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John Frankenheimer

John Frankenheimer

American film and television director (1930-2002)
February 19, 1930 (July 6, 2002)
U.S. 2002. Political drama by John Frankenheimer with Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland. In the 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson and his advisors decide whether to continue the war in Vietnam.
Runtime: 164 min.
U.S. 2000. Crime drama by John Frankenheimer with Ben Affleck, Charlize Theron, Gary Sinise. After being released from prison, a car thief is dragged into a casino heist.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1998. Spy drama by John Frankenheimer with Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone. A group of ex-secret agents turned mercenaries must get hold of a mysterious suitcase coveted by many countries.
Runtime: 121 min.
U.S. 1997. Biography by John Frankenheimer with Gary Sinise, Mare Winningham.
Runtime: 178 min.
Runtime: 167 min.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1994. Social drama by John Frankenheimer with Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Kamala Lopez. A Brazilian trade unionist vigorously opposes the cattlemen who are deforesting the Amazon rainforest to establish their ranches.
U.S. 1993. Social drama by John Frankenheimer with Kyle MacLachlan, Samuel L. Jackson, Frederic Forrest. In a New York State penitentiary, a guard is taken hostage by a rioting prisoner.
Runtime: 111min.
U.S. 1991. Social drama by John Frankenheimer with Andrew McCarthy, Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone. In 1978, in Rome, an American journalist writing a novel inspired by the activities of the Red Brigades must face terrorists who suspect him of being an informer.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 1990. Adventures by John Frankenheimer with Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Lara Harris. A belligerent American serviceman stationed in West Germany makes night raids on the other side of the border on his own initiative.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1989. Crime drama by John Frankenheimer with Don Johnson, William Forsythe, Tim Reid. While investigating the murder of a police officer, a detective follows the trail of a member of a racist organization.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1986. Crime drama by John Frankenheimer with Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, John Glover. The blackmailers of an industrialist who refuses to pay them kill his mistress and make sure that he will be accused of the murder.
Runtime: 110 min.
G.-B. 1985. Adventures drama by John Frankenheimer with Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant. In 1985, the son of a high Nazi dignitary is summoned to Switzerland to receive a large sum of money under certain conditions.
Runtime: 112 min.
U.S. 1981. Adventures by John Frankenheimer with Scott Glenn, Toshiro Mifune, Donna Kei Benz.
Runtime: 110 min.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1976. Thriller by John Frankenheimer with Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller. An Arab terrorist plots a deadly attack at a major soccer game in Florida.
Runtime: 143 min.
U.S. 1975. Crime drama by John Frankenheimer with Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson. A New York police officer travels to Marseille to help capture the leader of a major drug trafficking operation.
Runtime: 119 min.
U.S. 1974. Police comedy by John Frankenheimer with Richard Harris, Edmond O'Brien, Ann Turkel. A skilled contract killer is hired by a gang leader fighting a rival.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1973. Psychological drama by John Frankenheimer with Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Fredric March. A salesperson changes his attitude after expressing sympathy to a group of people who hold on to their pipe dreams with the help of alcohol.
Runtime: 239 min.
Fr. 1972. Psychological drama by John Frankenheimer with Alan Bates, Dominique Sanda, Lea Massari. Dissatisfied with his family life, a wealthy writer sets out to find true love.
U.S. 1970. Psychological drama by John Frankenheimer with Gregory Peck, Tuesday Weld, Estelle Parsons. A Tennessee sheriff falls madly in love with a teenage girl whose father is a bootleg liquor manufacturer.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1970. Moral study by John Frankenheimer with Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance. The son of an Afghan clan chief, humiliated by defeat in a horse racing competition, tries to regain his honor.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1969. Psychological drama by John Frankenheimer with Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman. Three skydivers, specialists in free fall, put on a show in a small town in Kansas.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 1968. Comedy by John Frankenheimer with David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda. A ghost captain gets involved in the war in the Pacific.
Runtime: 79 min.
U.S. 1968. Drama by John Frankenheimer with Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Ian Holm. In tsarist Russia, a Jewish man falsely accused of murder resists the worst tortures.
Runtime: 130 min.
U.S. 1966. Thriller by John Frankenheimer with Rock Hudson, John Randolph, Salome Jens. A middle-aged man changes his physique and regains his youthfulness through surgery.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1966. Sports drama by John Frankenheimer with James Garner, Yves Montand, Eva Marie Saint. The season of the great automobile races brings together several racers in the same camaraderie and rivalry.
Runtime: 179 min.
U.S. 1964. War drama by John Frankenheimer with Burt Lancaster, Jeanne Moreau, Paul Scofield. French railway workers try to prevent the transport of artworks to Germany at the end of the war.
Runtime: 133 min.
U.S. 1963. Social drama by John Frankenheimer with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March. Unhappy with the signing of a treaty with the USSR, the head of the Pentagon takes the lead in a military plot to depose the President of the United States.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1962. Spy drama by John Frankenheimer with Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh. Communists use an American soldier as an assassin thanks to the hypnotic hold they have acquired over him.
Runtime: 126 min.
U.S. 1962. Psychological drama by John Frankenheimer with Brandon de Wilde, Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty. A teenager discovers that his admiration for his brother is hardly justified.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 1962. Psychological drama by John Frankenheimer with Burt Lancaster, Neville Brand, Karl Malden. A murderer who became a renowned ornithologist in prison is transferred to Alcatraz where he is denied the right to continue his activities.
Runtime: 143 min.
U.S. 1960. Social drama by John Frankenheimer with Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters. A New York prosecutor?s investigation into the murder of a young Puerto Rican.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1958. Psychological drama by John Frankenheimer with Cliff Robertson, Piper Laurie, Charles Bickford. The harmful effects of alcoholism in a couple.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 1956. Psychological drama by John Frankenheimer with James MacArthur, Kim Hunter, James Daly. A film producer becomes closer to his teenage son when he gets into trouble with the police.
Runtime: 84 min.

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