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Richard Fleischer Filmography
Complete filmography of Richard Fleischer: 36 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Million Dollar Mystery | 1,987 | Comedy, Thriller | 4.7 | 13 | English | A dying man in a roadside diner tells the other patrons about money he has hidden in four places. But instead of directions, he leaves them only with clues they must solve in order to claim the loot. Released with a promotional tie-in for Glad-Lock brand bags. |
| Red Sonja | 1,985 | Adventure, Fantasy, Action | 5.4 | 918 | English | The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills the keeper of a talisman that gives her great power. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren. |
| Conan the Destroyer | 1,984 | Adventure, Fantasy, Action | 6.1 | 1,615 | English | Conan is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis to safely escort a teen princess and her powerful bodyguard to a far away castle to retrieve the magic Horn of Dagoth. Unknown to Conan, the queen plans to sacrifice the princess when she returns and inherit her kingdom after the bodyguard kills Conan. The queen's plans fail to take into consideration Conan's strength and cunning and the abilities of his sidekicks: the eccentric wizard Akiro, the warrior woman Zula, and the inept Malak. Together the hero and his allies must defeat both mortal and supernatural foes in this voyage to sword-and-sorcery land. |
| Amityville 3-D | 1,983 | Horror | 4.6 | 244 | English | To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel. |
| The Jazz Singer | 1,980 | Drama, Music, Romance | 5.9 | 70 | English | A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. |
| Ashanti | 1,979 | Adventure, Drama | 5.7 | 46 | English | Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task. |
| The Prince and the Pauper | 1,977 | Drama, Adventure | 5.9 | 57 | English | Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide to play a joke on the court by dressing in each other's clothes, but the plan goes awry when they're separated and each must live the other's life. |
| Mandingo | 1,975 | Romance, Drama, History | 6.6 | 146 | English | Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. He also buys his father a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and train as a prize-fighter. |
| Mr. Majestyk | 1,974 | Action, Crime | 6.8 | 199 | English | A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him. |
| The Spikes Gang | 1,974 | Western, Action | 6.6 | 40 | English | Three teenage farm boys stumble upon Harry Spikes, a local bandit wounded in a gun battle. While Harry is recuperating, he regales the young men with stories of his exciting past. The adventurous tales inspire them to start a gang of their own. Failing at their first attempt to rob a bank, the boys convince the gruff Spikes to teach them the ways of the desperado. |
| Soylent Green | 1,973 | Science Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery | 6.9 | 1,381 | English | In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green. |
| The Don Is Dead | 1,973 | Crime, Drama | 5.8 | 30 | English | After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues. |
| The New Centurions | 1,972 | Crime, Drama, Action | 6.6 | 73 | English | An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life. |
| 10 Rillington Place | 1,971 | Crime, Thriller | 7.3 | 210 | English | The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans. |
| See No Evil | 1,971 | Thriller, Horror | 6.5 | 129 | English | In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton, recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them. |
| The Last Run | 1,971 | Crime, Thriller | 6.4 | 34 | English | A former mob getaway driver from Chicago has retired to a peaceful life in a Portuguese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job - to drive a dangerous crook and his girlfriend to France. |
| Che! | 1,969 | Drama, Adventure | 4.9 | 25 | English | Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually resulting in the overthrow of that government and Castro's taking over of Cuba. The film covers Guevara's life from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in an ambush by government troops in the mountains of Bolivia in 1967. |
| The Boston Strangler | 1,968 | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 6.7 | 243 | English | Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon. |
| Doctor Dolittle | 1,967 | Music, Family, Comedy, Fantasy | 6.2 | 194 | English | A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail. |
| Fantastic Voyage | 1,966 | Science Fiction, Adventure | 6.7 | 475 | English | In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream. |
| Barabbas | 1,961 | History, Drama, Adventure | 6.9 | 170 | English | Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place. |
| Compulsion | 1,959 | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.1 | 159 | English | Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene. |
| These Thousand Hills | 1,959 | Drama, Western | 6.4 | 20 | English | A cowboy tries for easy money with his partner, then tries ranching with a saloon hostess's money. |
| The Vikings | 1,958 | Adventure, History, Action | 7 | 353 | English | Einar, brutal son of the viking Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with clever slave Eric, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden. |
| Between Heaven and Hell | 1,956 | War, Drama | 6.1 | 33 | English | Sam Gifford remembers : In prewar years he was an arrogant southern cotton plantation owner, married to the daughter of a colonel. At the beginning of the war he was mobilized with his National Guard unit as a sergeant. Came the day when, revolted by the cowardice of his lieutenant, who had fired at his own men, he hit him. Downgraded, he was sent to a disciplinary battalion. Sam now discovers his new detachment, his new commanding officer, just another cowardly brute, Captain Waco Grimes. While in combat, Sam will gradually become closer to the privates, working-class people he used to despise. He will become another man, a better man. |
| Bandido! | 1,956 | Action, Western | 5.7 | 20 | English | American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the "regulares" in the 1916 Mexican revolution. American mercenary Wilson favors the rebel faction headed by Escobar, and they plot to hijack Kennedy's arms; but Wilson also has his eye on Kennedy's wife. Raids, counter-raids, and escapes follow in a veritable hail of bullets. |
| Violent Saturday | 1,955 | Drama, Crime | 6.8 | 76 | English | Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly. |
| The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing | 1,955 | Drama, Romance | 6 | 28 | English | Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White and the wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw. Nesbit marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. A fictionalized account of true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century. |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | 1,954 | Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy | 7.1 | 960 | English | A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo. |
| The Narrow Margin | 1,952 | Thriller, Crime | 7.3 | 162 | English | A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles. |
| The Happy Time | 1,952 | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 | 13 | English | A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa. |
| Armored Car Robbery | 1,950 | Thriller, Crime, Action | 6.5 | 67 | English | While executing an armored car heist in Los Angeles, icy crook Dave Purvis shoots policeman Lt. Phillips before he and his cronies make off with the loot. Thinking he got away scot-free, Purvis collects his money-crazy mistress, Yvonne, then disposes of his partners and heads out of town. What Purvis doesn't know is that Phillips' partner, tough-as-nails Lt. Cordell, is wise to the criminal's plans and is closing in on his prey. |
| Follow Me Quietly | 1,949 | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 | 33 | English | When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at night, leaving behind clues, but police efforts have been fruitless. Constructing a life-size dummy of the murderer, police Lt. Harry Grant is growing obsessed with capturing him, and always following Grant is the relentless reporter Ann Gorman looking to break the story, but the hunt continues. |
| Trapped | 1,949 | Crime, Thriller, Mystery | 5.9 | 31 | English | Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them. |
| The Clay Pigeon | 1,949 | Thriller, Crime | 5.5 | 20 | English | Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from the hospital he tries to clear himself by enlisting the aid of Martha Gregory, widow of a service buddy he was accused of informing on. Helped also by Ted Niles, a surviving fellow prisoner, he gets closer to finding the answers he needs, and becomes ensnared in a grandiose scheme involving his Japanese ex-prison guard, $10,000,000 of US currency forged by the Japanese and a burgeoning crime network poised to wreak havoc throughout southern California. |
| Bodyguard | 1,948 | Thriller, Crime | 6 | 27 | English | A cop on suspension is framed for murder when he noses in on a murder investigation. |
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