Cast: James Brown

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring James Brown. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Irma la Douce

1963 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jack Lemmon · Shirley MacLaine · Lou Jacobi · Bruce Yarnell

Plot The film version of Irma La Douce (which means "Irma the Sweet") tells the story of Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon), an honest policeman who finds a street full of prostitutes...

7.9

33K votes

7.9

33K votes

When We Were Kings

1996 · Documentary · 89 min. · United States

Direction Leon Gast

Cast Muhammad Ali · George Foreman · Don King · James Brown

Plot In 1974, boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman came to the still-emerging and politically unstable African nation of Zaire for what Ali called the "Rumble in the Jungle," a highly...

Max

7.7

5K votes

7.7

5K votes

Woman They Almost Lynched

1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast John Lund · Brian Donlevy · Audrey Totter · Joan Leslie

Plot Kate Quantrill (Audrey Totter), wife of infamous Confederate raider Quantrill (Brian Donlevy), and Sally Maris (Joan Leslie), virginal sister of Kate's ex-lover, saloonkeeper Bitteroot Bill (Reed Hadley). Sally herself falls...

7.3

47 votes

7.3

47 votes

A Star Is Born

1954 · Movie · 175 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Judy Garland · James Mason · Jack Carson · Charles Bickford

Plot Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (TV)

2014 · Documentary · 120 min. · United States

Direction Alex Gibney

Cast James Brown

Plot A look at the music career of musician James Brown beginning with his first hit song, "Please, Please, Please," in 1956.

7.2

226 votes

7.2

226 votes

The Blues Brothers

1980 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction John Landis

Cast Dan Aykroyd · John Belushi · Henry Gibson · Carrie Fisher

Plot Upon Jakes release from prison, the brothers are reunited and visit the orphanage they grew up in--only to discover that it is in danger of being shut down by the...

7.2

34K votes

7.2

34K votes

Objective Burma!

1945 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Errol Flynn · James Brown · William Prince · George Tobias

Plot A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they...

7.2

9K votes

7.2

9K votes

Targets

1968 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Boris Karloff · Tim O'Kelly · Nancy Hsueh · Peter Bogdanovich

Plot The script was inspired by the 1966 shooting spree of Texas Tower sniper Charles Whitman. Karloff, as Byron Orlock, more or less plays himself: an aging horror star, consigned to...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Going My Way

1944 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Bing Crosby · Barry Fitzgerald · Rise Stevens · Gene Lockhart

Plot A new priest shows up at the parish of a crusty old priest named Father Fitzgibbon. The new man, Father O'Malley, must ingratiate himself with both the old man and...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Air Force

1943 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Ridgely · Gig Young · Arthur Kennedy · Charles Drake

Plot The Mary Ann, a B-17 Flying Fortress, takes off from California for Hawaii on a routine training flight on December 6, 1941. En route, they learn of the Japanese attack...

6.4

266 votes

6.4

266 votes

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

2018 · Documentary · 93 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Weber

Cast Robert Mitchum · John Mitchum · Benicio del Toro · Clint Eastwood

Plot In the late 1990s, photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber managed to convince Robert Mitchum to appear before his camera for a filmed portrait. When Mitchum passed away in 1997, Weber...

6.3

21 votes

6.3

21 votes

Route 66 (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Lowell Rich · Arthur Hiller · Tom Gries · George Sherman

Cast Martin Milner · George Maharis · Glenn Corbett · Elizabeth MacRae

Plot Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964....

6.3

25 votes

6.3

25 votes

The Hire: Beat The Devil (S)

2002 · Movie · 9 min. · United States

Direction Tony Scott

Cast Clive Owen · James Brown · Gary Oldman · Danny Trejo

Plot The Driver is employed by James Brown, who goes to meet the Devil to re-negotiate the deal he made as a young man in 1954 to trade his soul for...

6.1

831 votes

6.1

831 votes

Sands of Iwo Jima

1949 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast John Wayne · John Agar · Adele Mara · Forrest Tucker

Plot John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy...

6.0

745 votes

6.0

745 votes

Thunder Over the Plains

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Randolph Scott · Lex Barker · Phyllis Kirk · Charles McGraw

Plot In Post-Bellum Texas, an army captain tries to keep the peace between overtaxed, impoverished farmers and greedy carpetbaggers.

6.0

209 votes

6.0

209 votes

Montana

1950 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

5.9

473 votes

5.9

473 votes

Rocky IV

1985 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Sylvester Stallone

Cast Sylvester Stallone · Talia Shire · Burt Young · Carl Weathers

Plot When Rocky's old friend Apollo Creed is killed during a fight with a superfit Russian boxer, Ivan Drago, Rocky blames himself for the death when he could have thrown in...

5.8

23K votes

5.8

23K votes

Chain Lightning

1950 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Eleanor Parker · Raymond Massey · Richard Whorf

Plot A World War II bomber pilot becomes a reckless barnstormer and finally, a daredevil test pilot. He attempts to reform his ways in order to win back his true love.

5.5

110 votes

5.5

110 votes

Young and Willing

1943 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast William Holden · Eddie Bracken · Robert Benchley · Susan Hayward

Plot A group of starving, but young and willing, actors band together to share finances and an apartment. Norman Reese (William Holden) orders no love nonsense between the boys and girls...

5.4

190 votes

5.4

190 votes

Blues Brothers 2000

1998 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction John Landis

Cast Dan Aykroyd · John Goodman · Joe Morton · J. Evan Bonifant

Plot Upon his release from prison, now-brotherless Blues Brother Jake Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) puts the band back together with the help of a golden-voiced strip joint bartender (John Goodman) and a...

5.2

5K votes

5.2

5K votes