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Richard Fleischer
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Richard Fleischer - what members say
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Richard Fleischer - filmography
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Red Sonja
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman
Director: Richard Fleischer
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The peaceful life of Sonja (Brigitte Nielsen) is shattered when her parents are killed by Queen Greden, who rules by terror and carries a talisman with which she can annihilate the planet. Sonja sets out to avenge her parent's death and is granted extraordinary powers by a mysterious vision. But ..read more »
 
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from 1,908 member
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Conan The Destroyer
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Mako
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Following CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as Robert E. Howard's warrior hero in action director Richard Fleischer's CONAN THE DESTROYER. First seen praying at a shrine, Conan and his sidekick, Malak (Tracey Walter), are inveigled by Queen Taramis (Sarah Douglas) into joining ..read more »
59%
from 5,519 members
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Amityville 3
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Skeptical journalist John Baxter (Tony Roberts) and photographer Melanie (Candy Clark) expose a fraudulent medium who is operating in the infamous Amityville haunted house. Then John surprises Melanie by deciding to buy the house and live in it. John's estranged wife, Nancy (Tess Harper), is also ..read more »
47%
from 763 members
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The Jazz Singer
(1980)
Starring: Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnez
Director: Richard Fleischer
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In New York City, Yussel Rabinowitz (Neil Diamond) trains to be a cantor. Although his father (Laurence Olivier) and wife, Rivka (Catlin Adams), don't approve, he also sings and writes songs for a black soul group under the name Jess Robin. When the group gets an opportunity in California, their ..read more »
68%
from 2,739 members
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The Prince and the Pauper
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Watch now: Unavailable
British icon and screen legend Oliver Reed (Oliver, Gladiator, Women In Love) creates a mesmerising, career defining performance in this unforgettable, swashbuckling tale of action, adventure, romance and intrigue. Faithfully adapted for the screen by celebrated author George Macdonald Fraser, Mark ..read more »
68%
from 90 members
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Mandingo
(1975)
Starring: James Mason, Susan George, Perry King
Director: Richard Fleischer
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A slave owner in the 1840s trains his slaves to be bare-knuckle fighting champions, unaware that his daughter is having an affair with his top fighter.
72%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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Mr. Majestyk
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Linda Cristal
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Watch now: £2.49
Vietnam vet and ex-con Vince Majestyk (Charles Bronson) just wants to live quietly on his Colorado farm, where he hires migrant pickers to harvest his melon crop. When he won't replace them with pickers provided by small-time racketeer Bobby Kopas (Paul Koslo), Kopas threatens him with a rifle. ..read more »
64%
from 504 members
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The Spikes Gang
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Ron Howard
Director: Richard Fleischer
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The story of three boys who want to fulfill their wish to be like their hero - Harry Spikes. Soon they have achieved what they wished, but now, like him, they are wanted... dead or alive.
61%
from 45 members
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Soylent Green
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joseph Cotten
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Richard Fleischer directed this nightmarish science fiction vision of an over-populated world, based on the novel by Harry Harrison. In 2022, New York City is a town bursting at the seams with a 40-million-plus population. Food is in short supply, and most of the population's food source comes from ..read more »
66%
from 4,261 members
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See No Evil
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Mia Farrow
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Hospitalized after being blinded in a riding accident, Sarah (Mia Farrow) recuperates at her aunt and uncle's country house. As Sarah returns from riding one day, she finds the house curiously silent. SEE NO EVIL begins slowly and conventionally, but once his blind heroine enters the apparently ..read more »
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from 231 members
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10 Rillington Place
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy Geeson
Director: Richard Fleischer
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London, 1944. John Reginald Christie (Richard Attenborough) is digging in his backyard when he comes across a woman's leg. Without being bothered at all, he covers up the leg and continues to bury the woman he just strangled in his kitchen. Three years later, Timothy Evans (John Hurt), along with ..read more »
72%
from 2,334 members
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Che!
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Jack Palance, Omar Sharif, Cesare Danova
Director: Richard Fleischer, Richard
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Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, coverering Guevara's life from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in an ambush by government troops in the mountains of Bolivia in 1967.
