
Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, November 3, 1921 - August 30, 2003) was an American actor. Known for his granite features and brawny physique, he gained international fame for his starring roles in action, western, and war films; initially as a supporting player and later a leading man. A quintessential cinematic tough guy, Bronson was cast in various roles where the plot line hinged on the authenticity of the character's toughness and brawn. At the height of his fame in the early 1970s, he was the world's number one box office attraction.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 21.426 |
Birthday | 1921-11-03 |
Place of Birth | Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | Charles Dennis Buchinsky, Le Sacre Monstre, Karolis Bučinskis, Karolis Dionyzas Bučinskis, چارلز برانسون, |

1960

The Magnificent Seven
7.5/1807
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
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The Magnificent Seven

1967

The Dirty Dozen
7.592/1214
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. Th...
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The Dirty Dozen

1971

Someone Behind the Door
5.406/32
A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "a...
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Someone Behind the Door

1952

Diplomatic Courier
6/21
During the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret intelligence. But when he arrives at the meeting poi...
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Diplomatic Courier

1959

Never So Few
5.355/62
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
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Never So Few

1968

Farewell, Friend
6.3/92
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited a...
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Farewell, Friend

1963

The Great Escape
7.9/2584
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-secu...
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The Great Escape

1976

From Noon Till Three
6/59
Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning...
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From Noon Till Three

1977

Telefon
6.6/117
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents g...
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Telefon

1975

Hard Times
6.7/202
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans...
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Hard Times

1980

Cabo Blanco
5.3/33
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea ex...
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Cabo Blanco

1975

Breakheart Pass
6.6/203
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passeng...
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Breakheart Pass

1971

Red Sun
6.9/266
In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a valuable sword to the President of the United Stat...
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Red Sun

1975

Breakout
6.3/102
A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
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Breakout

1970

Violent City
6/92
A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss...
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Violent City

1980

Borderline
6/45
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of...
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Borderline

1976

Raid on Entebbe
6/54
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane la...
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Raid on Entebbe

1985

Death Wish 3
6.2/428
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a la...
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Death Wish 3

1991

The Indian Runner
6.5/141
Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent...
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The Indian Runner

1987

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
5.702/310
After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey takes on the local drug cartel.
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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

1986

Murphy's Law
6.1/155
A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and pro...
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Murphy's Law

1981

Death Hunt
6.6/184
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a...
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Death Hunt

1952

Pat and Mike
6.288/66
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets fluste...
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Pat and Mike

1972

The Valachi Papers
6.5/103
When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful at...
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The Valachi Papers

1972

Chato's Land
6.5/143
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.
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Chato's Land

1988

Messenger of Death
6/78
Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive....
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Messenger of Death

1974

Mr. Majestyk
6.8/185
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
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Mr. Majestyk

1973

The Stone Killer
6.208/77
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
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The Stone Killer

1954

Vera Cruz
6.6/236
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane mee...
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Vera Cruz

1970

Rider on the Rain
6.3/90
A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
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Rider on the Rain

1965

Battle of the Bulge
6.907/257
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive...
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Battle of the Bulge

1994

Death Wish V: The Face of Death
5.532/284
Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.
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Death Wish V: The Face of Death

1957

Run of the Arrow
6.2/46
When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a...
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Run of the Arrow

1961

X-15
5.9/14
X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.
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X-15

1974

Death Wish
6.896/862
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be...
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Death Wish

1951

The People Against O'Hara
5.7/26
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
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The People Against O'Hara

1970

Cold Sweat
5.7/74
During the Korean War, Joe Moran, is convicted for striking a colonel. Imprisoned in Germany he encounters his former company commander Captain Ross,...
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Cold Sweat

1982

Death Wish II
6.272/472
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
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Death Wish II

1956

Jubal
6.8/80
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly make...
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Jubal

1954

Apache
6.115/130
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way...
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Apache

1958

Machine-Gun Kelly
5.7/39
George Kelly is angry at the world and scared to death of dying. A career bank robber, Kelly gets his confidence from his Thompson SMG and his girl Fl...
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Machine-Gun Kelly

1955

Big House, U.S.A
6.5/22
A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate la...
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Big House, U.S.A

1976

St. Ives
5.7/48
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
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St. Ives

1979

Love and Bullets
5.9/41
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in...
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Love and Bullets

1952

My Six Convicts
6.3/9
A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have n...
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My Six Convicts

1953

Miss Sadie Thompson
5.2/24
Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.
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Miss Sadie Thompson

1966

This Property Is Condemned
6.3/88
Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds l...
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This Property Is Condemned

1977

The White Buffalo
5.906/127
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquel...
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The White Buffalo

1963

4 for Texas
5.1/57
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000...
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4 for Texas

1953

House of Wax
6.9/336
A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who de...
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House of Wax

1983

10 to Midnight
6.2/206
Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills while...
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10 to Midnight

1962

Kid Galahad
6.1/48
After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a prof...
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Kid Galahad

1968

Villa Rides
6.3/56
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of ded...
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Villa Rides

1987

Assassination
5.6/86
Jay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first lady (Lara Royce). Lara hates Killon so she does all...
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Assassination

1968

Guns for San Sebastian
7.006/86
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted,...
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Guns for San Sebastian

1953

Crime Wave
7.1/71
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then att...
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Crime Wave

1951

You're in the Navy Now
4.4/9
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teake...
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You're in the Navy Now

1984

The Evil That Men Do
5.8/105
Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Lat...
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The Evil That Men Do

1961

Master of the World
5.9/74
A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
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Master of the World

