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The Fourth War (1990)
5.7/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Jurgen Prochnow, Roy Scheider, Tim Reid, Lara Harris
Posted on each side of the Czech-West German border, US colonel Jack Knowles (Roy Scheider) and his Soviet counterpart Colonel Valachev (Jurgen Prochn... Read more
The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
5.7/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Anthony Andrews, Michael Caine, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer, Mario Adorf, Mic...
Noel Holcroft (Michael Caine) is a New York architect who receives an unexpected inheritance from his ex-Nazi father; $40 billion in funds stolen from... Read more
The Young Savages (1961)
6.9/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters, Edward Andrews
Burt Lancaster gives a forceful performance as a prosecutor whose search for the truth puts his career in jeopardy in this tough, hard-hitting expose... Read more
The Train (1964)
7.9/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
A gripping high powered action film about the French Resistance trying to waylay a train taking French Art treasures to Germany. Read more
Grand Prix (1966)
7.2/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Eva Marie Saint, James Garner, Jessica Walter, Toshiro Mifune, Yves Montand, Bri...
Incredible racing sequences highlight this Oscar-winning lightning-fast drama about the on-, and off-track rivalries of the Grand Prix drivers. With... Read more
French Connection II (1975)
7.6/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Bernard Fresson, Fernando Rey, Gene Hackman, Cathleen Nesbitt
'French Connection II' (1975, 119 mins) - While tracking down a drug lord in Marseilles, "Popeye" Doyle (Hackman reprising his Oscar-winning role) is... Read more
Dead Bang (1989)
6.1/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe, Bob Balaban, Tim Reid
L.A. detective Jerry Beck (Don Johnson) must buck his superiors as he investigates the killing of a fellow officer and a shopkeeper, leading to a life... Read more
The Island of Dr Moreau (1996)
4.4/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Temuera Morrison
This remake of the classic H. G. Wells story stars Marlon Brando as the not-so-good doctor, whose experiments with genetics have resulted in horrific... Read more
Reindeer Games (2000)
5.7/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, Dennis Farina, Clarence Williams III
Newly released from prison, car thief Ben Affleck assumes his cellmate's identity so he can be with the dead man's pen-pal girlfriend, Charlize Theron... Read more
The Iceman Cometh (1973)
7.4/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Bradford Dillman
In the faded light of Harry Hope's 1912 New York skid row bar, a rag tag group of fallen men, each like a ghost haunting the wreckage of his own life,... Read more
Ronin ( Blu-ray ) (1998)
7.3/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgard, Jonathan Pryce,...
Robert De Niro plays a freelance secret agent hired along with some international hitmen by an Irish terrorist to retrieve a mysterious briefcase. The... Read more
Andersonville (1995)
7.5/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux, Cliff De Young
This harrowing Civil War drama focuses on the inhumane conditions suffered by prisoners of war at the confederate Andersonville compound. Powerful, ha... Read more
Seconds (1966)
7.7/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer
Rock Hudson is a revelation in this sinister, science-fiction-inflected dispatch from the fractured 1960s. "Seconds", directed by John Frankenheimer,... Read more
Year of the Gun (1991)
5.7/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone, John Pankow
The master of the political thriller, John Frankenheimer ("The Manchurian Candidate"), has done it again - this time focusing his astute lens on Rome... Read more
The Train (Blu-ray) (1964)
7.8/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
A gripping high powered action film about the French Resistance trying to waylay a train taking French Art treasures to Germany. Read more
52 Pick-Up (1986)
6.4/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret , Vanity , John Glover, Clarence Williams III
Elmore Leonard's best-selling novel makes for an exciting screen thriller. Roy Scheider plays a successful businessman who takes on a group of blackma... Read more
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
7.8/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand
Burt Lancaster beautifully assumes the real-life role of Robert Stroud, a world-hating convict sentenced to life in prison who becomes an authority on... Read more
Black Sunday (1977)
6.8/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver
An international terrorist organisation plots to blow up the Super Bowl and enlists the aid of a former Vietnam P.O.W. Bruce Dern, at his unhinged bes... Read more
Ronin (1998)
7.3/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgard, Jonathan Pryce,...
Robert De Niro plays a freelance secret agent hired along with some international hitmen by an Irish terrorist to retrieve a mysterious briefcase. The... Read more
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
8/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Frank Sinatra, Henry Silva, Janet Leigh, Laurence Harvey
One of the finest political thrillers ever made. John Frankenheimer's blend of Cold War paranoia and sly satire stars Laurence Harvey as a former Kore... Read more
The Horsemen (1970)
6.7/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance
Omar Sharif stars in this exciting action-drama set in the majestic Afghan mountains where Bozkeshi, one of the roughest sports in the world, is more... Read more
Prophecy (1979)
5.4/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Armand Assante, Richard Dysart, Robert Foxworth, Talia Shire, Victoria Racimo
Robert Foxworth and Talia Shire star as a doctor and his wife, who, at the request of a concerned friend, travel to Maine to research the impact of th... Read more
Seconds (Blu-Ray) (1966)
7.7/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: John Randolph, Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, Will Geer
Rock Hudson is a revelation in this sinister, science-fiction-inflected dispatch from the fractured 1960s. "Seconds", directed by John Frankenheimer,... Read more
The Manchurian Candidate (Blu-ray) (1962)
7.9/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Frank Sinatra, Henry Silva, Janet Leigh, Laurence Harvey
One of the finest political thrillers ever made. John Frankenheimer's blend of Cold War paranoia and sly satire stars Laurence Harvey as a former Kore... Read more
The French Connection / French Connection II ( Blu-ray ) (1971)
Director: John Frankenheimer, William Friedkin
Starring: Bernard Fresson, Fernando Rey, Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marce...
'The French Connection' (1971, 103 mins) - New York City detectives "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) hope to break a narco... Read more
Burt Lancaster: Local Hero / The Flame and the Arrow / Executive Action / Seven Days in May (1950)
5.5/10
Director: Bill Forsyth, David Miller, Jacques Tourneur, John Frankenheimer
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, Kirk Douglas, Peter Riegert, Robert Ryan, Virgini...
Burt Lancaster Box Set. 'Local Hero' (1983) - Burt Lancaster and Peter Riegert star in the wonderfully whimsical comedy of an oil company's planned bu... Read more