Cast: Jean Peters

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


¡Viva Zapata!

1952 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Marlon Brando · Anthony Quinn · Jean Peters · Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis Emiliano Zapata is a Mexican peon whose tribal land is stolen under the corrupt administration of Porfirio Díaz. Seeking justice, he and his fellow villagers join the revolutionaries under Madero. Zapata rises to the rank of General in the rebel...

7.5

5K votes

7.5

5K votes

7.4

94 votes

Pickup on South Street

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Richard Widmark · Jean Peters · Thelma Ritter · Richard Kiley

Synopsis While on the subway to deliver a piece of film she believes contains corporate secrets, Candy's wallet is stolen by Skip McCoy. The film actually contains government secrets on their way to "the Commies", and Candy has been under surveillance...

7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

Niagara

1953 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Joseph Cotten · Jean Peters · Denis O'Dea

Synopsis George and Rose Loomis are honeymooning at a Niagara Falls motel. She plots with Ted Patrick to do him in, but all does not go smoothly. For one thing, after Loomis is reported missing Polly Cutler spies him at the...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

Anne of the Indies

1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Jean Peters · Louis Jourdan · Debra Paget · Herbert Marshall

Synopsis The film begins with the sea battle where Anne's (Jean Peters) pirate ship attacks a trade ship that was on its way to Europe from the South America. As a result a treasure of great value is captured along with...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Broken Lance

1954 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Spencer Tracy · Robert Wagner · Jean Peters · Richard Widmark

Synopsis Edward Dmytryk directed this literate Western, a remake of HOUSE OF STRANGERS, which is itself loosely based on Shakespeare's KING LEAR. Tyrannical cattle baron Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) has raised his older sons harshly, leaving them neglected and bitter, particularly...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

O. Henry's Full House

1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · Howard Hawks · Henry King · Henry Koster

Cast Fred Allen · Anne Baxter · Jeanne Crain · Farley Granger

Synopsis This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop and the Anthem, a tramp named Soapy (Charles Laughton) tries...

6.8

477 votes

6.8

477 votes

A Blueprint For Murder

1953 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Joseph Cotten · Jean Peters · Gary Merrill · Catherine McLeod

Synopsis Whitney Cameron (Cotten), a man with a strong affection for his sister-in-law (Peters). When one of her stepchildren dies, it's revealed that the child was poisoned to death. Whitney suspects his sister-in-law committed the murder and is afraid that her...

6.7

166 votes

6.7

166 votes

Apache

1954 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Burt Lancaster · Jean Peters · Charles Bronson · John Dehner

Synopsis Refusing to let himself be re-settled on a Florida reservation, Massai, an Apache warrior, escapes his captors and returns to his homeland to become a peaceful farmer.

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Peter and Paul (TV Miniseries)

1981 · Movie · 197 min. · United States

Direction Robert Day

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Robert Foxworth · Eddie Albert · Raymond Burr

Synopsis Peter the Fisherman and Paul of Tarsus assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Jesus Christ and their own personal conflicts.

6.6

28 votes

6.6

28 votes

Captain from Castile

1947 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Jean Peters · Cesar Romero · Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis Tyrone Power plays Pedro De Vargas, a sixteenth century Spanish nobleman forced to flee Spain after he kills the man who murdered his sister. He goes to the New World, where he joins Hernando Cortes' expedition to Mexico, and becomes...

6.4

432 votes

6.4

432 votes

Deep Waters

1948 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Dana Andrews · Jean Peters · Cesar Romero · Anne Revere

Synopsis A Maine lobster fisherman, trained as an architect, prefers to be a fisherman over the objections of his fiancée. The latter, a welfare worker for the state, finds a home for a 12-year-old orphan who loves the sea. He and...

6.3

77 votes

6.3

77 votes

Vicki

1953 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Harry Horner

Cast Jeanne Crain · Jean Peters · Richard Boone · Elliott Reid

Synopsis The untimely murder of a New York glamor-girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally driven detective at the helm.

6.3

34 votes

6.3

34 votes

Lure of the Wilderness

1952 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Jean Peters · Jeffrey Hunter · Constance Smith · Walter Brennan

Synopsis A young girl and her father, who is unjustly accused of murder, seek refuge in a Georgia swamp until they are befriended by a trapper who penetrates the swamp in search of his dog.

6.2

158 votes

6.2

158 votes

As Young as You Feel

1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Harmon Jones

Cast Monty Woolley · Thelma Ritter · David Wayne · Jean Peters

Synopsis Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley is so nervous not even his beautiful secretary Harriet can...

6.1

45 votes

6.1

45 votes

It Happens Every Spring

1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Ray Milland · Jean Peters · Paul Douglas · Ed Begley

Synopsis A college professor is working on a long term experiment when a baseball comes through the window destroying all his glassware. The resultant fluid causes the baseball to be repelled by wood. Suddenly he realizes the possibilities and takes a...

6.0

41 votes

6.0

41 votes

Three Coins in the Fountain

1954 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Dorothy McGuire · Louis Jourdan · Clifton Webb · Jean Peters

Synopsis In this romantic comedy, three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. A secretary at a government agency sets out to win the heart of her employer,...

5.7

302 votes

5.7

302 votes

Take Care of My Little Girl

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Jeanne Crain · Dale Robertson · Mitzi Gaynor · Jean Peters

Synopsis A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.

Not rated

Not rated

Direction Boris Sagal

Cast Kirk Douglas · Christopher Plummer · Anne Baxter · Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis This is the story of the happenings at a major bank. The first of which is that the bank's president announces that he is dying and that with no heir to take his place, he informs the bank's officers that...

Not rated

Not rated

Love That Brute

1950 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Paul Douglas · Jean Peters · Cesar Romero · Keenan Wynn

Synopsis In 1928, Big Ed Hanley, boss of a gang of Chicago racketeers, has money and power, but he is bored. Watching some kids play in the park, he sees Ruth Manning and is interested at once. He tells her he...

Not rated

Not rated