1958

Showdown at Boot Hill
6.5/12
Bounty hunter Luke Welsh arrives looking for a wanted man. When that man draws on him he has to kill him. To collect his reward he needs a statement i...
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Showdown at Boot Hill

1973

Chino
5.4/57
Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unw...
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Chino

1995

Family of Cops
6.6/45
Paul Fein is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman, and he s...
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Family of Cops

1964

Guns of Diablo
5.3/15
14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson is a wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs int...
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Guns of Diablo

1958

Gang War
6.4/4
A Los Angeles teacher becomes a mob target when he agrees to be a star witness in a gangland murder case.
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Gang War

1965

The Sandpiper
6.4/47
A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
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The Sandpiper

1970

Twinky
4.833/24
A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the...
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Twinky

1989

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
5.5/87
A brutal Los Angeles police lieutenant is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

1961

A Thunder of Drums
5.4/23
Captain Maddocks will never be promoted beyond Captain because of a mistake that he made in the past. Lt. McQuade is a green rookie who is now under t...
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A Thunder of Drums

1958

When Hell Broke Loose
5.8/8
Near the end of the war in Germany, GI Steve Boland, a self-described "sharp-operator", meets a German girl, Ilsa, and they fall in love. Ilsa's broth...
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When Hell Broke Loose

1952

Off Limits
5.8/15
Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. However, l...
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Off Limits

1993

Donato and Daughter
5.7/21
Though emotionally estranged, a father and daughter team of Los Angeles police detectives must work together to stop a serial killer. Along the way, t...
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Donato and Daughter

1997

Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II
6.7/27
The family of cops is back, this time dealing with the murder of a priest tied in with the Russian Mafia, who proceed to try to draw the family off th...
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Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II

1999

Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion
6.7/20
Police Inspector Paul Fein copes with family troubles while also dealing with the possibility of advancement to police chief. Meanwhile, his son is in...
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Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion

1954

Drum Beat
6/32
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy...
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Drum Beat

1972

The Bull of the West
5.4/8
Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together: "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "Nobility of Kings" (10 Nov. 1965).
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The Bull of the West

1954

Riding Shotgun
6/22
When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang.
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Riding Shotgun

1970

You Can't Win 'Em All
5.8/34
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...
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You Can't Win 'Em All

1978

The Meanest Men in the West
4.1/11
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them...
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The Meanest Men in the West

1991

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
7/16
While newspaper writer Church struggles with the death of his wife, he receives a "special" assignment. He must answer a little girl's question about...
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Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

1952

Bloodhounds of Broadway
6.9/8
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird,...
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Bloodhounds of Broadway

1955

Target Zero
5.3/6
International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War.
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Target Zero

1954

Tennessee Champ
5.8/5
A boxer desperate for money falls in with a shady promoter.
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Tennessee Champ

1994

The Sea Wolf
6.2/16
Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost.
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The Sea Wolf

1952

Battle Zone
5/3
Two Marine Corps combat photographers compete for the love of a Red Cross nurse during the Korean War. During a secret mission behind the North Korean...
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Battle Zone

2022

Rat Pack
9/2
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bish...
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Rat Pack

2006

Operation Dirty Dozen
6/2
A short film looking behind the scenes at the making of The Dirty Dozen. Showing many scenes being filmed just north of London, the short focuses most...
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Operation Dirty Dozen

1983

All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
6/1
A Celebration of the great life of Frank Sinatra with song, dance, and many famous guests.
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All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra

1995

Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
0/0
'Ol' Blue Eyes' eightieth birthday celebration; star-studded entertainment, tributes by a diverse company of guests, songs closely associated with Sin...
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Sinatra: 80 Years My Way

1958

No Time at All
0/0
An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people...
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No Time at All

1986

Act of Vengeance
5.9/16
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
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Act of Vengeance

1985

Night of 100 Stars II
8/3
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...
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Night of 100 Stars II

1980

Catastrophe: No Safe Place
8/1
Catastrophe-No Safe Place is a 1980's documentary series presented by Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland presenting different catastrophic events around...
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Catastrophe: No Safe Place

1952

Red Skies of Montana
5.2/4
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest...
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Red Skies of Montana

1953

Torpedo Alley
0/0
After carrier pilot Lt Bingham is rescued at sea by a submarine when he crashes, he applies for submarine duty. During training he competes with Comma...
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Torpedo Alley

1971

Mean Justice
7/1
Moreno (Bronson) is a tough ranch hand on the vast half million acre Garret Ranch. Rich in timber, gas, cattle and oil, the ranch is a major employer...
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Mean Justice

1952

The Marrying Kind
6.7/25
Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge encourages them to remember the good tim...
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The Marrying Kind

1951

The Mob
6.6/45
An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.
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The Mob

1965

The Big Sur
6/1
This MGM short film narrated by Richard Burton promotes its upcoming major release "The Sandpiper" (1965), starring Burton and his then wife Elizabeth...
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The Big Sur

1972

The Mechanic
6.71/298
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made...
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The Mechanic

1953

The Clown
5.4/7
Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little Din...
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The Clown

1993

La Classe américaine
7.626/227
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of...
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La Classe américaine

1968

Once Upon a Time in the West
8.3/4429
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the...
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Once Upon a Time in the West

2015

Spanish Western
5.7/13
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it pos...
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Spanish Western

2020

Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
7.8/10
With his grizzled moustache and chiselled features, Charles Bronson is the embodiment of a slightly archaic, brooding and almost reactionary virility....
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Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity

1972

Valachi: The Violent Era
0/0
Promotional short taking a look at the making of The Valachi Papers.
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