Cast: John Huston

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


Chinatown

1974 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Jack Nicholson · Faye Dunaway · John Huston · Perry Lopez

Plot It is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes...

7.9

44K votes

7.9

44K votes

Bacall on Bogart (Great Performances) (TV)

1988 · Documentary · 84 min. · United States

Direction David Heeley

Cast Lauren Bacall · Humphrey Bogart · Peter Bogdanovich · Richard Brooks

Plot Lauren Bacall tells the story of her late husband Humphrey Bogart, presenting clips from his movies and interview clips with his peers.

7.0

24 votes

7.0

24 votes

The Cardinal

1963 · Movie · 175 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Tom Tryon · John Huston · Romy Schneider · Patrick O'Neal

Plot An Irish American priest whose strong commitment to social issues leads him through a labyrinth of church politics and eventually to the upper echelons of Catholic hierarchy as Cardinal. Crossing...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

1972 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Paul Newman · Ava Gardner · Jacqueline Bisset · Victoria Principal

Plot A comic take on the legendary hanging judge, Roy Bean. Told through a series of vignettes, the story covers different stages of Bean's life, from his arrival in the town...

6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Pilot Episode (TV)

1985 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Steve De Jarnatt · Joel Oliansky · Randa Haines · Fred Walton

Cast John Huston · Melanie Griffith · Steven Bauer · Tippi Hedren

Plot Four classic Alfred Hitchcock presenta (1955) episodes, "Incident in a Small Jail", "Man from the South", "Bang. You're Dead!" and "An Unlocked Window", have been remade for the new show's...

6.7

71 votes

6.7

71 votes

A Walk with Love and Death

1969 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Anjelica Huston · Assi Dayan · Anthony Higgins · John Hallam

Plot In a story set during the Hundred Years War, a student who has abandoned his studies in Paris, pairs with a young noblewoman with whom he has fallen in love.

6.7

852 votes

6.7

852 votes

The Wind and the Lion

1975 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction John Milius

Cast Sean Connery · Candice Bergen · Brian Keith · John Huston

Plot At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers. The attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

Man in the Wilderness

1971 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Richard C. Sarafian

Cast Richard Harris · John Huston · Henry Wilcoxon · Percy Herbert

Plot Set in the 1820s American wilderness, a fur trapper is left for dead after a vicious bear attack by the expedition he was participating in. He survives and hunts down...

6.5

970 votes

6.5

970 votes

Wise Blood

1979 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Brad Dourif · John Huston · Dan Shor · Harry Dean Stanton

Plot A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his...

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6.4

690 votes

6.4

690 votes

The Legend of Marilyn Monroe

1966 · Documentary · 53 min. · United States

Direction Tery Sanders

Cast Marilyn Monroe · John Huston · Gladys Baker · Albert Bolender

Plot A documentary about the life and career of 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe, narrated by director John Huston (who worked with her on "The Misfits"). Included are interviews with friends,...

6.4

67 votes

6.4

67 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

Buñuel

1984 · Documentary · 80 min. · Spain

6.3

146 votes

6.3

146 votes

The Other Side of the Wind

2018 · Movie · 122 min. · France

Direction Orson Welles

Cast John Huston · Robert Random · Peter Bogdanovich · Susan Strasberg

Plot The story of a legendary director named J.J. "Jake" Hannaford, who returns to Hollywood from years of semi-exile in Europe with plans to complete work on his own innovative comeback...

6.0

806 votes

6.0

806 votes

Cannery Row

1982 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction David S. Ward

Cast Nick Nolte · Debra Winger · Audra Lindley · Frank McRae

Plot Doc (Nick Nolte) is a self-employed marine biologist who lives by the ocean and interacts with the neighborhood denizens, trying to conceal a troubled past. Across from Doc's digs stands...

6.0

112 votes

6.0

112 votes

The Bible: In the Beginning...

1966 · Movie · 174 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Michael Parks · Ulla Bergryd · Richard Harris · John Huston

Plot An elaborate Hollywood retelling of the Bible stories narrated by the film's director John Huston. We open with the Creation of the World and arrive at the Garden of Eden...

5.7

2K votes

5.7

2K votes

Momo

1986 · Movie · 101 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Johannes Schaaf

Cast Radost Bokel · Mario Adorf · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Leopoldo Trieste

Plot This film, based on a book written by Michael Ende (the German author who also wrote "The Neverending Story") takes place in a fictional, nameless town. The routine, slow-paced life...

5.7

1K votes

5.7

1K votes

The Deserter (The Devil's Backbone)

1971 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Niksa Fulgosi · Burt Kennedy

Cast Bekim Fehmiu · Richard Crenna · Chuck Connors · Ricardo Montalban

Plot Bitter over his wife's death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. But when marauding Apaches set...

5.6

107 votes

5.6

107 votes

Winter Kills

1979 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction William Richert

Cast Jeff Bridges · John Huston · Anthony Perkins · Eli Wallach

Plot 19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avoid his wealthy and domineering father's...

5.5

68 votes

5.5

68 votes

Casino Royale

1967 · Movie · 130 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Huston · Ken Hughes · Val Guest · Robert Parrish

Cast Peter Sellers · Ursula Andress · David Niven · Woody Allen

Plot SMERSH has outlined a plan to destabilize the world. Her Majesty’s Secret Service decides to press an aging James Bond out of retirement and back into action. His objective, to...

5.3

4K votes

5.3

4K votes

Breakout

1975 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Tom Gries

Cast Charles Bronson · Robert Duvall · Jill Ireland · Randy Quaid

Plot Jay Wagner is framed by the mob and sent to prison in Mexico. His wife, Ann tries to get him out. She then turns to bush pilot Nick Colton for...

5.1

153 votes

5.1

153 votes