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12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men (1957) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring John Fiedler, Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Sr., E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Robert Webber

A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury room, having been admonished that the defendant is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Eleven of the jurors vote for conviction, each for reasons of his own. The sole holdout is Juror #8, played by Henry ...

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Psycho

Psycho (1960) more movies like this

directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in a cheap hotel (hardly ...

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) more movies like this

directed by Blake Edwards
featuring Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney

In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives alone in a nearly bare apartment. She has such a flippant lifestyle that she won't even give her cat a name, because that would be too much of a commitment to a relationship. Maintaining a childlike ...

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Little Big Man

Little Big Man (1970) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Penn
featuring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Chief Dan George

Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of Thomas Berger's satirical novel was a comic yet stinging allegory about the bloody results of American imperialism. As a misguided 20th-century historian listens, 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) narrates the story ...

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Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda
featuring Martin Balsam, So Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall

This 25-million dollar epic collaboration accurately recreates the events that led to the Japanese attack on the American naval base during World War II. With Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the wheels are set in motion by Japan to plan the attack. After internal differences in the government, the Japanese quickly mobilize plans ...

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Catch-22

Catch-22 (1970) more movies like this

directed by Mike Nichols
featuring Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Jon Voight

Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing missions, but publicity-obsessed commander Colonel ...

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All the President's Men

All the President's Men (1976) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Jr.

Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex, green Washington Post ...

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Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1974) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Vanessa Redgrave

Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie, everyone on board the Orient Express seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett (Richard Widmark) was behind the abduction and murder of the infant daughter of a famed aviatrix. ...

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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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The Bedford Incident

The Bedford Incident (1965) more movies like this

directed by James B. Harris
featuring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox, Donald Sutherland

The Bedford Incident was an attempt by Columbia Pictures -- which had previously made Dr. Strangelove and released Fail-Safe -- to tap the well of public anxiety surrounding nuclear weapons and the Cold War one more time. Reporter Ben Munceford (Sidney Poitier) is allowed aboard a navy ship on patrol near the Arctic Circle, under the command of ...

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Cape Fear

Cape Fear (1962) more movies like this

directed by J. Lee Thompson
featuring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam

After an eight-year prison term for rape and assault, Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) is set free. Immediately making a beeline to Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck), the former prosecutor responsible for Cady's conviction, Cady laconically informs Sam that he intends to "pay back" the attorney for his years behind bars. Conducting a meticulous campaign of ...

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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Sargent
featuring Maria Landa, Thomas LaFleur, William Snickowski, Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman

On a quiet midday in New York, along the Lexington Avenue subway line, the train designated "Pelham One Two Three" -- so named for its station of origin and time of departure -- makes its way down the East Side of Manhattan. One by one, three men board the train, and at 28th Street, a fourth man approaches the motorman (James Broderick) and points ...

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Raid on Entebbe (1977) more movies like this

directed by Irvin Kershner
featuring Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Jack Warden

Raid on Entebbe constitutes one of two all-star made-for-TV reenactments of the Entebbe rescue of July 4, 1976. On June 27, 1976, a jet carrying an international mix of passengers is hijacked by pro-Palestinian revolutionaries. The plane lands in Entebbe, Uganda, where President-for-life Idi Amin (Yaphet Kotto) struts about feigning concern, ...

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The Delta Force (1986) more movies like this

directed by Menahem Golan
featuring Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Forster

Menahem Golan melds a Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in The Delta Force. The story is based upon the June, 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet, where passengers were held at gun-point by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. The film re-enacts various real life incidents from the crisis -- an American serviceman is beaten to death, a ...

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Death Wish 3 (1985) more movies like this

directed by Michael Winner
featuring Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam, Gavan O'Herlihy

Michael Winner ups the ante once again in Death Wish 3. Any pretense of Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) having a career in architecture is completely gone. Kersey's new career appears to be as a professional vigilante, blowing away muggers, rapists and thieves off the mean streets -- or as he terms it "thinning the herd." Back in New York City, ...

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Two-Minute Warning (1976) more movies like this

directed by Larry Peerce
featuring Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Marilyn Hassett

Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper picks off a cyclist for practice and then takes roost in the top tower of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Sent in to stop the terror is Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston), who wants to get his hands on the sniper ...

