Black Sunday (1977)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Black Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the president of the United States in attendance.
Starring: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Steven Keats, Bekim Fehmiu
Director: John Frankenheimer
Seven Days in May (1964)
Drama | Thriller
United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam
Director: John Frankenheimer
52 Pick-Up (1986)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A secret fling between a man and his mistress leads to blackmail and murder.
Starring: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Robert Trebor, Lonny Chapman
Director: John Frankenheimer
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Biography | Crime | Drama
A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Betty Field, Telly Savalas, Neville Brand
Director: John Frankenheimer, Charles Crichton
Against the Wall (1994)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller
Based on the true story of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Samuel L. Jackson, Clarence Williams III, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Anne Heche
Director: John Frankenheimer
Ronin (1998)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
A freelancing former U.S. intelligence agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by both the Irish and the Russians.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean, Skipp Sudduth
Director: John Frankenheimer
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Drama | Thriller
A US Army hero returns to New York from Korea, but has been mysteriously programmed by Communists to assassinate a presidential nominee, but when his Army buddy becomes suspicious of the goings on, he is on the trail to stop him.
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory
Director: John Frankenheimer
Dead Bang (1989)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A fact-based action thriller about a dedicated L.A. homicide detective who, while investigating a routine murder, stumbles upon a frightening national conspiracy.
Starring: Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe, Bob Balaban, Frank Military, Tate Donovan
Director: John Frankenheimer
Path to War (2002)
Drama
A portrayal of the Johnson presidency and its spiraling descent into the Vietnam War. Acting on often conflicting advice from his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara and other advisers, President Johnson finds his domestic policy agenda for the Great Society overtaken by an ever demanding commitment to ending the war. It also depicts his political skills as he crosses swords with political foes such as Bobby Kennedy and Governor George Wallace. Despite support and encouragement from stalwart friends such as Clark Clifford, Johnson realizes his management of the war no longer has the confidence of the American people and announces that he will not seek the nomination of the Democratic party for the the 1968 election.
Starring: Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland, Alec Baldwin, Bruce McGill
Director: John Frankenheimer
The Train (1964)
Action | Thriller | War
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Simon, Wolfgang Preiss
Director: John Frankenheimer
Seconds (1966)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Desperate to escape his dreary, dead-end life, aging broker Arthur Hamilton succumbs to a mysterious organization's offer of a new identity and a fresh start.
Starring: Frank Campanella, John Randolph, Murray Hamilton, Jeff Corey, Will Geer, Richard Anderson
Director: John Frankenheimer
The Young Savages (1961)
Crime | Drama
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts in the case aren't exactly as they seem to be.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan, Shelley Winters, Larry Gates, Telly Savalas
Director: John Frankenheimer
Reindeer Games / Deception (2000)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Just released from prison, all Rudy Duncan wants is to start a new life with Ashley, the girl of the his dreams, whom he met through pen pal letters in prison. But between them and happiness stands her crazy brother, Gabriel, and his motley crue of deadly criminals who think Rudy has some inside information about a casino where he once had a job–a casino Gabriel and his short-fused posse plan to take down. Now, just as Rudy is beginning his new life, he's caught in a high-velocity avalanche of temptations and surprises that could bury him, unless he can artfully dodge them.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, Isaac Hayes, Ron Jeremy, Donal Logue
Director: John Frankenheimer
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that it's inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Fairuza Balk, Temuera Morrison
Director: John Frankenheimer
French Connection II (1975)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Gene Hackman returns as hard-boiled New York narcotics cop Popeye Doyle in the sequel to the Oscar-winning 'The French Connection'. Still on the trail of heroin kingpin Charnier (Fernando Rey), whom he's dubbed Frog One, Doyle heads for Marseilles. On arrival, his aggressive ugly-American persona alienates French inspector Barthelmy (Bernard Fresson), and his limited ability to speak French doesn't help. Frustrated by Barthelmy's lack of progress, he slips his assigned police protection and goes looking for Frog One on his own. He's soon captured by Charnier's minions, who lock him in a fleabag hotel and shoot him up repeatedly with free samples of their product until Doyle is completely addicted. Charnier uses the detective's narcotized state to interrogate him and is surprised to find that he's virtually ignorant about his operation. The disdainful Charnier has him dumped in front of police headquarters, and Barthemy arranges for him to be put in isolation. Doyle undergoes the lengthy, grueling ordeal of quitting heroin cold turkey while his desperation to capture Charnier builds inside him. Hackman's brilliant performance highlights this somewhat overlooked sequel; Claude Renoir's camera fully captures the squalor of the milieu, and Frankenheimer engineers a harrowing final chase.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Philippe Léotard
Director: John Frankenheimer
