List of the best Ted Kotcheff movies: First Blood(1982), North Dallas Forty(1979), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz(1974), Life at the Top(1965), Two Gentlemen Sharing(1969), Joshua Then and Now(1985), Fun With Dick and Jane(1977), Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?(1978), Split Image(1982), Winter People(1989), Billy Two Hats(1973), Switching Channels(1988) ... ...
Action, Adventure
USA
1982
95 Minutes
Director
Sylvester Stallone Richard Crenna Brian Dennehy David Caruso Jack Starrett Michael Talbot David Crowley Chris Mulkey Don Mackay Alf Humphreys John McLiam
veteran sheriff commanding officer deputy rambo vietnam vet brutal gripping suspenseful intense washington state small town police station mountain abandoned mine forest vietnam war bigotry torture guerrilla warfare
A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1979
120 Minutes
Director
Nick Nolte Mac Davis Charles Durning Dayle Haddon Bo Svenson Steve Forrest G.D. Spradlin Dabney Coleman Savannah Boucher Marshall Colt Guich Koock
athlete football player coach jock dark gritty brash dallas football field football hunting drugs corruption ambition teamwork sports rise fall rivalry 1970s
A satire of American professional football in which a veteran pass-catcher's individuality and refusal to become part of the team family is bitterly resented by his disciplinarian coaches.
Comedy, Drama
Canada
1974
121 Minutes
Director
Richard Dreyfuss Micheline Lanctôt Jack Warden Randy Quaid Joseph Wiseman Denholm Elliott Henry Ramer Joe Silver Zvee Scooler Robert Goodier Allan Rosenthal
jew father uncle girlfriend grandfather gangster cheeky confident witty rousing montreal quebec resort laurentian mountains anti-semitism ambition poverty family dysfunction love honor
In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.
Drama
UK
1965
117 Minutes
Director
Laurence Harvey Jean Simmons Honor Blackman Michael Craig Donald Wolfit Robert Morley Margaret Johnston Nigel Davenport
businessman wife mogul lover tv personality child emotional solemn brooding mill town tv station london family home office england infidelity starting over family marrying for money disillusionment
In this sequel to Room at the Top (1959), Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) thinks he has really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill town. But he finds he is being sidelined at work and his private life manipulated by his father-in-law.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
UK
1969
92 Minutes
Director
Robin Phillips Judy Geeson Hal Frederick Norman Rossington Rachel Kempson Ram John Holder Hilary Heath Daisy Mae Williams Philip Stone David Markham Shelagh Fraser
ad executive lawyer girlfriend landlady stepfather engaging amusing sad london apartment mansion nightclub ghetto racism relationships class distinctions roommates forbidden love transformation quest
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Comedy, Drama
Canada
1985
119 Minutes
Director
James Woods Alan Arkin Gabrielle Lazure Michael Sarrazin Linda Sorenson Alan Scarfe Alexander Knox Robert Joy
jew writer father mother stripper wife madcap witty engaging emotional montreal ghetto canada england london city social climbing marriage jewish identity scandal
The story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Comedy
USA
1977
95 Minutes
Director
Jane Fonda George Segal Ed McMahon Dick Gautier Allan Miller Hank Garcia John Dehner Mary Jackson Walter Brooke James Jeter Sean Frye
husband wife executive criminal airy amusing suburbia office courtroom united states poverty american dream marriage robbery transformation fall temptation wretched excess 1970s
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Comedy
West Germany|USA|Italy|France
1978
112 Minutes
Director
killer tycoon fat person doctor food critic pastry chef madcap amusing lighthearted restaurant kitchen london food murder romance diet divorce mystery love 1970s
One by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. Each chef murdered in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
Drama
Canada|USA
1982
111 Minutes
Director
A rootless young man's drawn into an unnamed religious cult by a beautiful girl. Every moment with the group causes him to become increasingly under the control of the cult's leader. After ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1989
110 Minutes
Director
Kurt Russell Kelly McGillis Lloyd Bridges Mitchell Ryan Amelia Burnette Eileen Ryan Lanny Flaherty Don Michael Paul David Dwyer Jeffrey Meek
A young widower moves with his daughter into a North Carolina mountain town in 1934. He quickly takes up with a young woman with an illegitimate baby. First he must prove himself to her ... See full summary »
Western
USA|UK|Israel
1973
99 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Desi Arnaz Jr. Jack Warden Sian Barbara Allen David Huddleston John Pearce Dawn Little Sky
american indian outlaw sheriff rancher wife friend gritty suspenseful ranch wild west bank jail bank heist friendship chase romance old west injury escape pursuit
After a bank robbery, runaway Scottish outlaw Arch Deans and his young half breed Kiowa partner Billy Two Hats develop a father-son relationship but Sheriff Henry Gifford is determined to capture or kill them.
