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The Dirty Dozen

(1967)

Action, Adventure, War

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.

Runtime:

150 min

Director:

Robert Aldrich

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Donald Sutherland

7.7

80%

73

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Kelly's Heroes

(1970)

Adventure, Comedy, War

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.

Runtime:

144 min

Director:

Brian G. Hutton

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland

7.6

78%

50

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The Muppet Movie

(1979)

Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music

A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

Runtime:

97 min

Director:

James Frawley

Cast:

Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Jerry Nelson

7.6

88%

74

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service

(1969)

Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.

Runtime:

142 min

Director:

Peter R. Hunt

Cast:

George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Ilse Steppat

6.7

81%

61

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Cape Fear

(1962)

Drama, Thriller

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

J. Lee Thompson

Cast:

Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam

7.7

96%

76

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Birdman of Alcatraz

(1962)

Crime, Drama

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to ...

Runtime:

147 min

Director:

John Frankenheimer

Cast:

Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand, Betty Field

7.8

91%

76

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Capricorn One

(1977)

Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of scientists stages a phony Mars landing. Willingly participating in the deception are a trio of well-meaning astronauts, who become liabilities when their space capsule is reported lost on re-entry. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a ...

Runtime:

123 min

Director:

Peter Hyams

Cast:

Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson

6.9

62%

38

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Battle of the Bulge

(1965)

Drama, History, War

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.

Runtime:

167 min

Director:

Ken Annakin

Cast:

Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, George Montgomery

6.8

57%

N/A

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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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Mackenna's Gold

(1969)

Action, Adventure, Western

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

Runtime:

128 min

Director:

J. Lee Thompson

Cast:

Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Camilla Sparv, Julie Newmar, Telly Savalas

6.7

20%

N/A

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Horror Express

(1972)

Horror

Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Eugenio Martín

Cast:

Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, Silvia Tortosa, Julio Peña

6.5

57%

N/A

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Cannonball Run II

(1984)

Action, Comedy

The original characters from the first Cannonball Run movie compete in an illegal race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.

Runtime:

108 min

Director:

Hal Needham

Cast:

Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Shirley MacLaine

5.1

13%

13

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Lisa and the Devil

(1973)

Fantasy, Horror

Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception, debauchery and evil presided over by housekeeper Leandre.

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

Mario Bava, Alfredo Leone

Cast:

Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Alessio Orano, Gabriele Tinti

6.4

62%

N/A

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Alice in Wonderland

(1985)

Family, Fantasy

Classic tale of a girl named Alice who follows a white rabbit down a hole into Wonderland, where she can change sizes by eating and drinking and animals talk. After escaping the disturbing Queen of Hearts, she finds that she has ended up on the other side of the looking glass in Looking Glass Land and a Jabberwocky after her.

Runtime:

187 min

Director:

Harry Harris

Cast:

Natalie Gregory, Sheila Allen, Sharee Gregory, Red Buttons, Sherman Hemsley

7.4

N/A

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The Scalphunters

(1968)

Comedy, Western

Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raid...

Runtime:

102 min

Director:

Sydney Pollack

Cast:

Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas, Ossie Davis, Dabney Coleman

6.8

70%

N/A

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Escape to Athena

(1979)

Adventure, Comedy, War

During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.

Runtime:

125 min

Director:

George P. Cosmatos

Cast:

Роджер Мур, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Stefanie Powers, Claudia Cardinale

5.7

N/A

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The Assassination Bureau

(1969)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into question by her. She puts out a contract for the Bureau to assassinate its leader on the eve of World War I.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

Basil Dearden

Cast:

Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret

6.8

67%

N/A

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Violent City

(1970)

Action, Crime, Thriller

A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.

Runtime:

103 min

Director:

Sergio Sollima

Cast:

Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland, Michel Constantin, Umberto Orsini

6.5

N/A

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The Slender Thread

(1965)

Drama

Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she...

Runtime:

98 min

Director:

Sydney Pollack

Cast:

Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Steven Hill, Ed Asner

7.1

N/A

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The Young Savages

(1961)

Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.

Runtime:

103 min

7.0

50%

N/A

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Genghis Khan

(1965)

History

This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East.

Runtime:

127 min

Director:

Henry Levin

Cast:

Omar Sharif, Françoise Dorléac, Stephen Boyd, James Mason, Eli Wallach

5.9

N/A

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Pretty Maids All in a Row

(1971)

Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile, a married teacher hides his flings with nubile students, and an awkward male is frustrated by the plethora of uninhibited freewheeling young girls.

Runtime:

91 min

Director:

Roger Vadim

Cast:

Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas, John David Carson, Roddy McDowall

6.2

11%

N/A

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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

(1968)

Comedy, Romance

Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment from three former soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of her daughter, Gia.

