John Huston

John Huston

August 5, 1906 · 120 years old

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Ma…

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49 titles
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Chinatown

Chinatown

1974 · 2h 10m · Movie

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

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The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

1941 · 1h 40m · Movie

San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948 · 2h 6m · Movie

Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

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The African Queen

The African Queen

1952 · 1h 45m · Movie

In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.

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The Man Who Would Be King

The Man Who Would Be King

1975 · 2h 9m · Movie

In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

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Annie

Annie

1982 · 2h 7m · Movie

A spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.

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Key Largo

Key Largo

1948 · 1h 40m · Movie

A drifter visits the family hotel of a war buddy who was killed in action only to find that a Chicago mobster and his gang have taken over the place. As a hurricane approaches, a confrontation ensues.

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Casino Royale

Casino Royale

1967 · 2h 11m · Movie

In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.

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The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle

1950 · 1h 52m · Movie

A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.

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The Other Side of the Wind

The Other Side of the Wind

2018 · 2h 2m · Movie

At a media-swamped party to celebrate his 70th birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead...

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Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor

1985 · 2h 10m · Movie

Two professional assassins fall in love.

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The Killers

The Killers

1946 · 1h 43m · Movie

Hit men arrive in a small New Jersey town to kill an unresisting victim, and insurance investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.

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The Misfits

The Misfits

1961 · 2h 5m · Movie

A divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically-independent lifestyle.

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Moby Dick

Moby Dick

1956 · 1h 56m · Movie

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

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High Sierra

High Sierra

1941 · 1h 40m · Movie

After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

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Sergeant York

Sergeant York

1941 · 2h 14m · Movie

A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.

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The Hobbit

The Hobbit

1977 · 1h 17m · Movie

A homebody hobbit in Middle Earth gets talked into joining a quest with a group of dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon.

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Jezebel

Jezebel

1938 · 1h 44m · Movie

In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.

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The Night of the Iguana

The Night of the Iguana

1964 · 2h 5m · Movie

An ostracized Episcopal clergyman leads a busload of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

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Fat City

Fat City

1972 · 1h 36m · Movie

Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take different directions.

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The Wind and the Lion

The Wind and the Lion

1975 · 1h 59m · Movie

A Berber chieftain triggers an international incident, drawing the involvement of Theodore Roosevelt, when he kidnaps an American widow and her children in 1900s Morocco.

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Beat the Devil

Beat the Devil

1953 · 1h 29m · Movie

On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen...

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The Unforgiven

The Unforgiven

1960 · 2h 5m · Movie

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.

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Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

1957 · 1h 47m · Movie

During World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another while hoping for a rescue, as they try to avoid capture by the J...

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The Dead

The Dead

1987 · 1h 23m · Movie

Gabriel Conroy and wife Gretta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.

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Reflections in a Golden Eye

Reflections in a Golden Eye

1967 · 1h 48m · Movie

Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.

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Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge

1952 · 1h 59m · Movie

Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

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Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano

1984 · 1h 52m · Movie

A day in the life of a self-destructive British consul in Mexico on the eve of World War II.

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The Bible in the Beginning...

The Bible in the Beginning...

1966 · 2h 54m · Movie

Extravagant production of the first part of the book of Genesis. Its main highlights are the Garden of Eden, the first brothers, Noah and his family obeying God to build an ark for the Flood and Abraham's attempted sacrifice of Is...

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Wise Blood

Wise Blood

1979 · 1h 46m · Movie

Fresh out of the army, Hazel Motes attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham.

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The List of Adrian Messenger

The List of Adrian Messenger

1963 · 1h 38m · Movie

A former intelligence officer is tasked by the heir to the Gleneyre estate to investigate the unusual deaths of a disparate group of eleven men on a list.

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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

2018 · 1h 38m · Movie

In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles, he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind (2018), in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last ...

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Across the Pacific

Across the Pacific

1942 · 1h 37m · Movie

In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.

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The Return of the King

The Return of the King

1980 · 1h 38m · Movie

Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle.

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The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man

1973 · 1h 38m · Movie

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.

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Breakout

Breakout

1975 · 1h 36m · Movie

A bush pilot is hired for fifty thousand dollars to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.

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