J. Lee Thompson

J. Lee Thompson

August 1, 1914 · 112 years old

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Lee Thompson  (1 August 1914 – 30 August 2002), better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article J. Lee Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contribut…

Known For

27 titles
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The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

1961 · 2h 38m · Movie

A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

7.5
2
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

1972 · 1h 28m · Movie

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.

6.1
3
Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

1973 · 1h 33m · Movie

Ten years after a worldwide series of ape revolutions and a brutal nuclear war among humans, Caesar must protect survivors of both species from an insidious human cult and a militant ape faction alike.

5.4
4
Cape Fear

Cape Fear

1962 · 1h 46m · Movie

A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.

7.7
5
King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines

1985 · 1h 40m · Movie

Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.

5.2
6
Happy Birthday to Me

Happy Birthday to Me

1981 · 1h 50m · Movie

At the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday.

6.0
7
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

1987 · 1h 39m · Movie

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose.

5.4
8
Mackenna's Gold

Mackenna's Gold

1969 · 2h 8m · Movie

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

6.7
9
10 to Midnight

10 to Midnight

1983 · 1h 41m · Movie

An LAPD detective and his rookie partner are on the trail of a psychopathic young man who is murdering young women.

6.3
10
Firewalker

Firewalker

1986 · 1h 45m · Movie

A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache hoard of gold.

5.1
11
Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex

1958 · 2h 10m · Movie

During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.

7.7
12
Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law

1986 · 1h 40m · Movie

Framed for his ex-wife's murder by a parolee he once put behind bars, Los Angeles cop Jack Murphy escapes from custody to capture the killer, but he is now handcuffed to a foul-mouthed thief he had only just arrested.

5.9
13
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
14
The White Buffalo

The White Buffalo

1977 · 1h 37m · Movie

At the closing of 1874 a haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok teams up with a grieving Crazy Horse to hunt a murderous albino buffalo.

6.1
15
The Evil That Men Do

The Evil That Men Do

1984 · 1h 30m · Movie

A former assassin comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.

5.9
16
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.

6.3
17
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

1989 · 1h 37m · Movie

A brutal Los Angeles police Lt. is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.

5.5
18
North West Frontier

North West Frontier

1959 · 2h 9m · Movie

Set on the North West Frontier of colonial India in 1905. A British Army Officer, Captain Scott is sent to rescue a five year old Indian Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt from certain death at the hands of rebel t...

7.1
19
St. Ives

St. Ives

1976 · 1h 34m · Movie

A crime novelist is hired by a shady character to negotiate the return of stolen confidential documents.

6.2
20
The Passage

The Passage

1979 · 1h 38m · Movie

During World War II, a Basque shepherd is approached by underground operatives who want him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees while they're being pursued by a sadistic German officer.

6.0
21
Kings of the Sun

Kings of the Sun

1963 · 1h 48m · Movie

On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam.

6.1
22
The Greek Tycoon

The Greek Tycoon

1978 · 1h 47m · Movie

A fictionalized account of the Greek shipping magnate, Onassis, and his meeting and subsequent marriage to the widow of assassinated U.S. president, Jacqueline Kennedy.

5.4
23
Cabo Blanco

Cabo Blanco

1980 · 1h 27m · Movie

In 1948, an assortment of shady characters are searching for Nazi loot, sunken off the coast of Peru.

5.3
24
Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn

1974 · 1h 58m · Movie

In 1840s Missouri, young Huckleberry Finn, wanting to escape his violent drunkard father, joins Black runaway slave Jim on a quest for freedom down the Mississippi River on a raft.

5.6
25
Young and Willing

Young and Willing

1954 · 1h 12m · Movie

Frank "women in prison" story that sympathetically tracks several inmates through their imprisonment and subsequent return to society. Some are successfully rehabilitated; some are not.

6.4
26
No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street

1959 · 1h 36m · Movie

London detective recalls 1930s poverty. Hetty battles brother's criminality, manipulative mother favoring racketeer Wilkie for gain. Slums contrasted with new high-rises.

6.0
27
I Aim at the Stars

I Aim at the Stars

1960 · 1h 47m · Movie

The story of rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun's career, from the 1920s until the late 1950s.

6.2