12 Movies Starring Cliff Robertson

Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-08-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1355 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Aldrich

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Jean Rouverol

Hugo Butler

Lewis Meltzer

Robert Blees

Jack Jevne (front for Jean Rouverol and Hugo Butler)

Fullplot:

The Naked and the Dead

The Naked and the Dead

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-10-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

131 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (703 Reviews)

Director:

Raoul Walsh

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Denis Sanders (screenplay)

Terry Sanders (screenplay)

Norman Mailer (novel)

Fullplot:

In the Pacific during World War 2, the officers live a comfortable life with good food, good drink and good quarters. To them, war is a game which they know they will win and the common soldiers are the pawns on the board. When the campaign slows down, the Commander sends a squad to the top of a mountain behind enemy lines to report on the Japanese troop movements. The squad is commanded by a tough cynical Sergeant who takes no prisoners and even takes the gold from the teeth of the enemy dead. Before the mission starts, the lieutenant, who has had a cushy job due to a life of wealth and privilege, criticizes the Commander over his attitude towards the common soldier and is re-assigned to lead the squad. The veteran Sergeant wants to complete this mission as ordered, and he will do everything he can do to see that it is successful.

Gidget

Gidget

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-04-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (2172 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Wendkos

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Gabrielle Upton (screenplay)

Frederick Kohner (novel)

Fullplot:

Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggy. She's fascinated of his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf. Soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggy.

The Best Man

The Best Man

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1964-04-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (2011 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.

Charly

Charly

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-09-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (4779 Reviews)

Director:

Ralph Nelson

Genres:

DramaSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Daniel Keyes (novel)

Stirling Silliphant (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Charly is an adult male with a cognitive disability struggling to survive in the modern world. His frequent attempts at learning, reading, and writing prove difficult. His teacher, Miss Kinian, takes Charly to the clinic where he is observed by doctors who have Charly "race" a mouse, Algernon. Algernon is usually the winner thanks to an experiment that greatly raised his intelligence. This experiment is given to Charly, who at first does not seem affected. However, he becomes more logically advanced, eventually becoming a pure genius. Emotional and intra-personal consequences are involved when Charly learns the truth of the experiment, and struggles with whether or not the procedure was a good idea.

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1972-05-12

Languages:

English, Swedish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (1279 Reviews)

Director:

Philip Kaufman

Genres:

Western

Fullplot:

In 1876, the Missouri legislature issues a pardon and amnesty to the James and Younger gangs despite many people considering them outlaws. The pardon is because they protected the homesteaders of Clay County against the marauding railroaders, who wouldn't let anyone or anything get in their way of building the railroad where they wanted. However, the railroad companies and banks still consider them outlaws and will take matters into their own hands if they come across the gangs. Prior to the pardon, Cole Younger had contemplated robbing the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota - what is considered the largest bank west of the Mississippi - but has now decided against it. Circumstances, including learning that Jesse James and his gang are going ahead with the robbery behind his back, and that the railroaders issuing a war against them which also includes bribing the legislature to revoke the pardon, make Cole change his mind. But right from the start - even during the planning stages - things don't go quite according to script, which may be an omen for things to come.

Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Condor

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-09-24

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

117 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (32344 Reviews)

Director:

Sydney Pollack

Cast:

Writer:

James Grady (novel)

Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay)

David Rayfiel (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. "Condor" must find out who did this and get in from the cold before the hitmen get him.

Obsession

Obsession

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-09-13

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (5475 Reviews)

Director:

Brian De Palma

Cast:

Writer:

Brian De Palma (story)

Paul Schrader (story)

Paul Schrader (screenplay)

Fullplot:

New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland's life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later whilst visiting Italy he meets and falls in in love with Sandra Portinari, who bears a striking resemblance to his wife.

Brainstorm

Brainstorm

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-09-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (8053 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Bruce Joel Rubin (story)

Robert Stitzel (screenplay)

Philip Frank Messina (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Brilliant researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people. Once the capability of tapping into "higher brain functions" is added in, and you can literally jump into someone else's head and play back recordings of what he or she was thinking, feeling, seeing, etc., at the time of the recording, the applications for the project quickly spiral out of control. While Michael Brace uses the system to become close again to Karen Brace, his estranged wife who also works on the project, others start abusing it for intense sexual experiences and other logical but morally questionable purposes. The government tries to kick Michael and Lillian off the project once the vast military potential of the technology is discovered. It soon becomes obvious that the government is interested in more than just missile guidance systems. The lab starts producing mind torture recordings and other psychosis inducing material. When one of the researchers dies and tapes the experience of death, Michael is convinced that he must playback this tape to honor the memory of the researcher and to become enlightened. When another researcher dies during playback the tape is locked away and Michael has to fight against his former colleagues and the government lackeys that now run his lab in order to play back and confront the "scariest thing any of us will ever face" - death itself.

Star 80

Star 80

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-11-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (4093 Reviews)

Director:

Bob Fosse

Cast:

Writer:

Teresa Carpenter (article)

Bob Fosse

Fullplot:

Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Dorothy is a pretty but naive high school senior. Paul immediately falls for Dorothy, who sees in Paul a wise, worldly person unlike herself. Paul believes Dorothy is Playboy material, the magazine he sees as only a springboard to bigger and better things. Paul's dream does become a reality: not only does Dorothy eventually marry him, she becomes the August 1979 Playboy Playmate and ultimately Playboy Playmate of 1979, which does indeed lead to the start of an acting career. As Dorothy's star rises, Paul's life is one of a hanger-on as those in Dorothy's new circle, including Playboy publisher Hugh M. Hefner and movie director Aram Nicholas, don't much like Paul. Paul is unable to eke out a life of his own without using Dorothy's name, which she increasingly is reluctant to provide to her husband. Those that know the couple know their relationship cannot continue as is, and it's only a matter of how it will change or end is the question.

Escape from L.A.

Escape from L.A.

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-08-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (49224 Reviews)

Director:

John Carpenter

Cast:

Writer:

John Carpenter (characters)

Nick Castle (characters)

John Carpenter

Debra Hill

Kurt Russell

Fullplot:

The year is 2013 and Snake Plissken is back but this time it's L.A., which through the agency of earthquakes has become an island of the damned. But something has gone wrong in this new moral order, because the President's daughter has absconded to L.A. with a detonation device, and Snake is commandeered to retrieve it. But just below the surface there is a coiled Snake ready to strike.

Riding the Bullet

Riding the Bullet

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-02-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Germany, Canada

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.2 (7091 Reviews)

Director:

Mick Garris

Cast:

Writer:

Mick Garris (screenplay)

Stephen King (novel)

Fullplot:

A young man hitchhiking back home to visit his mother is picked up by a mysterious stranger. As the ride goes on, the young man uncovers a terrible secret about the stranger, and is given a choice by the stranger. A choice that can mean life or death.

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