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Dune

Dune (1984) more movies like this

directed by David Lynch
featuring Francesca Annis, Leo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Kyle MacLachlan, Jürgen Prochnow

David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and making the film look like a sketchy greatest hits ...

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The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) more movies like this

directed by George Stevens
featuring Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Loggia, Claude Rains, José Ferrer, Charlton Heston

Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20 million) adaptation of Fulton Oursler's best-selling book. The "Greatest Story" is, of course, the life of Jesus Christ, played herein by Max Von Sydow. The large supporting cast includes Dorothy McGuire as Mary, Claude Rains ...

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The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny (1954) more movies like this

directed by Edward Dmytryk
featuring Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis, May Wynn

Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly minted ensign assigned to the U.S.S. Caine. Keith has an uneasy relationship with his skipper, Lt. Comdr. DeVries (Tom Tully), partly through his own ineptitude and as a result of his disapproval of the slovenly way DeVries seems to run the ship. He looks forward to the arrival ...

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To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be (1983) more movies like this

directed by Alan Johnson
featuring Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Tim Matheson, José Ferrer

Mel Brooks and his real-life wife Anne Bancroft play Frederick and Anna Bronski, musical comedy stars in 1939 Poland. The highlight of the Bronskis' act is Frederick's imitation of Adolf Hitler, but he is forced to eliminate this turn for fear of offending the Nazis. Meanwhile, Anna enters into a harmless flirtation with Polish bomber pilot Andre ...

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The Sentinel

The Sentinel (1976) more movies like this

directed by Michael Winner
featuring Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, John Carradine, José Ferrer

In the wake of such Satanic-themed thrillers as Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist and The Omen comes The Sentinel. When New York fashion model (Cristina Raines) splits with her fiance (Chris Sarandon) and moves into an old brownstone, she soon discovers she has more than she bargained for in the lease. As luck would have it, a mysterious blind priest ...

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Gideon's Trumpet

Gideon's Trumpet (1980) more movies like this

directed by Robert E. Collins
featuring Henry Fonda, John Houseman, José Ferrer, Fay Wray

In the tradition of his earlier work in Grapes of Wrath and Twelve Angry Men, Henry Fonda played another social-protest role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV presentation Gideon's Trumpet. Clarence Earl Gideon (Fonda) is a poor, ill-tempered Florida handyman who is arrested for petty larceny in 1961. Unable to afford a lawyer, Gideon is sentenced ...

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Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge (1952) more movies like this

directed by John Huston
featuring José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Suzanne Flon, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Christopher Lee, Katherine Kath

Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records his frustration over his physical handicap (the growth in his legs was stunted by a childhood accident), his efforts to "lose" himself in Paris' bawdy Montmartre district, and his career as a painter, which brought him ...

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Whirlpool

Whirlpool (1949) more movies like this

directed by Otto Preminger
featuring Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Barbara O'Neil, Eduard Franz

In this compelling and unusual psychological melodrama Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), a woman tormented by her secret kleptomania seeks help from a unscrupulous hypnotist David Korvo (Jose Ferrer). Although she is married to a successful psychiatrist (Richard Conte), and has no need to steal the items which she could easily purchase, she finds ...

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Cyrano De Bergerac

Cyrano De Bergerac (1950) more movies like this

directed by Michael Gordon
featuring José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky, Lloyd Corrigan, Ralph Clanton

Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman whose prominent proboscis is the subject of many a duel. Cyrano is madly in love with the beautiful Roxanne (Mala Powers), but assumes that she'd never love him back due to his cathedral of a nose. Roxanne is also loved by ...

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The Little Drummer Boy

The Little Drummer Boy (1968) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass, Takeya Nakamura
featuring José Ferrer

The perennial Yuletide animated classic The Little Drummer Boy gets a new look on home video with this release. Actually, the program itself will be familiar to those who watch it every December; only the packaging has changed. This moving story, about a poor boy who can offer no gift to the baby Jesus other than his song, will entertain and ...

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The Wind in the Willows (1987) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass
featuring Paul H. Frees, Charles Nelson Reilly, José Ferrer

Completed in 1985, Rankin/Bass' feature-length cartoon version of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows had its network debut delayed several times; the film finally premiered on July 5, 1987. This adaption of the 1908 Grahame story was more faithful to the source that the enjoyable but overly slick 1949 Disney version Ichabod and Mr. Toad ...

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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) more movies like this

directed by Woody Allen
featuring Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts

Woody Allen brings a diverting whimsy and a hopeful innocence to this period roundelay, based upon Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer's Night and Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game. Allen plays Andrew, a Wall Street broker and eccentric inventor who is having frigidity problems with his wife Adrian (Mary Steenburgen). Adrian and Andrew are the hosts ...

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The Evil That Men Do (1984) more movies like this

directed by J. Lee Thompson
featuring José Ferrer, Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, Rene Enriquez

In yet another slick, formulaic Charles Bronson vengeance film (they would continue until the actor was in his mid-70s, still playing the morally insulted friend/husband/lover), Bronson is Holland, an assassin for hire who has just come out of retirement to finish off a Guatemalan thug by the name of Moloch (Joseph Maher). Moloch tortures and ...

