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1. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama

7.9

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84 Metascore

Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson

Votes: 53,438 | Gross: $17.57M

2. In Cold Blood (1967)

R | 134 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

7.9

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89 Metascore

Two ex-cons murder a family in a robbery attempt, before going on the run from the authorities. The police try to piece together the details of the murder in an attempt to track down the killers.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart

Votes: 29,160

3. Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)

R | 136 min | Drama

6.7

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64 Metascore

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively extreme sexual encounters.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton

Votes: 8,505 | Gross: $16.90M

4. The Professionals (1966)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

7.3

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75 Metascore

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode

Votes: 18,848 | Gross: $19.54M

5. Key Largo (1948)

Approved | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.7

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A man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 43,993

6. The Killers (1946)

Passed | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.7

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Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker

Votes: 23,641

7. Elmer Gantry (1960)

Approved | 146 min | Drama

7.7

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A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger

Votes: 12,825 | Gross: $11.34M

8. Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Approved | 120 min | Drama, Romance

7.2

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53 Metascore

A drifter and a faded film star, both traumatized by Hollywood, arrive to the guy's hometown, where the old bitter memories revive again.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley

Votes: 8,478

9. Great Performances (1971– )

TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical

7.9

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Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.

Stars: Scott Yoo, Julie Andrews, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo

Votes: 896

10. Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Approved | 101 min | Crime, Drama

7.4

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67 Metascore

A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes

Votes: 9,887

11. Bite the Bullet (1975)

PG | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

6.6

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A pair of ex-Rough Riders, a former prostitute, a gunfighter, an aging cowboy and an English gentleman enter a 700-mile horse race through the Southwest desert in 1908.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ben Johnson

Votes: 5,870

12. The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance

6.7

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Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb

Votes: 3,056

13. Brute Force (1947)

Passed | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.6

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80 Metascore

At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo

Votes: 11,551

14. Lord Jim (1965)

Not Rated | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

6.7

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After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens, Eli Wallach

Votes: 4,263

15. The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)

Approved | 116 min | Drama, Romance

6.1

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An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed

Votes: 4,267

16. Crossfire (1947)

Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.3

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A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame

Votes: 9,708 | Gross: $1.30M

17. The Catered Affair (1956)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

7.4

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When Jane tells her parents that she is getting married to Ralph Halloran, her mother Agnes starts planning an elaborate wedding, even though Jane does not wish it.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald

Votes: 3,829

18. Wrong Is Right (1982)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

5.7

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50 Metascore

A TV reporter finds himself in the middle of an Arab leader buying two portable nukes, terrorists, arms dealer, a reporter/CIA spy killed, a US president ordering a K-I-L-L etc.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross

Votes: 2,265 | Gross: $3.38M

19. MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992)

Unrated | 360 min | Documentary

8.2

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The history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.

Stars: Patrick Stewart, Samuel Marx, Joseph, Mickey Rooney

Votes: 719

20. Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)

Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.2

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With his newspaper about to be sold, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson tries to complete an exposé on gangster Rienzi.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley

Votes: 4,105

21. Storm Warning (1950)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.2

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Marsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha witnesses the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey bring the criminals to justice.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran

Votes: 2,663

22. $ (1971)

R | 121 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

6.3

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A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob three safety deposit boxes containing $1.5 million in cash belonging to three very different criminals from a high-tech security bank in Hamburg, Germany.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber

Votes: 2,886 | Gross: $4.40M

23. Mystery Street (1950)

Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.2

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A small-town policeman is assisted by a Harvard professor after the discovery of a human skeleton on a Massachusetts beach.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 3,453

24. The Last Hunt (1956)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Western

6.8

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In 1883 South Dakota, two buffalo hunters start a personal feud over a captured squaw and a stand-off with a Dakota raiding party over some stolen horses.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Lloyd Nolan, Debra Paget

Votes: 1,808

25. The Happy Ending (1969)

R | 117 min | Drama

6.3

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A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges

Votes: 1,258

26. Omnibus (1967–2003)

Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

7.3

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Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.

Stars: Humphrey Burton, Kirsty Wark, David Collings, Michael Hordern

Votes: 293

27. Crisis (1950)

Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

6.7

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While on vacation in a Latin American country, an American neurosurgeon and his wife become tangled in a revolutionary uprising against a tyrannical dictator.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond, Signe Hasso

Votes: 1,926

28. Cobra Woman (1944)

Approved | 71 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

5.7

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A beautiful woman is abducted from her peaceful South Seas home and taken to Cobra Island, where her grandmother Queen wants her to displace her evil twin sister and vengeance against her priest and corrupt advisor.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Edgar Barrier

Votes: 1,266

29. Fever Pitch (1985)

R | 96 min | Drama, Mystery

4.1

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25 Metascore

An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry - professional gambling.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Catherine Hicks, Giancarlo Giannini, Bridgette Andersen

Votes: 349 | Gross: $0.62M

30. Something of Value (1957)

Approved | 113 min | Drama, War

6.5

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In British Colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, Peter and Kimani, who grew up together, find themselves on the opposite sides.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez

Votes: 1,307

31. Battle Circus (1953)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War

5.9

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Set in Korea and made during the war, this is the love story of a hard-bitten Army surgeon, and a new nurse ready to save the world.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Keenan Wynn, Robert Keith

Votes: 1,663

32. Take the High Ground! (1953)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, War

6.0

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In 1953, at Fort Bliss, Texas, two former Korean War combat veterans work as drill sergeants and fall in love with the same woman.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Elaine Stewart, Carleton Carpenter

Votes: 1,110

33. The David Frost Show (1969–1972)

90 min | Talk-Show

7.3

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American show featuring the popular British talk show host.

Stars: David Frost, Gerri Granger, Tiny Tim, Dana Valery

Votes: 248

34. Cannes Film Festival (1952– )

News

6.9

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A festival for international movies, which give each year the Palme d'Or.

Stars: Bjorn Jiskoot Jr., Isabelle Huppert, Pedro Almodóvar, Kristin Scott Thomas

Votes: 118

35. The Light Touch (1951)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama

5.9

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After a professional art thief steals a religious painting from an Italian museum, he tries to cheat his partner by claiming the painting was accidentally destroyed but his suspicious partner and the police are determined to find it.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, George Sanders, Kurt Kasznar

Votes: 503

36. MGM Parade (1955–1956)

30 min | Documentary

6.6

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The original concept of the show was to allow the viewer to see the inner workings of a movie studio and featured interviews with MGM stars and explanations of how movies were made. Later, ... See full summary »

Stars: George Murphy, Walter Pidgeon, Janet Lake, Luana Lee

Votes: 112

37. Any Number Can Play (1949)

Approved | 112 min | Drama, Romance

6.9

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Gambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey, Audrey Totter

Votes: 1,148

38. AFI Life Achievement Award (1973– )

Documentary

5.5

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The Award is the highest honor for a career in film and celebrates an individual whose career has greatly contributed to the enrichment of American culture.

Stars: Carole Bayer Sager, George Stevens Jr., Jack Nicholson, Gregory Peck

Votes: 50