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José Ferrer

José Ferrer (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), was a Puerto Rican actor and director. He was the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award. more

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Lawrence of Arabia
(1962)
Adventure, Drama, History, War
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
Runtime:
227 min
Director:
David Lean
Cast:
Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jack Hawkins
8.3
94%
100
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Dune
(1984)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
In the year 10,191, the world is at war for control of the desert planet Arrakis—the only place where the space-travel substance Melange 'Spice' can be found. But when one leader gives up control, it's only so he can stage a coup with some unsavory characters.
Runtime:
137 min
Director:
David Lynch
Cast:
Kyle MacLachlan, Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino, Brad Dourif
6.4
43%
41
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The Caine Mutiny
(1954)
Drama, War
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
Runtime:
124 min
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Cast:
Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray
7.7
92%
63
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
(1982)
Comedy, Romance
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Woody Allen
Cast:
Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts, Mary Steenburgen
6.6
74%
51
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To Be or Not to Be
(1983)
Comedy
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan...
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Alan Johnson
Cast:
Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, Estelle Reiner
6.8
60%
61
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
(1965)
Drama, History
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas af...
Runtime:
199 min
Director:
George Stevens
Cast:
Max von Sydow, Michael Anderson Jr., Carroll Baker, Ina Balin, Victor Buono
6.6
43%
N/A
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The Sentinel
(1977)
Drama, Horror, Mystery
A commitment-shy New York fashion model moves into an old brownstone apartment, meets her weird neighbours and discovers she’s sitting on the gateway to Hell.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Michael Winner
Cast:
Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, José Ferrer, Burgess Meredith
6.4
50%
19
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Moulin Rouge
(1952)
Drama, Music
Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
John Huston
Cast:
José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Claude Nollier, Katherine Kath
7.1
73%
N/A
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The Little Drummer Boy
(1968)
Animation, Family, TV Movie
After being kidnapped and escaping, a young drummer boy searches for his camel and finds him in the Nativity of the Baby Jesus. He gives Baby Jesus the only gift he has; a song on his drum, said song being the only gift Baby Jesus responds to.
Runtime:
25 min
Director:
Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Cast:
Ted Eccles, Ted Eccles, José Ferrer, José Ferrer, Paul Frees
7.0
75%
N/A
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Ship of Fools
(1965)
Drama, Romance, War
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who...
Runtime:
149 min
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Cast:
Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner
7.2
81%
N/A
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Cyrano de Bergerac
(1950)
Adventure, Drama, Romance
France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Michael Gordon
Cast:
José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky, Ralph Clanton
7.5
83%
N/A
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Whirlpool
(1950)
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Otto Preminger
Cast:
Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Barbara O'Neil
6.9
90%
N/A
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The Big Brawl
(1980)
Action, Comedy
A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Robert Clouse
Cast:
Jackie Chan, José Ferrer, Kristine DeBell, Mako, Ron Max
5.8
67%
N/A
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Fedora
(1978)
Drama, Romance
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Billy Wilder
Cast:
William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, José Ferrer, Frances Sternhagen
6.9
73%
N/A
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Joan of Arc
(1948)
Drama, History, War
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, fo...
Runtime:
145 min
Director:
Victor Fleming
Cast:
Ingrid Bergman, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, Ward Bond, Shepperd Strudwick
6.5
N/A
N/A
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The Evil That Men Do
(1984)
Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist behind the political torture of innocent victims. Posing as a journalist, Holland lures Mollo...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
J. Lee Thompson
Cast:
Charles Bronson, José Ferrer, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, René Enríquez
6.0
N/A
N/A
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The Big Bus
(1976)
Action, Comedy
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
James Frawley
Cast:
Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, René Auberjonois, Ned Beatty
5.6
64%
N/A
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Bloody Birthday
(1981)
Horror, Science Fiction
In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto t...
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Ed Hunt
Cast:
Lori Lethin, Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown, Susan Strasberg, José Ferrer
5.7
N/A
N/A
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The Cockleshell Heroes
(1955)
War
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
José Ferrer
Cast:
Trevor Howard, José Ferrer, Anthony Newley, Victor Maddern, Percy Herbert
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Crisis
(1950)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Richard Brooks
Cast:
Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond, Signe Hasso, Ramon Novarro
6.7
67%
N/A
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Gideon's Trumpet
(1980)
Crime, Drama, History, TV Movie
True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Robert L. Collins
Cast:
Henry Fonda, José Ferrer, John Houseman, Fay Wray, Sam Jaffe
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Miss Sadie Thompson
(1953)
Drama, Music, Romance
Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Cast:
Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray, Russell Collins, Diosa Costello
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Peter and Paul
(1981)
Drama, History, TV Movie
Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal conflicts.
