List of the best Robert Mulligan movies: To Kill a Mockingbird(1962), Love With the Proper Stranger(1963), The Man in the Moon(1991), Same Time, Next Year(1978), Summer of '42(1971), The Great Impostor(1960), Come September(1961), Fear Strikes Out(1957), The Rat Race(1960), The Stalking Moon(1968), Inside Daisy Clover(1965), The Pursuit of Happiness(1971) ... ...
Drama
USA
1962
129 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Mary Badham Phillip Alford John Megna Brock Peters Robert Duvall Rosemary Murphy Paul Fix Collin Wilcox Paxton Alice Ghostley William Windom
young girl young boy lawyer neighbor defendant drunk emotional heartwarming moving small town alabama courtroom family home racism childhood class distinctions family growing up underdog 1930s
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1963
102 Minutes
Director
Natalie Wood Steve McQueen Edie Adams Herschel Bernardi Tom Bosley Harvey Lembeck Penny Santon Virginia Vincent E. Nick Alexander Augusta Ciolli Anne Hegira
musician cook pregnant woman brother stripper emotional charming restaurant new york city apartment affair abortion pregnancy love triangle independence growing up love 1960s
A salesclerk at Macy's department store finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a musician, who does not even remember her.
Drama
USA
1991
99 Minutes
Director
Sam Waterston Tess Harper Gail Strickland Reese Witherspoon Jason London Emily Warfield Bentley Mitchum Ernie Lively
teen girl sister teen boy father mother endearing tender emotional louisiana farm family home field first love love triangle sibling rivalry sister relationship accident betrayal growing up love
A coming of age story set in the south of the U.S. when Elvis was King.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1978
119 Minutes
Director
Ellen Burstyn Alan Alda Ivan Bonar Bernard Kuby Cosmo Sardo David Northcutt William Cantrell
adulterer mistress husband wife melodramatic emotional passionate california inn bedroom romance secret infidelity sex getaway guilt forbidden love temptation 1970s
A married man and a married woman end up sleeping with each other, and decide to meet at the same place every year on the anniversary of their one night stand. As the years go by, they observe changes in each other and their relationship.
Romance
USA
1971
102 Minutes
Director
Gary Grimes Jennifer O'Neill Jerry Houser Oliver Conant Katherine Allentuck Christopher Norris Lou Frizzell Walter Scott
teenager newlywed husband friend virgin emotional nantucket island, mass. movie theater family home beach infatuation world war ii teen angst sex love triangle death growing up love transformation 1940s
During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.
Biography
USA
1960
112 Minutes
Director
Tony Curtis Edmond O'Brien Frank Gorshin Karl Malden Arthur O'Connell Gary Merrill Joan Blackman Raymond Massey Robert Middleton Jeanette Nolan Sue Ane Langdon
con artist soldier nurse doctor monk fbi agent confident intense amusing new england texas korea island monastery battleship identity theft crime con game schemes on the run
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
Romance
USA
1961
112 Minutes
Director
Rock Hudson Gina Lollobrigida Sandra Dee Bobby Darin Walter Slezak Brenda De Banzie Rossana Rory Ronald Howard
mogul manager teen boy teen girl chaperone lover madcap lighthearted amusing tender italy villa hotel town vacation romantic dilemma scam generation gap accident unlikely friendship
Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.
Biography
USA
1957
100 Minutes
Director
Anthony Perkins Karl Malden Norma Moore Adam Williams Perry Wilson Peter Votrian Dennis McMullen Gail Land Brian G. Hutton Bart Burns
father son baseball player reporter psychiatrist doctor tense disturbing emotional engaging dark connecticut baseball field boston father/son relationship emotional abuse baseball mental illness obsession pursuit
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
USA
1960
105 Minutes
Director
Tony Curtis Debbie Reynolds Jack Oakie Kay Medford Don Rickles Joe Bushkin Sam Butera Gerry Mulligan Marjorie Bennett Hal K. Dawson Norman Fell
musician dancer thug endearing lighthearted new york city apartment bar poverty romance struggle music city life love pursuit sacrifice 1960s
An aspiring musician who arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.
Western
USA
1968
109 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Eva Marie Saint Robert Forster Noland Clay Russ Thorson Frank Silvera Lonny Chapman Lou Frizzell Henry Beckman Charles Tyner Richard Bull
scout native american woman warrior son intense gritty arizona territory new mexico desert cabin wild west native americans relocation captivity mother/child relationship old west escape discovery rescue
A sympathetic retired army scout takes-in a white woman and her half-Apache son, not knowing that the boy's father, a murderous renegade Apache, is after them.
Drama
USA
1965
128 Minutes
Director
Natalie Wood Robert Redford Christopher Plummer Roddy McDowall Ruth Gordon Katharine Bard
producer mother tomboy actress actor daughter brooding dark offbeat hollywood, calif. santa monica, calif. film set arizona fame movies show business divorce rags to riches manipulation growing up
A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.
Drama
USA
1971
98 Minutes
Director
Michael Sarrazin Barbara Hershey Arthur Hill Robert Klein Sada Thompson E.G. Marshall Barnard Hughes Rue McClanahan
student jaywalker judge radical father girlfriend brooding creative columbia university new york city courtroom prison canada fugitives troubled youth political activism prison break accidental murder escape wretched excess
A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is ... See full summary »
Drama
1965
100 Minutes
Director
Steve McQueen Lee Remick Don Murray Paul Fix Josephine Hutchinson Ruth White Charles Watts Carol Veazie Estelle Hemsley Kimberly Block Zamah Cunningham
singer husband wife daughter foster mother brooding dark texas small town bad behavior crime marital problems family dysfunction disillusionment temptation fall 1960s
A paroled singer (Steve McQueen) returns to his wife (Lee Remick) and daughter in Texas but cannot stay out of trouble.