Richard Brooks — Director (21)
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The Light Touch (1951)
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Richard Brooks actor: Stewart Granger / Pier Angeli …
other title: L'immagine meravigliosa / Begegnung in Tunis …
After a professional art thief steals a religious painting from an Italian museum, he tries to cheat his partner by claiming the painting was accidentally destroyed but his suspicious partner and the police are determined to find it.
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The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
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Richard Brooks actor: Yul Brynner / Maria Schell …
other title: Karamazov / Os Irmãos Karamazov …
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
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Bite the Bullet (1975)
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Richard Brooks actor: Gene Hackman / Candice Bergen …
other title: Stringi i denti e vai! / Bid tænderne sammen …
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
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Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
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Richard Brooks actor: Humphrey Bogart / Ethel Barrymore …
other title: L'ultima minaccia / Die Maske runter! …
New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining. Now the publisher's widow wants to sell the paper, which will most likely mean its end. Hutcheson's only hope is to finish his exposé on a dangerous gangster before the sale is finalized.
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$ (1971)
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Richard Brooks actor: Warren Beatty / Goldie Hawn …
other title: Il genio della rapina / Der Millionenraub …
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
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Wrong Is Right (1982)
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Richard Brooks actor: Sean Connery / George Grizzard …
other title: Obiettivo mortale / Manden med det livsfarlige kamera …
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
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Something of Value (1957)
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Richard Brooks actor: Rock Hudson / Dana Wynter …
other title: Qualcosa che vale / Flammen über Afrika …
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
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The Happy Ending (1969)
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Richard Brooks actor: Jean Simmons / John Forsythe …
other title: Lieto fine / Happy End für eine Ehe …
When Fred asked for Mary's hand in marriage, she thought she had the happy ending she only read about in fairy tales. Now it's 16 years later; Fred has had an affair, and Mary drowns her sorrows in pills and booze, a dangerous combination that nearly resulted in her death the year before. As Mary rushes off to the Bahamas for a relaxing escape from her crumbling marriage, she reflects on the past and wonders just where it all went wrong.
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Sweet Bird of Youth
Richard Brooks actor: Paul Newman / Geraldine Page …
other title: La dolce ala della giovinezza / Corações na Penumbra …
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
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Blackboard Jungle (1955)
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Richard Brooks actor: Glenn Ford / Anne Francis …
other title: Il seme della violenza / Sementes de Violência …
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
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Elmer Gantry (1960)
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Richard Brooks actor: Burt Lancaster / Jean Simmons …
other title: Il figlio di Giuda / O Falso Profeta …
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
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Richard Brooks actor: Diane Keaton / Tuesday Weld …
other title: In cerca di Mr. Goodbar / Auf der Suche nach Mr. Goodbar …
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively more violent sexual encounters.
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In Cold Blood (1967)
In Cold Blood
Richard Brooks actor: Robert Blake / Scott Wilson …
other title: A sangue freddo / Med koldt blod …
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
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The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
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Richard Brooks actor: Elizabeth Taylor / Van Johnson …
other title: L'ultima volta che vidi Parigi / Sidst jeg så Paris …
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.