Richard Brooks — Playwright (14)
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Brute Force (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Brute Force
director: Jules Dassin actor: Burt Lancaster / Hume Cronyn …
other title: Forza bruta / Brutal magt …
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
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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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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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Cobra Woman (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Cobra Woman
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Maria Montez / Jon Hall …
other title: Il cobra / Die Schlangenpriesterin …
A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.
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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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Key Largo (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Key Largo
director: John Huston actor: Humphrey Bogart / Edward G. Robinson …
other title: L'isola di corallo / Uvejrsøen Key Largo …
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
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Mystery Street (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mystery Street
director: John Sturges actor: Ricardo Montalban / Sally Forrest …
other title: La strada del mistero / Die Tote in den Dünen …
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
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White Savage (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
White Savage
director: Arthur Lubin actor: Maria Montez / Jon Hall …
other title: Selvaggia bianca / Fluch der Tempelgötter
A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.
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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.