Runtime:

108 min

Director:

Melvin Frank

Cast:

Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas

6.8

N/A

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A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

(1972)

Western

A dishonored Union Army officer (James Coburn) leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.

Runtime:

92 min

Director:

Tonino Valerii

Cast:

Telly Savalas, James Coburn, Bud Spencer, José Suárez, Reinhard Kolldehoff

6.2

N/A

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Faceless

(1987)

Horror

A model named Barbara Hallen has disappeared and her father gets private detective Sam Morgan to go to Paris to find his daughter. Barbara's trail leads Morgan to a plastic surgery clinic owned by Dr. Flamand. Morgan's investigation reveals the horrifying secret behind the Doctor's miracle cures which is blood and organs taken from kid...

Runtime:

98 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Helmut Berger, Telly Savalas, Christopher Mitchum, Stéphane Audran

6.1

N/A

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Johnny Cool

(1963)

Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.

Runtime:

103 min

Director:

William Asher

Cast:

Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Richard Anderson, Jim Backus, Joey Bishop

6.5

N/A

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Confeso Por Coaccion

(1973)

7.9

N/A

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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

(1979)

Action, Adventure, Drama

After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.

Runtime:

114 min

Director:

Irwin Allen

Cast:

Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden

4.5

N/A

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The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

(1987)

Action, Adventure, TV Movie, War

Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made.

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Lee H. Katzin

Cast:

Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Vince Edwards, Bo Svenson, Vince Van Patten

5.5

N/A

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The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

(1988)

Action, Adventure, War

A renegade team of World War II soldiers. This time, one of the 12 is a woman and, with a Nazi spy within their midst, they're up against German wartime geniuses out to establish a Fourth Reich.

Runtime:

94 min

Director:

Lee H. Katzin

Cast:

Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Hunt Block, Matthew Burton, Jeff Conaway

5.2

N/A

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Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story

(1980)

Action, Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "The Rock". Michael Beck plays the real-life Clarence Carnes, an Oklahoma Choctaw Indian said to be the youngest man ever incarcerated in the notorious maximum security prison. Serving a 99...

Runtime:

196 min

Director:

Paul Krasny

Cast:

Michael Beck, Art Carney, Alex Karras, Telly Savalas, Will Sampson

7.2

N/A

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Beau Geste

(1966)

Action, Drama, War

In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg attack.

Runtime:

103 min

Director:

Douglas Heyes

Cast:

Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure, Leslie Nielsen, Telly Savalas, David Mauro

6.1

N/A

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Love Is a Ball

(1963)

Comedy, Romance

Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?

Runtime:

111 min

Director:

David Swift

Cast:

Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Charles Boyer, Ricardo Montalban, Telly Savalas

6.0

N/A

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The Interns

(1962)

Drama, Romance

During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals.

Runtime:

120 min

6.6

N/A

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Sonny and Jed

(1972)

Western

Jed (Tomas Milian) is an unlikely hero in this Italian western. As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, he nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When Sonny (Susan George) decides he should be her man and teach her how to be a prop...

Runtime:

97 min

Director:

Sergio Corbucci

Cast:

Tomás Milián, Susan George, Telly Savalas, Rosanna Yanni

6.4

N/A

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The Man from the Diners' Club

(1963)

Comedy

Mobster Foots Pulardos, who operates a health gym as a front, plans to flee to Mexico to evade government tax officials. His girl friend, Sugar Pye, suggests that he first arrange for the cremation of a man having his own peculiar identifying characteristic--feet of different sizes--and then apply for a Diners' Club card for use in pay...

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Frank Tashlin

Cast:

Danny Kaye, Cara Williams, Martha Hyer, Telly Savalas, Everett Sloane

6.2

N/A

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The Karate Killers

(1967)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginnin...

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Barry Shear

Cast:

Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Joan Crawford, Curd Jürgens, Herbert Lom

5.0

N/A

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Inside Out

(1975)

Telly Savalas is an American ex-WW II POW who returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with James Mason, the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal (Wolfgang Lukschy) from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.

Runtime:

97 min

5.9

N/A

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Land Raiders

(1969)

Action, Drama, Thriller, Western

An outlaw committing a string of robberies and murders manages to blame the crimes on Apaches, bringing about an Indian war.

Runtime:

101 min

Director:

Nathan H. Juran

Cast:

Telly Savalas, George Maharis, Arlene Dahl, Janet Landgard, Guy Rolfe

5.3

N/A

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The New Interns

(1964)

Comedy, Drama

Young doctors mix romance with their careers in a big-city hospital.

Runtime:

123 min

Director:

John Rich

Cast:

Michael Callan, Dean Jones, Telly Savalas, Stefanie Powers, Stefanie Powers

6.3

N/A

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