List of the best J. Lee Thompson movies: Ice Cold in Alex(1958), Cape Fear(1962), The Guns of Navarone(1961), Tiger Bay(1959), Woman in a Dressing Gown(1957), What a Way to Go!(1964), Return From the Ashes(1965), The Yellow Balloon(1953), The Reincarnation of Peter Proud(1975), Murder Without Crime(1951), 10 to Midnight(1983), St. Ives(1976) ... ...
7.8/10
War
UK
1958
132 Minutes
Director
soldier nurse captain driver nun spy brooding suspenseful melodramatic north africa ambulance bar car desert journey espionage secret identity world war ii military discovery
During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.
7.7/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1962
105 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Robert Mitchum Polly Bergen Lori Martin Martin Balsam Jack Kruschen Telly Savalas Barrie Chase Paul Comi John McKee Page Slattery
stalker lawyer father convict private investigator daughter creepy suspenseful tense disturbing georgia boat prison protection vengeance family rape crime courage escape
A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.
7.5/10
Drama, War
UK|USA
1961
157 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck David Niven Anthony Quinn Stanley Baker Anthony Quayle James Darren Irene Papas Gia Scala James Robertson Justice Richard Harris
captain explosives expert resistance fighter security head soldier sister engaging tense brash gripping intense greece boat mountain village island cliff sabotage covert operations mountain climbing
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
7.5/10
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1959
105 Minutes
Director
young girl murderer detective street urchin sailor witness suspenseful shocking dark melodramatic cardiff, wales tenement house police station street church witnessing murder investigation conspiracy unlikely friendship deception
A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
7.2/10
Drama
UK
1957
93 Minutes
Director
husband wife mistress son emotional moving house bedroom hotel office divorce adultery loyalty family temptation forbidden love fall 1950s
A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.
7.0/10
Comedy
USA
1964
111 Minutes
Director
Shirley MacLaine Paul Newman Robert Mitchum Dean Martin Gene Kelly Bob Cummings Dick Van Dyke Reginald Gardiner Margaret Dumont Fifi D'Orsay
widow psychiatrist millionaire husband artist clown witty madcap amusing quirky psychiatrist's office farm shack paris small town curse wealth marriage death ambition
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
7.0/10
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1965
105 Minutes
Director
Maximilian Schell Samantha Eggar Ingrid Thulin Herbert Lom Talitha Pol Vladek Sheybal Jacques Cey Jacques B. Brunius
husband wife widow stepdaughter beautiful woman chess player melodramatic thrilling household europe bathroom deception inheritance romance murder greed infidelity fall quest wretched excess
In Paris, a Polish gigolo marries a rich Jewish doctor and stands to inherit her estate when she is deported to Dachau by the Nazis.
6.9/10
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1953
80 Minutes
Director
child friend thief owner mother father dark gritty tense london ruins pub household underground childhood accidental death guilt robbery murder blackmail
One of two young boys accidentally falls to his death when playing in a bombed-out London neighborhood. Frankie, the survivor feels guilty about his friend's death. Len, a petty thief who ... See full summary »
6.5/10
Horror
USA
1975
104 Minutes
Director
professor girlfriend mysterious woman daughter eerie tense california campus massachusetts small town laboratory lake nightmares reincarnation investigation supernatural mystery discovery 1970s
When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but which seems familiar and where he soon finds his previous incarnation's wife.
6.3/10
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1951
80 Minutes
Director
murderer blackmailer landlord murder victim young woman young man brash brutal disturbing gripping intense suspenseful nightclub apartment crime scene unintended consequences murder blackmail confession accident
In London, a man is blackmailed by his landlord-neighbor after he accidentally kills, in his flat, a woman he picked up in a nightclub.
6.3/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1983
101 Minutes
Director
Charles Bronson Andrew Stevens Lisa Eilbacher Eugene M. Davis Wilford Brimley Geoffrey Lewis Ola Ray Bert Williams
detective serial killer tense rousing shocking gritty engaging los angeles investigation pursuit 1980s
An LAPD detective and his rookie partner are on the trail of a psychopathic young man who is murdering young women.
