6 Movies Directed by Michael Crichton

Westworld

Westworld

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1973-11-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (23667 Reviews)

Fullplot:

An amusement park for rich vacationers. The park provides its customers a way to live out their fantasies through the use of robots that provide anything they want. Two of the vacationers choose a wild west adventure. However, after a computer breakdown, they find that they are now being stalked by a rogue robot gun-slinger.

Coma

Coma

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-01-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (12414 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Crichton (screenplay)

Robin Cook (novel)

Fullplot:

A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.

The Great Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-02-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(10895 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Crichton (screenplay)

Michael Crichton (novel)

Fullplot:

Sutherland and Connery wish to rob a moving train's safe in Victorian England. They need wax impressions of keys, coffins, dead cats, and a great deal of planning in order to pull it off.

Looker

Looker

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-10-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (3075 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.

Runaway

Runaway

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-12-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (7891 Reviews)

Fullplot:

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.

The 13th Warrior

The 13th Warrior

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-08-27

Languages:

English, Latin, Swedish, Norse, Old, Danish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (97229 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Crichton (novel)

William Wisher Jr. (screenplay)

Warren Lewis (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In AD 922, Arab courtier Ahmad Ibn Fadlan accompanies a party of Vikings to the barbaric North. Ibn Fadlan is appalled by the Vikings customs-- their wanton sexuality, their disregard for cleanliness, their cold-blooded human sacrifices. And then he learns the horrifying truth: he has been enlisted to combat a terror that slaughters the Vikings and devours their flesh.

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