Paul Newman

Paul Newman

January 26, 1925 · 101 years old

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1…

Known For

41 titles
1
Cars

Cars

2006 · 1h 56m · Movie

On the way to the biggest race of his life, a hotshot rookie race car gets stranded in a rundown town and learns that winning isn't everything in life.

7.3
2
The Sting

The Sting

1973 · 2h 9m · Movie

Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.

8.2
3
Road to Perdition

Road to Perdition

2002 · 1h 57m · Movie

A mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.

7.6
4
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1969 · 1h 50m · Movie

In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels..

8.0
5
Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

1967 · 2h 7m · Movie

A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

8.0
6
The Color of Money

The Color of Money

1986 · 1h 59m · Movie

Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.

7.0
7
The Hustler

The Hustler

1961 · 2h 14m · Movie

An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.

7.9
8
The Hudsucker Proxy

The Hudsucker Proxy

1994 · 1h 51m · Movie

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

7.2
9
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958 · 1h 48m · Movie

Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminally ill father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

7.9
10
The Towering Inferno

The Towering Inferno

1974 · 2h 45m · Movie

At the opening party of a colossal San Francisco skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out due to careless building practices by the contractor, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

7.0
11
The Verdict

The Verdict

1982 · 2h 9m · Movie

An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.

7.7
12
Slap Shot

Slap Shot

1977 · 2h 3m · Movie

A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.

7.2
13
Message in a Bottle

Message in a Bottle

1999 · 2h 6m · Movie

A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author.

6.3
14
Torn Curtain

Torn Curtain

1966 · 2h 8m · Movie

An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to steal a formula before planning an escape back to the West.

6.6
15
Hud

Hud

1963 · 1h 52m · Movie

Honest, hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant, egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

7.8
16
Nobody's Fool

Nobody's Fool

1994 · 1h 50m · Movie

A stubborn man past his prime reflects on his life of strict independence and seeks more from himself.

7.3
17
Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal

Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal

2015 · 1h 27m · Movie

A documentary on the series of televised debates in 1968 between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley.

7.6
18
Twilight

Twilight

1998 · 1h 34m · Movie

A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.

6.2
19
Hombre

Hombre

1967 · 1h 51m · Movie

John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Apaches becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

7.4
20
The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer

1958 · 1h 55m · Movie

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

7.3
21
Exodus

Exodus

1960 · 3h 28m · Movie

The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.

6.7
22
Harper

Harper

1966 · 2h 1m · Movie

Cool private investigator Lew Harper is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.

6.8
23
Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me

1956 · 1h 53m · Movie

Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.

7.5
24
Fat Man and Little Boy

Fat Man and Little Boy

1989 · 2h 7m · Movie

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret WWII project, and the first atomic bombs designed, built, and tested in Los Alamos.

6.5
25
Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet Bird of Youth

1962 · 2h 0m · Movie

A drifter and a faded film star, both traumatized by Hollywood, arrive to the guy's hometown, where the old bitter memories revive again.

7.1
26
Mater and the Ghostlight

Mater and the Ghostlight

2006 · 7m · Movie

In this short featuring the characters of the movie Cars, Mater is told the story of a Ghostlight, which causes him to be scared.

6.6
27
Fort Apache the Bronx

Fort Apache the Bronx

1981 · 2h 5m · Movie

In New York City, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost.

6.7
28
Where the Money Is

Where the Money Is

2000 · 1h 29m · Movie

Old bank robber Henry, paralyzed from a stroke, is moved from a prison hospital to a retirement home, where Carol is a nurse. She doesn't believe he's paralyzed and sees him as a way out of her boring life.

6.3
29
What a Way to Go!

What a Way to Go!

1964 · 1h 51m · Movie

Four-time widow Louisa May Foster sees a psychologist to discuss her marriages, in which her husbands (humble businessman Edgar, blase millionaire Rod, bohemian painter Larry, and nightclub singer Pinky) got rich and died because ...

6.9
30
The Prize

The Prize

1963 · 2h 14m · Movie

As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.

6.8
31
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.

6.3
32
Sometimes a Great Notion

Sometimes a Great Notion

1971 · 1h 54m · Movie

A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times.

6.9
33
Rachel, Rachel

Rachel, Rachel

1968 · 1h 41m · Movie

Rachel is a lonely school teacher who lives with her mother. When a man from the big city asks her out, she starts thinking about where she wants her life to go.

7.1
34
Quintet

Quintet

1979 · 1h 58m · Movie

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called "Quintet." For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the game with living pieces ... and only the winner survives.

5.0
35
When Time Ran Out...

When Time Ran Out...

1980 · 2h 1m · Movie

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

4.6
36
From the Terrace

From the Terrace

1960 · 2h 29m · Movie

An ambitious young executive chooses a loveless marriage and an unfulfilling personal life in exchange for a successful Wall Street career.

6.7