Search results for "J. Lee Thompson"
As Long as They’re Happy

As Long as They’re Happy

As Long as They’re Happy
IMDb: 5.2
91

The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Yield to the Night

Yield to the Night

Yield to the Night
IMDb: 7.1
99

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

Genre: Drama
The Greek Tycoon

The Greek Tycoon

The Greek Tycoon
IMDb: 5.4
107

A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.

Genre: Drama
I Aim at the Stars

I Aim at the Stars

I Aim at the Stars
IMDb: 6.3
106

The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun literally pioneered man’s…

Genre: Drama
An Alligator Named Daisy

An Alligator Named Daisy

An Alligator Named Daisy
IMDb: 5.3
85

Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse
IMDb: 5.8
85

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Yellow Balloon

The Yellow Balloon

The Yellow Balloon
IMDb: 7
76

A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend’s death.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Mackenna’s Gold

Mackenna’s Gold

Mackenna’s Gold
IMDb: 6.8
128

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to…

10 to Midnight

10 to Midnight

10 to Midnight
IMDb: 6.3
101

Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills while naked, wearing nothing but gloves, and further evades…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
IMDb: 5.5
97

A brutal Los Angeles police Lt. is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.

The Evil That Men Do

The Evil That Men Do

The Evil That Men Do
IMDb: 6
90

Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government’s political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer,…

The Passage

The Passage

The Passage
IMDb: 6
99

During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Battle for the Planet of the Apes
IMDb: 5.5
93

The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with…

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
IMDb: 6.1
88

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, and prepares for a revolt against humanity.

Taras Bulba

Taras Bulba

Taras Bulba
IMDb: 6.4
119

Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and…

Kings of the Sun

Kings of the Sun

Kings of the Sun
IMDb: 6.2
108

In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States….

Cape Fear

Cape Fear

Cape Fear
IMDb: 7.7
105

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone
IMDb: 7.5
158

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped…

Genre: Action, War
Return from the Ashes

Return from the Ashes

Return from the Ashes
IMDb: 7
105

A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war’s end. She’s unaware that her husband, the handsome…

Genre: Drama
North West Frontier

North West Frontier

North West Frontier
IMDb: 7.1
129

In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy’s governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued…

Genre: Adventure
St. Ives

St. Ives

St. Ives
IMDb: 6.3
94

A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.

Eye of the Devil

Eye of the Devil

Eye of the Devil
IMDb: 6.1
96

A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
The Weak and the Wicked

The Weak and the Wicked

The Weak and the Wicked
IMDb: 6.3
88

Jean Raymond (Glynis Johns) an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is…

Genre: Drama
Murder Without Crime

Murder Without Crime

Murder Without Crime
IMDb: 6.4
78

A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Woman in a Dressing Gown

Woman in a Dressing Gown

Woman in a Dressing Gown
IMDb: 7.2
93

A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning…

Genre: Drama, Romance
No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street
IMDb: 5.9
96

Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn’t completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression….

Genre: Crime, Drama
Before Winter Comes

Before Winter Comes

Before Winter Comes
IMDb: 5.9
103

Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and British military brass enters into a friendly rivalry…

Genre: Drama
Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex
IMDb: 7.8
125

A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
The White Buffalo

The White Buffalo

The White Buffalo
IMDb: 6.2
97

In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western…

Genre: Western
The Ambassador

The Ambassador

The Ambassador
IMDb: 5.4
97

An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.

Genre: Drama
Messenger of Death

Messenger of Death

Messenger of Death
IMDb: 5.5
91

Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive. Orville doesn’t give any…

Happy Birthday to Me

Happy Birthday to Me

Happy Birthday to Me
IMDb: 6.1
110

Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her…

King Solomon’s Mines

King Solomon’s Mines

King Solomon’s Mines
IMDb: 5.2
100

Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge…

Firewalker

Firewalker

Firewalker
IMDb: 5.1
104

A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.

Cabo Blanco

Cabo Blanco

Cabo Blanco
IMDb: 5.4
87

Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed…

Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn
IMDb: 5.6
118

Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often violent father for a long time. When Dad tried to kidnap him, Huck decides to…

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
IMDb: 6.5
105

When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he’s mysteriously drawn to a place he’s never been to, but which seems familiar and where he soon…

Genre: Horror, Mystery
The Chairman

The Chairman

The Chairman
IMDb: 5.6
93

An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized…

Genre: Action, Thriller
What a Way to Go!

What a Way to Go!

What a Way to Go!
IMDb: 7
111

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Tiger Bay

Tiger Bay

Tiger Bay
IMDb: 7.5
105

In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting…

Genre: Drama, Thriller