6.3/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1976
93 Minutes
Director
Charles Bronson John Houseman Jacqueline Bisset Harry Guardino Maximilian Schell Harris Yulin
A crime novelist is hired by a shady character to negotiate the return of stolen confidential documents.
6.2/10
Western
USA
1977
97 Minutes
Director
Charles Bronson Jack Warden Will Sampson Kim Novak Clint Walker Stuart Whitman Slim Pickens John Carradine Cara Williams Shay Duffin Douglas Fowley
hunter american indian warrior old flame soldier crazy horse wild bill hickok gritty thrilling offbeat dense cheyenne, wyo. south dakota plains camp saloon native americans obsession hunting unlikely allies nightmares
At the closing of 1874 a haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok teams up with a grieving Crazy Horse to hunt a murderous albino buffalo.
6.2/10
Adventure
USA
1963
108 Minutes
Director
Yul Brynner George Chakiris Shirley Anne Field Richard Basehart Brad Dexter Barry Morse Armando Silvestre Leo Gordon Angela Dorian Rudy Solari Ford Rainey
mayan king son warlord indian chief fiancée brutal wild gripping mexico american south forest village native americans war love triangle exploration mayan culture escape rivalry revenge
On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam.
6.1/10
Sci-Fi, Action
USA
1972
86 Minutes
Director
Roddy McDowall Don Murray Ricardo Montalban Natalie Trundy Hari Rhodes Severn Darden Lou Wagner John Randolph Asa Maynor H. M. Wynant David Chow
apes human government official fascinating intense rousing circus earth slavery rebellion revolution dystopia animal cruelty rise rivalry 1990s
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.
6.1/10
Horror
UK
1967
92 Minutes
Director
Deborah Kerr David Niven Donald Pleasence Edward Mulhare Flora Robson Sharon Tate Emlyn Williams David Hemmings John Le Mesurier Suky Appleby Donald Bisset
Workers employed at a French vineyard quietly follow old pagan rituals that call for the life of the marquis owner to save his crops during dry seasons.
5.9/10
Drama
UK
1969
103 Minutes
Director
David Niven Topol Anna Karina John Hurt Anthony Quayle Ori Levy
british officer interpreter refugee civilian love interest russian amusing engaging lighthearted quirky austria refugee camp world war ii refugees helping others desertion displacement discovery escape love
After World War II, in an Austrian camp for displaced people, an interpreter mediates between the British and the Soviets regarding the fate of various refugees.
5.8/10
Musical
UK
1957
104 Minutes
Director
Eric Portman Celia Johnson Hugh Griffith Janette Scott John Fraser Bobby Howes Rachel Roberts John Salew Mona Washbourne Paddy Stone Irving Davies
singer spinster songwriter dancing girl love interest spirited lighthearted england wales west end backstage music hall show business musical revue theater companionship romance revitalization transformation growing up
A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a ... See full summary »
5.6/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1989
98 Minutes
Director
Charles Bronson Perry Lopez Juan Fernandez Peggy Lipton James Pax Sy Richardson Marion Yue Bill McKinney
A brutal Los Angeles police Lt. is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.
5.6/10
Crime, Drama, Action
USA
1988
90 Minutes
Director
Charles Bronson Trish Van Devere Laurence Luckinbill Jeff Corey Marilyn Hassett John Ireland Daniel Benzali Charles Dierkop
A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado.
5.6/10
Musical
USA
1974
118 Minutes
Director
Jeff East Paul Winfield Harvey Korman David Wayne Arthur O'Connell Gary Merrill
young boy slave father preacher runaway teacher amusing madcap heartwarming family home raft mississippi river island riverboat missouri running away friendship race relations huckleberry finn father/son relationship
In the 1840s Missouri, young boy Huckleberry Finn, wanting to escape his drunkard violent father, joins black runaway slave Jim on a quest for freedom down the Mississippi River on a raft.
5.5/10
Drama
Mexico|USA
1980
87 Minutes
Director
Charles Bronson Dominique Sanda Jason Robards Fernando Rey Simon MacCorkindale Camilla Sparv Denny Miller Gilbert Roland
In 1948, an assortment of shady characters are searching for Nazi loot, sunken off the coast of Peru.