Runtime:
198 min
Director:
Robert Day
Cast:
Anthony Hopkins, Robert Foxworth, Eddie Albert, Jon Finch, Raymond Burr
7.7
N/A
N/A
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Deep in My Heart
(1954)
Comedy, Drama, Music
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
Runtime:
132 min
Director:
Stanley Donen
Cast:
José Ferrer, Merle Oberon, Helen Traubel, Doe Avedon, Walter Pidgeon
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Confeso Por Coaccion
(1973)
7.9
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N/A
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Nine Hours to Rama
(1963)
Drama, History
José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
Mark Robson
Cast:
Valerie Gearon, Don Borisenko, Diane Baker, Harry Andrews, Horst Buchholz
6.6
80%
N/A
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The Swarm
(1978)
Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Irwin Allen
Cast:
Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland
4.4
13%
N/A
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George Washington
(1984)
History, TV Movie
The early life and career of the American General and President through his participation in the Revolutionary War.
Runtime:
480 min
7.8
N/A
N/A
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I Accuse!
(1958)
Drama, History
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the milita...
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
José Ferrer
Cast:
José Ferrer, Viveca Lindfors, Emlyn Williams, Anton Walbrook, Leo Genn
7.2
N/A
N/A
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
(1977)
Drama, History
The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now you can see how he used it.
Runtime:
112 min
6.4
N/A
N/A
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The Fifth Musketeer
(1979)
Action, History
King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king wants to increase his popularity and stages an assassination against himself where Philippe is dressed as king Louis. But Philippe manages to escape the assassination and everybody believ...
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Ken Annakin
Cast:
Beau Bridges, Ursula Andress, Sylvia Kristel, Olivia de Havilland, Ian McShane
5.3
N/A
N/A
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Enter Laughing
(1967)
Comedy, Romance
David Kolowitz, a nice young man living with his parents in New York City in 1938, works at a machine repair shop. His parents want David to study to become a pharmacist. But what he really wants is to be an actor like his idol, Ronald Colman. One day, at his friend Marvin's suggestion, David tries out for a part in a play, and gets it...
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Carl Reiner
Cast:
José Ferrer, Shelley Winters, Elaine May, Jack Gilford, Janet Margolin
6.5
50%
N/A
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Berlin Tunnel 21
(1981)
Action, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Romance, Thriller
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
Runtime:
142 min
Director:
Richard Michaels
Cast:
Robert Freitag, Horst Buchholz, Jacques Breuer, Richard Thomas, José Ferrer
6.9
N/A
N/A
The Great Man
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The Great Man
(1956)
Drama
Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
José Ferrer
Cast:
José Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Julie London
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Hired to Kill
(1990)
Action, Thriller
A fashion photographer and seven models travel to a South American island fortress, ostensibly to do a fashion shoot. In reality, the photographer is a mercenary and their job is to free an imprisoned rebel leader
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Nico Mastorakis
Cast:
Brian Thompson, Oliver Reed, George Kennedy, José Ferrer, Michelle Moffett
5.1
N/A
N/A
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Evita Peron
(1981)
Drama, TV Movie
Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall.
Runtime:
200 min
Director:
Marvin J. Chomsky
Cast:
Faye Dunaway, James Farentino, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Michael Constantine, Katy Jurado
6.3
N/A
N/A
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Blood & Orchids
(1986)
Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mot...
Runtime:
240 min
Director:
Jerry Thorpe
Cast:
Kris Kristofferson, Jane Alexander, Sean Young, José Ferrer, Susan Blakely
6.8
N/A
N/A
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3-D Rarities
(2015)
Documentary
Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World’s Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Stardust in...
Runtime:
145 min
Director:
Izzy Sparber, Seymour Kneitel, Paul Sprunck, Phil Tucker, Jacob Leventhal, Wiliam T. Crespinel
Cast:
Daws Butler, Stan Freberg, Richard Carlson, Macdonald Carey, Joanne Dru
8.1
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N/A
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Blood Feud
(1983)
Crime, Drama, TV Movie
Made for TV movie about Bobby Kennedy's campaign to bring Jimmy Hoffa to justice.
Runtime:
193 min
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Cyrano and d'Artagnan
(1964)
Adventure
Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.
Runtime:
145 min
Director:
Abel Gance
Cast:
José Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sylva Koscina, Daliah Lavi, Rafael Rivelles
6.6
N/A
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