Richard Brooks — Director (13)
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
director: Richard Brooks actor: Elizabeth Taylor / Paul Newman …
other title: La gatta sul tetto che scotta / Kat på et varmt bliktag …
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) [Movie] TMDB Douban
The Last Time I Saw Paris
director: 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.
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The Last Hunt (1956) [Movie] TMDB
The Last Hunt
director: Richard Brooks actor: Robert Taylor / Stewart Granger …
other title: L'ultima caccia / Die letzte Jagd …
A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.
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In Cold Blood (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData
In Cold Blood
director: 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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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
director: 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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Elmer Gantry (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Elmer Gantry
director: 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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Blackboard Jungle (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Blackboard Jungle
director: 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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The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) [Movie] NeoDB
The Last Time I Saw Paris
director: Richard Brooks actor: 伊丽莎白·泰勒 / 范·强生 …
other title: 我最后一次看见巴黎 / 魂断巴黎(港/台) …
故事发生在第二次世界大战刚刚结束之后，一切都是百废待兴的样子。士兵查尔斯（范·强生 Van Johnson 饰）在完成了自己身为一名军人的使命之后，决定留在巴黎，进军文艺界，成为一名作家。在巴黎，查尔斯邂逅了海伦（伊丽莎白·泰勒 Elizabeth Taylor 饰）和玛丽安（唐娜·里德 Donna Reed 饰）姐妹两，很快，查尔斯便和海伦坠入了爱河，两人结为夫妻，并且有了他们爱情的结晶。
虽然感情生活一帆风顺，但查尔斯的事业却一直没有起色，迟迟无法获得成功的他心灰意冷，开始依靠酒精派遣内心的郁闷。某天，酩酊大醉的查尔斯将海伦锁在了门外，海伦因此患上肺炎不幸去世，玛丽安则带走了两人的孩子，查尔斯失去了一切。
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sweet Bird of Youth
director: 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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The Happy Ending (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Happy Ending
director: 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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Something of Value (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Something of Value
director: 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.