An elaborate Hollywood retelling of the Bible stories narrated by the film’s director John Huston. Read More »
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Winter Kills (1979) William Richert, Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins
19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. Read More »
Angela (1977) Boris Sagal, Sophia Loren, Steve Railsback, John Huston
Angela, a prostitute has decided to become a waitress after she gets pregnant by Ben and needs a better way to support her baby. Read More »
Freud (1962) John Huston, Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks
This pseudobiographical movie depicts five years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennese psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Read More »
Moulin Rouge (1952) John Huston, José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Colette Marchand
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge, where he drinks cognac and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. Read More »
Fat City (1972) John Huston, Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell
The film tells the story of two boxers and their problems. Read More »
San Pietro (1945) Mark W. Clark, John Huston
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Read More »
Tentacles (1977) Ovidio G. Assonitis, John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins
Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. Read More »
A Walk with Love and Death (1969) John Huston, Anjelica Huston, Assi Dayan, Anthony Higgins, Drama, Romance
In a story set during the Hundred Years War, a student who has abandoned his studies in Paris, pairs with a young noblewoman with whom he has fallen in love. Read More »
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) Boris Sagal, Roger Moore, John Huston, Patrick Macnee
In this mystery, Holmes pursues his archenemy Moriarty to New York City, in which the villainous scoundrel has carried out the ultimate bank robbery. Read More »
The Cardinal (1963) Otto Preminger, Tom Tryon, John Huston, Romy Schneider, Drama, History, War
Stephen Fermoyle has grown up in Boston at the turn of the twentieth century knowing that his destiny lies with the Catholic priesthood. Read More »
A Farewell to Arms (1957) Charles Vidor, John Huston, Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Drama, Romance, War
Frederick Henry, an American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Italian forces in the First World War Read More »
Prizzi’s Honor (1985) John Huston, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate families in the country. Unbeknownst to Charley,the Prizzis just hired Irene Walker, a free-lance killer, to eliminate someone who double-crossed them.
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Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Crime, Drama, Mystery
JJ ‘Jake’ Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city’s water supply system, of having an affair.
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950) John Huston, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Crime, Film-Noir, Drama
When the intelligent criminal Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels from a jewelry. Doc is introduced to the lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich that offers to finance the whole operation and buy the gems immediately after the burglary. Doc hires the safecracker Louis Ciavelli, the driver Gus Minissi and the gunman Dix Handley to the heist. His plan works perfectly but bad luck and betrayals compromise the steps after the heist and the gangsters need to flee from the police.
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