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Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century, a prodegy of Stella Adler, at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting which boasts students including Robert DeNiro, Melanie Griffith, Stephen Bauer, and Australian Actor...
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Filter this CollectionA Countess from Hong Kong
A Countess from Hong Kong is a 1967 comedy film and the last film directed by Charlie Chaplin. It was one of two films Chaplin directed in which he did not play a major role (the other was 1923's A Woman of Paris), and his only color film. Chaplin's...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 film adaptation of the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. It was directed by Elia Kazan, who had also directed the original stage production, and stars Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl...
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- Stanley Kowalski
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Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War. The plot revolves around two US Army special operations officers, one of whom, Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) of MACV-SOG, is sent into the jungle to assassinate...
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- Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
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Big Bug Man
Big Bug Man is an American animated movie starring Brendan Fraser and Marlon Brando. The movie is a Studio-Free Studios Production, and it was originally supposed to release in 2006, 2007, and 2008, but there is now no news on its release or...
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Candy
Candy is a 1968 film directed by Christian Marquand. Based on the 1958 novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, it starred Ewa Aulin, Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, John Huston, Walter Matthau, Sugar Ray Robinson...
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Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, a 1992 film directed by James Bond alumnus John Glen, was the last project developed by the father-and-son production team of Alexander and Ilya Salkind. It follows the events leading up to and including the...
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Don Juan DeMarco
Don Juan DeMarco is a 1995 film starring Johnny Depp as John R. DeMarco, a man who believes himself to be Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and domino mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Marlon Brando's...
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Last Tango in Paris
Last Tango in Paris (Italian: Ultimo Tango a Parigi) is a 1972 Italian film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci which portrays a recent American widower who takes up an anonymous sexual relationship with a young, soon-to-be-married Parisian woman. It...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 film starring Marlon Brando, based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The film retells the 1789 real-life mutiny aboard H.M.A.V. Bounty led by Fletcher Christian against the...
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On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American drama film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden and Lee J....
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- Terry Malloy
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One-Eyed Jacks
One-Eyed Jacks, a 1961 Western, is the only film directed by actor Marlon Brando, who also played its lead character, Rio.
The film was originally to be directed by Stanley Kubrick. Other members of the cast include Karl Malden, Slim Pickens, Katy...
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Sayonara
Sayonara is 1957 color (Technicolor) American film. It tells the story of an American Air Force flier who was a fighter "Ace" during the Korean War. The film's screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener, and the film was...
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- Major Lloyd Gruver
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Superman
Superman (also known as Superman: The Movie) is a 1978 superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. Richard Donner directed the film, which stars Christopher Reeve as Superman, as well as Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Marlon...
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The Formula
The Formula is a mystery film directed by John G. Avildsen in 1980. It features a preeminent cast of Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, George C. Scott and Marthe Keller.
A detective investigating the strange murder of a friend, discovers a formula...
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The Freshman
The Freshman is a 1990 motion picture comedy starring Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick, in which Brando parodies his portrayal of Don Corleone in The Godfather.
The plot revolves around quirky aspects such as Broderick's entanglement into an...
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The Godfather Saga
The Godfather Saga is a TV miniseries that combines The Godfather and The Godfather Part II into one film playing in chronological order. It originally aired on NBC over four consecutive nights (one three-hour segment and three two-hour segments) in...
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Island of Dr. Moreau is a 1996 film, the third major movie version of the H. G. Wells novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, a science fiction horror story about a scientist who attempts to convert animals into people. The film stars Marlon Brando,...
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- Doctor Moreau
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The Men
The Men is a 1950 film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It tells the story of a World War II lieutenant, who is seriously injured in combat, and the struggles he faces as he attempts to re-enter society. It stars Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, and Everett...
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The Score
The Score is a 2001 crime drama directed by Frank Oz and starring Robert DeNiro, Edward Norton and Marlon Brando.
It was the final film performance for Brando and the only time he and De Niro appeared in a film together (although they had previously...
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The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1956 motion picture comedy satirizing the U.S. occupation of Japan following the end of World War II. It starred Glenn Ford and Marlon Brando. John Patrick adapted the screenplay from his own Pulitzer Prize and...
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The Wild One
The Wild One is a 1953 outlaw biker film directed by László Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. It is remembered for Marlon Brando's portrayal of the gang leader Johnny Strabler, dressed in a leather jacket and riding a 1950 Triumph Thunderbird...
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Viva Zapata!
Viva Zapata! is a 1952 biographical film directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using as a guide Edgcomb Pinchon's book, 'Zapata the Unconquerable', a fact that is not credited in the titles of the film. It is a...
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- Emiliano Zapata
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Julius Caesar
Two films have been made of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar:
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- Mark Antony
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The Godfather
The Godfather is a 1972 American thriller film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne (uncredited). It stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James...
