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  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • The Manchurian Candidate review by Noel Clay from Bromsgrove, England
    Rated - 4 stars A Memorable and Important Thriller 2 April 2004
    ...fter John Kennedy's assassination - on Sinatra's own wishes. This is easily John Frankenheimer's best film. And as if it had somehow cursed him, when in 1968 he drove his fri...  
  • Seconds
  • Seconds review by A customer from UK
    Rated - 5 stars A cult classic 5 July 2006
    ...Like the 'Manchurian Candidate,' 'Seconds' is one of John Frankenheimer's best works. It's a thriller concerning personal identity. A box office flop, it's a lost / little known...  
  • 52 Pick Up
  • 52 Pick Up review by Andrew Billington from Newcastle-u-lyme
    Rated - 4 stars Good, Gitty Elmore Leonard Adaptation. 2 April 2005
    ... action - lowlifes, pimps, prostitutes and killers - and assured direction from John Frankenheimer. Roy Scheider (JAWS,MARATHON MAN, KLUTE) is a blackmailed businessman who fi...  

John Frankenheimer - filmography


  • Path To War on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Michael Gambon,  Donald Sutherland,  Bruce McGill
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: 15
    PATH TO WAR, directed by John Frankenheimer, focuses on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson (Michael Gambon), the successor to assassinated American president John F. Kennedy. President Johnson felt that Communism was the greatest global threat during his term in the Oval Office, and was thus ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 62% from 213 members
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  • Deception on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ben Affleck,  Gary Sinise,  Charlize Theron
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: 15
    Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) is a small-time car thief about to be released from jail in time for Christmas. When his cellmate, Nick, is suddenly killed, Rudy decides to take on his identity in order to meet Nick's beautiful pen-pal girlfriend, Ashley (Charlize Theron). The couple has fun until her ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 63% from 363 members
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  • Ronin (2 discs) on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Jean Reno,  Jonathan Pryce
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: 15
    David Mamet wrote this screenplay under the name Richard Weisz, as a gun for hire, much like the masterless samurai of the film's title, who roamed Japan in the 19th century, loyal only to themselves. A group of men with highly developed skills are called to a meeting in a deserted warehouse in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 73% from 6,064 members
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  • Andersonville (1996)
    Starring: Jarrod Emick,  Frederic Forrest,  Ted Marcoux
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: TBC
    They left the nightmare...and entered Hell. Captured Union soilders cope with life inside the Civil War's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. A powerful, compeling tale of war and will, with Emmy Award-winning direction by John Frankenheimer
    Rate this: 3.0 62% from 10 members
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  • The Island Of Dr Moreau on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Val Kilmer,  David Thewlis,  Marlon Brando
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: 12
    Marlon Brando stars as the eponymous scientist in the third adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic. The archetypal mad scientist, the good doctor has been conducting a number of experiments in his remote island kindom, producing a race of genetic mutants both man and beast in his quest to produce a ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.0 49% from 152 members
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  • Year Of The Gun on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Andrew McCarthy,  Valeria Golino,  Sharon Stone
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: 15
    Andrew McCarthy stars as freelance journalist David Raybourne in John Frankenheimer's adaptation of Michael Mewshaw's novel. The film is set in 1978 Rome, the time of the terroristic Red Brigade, and David is in the midst of writing a novel involving terrorist characters. He meets a number of ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 47% from 166 members
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  • Dead Bang (1989)
    Starring: Don Johnson,  Penelope Ann Miller,  William Forsythe
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: TBC
    A tough but true story based on the real experiences of Los Angeles Detective Jerry Beck, a man driven by a personal quest. He is assigned to find a cop-killer, the dead cop being one of his own colleagues. When Beck follows the trail to a white supremacy organisation, the case becomes an ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 50% from 16 members
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  • 52 Pick Up on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Roy Scheider,  Ann-Margret,  Vanity
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: 18
    Wealthy businessman Harry Mitchell falls prey to ruthless blackmailers after having an illicit affair with a young model. Single-handedly, he masterminds a plan to beat the extortionists at their game, eventually facing the foremost crook in a deadly confrontation.
    Rate this: 2.5 51% from 234 members
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  • Grand Prix on DVD (1966)
    Starring: James Garner,  Eva Marie Saint,  Yves Montand
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: PG
    GRAND PRIX is John Frankenheimer's film about the nine-leg world championship of Formula 1 auto racing stars James Garner as driver Pete Aron. During the opening race in Monaco, a collision sends Pete's car flying into the Monte Carlo harbor, and British driver Scott Stoddard (Brian Bedford) into a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 73% from 168 members
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  • Seconds (1966)
    Starring: Rock Hudson,  Salome Jens
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: TBC
    John Frankenheimer's chilling vision of middle-aged malaise concerns 50ish banker, Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph). Bored with his wife and comfortably retired life, Arthur happens to run into Charlie Evans (Murray Hamilton), an old friend he believed to be dead. He gives Arthur a tip on a secret ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 56 members
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  • Seven Days In May (1964)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Kirk Douglas,  Fredric March
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: TBC
    Like much of the American public, Gen. Scott, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff is unhappy with a nuclear arms pact with the Soviet Union recently signed by President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March). But the extent of Scott's displeasure is not fully understood until his aide, Col. Martin "..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 68% from 50 members
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  • The Young Stranger on DVD (1957)
    Starring: James MacArthur,  Kim Hunter,  James Daly
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: U
    Following in the wake of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE made two years earlier, THE YOUNG STRANGER is another tale of teenage angst. When young Hal gets into a fight with the local theatre owner he gets labelled as juvenile delinquent. It soon becomes apparent that the real problems lie in his distant ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.0 38% from 30 members
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John Frankenheimer facts

5 most recent films


Path To War - 3.0 stars
Deception - 3.0 stars
Ronin - 3.5 stars
Ronin - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Andersonville - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films


Ronin - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Grand Prix - 3.5 stars
Seconds - 3.5 stars
Birdman Of Alcatraz - 3.5 stars
Ronin - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


The Young Stranger - 2.0 stars
Dead Bang - 2.5 stars
Black Sunday - 3.0 stars
Andersonville - 3.0 stars
Seven Days In May - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Frederic Forrest - 3 times - show films
Burt Lancaster - 3 times - show films
Roy Scheider - 3 times - show films
Stellan Skarsgaard - 2 times - show films
Jean Reno - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors


William Friedkin - 2 times - show films