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Ship of Fools (1965) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner

The first person the audience sees in Ship of Fools is dwarf Michael Dunn, who speaks to viewers directly and acts as a Greek chorus throughout the film. It begins on the deck of an ocean liner travelling from Vera Cruz to Bremerhaven. The time is the 1930s, so close and yet so far from war. The cross-section of humanity on board includes ship's ...

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The Rhinemann Exchange (1977) more movies like this

directed by Burt Kennedy
featuring Stephen Collins, Lauren Hutton, Claude Akins, Vince Edwards, José Ferrer, Larry Hagman

One of four miniseries comprising NBC's Best Sellers anthology, The Rhinemann Exchange was adapted from the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name. Stephen Collins stars as American intelligence officer David Spaulding, who under cover of his musician father's concert tours embarks upon a number of fact-finding missions in Europe just before WW2. ...

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Joan of Arc (1948) more movies like this

directed by Victor Fleming
featuring Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Selena Royle, Robert H. Barrat, Ward Bond, Francis L. Sullivan, Jimmy Lydon, Cecil Kellaway, Rand Brooks

Director Victor Fleming's final film features Ingrid Bergman as a vivid and luminous Joan of Arc, the 15th-century French peasant girl who led the French in battle against the invading English, becoming a national hero. When she was captured, tortured, and ultimately executed by the English, she was made a Catholic saint. Bergman's Joan is a ...

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Battle Creek Brawl (1980) more movies like this

directed by Robert Clouse
featuring Jackie Chan, José Ferrer, Kristine de Bell, Mako, Ron Max, Rosalind Chao

After the death of Bruce Lee in 1973, writer/director Robert Clouse made several attempts to reproduce the success of his Enter the Dragon, which belatedly made Lee a household name in America. Clouse felt (with good reason) that Jackie Chan could be the next big martial arts star in America, and he crafted this feature with him in mind. Jerry ...

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Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985) more movies like this

directed by Jim Goddard
featuring John Shea, Bill Nighy, Tony Randall, José Ferrer, Lucy Gutteridge

The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman (Bill Nighy) a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl (John Shea), a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A." (storm ...

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The Being (1983) more movies like this

directed by Jackie Kong
featuring Martin Landau, José Ferrer, Dorothy Malone, Ruth Buzzi, Rexx Coltrane

Director Jackie Kong, who later made the cult favorite Blood Diner (1987), directed this terrible monster movie for exploitation pioneer Bill Osco, who stars under the pseudonym "Rexx Coltrane." The plot concerns a mutant child who has become a monster after being exposed to toxic waste in a small Idaho town. Mortimer (Osco) wants to investigate a ...

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Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (1977) more movies like this

directed by Albert Band
featuring Michael Pataki, Reggie Nalder, José Ferrer, Jan Shutan, Libbie Chase

When soldiers foolishly remove a stake from a mysterious Transylvanian grave, they release a vampire dog belonging to the Dracula clan. Also freed is Veidt-Smit (Reggie Nalder), an old servant of the Count himself, not quite a vampire, but immortal all the same: he can work in the daylight. Together, the blood-sucking dog and he go to the U.S. in ...

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Bloody Birthday (1981) more movies like this

directed by Edward Hunt
featuring Susan Strasberg, José Ferrer, Lori Lethin, Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown

Sort of a triple-threat Bad Seed with a more overtly violent streak, this film tells the tale of trio of cherubic youngsters whose births all coincided with a solar eclipse, which somehow initiated a kind of time-release evil reaction that reaches its climax on the kids' tenth birthday, causing them to transform into miniature homicidal ...

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Blood Tide (1982) more movies like this

directed by Richard Jefferies
featuring James Earl Jones, José Ferrer, Lila Kedrova, Mary Louise Weller, Martin Kove

It will come as quite a shock to discover the venerable James Earl Jones and José Ferrer slumming in this Greek-lensed ultra-cheapie about a legendary sea creature aroused from centuries of sleep off the shores of a Greek island by an opportunistic American archaeologist (Jones). It seems the beastie's legacy is well known by some of the island's ...

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Old Explorers (1990) more movies like this

directed by William Pohlad
featuring José Ferrer, James Whitmore, Jeffrey Gadbois, Caroline Kaiser, William Warfield

An aging pair of long-time friends look forward to their weekly visit in which they whittle away the hours spinning fantastic yarns about the many adventures they never had. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Hispanic Hollywood more movies like this

This video documentary looks at the history of Hispanic or Latino stars and pictures in Hollywood, focusing on the last half of the 20th century. Stars such as Jimmy Smits, Antonio Banderas, Sonia Braga, and others discuss their experiences as Hispanic actors. They reflect on prejudices and attitudes, "Latin lovers" such as Valentino, and on how ...

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Cyrano (1974) more movies like this

For its third animated-cartoon presentation, ABC Afterschool Special offers a streamlined adaptation of Edmond Rostand's romantic play Cyrano de Bergerac. The best swordsman and wittiest raconteur in all France, Cyrano de Bergerac (voiced by José Ferrer, recreating his most famous Broadway role) also has one of the largest noses known to man, and ...

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