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- Vito Corleone
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The Missouri Breaks
This article is about the motion picture. For the geographical feature, see Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument
The Missouri Breaks is a 1976 American western film starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson. The film was directed by Arthur...
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The Young Lions
The Young Lions a 1958 film based upon the 1949 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw, and starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin.
The Young Lions is about the destiny of three young soldiers involved in WWII. The German officer,...
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Désirée
Désirée is a 1954 historical film biography made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry Koster and produced by Julian Blaustein from a screenplay by Daniel Taradash, based on the best-selling novel Désirée by Annemarie Selinko. The music...
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Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The movie was made by the Samuel Goldwyn Company, released by MGM, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. The film...
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Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar is an 1953 MGM film adaptation of the play by Shakespeare, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the uncredited screenplay, and produced by John Houseman. The original music score is by Miklós Rózsa. The film stars Marlon...
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut is a 2006 re-edit of the 1980 superhero film, Superman II, by Richard Donner, who shot a large part of the original movie before being replaced as director by Richard Lester. It stars Gene Hackman, Christopher...
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A Dry White Season
A Dry White Season is a film which was created in 1989 by Davros Films and Sundance Productions and distributed by MGM. It was directed by Euzhan Palcy and produced by Paula Weinstein, Mary Selway and Tim Hampton. The screenplay was by Colin Welland...
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Reflections in a Golden Eye
Reflections in a Golden Eye is a 1967 film directed by John Huston based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Carson McCullers that deals with the theme of repressed homosexuality. The film starred Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Brian Keith and...
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers's Apocalypse
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) is an award-winning documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now.
The title is derived from the source material for Apocalypse Now, the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness. Using...
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The Night of the Following Day
The Night of the Following Day is a 1968 film starring Marlon Brando, Pamela Franklin, Richard Boone and Rita Moreno. A kidnapped heiress (Franklin) is held hostage in a remote house on the coast of France.
Bud (Brando) starts to have second...
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Burn!
Burn! (Italian title: Queimada) is a 1969 film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo; starring Marlon Brando. The plot is loosely based on events in the history of Guadeloupe. The main character is named after William Walker, the famous American filibuster....
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Morituri
Morituri (also known as The Saboteur and Code Name Morituri) is a 1965 film about Robert Crain, a German pacifist living in India during the Second World War. He is blackmailed by the Allies into using his demolition expertise to cripple a Nazi ship...
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Bedtime Story
Bedtime Story is a 1964 comedy film made by Pennebaker Productions, The Lankershim Company and Universal Pictures. It was directed by Ralph Levy and produced by Stanley Shapiro with Robert Arthur as executive producer from a screenplay by Stanley...
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The Appaloosa
The Appaloosa (a.k.a.: "Southwest to Sonora") is a 1966 American Western film Technicolor (set in the 1870s) from Universal Pictures starring Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer and John Saxon, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting...
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Apocalypse Now Redux
Apocalypse Now Redux is an extended, definitive version of the 1979 epic war film Apocalypse Now. Unlike other new cuts of the film, Redux is usually considered by fans and critics, as well as director Coppola, as a completely new movie altogether....
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The Brave
The Brave (1997) is a film adapted from the Gregory McDonald novel of the same title directed by and starring Johnny Depp.
This film was Depp's directorial debut. He co-wrote the screenplay with his brother, directed and acted in it. The film was...
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The Chase
The Chase is a 1966 American drama film directed by Arthur Penn, about a series of events set into motion by a prison break. Since one of the two escapees is Charlie "Bubber" Reeves (played by a then-unknown Robert Redford), the escape causes a stir...
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Superman Returns
Superman Returns is a 2006 superhero film based on the DC Comics character Superman. Directed by Bryan Singer, the film stars Brandon Routh as Superman, as well as Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden and Parker Posey. Superman Returns is a...
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- Archive Footage
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The Fugitive Kind
The Fugitive Kind is a 1959 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Meade Roberts and Tennessee Williams was based on the latter's 1957 play Orpheus Descending, itself a revision of his unproduced 1939 work Battle of Angels....
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Free Money
Free Money is a 1998 black comedy film directed by Yves Simoneau, produced by Nicolas Clermont and written by Anthony Peck and Joseph Brutsman.
Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson is a malicious warden of the county, illegally executing some of his...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1995 television drama film directed by Glenn Jordan and starring Alec Baldwin, Jessica Lange, John Goodman and Diane Lane that first aired on CBS Television. Based on the 1947 play by Tennessee Williams, it follows a...
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The Nightcomers
The Nightcomers is a 1971 British horror film directed by Michael Winner and starring Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird, Harry Andrews and Anna Palk. It is a prequel to The Turn of the Screw.
Recently orphaned, Flora and Miles are...
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