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Richard Brooks - filmography


  • The Crow - City of Angels on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Vincent Perez,  Mia Kirshner,  Richard Brooks
    Director: Tim Pope
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A single father is resurrected from a watery grave to exact a terrible revenge on those who killed him and his son. Using strange supernatural powers, he roams the streets in search of the killer who controls the City of Angels.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 1,983 member
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  • Law And Order - Third Series (6 discs) on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Richard Brooks,  Paul Sorvino,  Michael Moriarty
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Powerful, timely and gripping Law & Order has become television's most celebrated and widely acclaimed crime series of all time. Get ready for another thrilling season of ripped-from-the-headlines cases as all 22 episodes of the groundbreaking third season come to DVD. Jerry Orbrach joins New York'..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 700 members
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  • Law And Order - Second Series (6 discs) on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Paul Sorvino,  Michael Moriarty,  Christopher North
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The entire second season of the Emmy Award winning series Law And Order. Episode titles: Confession, The Wages of Love, Aria, Asylum, God Bless the Child, Misconception, In Memory Of, Out of Control, Renunciation, Heaven, His Hour Upon the Stage, Star Struck, Severance, Blood is Thicker..., Trust, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 978 members
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  • Law And Order - First Series (6 discs) on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Dann Florek,  Steven Hill,  Chris Noth
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The entire first season of the Emmy Award winning series Law And Order. Episode titles: Prescription for Death, Subterranean Homeboy Blues, The Reaper's Helper, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die, Happily Ever After, Everybody's Favorite Bagman, By Hooker By Crook, Poison Ivy, Indifference, Prisoner ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,519 member
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  • Shocker on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Michael Murphy,  Peter Berg,  Richard Brooks
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After a series of unusual dreams, young football star Jonathan Parker (Peter Berg) captures serial killer Horace Pinker (Mitch Pileggi), a diabolical television repairman responsible for the deaths of several families. Pinker is sentenced to die in the electric chair, but the execution goes awry ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,105 member
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  • Wrong Is Right on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Robert Conrad,  Katharine Ross
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Broad political farce which follows the exploits of a world-travelling TV news correspondent Patrick Hale (Sean Connery) working for the World Television Network, who uncovers a terrorist plot to get hold of a nuclear bomb to sell to a Middle-Eastern oil country. This is an often funny yet ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 167 members
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  • Bite The Bullet on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Candice Bergen,  James Coburn
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Filmed in the classic Western tradition, this tale of a 700-mile horse race in the early 1900s takes its stalwart competitors over some rough western terrain and through various inclement conditions. The wide variety of contestants has differing reasons for entering the grueling race, but each and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 355 members
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  • In Cold Blood on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Robert Blake,  Scott Wilson
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This stylish and powerful drama adapted from Truman Capote's novel about a shocking real-life murder case examines two aimless drifters, Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Dick Hickock (Scott Wilson), who target the home of Kansas businessman Herbert Clutter for a simple robbery. However, after ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,083 member
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  • The Professionals on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Lee Marvin,  Robert Ryan
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A wealthy rancher, Frank Carter (Ralph Bellamy), hires four tough gunslingers to rescue his wife (Claudia Cardinale) who is being held captive by Captain Rasa (Jack Palance), one of Pancho Villa's most desperate revolutionaries, in this dynamic and hard-hitting Western set against the backdrop of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,366 member
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  • The Professionals - Blu-ray (1966)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Lee Marvin,  Robert Ryan
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A wealthy rancher, Frank Carter (Ralph Bellamy), hires four tough gunslingers to rescue his wife (Claudia Cardinale) who is being held captive by Captain Rasa (Jack Palance), one of Pancho Villa's most desperate revolutionaries, in this dynamic and hard-hitting Western set against the backdrop of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 148 members
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  • Lord Jim on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  James Mason,  Eli Wallach
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This faithful adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1900 novel tells the story of a romantic young Englishman, Jim (Peter O'Toole), who takes to the sea on a merchant vessel in his quest for adventure. Imagining himself to be a great man with a bright future, Jim instead deserts at the first true test of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 293 members
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  • Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Geraldine Page,  Shirley Knight
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drifter Chance Wayne (Paul Newman) returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. With him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. While trying to get her help to make a screen test, he also finds the time to meet his former girlfriend ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 10 members
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  • Elmer Gantry on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Jean Simmons,  Dean Jagger
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Elmer Gantry is a charming, fast-talking con, working the road as a traveling salesman in the 1920s. Burt Lancaster stars as the elusive Gantry in this charismatic adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's 1927 novel. When Gantry runs across a group of traveling evangelists, he charms their saintly leader, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 591 members
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  • The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Maria Schell,  Claire Bloom
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov is given a Hollywood screen treatment by producer Pandro S. Berman and director Richard Brooks. Yul Brynner plays Dmitri Karamazov, a callous Russian officer who cuckolds his domineering father (Lee J. Cobb) with the old man's mistress Grushenka (Maria ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1 member
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  • Cat On A Hot Tin Roof on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Elizabeth Taylor,  Paul Newman,  Burl Ives
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This dynamic and commanding adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on a troubled Southern family and the discord over their dying father's millions. Wealthy plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives), celebrating his 65th birthday, is visited by his sons, Brick (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 3,459 members
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  • The Blackboard Jungle (1955)
    Starring: Glenn Ford
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Original 50's classic about a decent middle aged school teacher who goes to teach in an unruly high school filled with thugs led by Vic Morrow.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 23 members
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  • The Last Time I Saw Paris on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Elizabeth Taylor,  Van Johnson,  Walter Pidgeon
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald story "Babylon Revisited," this epic romance is a captivating blend of Parisian expatriate high society and the struggles in post-WWII Europe. When war writer and veteran Charles Wills (Van Johnson) meets the lovely and restless Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor) in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 54% from 175 members
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  • Crisis (1950)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  José Ferrer,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Dr Ferguson is a brain surgeon, on vacation with his wife in a small Spanish-speaking country. This is actually a dictatorship ruled by tyrant Raoul Farrago. As they leave the country, Dr and Madam are arrested and lead to Farrago. He has a tumor that has to be removed quickly. Ferguson's duty is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 3 members
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Richard Brooks facts

5 most recent films

Capote / In Cold Blood - In Cold Blood - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Crow - City of Angels - 2.5 stars
Law And Order - Third Series - 3.5 stars
Law And Order - Second Series - 3.5 stars
Law And Order - First Series - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof - 3.5 stars
Law And Order - Second Series - 3.5 stars
Law And Order - Third Series - 3.5 stars
The Professionals - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Law And Order - First Series - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Dollars - 2.5 stars
The Crow - City Of Angels - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
The Brothers Karamazov - 2.5 stars
The Crow - City Of Angels / Crow - Salvation - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Crisis - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Steven Hill - 21 times - show films
Dann Florek - 21 times - show films
Christopher North - 14 times - show films
Michael Moriarty - 14 times - show films
Paul Sorvino - 14 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 21 times - show films
Tim Pope - 4 times - show films
Wes Craven - 1 times - show films
Bharat Nalluri - 1 times - show films
Patrick Sheane Duncan - 1 times - show films