Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

June 3, 1925 · 101 years old

Tony Curtis (June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in over 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. In his later years,…

Known For

38 titles
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Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot

1959 · 2h 1m · Movie

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

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Spartacus

Spartacus

1960 · 3h 17m · Movie

The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.

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Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success

1957 · 1h 36m · Movie

A powerful Broadway columnist coerces an unscrupulous press agent into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.

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Winchester '73

Winchester '73

1950 · 1h 32m · Movie

A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.

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The Great Race

The Great Race

1965 · 2h 40m · Movie

In the early 20th century, heroic Leslie Gallant and his despicable rival Professor Fate engage in an epic automobile race from New York to Paris while enthusiastic suffragette Maggie Dubois enters the race to report on every step...

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The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones

1958 · 1h 36m · Movie

Two chained-together escaped convicts, one white and one black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

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Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat

1959 · 2h 4m · Movie

During World War II, a commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) submarine, a con man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

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The Vikings

The Vikings

1958 · 1h 56m · Movie

A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.

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The Boston Strangler

The Boston Strangler

1968 · 1h 56m · Movie

A series of strangulation murders of Boston women sparks a protracted complex manhunt. Law professor John Bottomley leads a multi-jurisdictional task force in the investigation, with help from surviving victim Diane Cluny.

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The Mirror Crack'd

The Mirror Crack'd

1980 · 1h 45m · Movie

Miss Jane Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned, but a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

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The Last Tycoon

The Last Tycoon

1976 · 2h 3m · Movie

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

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12
Paris When It Sizzles

Paris When It Sizzles

1964 · 1h 50m · Movie

The sprightly young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter helps him over his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots.

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13
The Celluloid Closet

The Celluloid Closet

1996 · 1h 42m · Movie

A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.

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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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Sex and the Single Girl

Sex and the Single Girl

1964 · 1h 50m · Movie

A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.

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Taras Bulba

Taras Bulba

1962 · 2h 2m · Movie

In the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.

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Insignificance

Insignificance

1985 · 1h 49m · Movie

Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.

6.4
18
Houdini

Houdini

1953 · 1h 46m · Movie

From his beginnings as a "wildman" carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, the great Harry Houdini emerged as the world's most captivating magician and escape artist.

6.8
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Boeing, Boeing

Boeing, Boeing

1965 · 1h 42m · Movie

Robert Reed visits his philandering friend Bernard Lawrence just as Bernard's scheme of being secretly simultaneously engaged to three flight attendants goes awry. Based on Marc Camoletti's stage play.

6.4
20
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

1978 · 1h 31m · Movie

A small-time hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best Little League baseball team, sparking off a series of adventures and mishaps.

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21
Captain Newman, M.D.

Captain Newman, M.D.

1963 · 2h 6m · Movie

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona, and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.

6.9
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Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies

Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies

1969 · 2h 2m · Movie

An international car rally across Europe is complicated by smuggling, cheating, love at first sight, etc. etc.

6.1
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Murder in Three Acts

Murder in Three Acts

1986 · 1h 34m · Movie

Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The cause seems to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

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Goodbye Charlie

Goodbye Charlie

1964 · 1h 56m · Movie

Womanizing Charlie is shot by an angry husband and falls in the sea. He arrives home after his memorial as a cute, amnesic woman. His old friend helps her/him.

6.1
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Kings Go Forth

Kings Go Forth

1958 · 1h 49m · Movie

Toward the end of World War II, two American soldiers fighting in Southern France become romantically involved with a young, American woman. Her background will reveal more about them than her.

6.5
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You Can't Win 'Em All

You Can't Win 'Em All

1970 · 1h 37m · Movie

During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.

5.7
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The Rat Race

The Rat Race

1960 · 1h 45m · Movie

An aspiring musician 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.

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Kansas Raiders

Kansas Raiders

1950 · 1h 20m · Movie

Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.

6.1
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Beachhead

Beachhead

1954 · 1h 30m · Movie

In 1943, in the wake of the Allied amphibious landing on the Japanese-held Bougainville Island, four Marines are sent to scout the location of Japanese minefields.

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30
The Midnight Story

The Midnight Story

1957 · 1h 30m · Movie

When a San Francisco priest is murdered, a policeman, who's a close friend, starts an investigation.

6.7
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The Rawhide Years

The Rawhide Years

1956 · 1h 25m · Movie

Dishonest riverboat gambler Ben Matthews is blamed for a murder he didn't commit and must find the real killer before the lynch mob finds him.

6.1
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Johnny Stool Pigeon

Johnny Stool Pigeon

1949 · 1h 16m · Movie

US Treasury agent George Morton persuades convicted criminal Johnny Evans to help him destroy a drug smuggling ring in exchange for early parole.

6.6
33
Reflections of Evil

Reflections of Evil

2002 · 2h 18m · Movie

Julie, who died of a PCP overdose as a teen in the early '70s, searches from beyond the ethers for her little brother, Bob, an obese watch-seller, who is dying of sucrose intolerance, in the early '90s.

6.3
34
Flesh and Fury

Flesh and Fury

1952 · 1h 23m · Movie

A deaf boxer is exploited by a gold-digging blonde.

6.6
35
I Was a Shoplifter

I Was a Shoplifter

1950 · 1h 14m · Movie

In 1950s California, the police force tries to infiltrate and neutralize a shoplifting crime ring operating in major department stores.

6.1
36
Some Like It Cool

Some Like It Cool

1977 · 1h 40m · Movie

While hiding from the royal authorities,Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving in Venice for a state visit, an...

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