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The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 action adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel of the same name. Foreman also produced the ...
Release date: 27 April 1961
Genre:
Action, Drama, War, Adventure
A team of Allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range ...
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Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring an ensemble cast featuring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Ted Cassidy, Camilla Sparv and Julie Newmar in ...
Release date: 18 March 1969
Genre:
Romance, Western
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 keep ...
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What a Way to Go! is a 1964 American black comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke.
Release date: 12 May 1964
Genre:
Comedy, Romance, Musical
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 ...
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Taras Bulba is a 1962 American historical adventure drama film based on Nikolai Gogol's novel Taras Bulba, starring Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner. The film was directed by J. Lee Thompson.
Release date: 21 November 1962
Genre:
Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, History
In the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite ...
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Cape Fear is a 1962 American psychological thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson, from a screenplay by James R. Webb, adapting the 1957 novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald. It stars Gregory Peck ...
Release date: 12 April 1962
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.
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10 to Midnight is a 1983 American neo noir-thriller-horror film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay originally written by William Roberts. The film stars Charles Bronson in the lead role with ...
Release date: 11 March 1983
Genre:
Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
An LAPD detective and his rookie partner are on the trail of a psychopathic young man who is murdering young women.
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The White Buffalo is a 1977 fantasy Western film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Charles Bronson, Kim Novak, Jack Warden, Slim Pickens and Will Sampson.
Release date: 12 May 1977
Genre:
Western, Drama
In this strange western version of JAWS, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream...
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The Greek Tycoon is a 1978 American biographical romantic drama film, of the roman à clef type, directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay by Morton S. Fine is based on a story by Fine, Nico Mastorakis ...
Release date: 12 May 1978
Genre:
Drama
A fictionalized account of the Greek shipping magnate, Onassis, and his meeting and subsequent marriage to the widow of assassinated U.S. president, J ...
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects is a 1989 American action thriller film starring Charles Bronson and directed by J. Lee Thompson. As Thompson's final film, it was the last project he and Bronson did together—a ...
Release date: 3 February 1989
Genre:
Drama, Thriller, Action
A Tokyo businessman (Hiroshi Hada), transferred to L.A, molests a teenage girl (Amy Hathaway) on a train...
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Kings of the Sun is a 1963 DeLuxe Color film directed by J. Lee Thompson for Mirisch Productions set in Mesoamerica at the time of the conquest of Chichen Itza by Hunac Ceel. Location scenes were filmed ...
Release date: 18 December 1963
Genre:
Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
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King Solomon's Mines is a 1985 action adventure film, and a film adaptation of the 1885 novel of the same name by H. Rider Haggard. It stars Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, and John Rh ...
Release date: 22 November 1985
Genre:
Adventure, Comedy, Action, Romance
Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued ...
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Happy Birthday to Me is a 1981 slasher film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Melissa Sue Anderson and Glenn Ford. Its plot revolves around six brutal murders occurring around a popular high school ...
Release date: 15 May 1981
Genre:
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday...
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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown is a 1987 American vigilante action-thriller film, and the fourth installment in the Death Wish film series. The film was directed by J. Lee Thompson, and features Charles ...
Release date: 6 November 1987
Genre:
Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies ...
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Country Dance (U.S. title: Brotherly Love ) is a 1970 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Peter O'Toole, Susannah York and Michael Craig. It is based on the novel Household Ghosts ...
Release date: 22 April 1970
Genre:
Drama
In an upper-class British household, a crazy alcoholic, has an incestuous relationship with his sister, who is also capable of being fairly spirited herself ...
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The Weak and the Wicked (called Young and Willing in the United States) is a 1954 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson based on the autobiographical novel Who Lie in Gaol by his wife, Joan Henry ...
Release date: 2 February 1954
Genre:
Drama
Frank "women in prison" story that sympathetically tracks several inmates through their imprisonment and subsequent return to society. Some are ...
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Tiger Bay is a 1959 British crime drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson. It stars John Mills as a police superintendent investigating a murder; his real-life daughter Hayley Mills, in her first major ...
Release date: 1 March 1959
Genre:
Drama, Thriller, Crime
12 year old Gillie witnesses a Polish Sailor killing his girlfriend and manages to get hold of the gun...
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The Reincarnation of Peter Proud is a 1975 American psychological horror film directed by J. Lee Thompson, and starring Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, and Jennifer O'Neill. It follows a university p ...
Release date: 25 April 1975
Genre:
Mystery, Horror
When college professor Peter Proud begins to experience flashbacks from a previous incarnation, he is...
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The Passage is a 1979 British action-war film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell and Patricia Neal. The film is based upon the 1976 novel Perilous Passage ...
Release date: 9 March 1979
Genre:
Drama, War, Action
During World War II, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees while being ...
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The Evil That Men Do is a 1984 American action thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher and José Ferrer. The film is adapted by R. Lance Hill ...
Release date: 15 March 1984
Genre:
Action, Drama, Thriller
A professional killer comes out of retirement to investigate and avenge the brutal murder of an old friend.
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The Ambassador
1984 American thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson
Overview:
The Ambassador is a 1984 American political thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson and Allan Younger. It was the last theatrical release starring ...
Release date: 23 May 1984
Genre:
Drama, War
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