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The Silence of the Hams (1994) more movies like this

directed by Ezio Greggio, Raffaello Jacomelli
featuring Dom DeLuise, Ezio Greggio, Billy Zane, Joanna Pacula, Charlene Tilton, Martin Balsam

In the tradition of Mel Brooks, this Italian comedy offers an episodic parody of classic thrillers and horror movies. Film includes cameos from several stars including Mel Brooks, John Astin, Larry Storch, Phyllis Diller, John Carpenter, and John Landis. The story begins as director Ezio Greggio is being stabbed ala Psycho in his shower. Before he ...

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Bad Cop Chronicles #1: Confessions of a Police Captain (1971) more movies like this

directed by Damiano Damiani
featuring Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo

A mild-mannered police commissioner (Martin Balsam) is frustrated at every attempt to capture a political crimelord with legal means, so he is forced to turn to vigilante justice to get his man. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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The Goodbye People (1983) more movies like this

directed by Herb Gardner
featuring Judd Hirsch, Martin Balsam, Pamela Reed, Ron Silver, Michael Tucker

Playwright Herb Gardner's patented combination of cynicism and sentimentality that worked so well in his A Thousand Clowns didn't quite jell in his subsequent The Goodbye People. This film version, adapted and directed by Gardner, stars Martin Balsam, who'd won an Oscar for his work in the 1966 cinemazation of Thousand Clowns. Based on Gardner's ...

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Mitchell (1975) more movies like this

directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
featuring Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Linda Evans

A tough-guy cop (Joe Don Baker) pursues two drug runners (Martin Balsam, John Saxon) across the city to bust a large syndicate. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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A Thousand Clowns (1965) more movies like this

directed by Fred Coe
featuring Jason Robards, Jr., Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, Gene Saks, William Daniels

Jason Robards Jr. superbly re-creates his Broadway role in this 1965 film version of Herb Gardner's play. Robards plays Murray Burns, head writer of TV's popular Chuckles the Chipmunk show. Fed up with the rat race, Murray quits his job and retreats to his cluttered Manhattan apartment, where he carries on a nonconformist, laissez-faire existence ...

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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969) more movies like this

directed by Burt Kennedy
featuring Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, David Carradine, Martin Balsam, Tina Louise

In this comic western, Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is a veteran marshal forced to retire by the pompous Mayor Wilker (Martin Balsam). McKay (George Kennedy) is a wily gunslinger. The two combine forces to stop a young band of outlaws from robbing the train when it pulls into the station. Flagg warns the mayor of the upcoming attempt but is not taken ...

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The Salamander (1981) more movies like this

directed by Peter Zinner
featuring Anthony Quinn, Martin Balsam, Sybil Danning

Dante Matucci (Franco Nero), a counter-intelligence officer, uncovers a fascist plot to overthrow the Italian government, and as he begins to investigate, he has an ally in Bruno Manzini (Anthony Quinn), a man dedicated to hunting down war criminals. Bruno and other operatives, including the beautiful and frosty Lili Anders (Sybil Danning) report ...

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There Goes the Bride (1980) more movies like this

directed by Terence Marcel
featuring Tom Smothers, Twiggy, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Syms

Retrograde even at the time of its 1980 release, this filmed version of the mid-'70s play by the same title stars Tom Smothers as Timothy Westerby, the bumbling father of the bride, and his imaginary dance partner, Polly (Twiggy). Events of the chaotic wedding day are told in flashback as Westerby is shown sweating over an advertising assignment ...

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The People vs. Jean Harris (1981) more movies like this

directed by George Schaefer
featuring Ellen Burstyn, Martin Balsam, Richard Dysart, Peter Coyote, Priscilla Morrill

The videotaped TV movie The People vs. Jean Harris premiered May 7, 1981-five weeks after the outcome of Jean Harris' trial. Ellen Burstyn plays Jean, the 57-year old headmistress of a Virginia girl's school. Jean was also the longtime lover of Scarsdale Diet author Dr. Herman Tarnower. On March 10, 1980, Jean was arrested for the murder of Dr. ...

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