Cast: Robert Mitchum

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


The Night of the Hunter

1955 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Charles Laughton

Cast Robert Mitchum · Billy Chapin · Sally Ann Bruce · Shelley Winters

Plot A schizophrenic preacher (Robert Mitchum) - possibly the devil himself - relentlessly hunts two small children (Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce) across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at...

8.1

30K votes

8.1

30K votes

Out of the Past

1947 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jane Greer · Kirk Douglas · Rhonda Fleming

Plot Mitchum stars as existential antihero Jeff Markham, a retired private detective with a shady past who is hoping for a fresh start with a new name, a new love, and...

8.1

13K votes

8.1

13K votes

El Dorado

1966 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Wayne · Robert Mitchum · James Caan · Charlene Holt

Plot Hired gunman Cole Thornton turns down a job with Bart Jason as it would mean having to fight an old sheriff friend. Some months later he finds out the lawman...

7.8

13K votes

7.8

13K votes

Ryan's Daughter

1970 · Movie · 206 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Sarah Miles · Robert Mitchum · Christopher Jones · Trevor Howard

Plot Set during the Irish Rebellion of 1916, it tells the story of Charles Shaughnessy (Robert Mitchum), a kind and gentle widower, who falls in love with and marries the much...

7.8

6K votes

7.8

6K votes

Angel Face

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jean Simmons · Mona Freeman · Herbert Marshall

Plot Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne, who remarried a wealthy woman, Diane Treymayne's...

7.7

7K votes

7.7

7K votes

Cape Fear

1962 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Gregory Peck · Robert Mitchum · Polly Bergen · Lori Martin

Plot Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now...

7.5

8K votes

7.5

8K votes

The Yakuza

1974 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Robert Mitchum · Ken Takakura · Brian Keith · Herb Edelman

Plot Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious...

7.3

4K votes

7.3

4K votes

The Longest Day

1962 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

Direction Ken Annakin · Andrew Marton · Bernhard Wicki

Cast John Wayne · Robert Mitchum · Henry Fonda · Richard Burton

Plot England in June 1944. Unseasonal storms. Allied troops are massed ready for the invasion of France, some already on the boats. The Normandy beaches will be their destination while paratroopers...

7.3

15K votes

7.3

15K votes

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

1989 · Documentary · 126 min. · United States

Direction Frank Martin

Cast Robert Mitchum · Lauren Bacall · Paul Newman · Evelyn Keyes

Plot Documentary film tracing the colorful career of writer-director-actor John Huston, from his youth through early days as a soldier, writer, and director to his masterful achievements as one of Hollywood's...

7.3

28 votes

7.3

28 votes

Home from the Hill

1960 · Movie · 151 min. · United States

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

The Lusty Men

1952 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Robert Mitchum · Susan Hayward · Arthur Kennedy · Arthur Hunnicutt

Plot When he sustains a rodeo injury, star rider Jeff McCloud returns to his hometown after many years of absence. He signs on as a hired hand with a local ranch,...

7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

Cape Fear

1991 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Robert De Niro · Jessica Lange · Nick Nolte · Juliette Lewis

Plot Max Cady is a psychopath just released from prison for rape. He is out seeking revenge from his lawyer Sam Bowden who he believes deliberately held back important information about...

7.3

55K votes

7.3

55K votes

Pursued

1947 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Teresa Wright · Robert Mitchum · Judith Anderson · Lane Chandler

Plot Set in New Mexico around the turn of the century and told in flashback, the film tells the story of Jeb (Mitchum) whose entire family was slaughtered when he was...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

North and South (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 90 min. · United States

Direction Richard T. Heffron

Cast Patrick Swayze · James Read · Lesley-Anne Down · Wendy Kilbourne

Plot TV miniseries (1985,1986,1994). 15 Episodes. Based on John Jakes best selling novel this is the story of the friendship between two youngs, George Hazard (James Read) and Orry Main (Patrick...

7.1

14K votes

7.1

14K votes

The Winds of War (TV Miniseries)

1983 · Series · 883 min. · United States

Direction Dan Curtis

Cast Robert Mitchum · Ali MacGraw · Jan-Michael Vincent · John Houseman

Plot An engrossing, 1983 television miniseries based on a bestselling work of historical fiction by Herman Wouk, The Winds of War is an admirable production reminiscent of the era of Hollywood's...

7.0

191 votes

7.0

191 votes

Crossfire

1947 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Robert Mitchum · Robert Young · Robert Ryan · Gloria Grahame

Plot This unusual and worthwhile black-and-white film noir was one of the first movies to deal with issues of anti-Semitism. A weary Washington detective (Robert Young) must get to the bottom...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

The Enemy Below

1957 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Dick Powell

Cast Robert Mitchum · Curd Jürgens · David Hedison · Theodore Bikel

Plot Set during the Battle of Atlantic during the Second World War, "The Enemy Below" tells the story of the cat and mouse Destroyer escort/U-Boat hunt. For the Americans, a former...

7.0

4K votes

7.0

4K votes

Dead Man

1995 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Johnny Depp · Gary Farmer · Lance Henriksen · Michael Wincott

Plot Independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch reaches a new plateau in his career with this poetic anti-Western. DEAD MAN follows William Blake (no, not the famous poet), an innocent young man who...

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6.9

14K votes

6.9

14K votes

War and Remembrance (TV Miniseries)

1988 · Series · 1620 min. · United States

Direction Herman Wouk · Dan Curtis

Cast Robert Mitchum · John Gielgud · Jane Seymour · Hart Bochner

Plot The saga of the Henry family, begun in "The Winds of War" continues as America is attacked by Japan and enters World War II. For Victor Henry, an upwardly mobile...

6.9

85 votes

6.9

85 votes

Farewell, My Lovely

1975 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Dick Richards

Cast Robert Mitchum · Charlotte Rampling · Sylvia Miles · John Ireland

Plot This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - Murder, My Sweet (1944), which tended to avoid some of the...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes