an eventual but incomplete vindication. Actors read his letters; his children and friends remember and comment. Archive photos, newsreels and interviews add texture. Written by
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Bad and the Beautiful
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Lana Turner / Kirk Douglas …
other title: Il bruto e la bella / Stadt der Illusionen …
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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Lynch/Oz (2023)
Lynch/Oz
director: Alexandre O. Philippe actor: Amy Nicholson / Rodney Ascher …
other title: Lynch & Oz / 林奇/奥兹 …
Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.
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The Vikings (1958) IMDb TMDB Skybridge
The Vikings
director: Richard Fleischer actor: Kirk Douglas / Tony Curtis …
other title: I vichinghi / Vikingerne …
Einar, brutal son of Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with Eric, a wily slave, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.
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The Final Countdown (1980)
The Final Countdown
director: Don Taylor actor: Kirk Douglas / Martin Sheen …
other title: Countdown - Dimensione zero / USS Nimitz - forsvundet i Stillehavet …
During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The Brotherhood (1968) IMDb TMDB
The Brotherhood
director: Martin Ritt actor: Kirk Douglas / Alex Cord …
other title: La fratellanza / Mafia-brødrene …
The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his older brother dictate otherwise, and he finds himself being slowly drawn back into that world.
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Saturn 3 (1980) IMDb TMDB
Saturn 3
director: Stanley Donen actor: Farrah Fawcett / Kirk Douglas …
other title: Dødskamp på Saturn 3 / Saturn City …
In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three years in the base alone with their dog Sally. Captain Benson arrives Saturn 3 with Hector, incapable to controlling his emotions he transfers his homicidal tendency and insanity to Hector. Now Major Adam and Alex are trapped in the station with a dangerous psychopath robot.
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Lust for Life (1956)
Lust for Life
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Kirk Douglas / Anthony Quinn …
other title: Brama di vivere / Filmen om Van Gogh …
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) IMDb TMDB
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
director: Carl Reiner actor: Steve Martin / Rachel Ward …
other title: Il mistero del cadavere scomparso / Bogart Junior …
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.