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Michael Cimino

Michael Cimino


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  • The Sicilian
  • The Sicilian review by from Lincolnshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars A Sicilian Masterpiece 28 May 2005
    ...You must watch this film - the prequel to The Godfather trilogy, directed by Michael Cimino (winner of an oscar for The Deerhunter) and full of a cast of quality, experienced...   Read customer review

Michael Cimino - filmography


  • The Sunchaser (1996)
    Starring: Woody Harrelson,  Jon Seda,  Anne Bancroft
    Director: Michael Cimino
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Michael Reynolds is a rich oncologist who has a $175,000 sports car, a multi-million dollar home, and a new boost in his career. Brandon 'Blue' Monroe is a dying patient who kidnaps Reynolds. They are going to a legendary Navajo healing place while a manhunt closes in. Soon the men get closer in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 19 members
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  • The Sicilian on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Christopher Lambert,  Joss Ackland,  Terence Stamp
    Director: Michael Cimino
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Christopher Lambert stars in an operatic biography of the violent outlaw folk hero Salvatore Giuliano. A bandit, a patriot, and a real-life Robin Hood, Giuliano was the infamous bandit who, together with his ragtag band of guerrillas, attempted to liberate 1940s Sicily from Italian rule. Cimino ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 317 members
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  • Year Of The Dragon on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Mickey Rourke,  John Lone,  Ariane
    Director: Michael Cimino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Best known for his 1978 film The Deer Hunter or perhaps the less-successful Heaven's Gate, director Michael Cimino turned to this fast-paced actioner set in an authentic (back lot) Chinatown. This thriller stars a rogue Polish-American cop (Mickey Rourke) out to not only keep Chinatown safe for the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 547 members
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  • Heaven's Gate (1980)
    Starring: Kris Kristofferson,  Christopher Walken
    Director: Michael Cimino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Michael Cimino's bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming. Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clashes with a hired gun, Nathan Champion, over the woman they both love, Ella Watson. Both men find themselves questioning their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 212 members
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  • The Deer Hunter - HD (1978)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  John Cazale,  John Savage
    Director: Michael Cimino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    This epic look at the Vietnam War and its effects told through the lives of a tight knit group of friends from a Pennsylvania town was Michael Cimino's second film and established him in the pantheon of American directors. Complex and emotionally raw performances from Robert De Niro and Meryl ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 75% from 611 members
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  • The Deer Hunter - Blu-ray (1978)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  John Cazale,  John Savage
    Director: Michael Cimino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    This epic look at the Vietnam War and its effects told through the lives of a tight knit group of friends from a Pennsylvania town was Michael Cimino's second film and established him in the pantheon of American directors. Complex and emotionally raw performances from Robert De Niro and Meryl ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,099 member
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  • The Deer Hunter on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  John Cazale,  John Savage
    Director: Michael Cimino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war's effect on American working class steel workers and notorious for its ahistorical use ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 32,891 members
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  • Thunderbolt and Lightfoot on DVD (1974)
    Starring: George Kennedy,  Jeff Bridges,  Geoffrey Lewis
    Director: Michael Cimino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges star in Michael Cimino's brilliant directorial debut. This well-written film, featuring strong performances, is about a complex caper in which Bridges plays a young drifter who teams up with an ex-con (Eastwood) and his former partners in crime to restage a difficult ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,235 members
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Michael Cimino facts

5 most recent films

The Sunchaser - 3.0 stars
Desperate Hours - 2.5 stars
The Sicilian - 2.5 stars
Year Of The Dragon - 3.0 stars
Heaven's Gate - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Deer Hunter - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Deer Hunter - HD - 3.5 stars
The Deer Hunter - 3.5 stars
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot - 3.5 stars
Year Of The Dragon - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Desperate Hours - 2.5 stars
The Sunchaser - 3.0 stars
The Sicilian - 2.5 stars
Heaven's Gate - 3.0 stars
Year Of The Dragon - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Christopher Walken - 7 times - show films
George Dzundza - 6 times - show films
Shirley Stoler - 6 times - show films
John Cazale - 6 times - show films
Rutanya Alda - 6 times - show films