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from 115 members
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The Boston Strangler
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
Director: Richard Fleischer
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The Boston Strangler adopts the split-screen technique then in vogue (see also The Thomas Crown Affair) to relate the true story of self-confessed mass murderer Albert DeSalvo. Adapted by Edward Anhalt from the book by Gerold Frank, the film covers the years 1962 to 1964, during which time a dozen ..read more »
65%
from 610 members
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Doctor Dolittle
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Rex Harrison, Anthony Newley, Samantha Eggar
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Rex Harrison, although not at all like the portly man described in Hugh Lofting's charming series of children's stories, is sheer perfection as the kindly animal doctor in Leslie Bricusse's musical fantasy Doctor Dolittle. Sadly, Harrison is the only thing nearing perfection in this overstuffed and ..read more »
68%
from 859 members
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Fantastic Voyage
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Shrunk to microscopic size, an elite scientific and medical team enters the bloodstream of an ailing scientist in a desperate effort to save his life. Battling the body's incredible defenses, the crew must complete their mission before time runs out.
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from 787 members
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Barabbas
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Arthur Kennedy, Valentina Cortese, Harry Andrews
Director: Richard Fleischer
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When thief and murderer Barabbas (Anthony Quinn) is freed by the people of Judea rather than Jesus of Nazareth, the criminal struggles to understand why he was chosen to live. Rachel (Silvanno Mangano), the woman he loves, becomes a follower of Jesus, whom she believes has risen from the tomb. ..read more »
59%
from 308 members
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Compulsion
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Compulsion is a compelling stylish thriller that sees two callous law students murder a young boy in cold blood to prove their intellectual superiority. Having been raised by wealthy, snobbish families, Artie Straus is a sadistic bully and Judd Steiner (Dean Stockwell) a timid introvert. The two ..read more »
69%
from 149 members
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The Vikings
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Inspired by the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall, The Vikings was lensed on location in Norway under extremely adverse weather conditions. Adding to the difficulty was the fact that star Kirk Douglas and director Richard Fleischer never quite found a common ground, and for years thereafter would ..read more »
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from 1,828 member
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Between Heaven And Hell
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Broderick Crawford
Director: Richard Fleischer
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BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL opens with Sam Gifford (Robert Wagner) in action on an island in the Pacific. Despite the time period (1945), director Richard Fleischer's movie is not merely a straightforward Pacific war story, and Gifford is not just a simple hero. Fleischer flashes back to Gifford's life ..read more »
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from 61 members
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas
Director: Richard Fleischer
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This 1954 Disney version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea represented the studio's costliest and most elaborate American-filmed effort to date. Kirk Douglas plays a trouble-shooting 19th century seaman, trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. ..read more »
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from 1,801 member
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Narrow Margin
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
Director: Richard Fleischer
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When a mobsters wife decides to testify against his evil deeds she goes undercover to avoid being killed. Now that he's coming to trial she has to be escorted across country via train in order to testify. Cop Walter Brown and his partner are assigned the task, but the mob are on their trail.
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from 81 members
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Armored Car Robbery
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Dave Purvis (William Talman) is the smartest crook there is and he's got a red-hot scheme to secure his retirement: rob an armoured car full of money, then fly off to the sun.
But Dave's not as lucky as he needs to be: a cop car swings past, guns are fired and a policeman dies. The dead man's ..read more »
62%
from 32 members
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Trapped
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: John Hoyt, Lloyd Bridges, James Todd
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
TRAPPED is taut, unpretentious thriller directed by Richard Fleischer. The film begins in semi-documentary style, explaining the workings of the U.S. Treasury Department, and then follows the chain of events set in motion when a forged 20 dollar bill is discovered in California. However, it takes a ..read more »
54%
from 29 members
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Richard Fleischer facts
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...ld Schwarzenegger returns as Robert E. Howard?s warrior hero in action director Richard Fleischer?s CONAN THE DESTROYER. First seen praying at a shrine, Conan and his sidekick, ...
