The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Emmanuelle Arsan, Mako
Director: Robert Wise
The Hunter (1980)
Action | Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ben Johnson, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Richard Venture
Director: Buzz Kulik
Widows (2018)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Starring: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Liam Neeson
Director: Steve McQueen
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Gordon Pinsent, Biff McGuire
Director: Norman Jewison
Bullitt (1968)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn, Don Gordon, Simon Oakland, Norman Fell
Director: Peter Yates
Nevada Smith (1966)
Western
Set in the West of the 1890s, the film opens with the torture and murder of the parents of Max Sand by a trio of gunslingers seemingly motivated by their hostility toward the mixed nature of the marriage, since the wife is a Native American. Swearing revenge, the young cowhand enlists the help of itinerant gunsmith Jonas Cord, who teaches him how to shoot while counseling against revenge. Nonetheless, Sand doggedly scours one town after the other.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette, Raf Vallone
Director: Henry Hathaway
Film Independent Spirit Awards 2014 (TV 2014)
Awards
The 2014 Independent Spirit Awards announced its nominees on November 27, 2013. The winners will be announced on March 1, 2014.
Starring: Alexander Payne, Patton Oswalt, John Ridley, Nat Sanders, Ryan Coogler, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Bob Nelson, Sean Bobbitt, Matthew McConaughey, Cate Blanchett, Steve McQueen, Lupita Nyong'o
12 Years a Slave / Twelve Years a Slave (2013)
Biography | Drama | History
Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty, as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Michael K. Williams, Sarah Paulson, Lupita Nyong'o, Alfre Woodard
Director: Steve McQueen
12 Years a Slave / Twelve Years a Slave (2013)
Biography | Drama | History
Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty, as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Michael K. Williams, Sarah Paulson, Lupita Nyong'o, Alfre Woodard
Director: Steve McQueen
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The Towering Inferno (1974)
Action
A dedication ceremony at the world's tallest skyscraper turns into a high-rise catastrophe when an electrical flare-up causes a raging fire, trapping society's most prominent citizens on the top floor. Winner of three Academy Awards, this spectacular suspense thriller features dazzling special effects and a star-studded cast, including Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden and Faye Dunaway.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Wagner, Robert Vaughn
Director: Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
The Great Escape (1963)
Adventure | Drama | History | Thriller | War
In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft North, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp, designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted. Based on a true story.
Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence
Director: John Sturges
The Blob (1958)
Horror | Sci-Fi
A cult classic of gooey greatness, The Blob follows the havoc wreaked on a small town by an outer-space monster with neither soul nor vertebrae, with Steve McQueen playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the jellylike invader.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Stephen Chase
Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
Action | Drama | War
World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Bob Newhart, Nick Adams
Director: Don Siegel
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | Western
A bandit terrorizes a small Mexican farming village each year. Several of the village elders send three of the farmers into the United States to search for gunmen to defend them. They end up with 7, each of whom comes for a different reason. They must prepare the town to repulse an army of over 100 bandits who will arrive wanting food.
Starring: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, Rosenda Monteros
Director: John Sturges
Hunger (2008)
Biography | Drama | History
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, twenty-seven-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners, rather than as ordinary criminals. McQueen dramatizes prison existence and Sands's final days in a way that is purely experiential, even abstract, a succession of images full of both beauty and horror.
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham, Rory Mullen, Brian Milligan
Director: Steve McQueen
The Getaway (1972)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Master thief Doc McCoy knows his wife has been in bed with the local political boss in order to spring him from jail. What he can't know is the sinister succession of double-crosses that will sour the deal once he's on the outside – and executing the ultimate robbery. Fasten your seat belts and join Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw in a supreme action thriller based on Jim Thompson's novel. Sam Peckinpah directed, filming on locations across Texas and in sequence – from the opening inside Hunstville State Prison to the explosive El Paso border climax. Once The Getaway starts, there's no escaping its breathless intensity.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Shame (2011)
Drama
Brandon is a 30-something man living in New York who is unable to manage his sex life. After his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment, Brandon's world spirals out of control.
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie
Director: Steve McQueen
Papillon (1973)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, a petty criminal known as "Papillon" (meaning butterfly). Wrongly convicted of murder in the 1930s and sentenced to life in a penal colony in French Guiana, Papillon attempted many escapes and subsequent punishments before succeeding.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