5.5/10
Action, Crime, Drama
USA
1987
99 Minutes
Director
Charles Bronson Kay Lenz John P. Ryan Perry Lopez George Dickerson Soon-Teck Oh Dana Barron Jesse Dabson
architect girlfriend father thug kingpin vigilante dark brutal los angeles mansion household party police station vigilantism murder violence drugs impersonation double-cross revenge
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose.
5.5/10
Sci-Fi
USA
1973
92 Minutes
Director
Roddy McDowall Claude Akins Natalie Trundy John Huston Severn Darden Lew Ayres Paul Williams Austin Stoker Noah Keen Richard Eastham France Nuyen
slave ape general captain scientist mutant dark disturbing thrilling passionate village city underground library ruins war post-apocalypse prejudice slavery freedom
Ten years after a worldwide series of ape revolutions and a brutal nuclear war among humans, Caesar must protect survivors of both species from an insidious human cult and a militant ape faction alike.
5.4/10
Drama
USA
1978
106 Minutes
Director
Anthony Quinn Jacqueline Bisset Edward Albert Raf Vallone James Franciscus Camilla Sparv Marilù Tolo Charles Durning Luciana Paluzzi Robin Clarke Kathryn Leigh Scott
The life of the Greek tycoon Theo Tomasis, based on Aristotle Onassis.
5.4/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1984
95 Minutes
Director
Robert Mitchum Ellen Burstyn Rock Hudson Fabio Testi Donald Pleasence Chelli Goldenberg Michal Bat-Adam Ori Levy Uri Gavriel Zachi Noy
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
5.2/10
Adventure
USA
1986
103 Minutes
Director
Chuck Norris Louis Gossett Jr. Melody Anderson Will Sampson Sonny Landham John Rhys-Davies Ian Abercrombie Richard Lee-Sung
young man young woman adventurer friend witty suspenseful cheeky gritty united states temple mexico gold ancient egypt adventure quest treasure hunting adventure discovery quest pursuit
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache hoard of gold.
5.2/10
Comedy
UK
1955
88 Minutes
Director
Donald Sinden Diana Dors Jean Carson
young man fiancée beautiful woman father alligator amusing emotional england household london ireland romance human-animal friendship love triangle responsibility engagement romantic dilemma discovery love 1950s
An Englishman is left with an abandoned, very tame, and domesticated pet alligator, who helps him develop a bond with a young Irishwoman. Plans to get rid of the animal cause mayhem and produce a surprising outcome for all.
Drama
1969
102 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Anne Heywood Arthur Hill Alan Dobie Conrad Yama Burt Kwouk
scientist chairman general mentor soldier professor crafty thrilling suspenseful china london cold war experiments agriculture spies chinese cultural revolution deception adventure quest rivalry
A U.S. scientist (Gregory Peck) goes to China with a transmitter in his head, to meet Mao and spy on a food-growth enzyme.
Drama
1959
96 Minutes
Director
poor boy teen boy petty criminal racketeer murder victim sister bleak disheartening intense tense slum london petty crime racketeering crime fugitives family poverty pursuit growing up
Action
1959
130 Minutes
Director
Kenneth More Lauren Bacall Herbert Lom Wilfrid Hyde-White I.S. Johar Ursula Jeans Ian Hunter Eugene Deckers Jack Gwillim
prince soldier maharajah governess tense thrilling engaging gripping india train rescue journey dangerous assignment political coup adventure pursuit escape 1900s
A British captain (Kenneth More) uses an old train to get a Hindu prince, his governess (Lauren Bacall) and others out of a besieged citadel.
Crime, Drama
1956
99 Minutes
Director
woman death row inmate murderer murder victim cheater bleak disheartening dark suspenseful tense england prison death row street revenge abuse cheating murder death row fall
In the shadow of her impending execution, an anguished woman recounts the chain of events which drove her to murder.
Drama
1953
88 Minutes
Director
An Englishwoman (Glynis Johns) sent to a prison without bars meets other first offenders whose stories are told.
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