Romance
USA
1988
108 Minutes
Director
Kathleen Turner Burt Reynolds Christopher Reeve Ned Beatty Henry Gibson George Newbern Al Waxman Ken James Joe Silver Tony Rosato
news reporter anchor person boss ex-husband fiancé wealthy man amusing quirky newsroom prison office tv station career vs. love journalism broadcasting schemes prison break love triangle adventure love
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
Adventure
UK|USA
1994
97 Minutes
Director
Anthony Addabbo Noelle Beck Len Cariou
Arizona cop is sent to Switzerland to bring in the girlfriend of a dangerous mobster so she can testify against him. The mobster sends someone too - assassins.
Comedy
USA
1992
106 Minutes
Director
Tom Selleck Don Ameche Anne Jackson Christine Ebersole Wendy Crewson Robert Pastorelli Michael Murphy Jackye Roberts
stockbroker mother father sister wife senior citizen winsome madcap hilarious chicago fort lauderdale, fla. household air field hospital unhappy marriage illness life lessons family relationships unemployment
A slightly self absorbed yuppie takes in his parents including his senile father, after their home burns down. But his personal and professional life fall apart soon after.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1962
100 Minutes
Director
captain stockbroker businessman lieutenant beautiful woman amusing melodramatic cool cheeky england tahiti hotel town island scam island life black market expatriates love triangle business scheme
James Mason and Sir John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough Colonel and a refined Captain who clashed during the war, and continue their personal battle in peacetime Tahiti.
Action
Czech Republic|UK|France|Spain
1995
89 Minutes
Director
Dolph Lundgren Maruschka Detmers Assumpta Serna Gavan O'Herlihy John Ashton Simón Andreu Pablo Scola Petr Drozda
ambassador us marshal cuban murder victim assassin czech tense thrilling suspenseful patriotic confident united states mysterious deaths assassination investigation rivalry politics adventure discovery pursuit
A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
Other, Drama
1997
97 Minutes
Director
Roma Downey Eric McCormack Shawn Thompson Janet Bailey Kevin Hicks Barbara Gordon Héctor Elizondo Sarah Rosen Fruitman James Mainprize Catherine Fitch Wendy MacDonald
woman businessman investor love interest daughter wife amusing charming cheeky playful lighthearted heartwarming christmas party factory family home fake marriage relationships love christmas family
A man (Eric McCormack) asks a single employee (Roma Downey) and her daughter to pose as his family so that he can win a lucrative deal.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
1971
99 Minutes
Director
Gary Bond Donald Pleasence Chips Rafferty Sylvia Kay Jack Thompson Peter Whittle Al Thomas John Meillon John Armstrong Slim DeGrey Maggie Dence
schoolteacher sheriff doctor alcoholic frightful gritty school mining town bar australia gambling drinking holidays stranded wretched excess 1960s
A teacher from Western Australia en route to Sydney gets waylaid in a town that strips him of his money and dignity.
Drama
USA|Canada
2003
95 Minutes
Marty Peretz
Hayden Christensen Peter Sarsgaard Chloë Sevigny Rosario Dawson Melanie Lynskey Steve Zahn Hank Azaria Cas Anvar Ted Kotcheff Mark Blum Simone-Elise Girard
reporter editor love interest rival incredible confident washington, d.c. newsroom office scandal ambition journalism deception desperation rise fall underdog 1990s
The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.