Cast: Lee Grant

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


In the Heat of the Night

1967 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Sidney Poitier · Rod Steiger · Warren Oates · Lee Grant

Plot When a prominent local businessman is found murdered in the tiny southern town of Sparta, Mississippi, Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) gets picked up at the train station as a potential...

7.5

13K votes

7.5

13K votes

There Was a Crooked Man

1970 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Henry Fonda · Warren Oates · Hume Cronyn

Plot Following the tradition of 1960s and '70s Westerns in which the criminals are the heroes, THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN takes devilish pride in the antics of armed robber and...

7.5

6K votes

7.5

6K votes

Detective Story

1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Kirk Douglas · Eleanor Parker · Lee Grant · William Bendix

Plot On a day in the life of the 21st Precinct detective squad, we meet a batty old lady; petty embezzler Arthur, and the wonderful girl whose unrequited love may redeem...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Columbo: Ransom for a Dead Man (TV)

1971 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Richard Irving

Cast Peter Falk · Lee Grant · John Fink · Harold Gould

Plot A lawyer comes up with a clever plan to murder her husband. After the deed is done, a seemingly slow-witted, slovenly homicide detective is assigned to the case--but he's not...

6.8

320 votes

6.8

320 votes

Middle of the Night

1959 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Kim Novak · Fredric March · Martin Balsam · Albert Dekker

Plot Jerry Kingsley (March) is a widower, a lonely but successful clothing manufacturer who falls in love with Betty Preisser (Novak), one of his employees. The employee-boss relationship is one hurdle...

6.4

111 votes

6.4

111 votes

The Internecine Project

1974 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Hughes

Cast James Coburn · Lee Grant · Harry Andrews · Keenan Wynn

Plot Former secret agent Robert Elliot (Coburn) will be promoted to government advisor. In order to make sure no-one will ever know about his dirty past, he has invented a very...

6.3

103 votes

6.3

103 votes

Hal

2018 · Documentary · 88 min. · United States

Direction Amy Scott

Cast Jane Fonda · Jeff Bridges · Dustin Hoffman · Jon Voight

Plot Between 1970 and 1979, the films of Hal Ashby collected seven Academy Awards and 24 Academy Award nominations. He was a major player in the so called "New Hollywood" era...

6.2

55 votes

6.2

55 votes

The Omen Legacy (TV)

2001 · Documentary · 100 min. · United States

Direction Brent Zacky

Cast Jack Palance · David Seltzer · Richard Donner · Mace Neufeld Productions

Plot The true stories that spawned the eerie tale of Damien, a small boy with an angelic face, whose very name still conjures up thoughts of Satan. This documentary shares spine-tingling...

6.2

21 votes

6.2

21 votes

Voyage of the Damned

1976 · Movie · 134 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stuart Rosenberg

Cast James Mason · Faye Dunaway · Orson Welles · Max von Sydow

Plot A boatload of Jewish refugees embark on a freedom journey from Nazi oppression. They are forced to return when they can't get permission to land anywhere.

6.2

782 votes

6.2

782 votes

The Landlord

1970 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Hal Ashby

Cast Beau Bridges · Lee Grant · Diana Sands · Pearl Bailey

Plot At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn....

6.1

77 votes

6.1

77 votes

Defending your Life

1991 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Albert Brooks

Cast Meryl Streep · Albert Brooks · Rip Torn · Lee Grant

Plot In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage. Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident...

6.1

731 votes

6.1

731 votes

Mussolini: The Untold Story (TV Miniseries)

1985 · Series · 410 min. · United States

Direction William A. Graham

Cast George C. Scott · Lee Grant · Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio · Raul Julia

Plot This seven hour mini-series is based on the memories of Vittorio Mussolini, the oldest son of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. The film opens in 1922 as Mussolini gathers his power...

6.1

70 votes

6.1

70 votes

Damien: Omen II

1978 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor · Mike Hodges

Cast William Holden · Lee Grant · Jonathan Scott Taylor · Robert Foxworth

Plot It is seven years later after Damien Thorn’s father tried to kill him. He is now a teenager, living in Chicago with his uncle Richard, the head of the multi-national...

6.0

4K votes

6.0

4K votes

Citizen Cohn (TV)

1992 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Frank Pierson

Cast James Woods · Joe Don Baker · Joseph Bologna · Ed Flanders

Plot A harsh look at the life and times of Roy Marcus Cohn, Esquire, thorough flashbacks as he's dying of AIDS in a New York hospital.

6.0

44 votes

6.0

44 votes

Little Miss Marker

1980 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

5.9

191 votes

5.9

191 votes

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

1968 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Melvin Frank

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Shelley Winters · Phil Silvers · Peter Lawford

Plot Twenty years after their initial war-time visit three U.S. servicemen hold a reunion at an Italian village. They all have fond memories, especially of local girl Carla. But she has...

5.9

185 votes

5.9

185 votes

The Big Town

1987 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Ben Bolt

Cast Matt Dillon · Diane Lane · Tommy Lee Jones · Bruce Dern

Plot It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a...

5.8

202 votes

5.8

202 votes

It's my Party

1996 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Randal Kleiser

Cast Eric Roberts · Lee Grant · Olivia Newton-John · Marlee Matlin

Plot Eric Roberts portrays a successful architect who throws a farewell party for friends and family after he learns he is losing his hard- fought battle against the AIDS virus in...

5.8

296 votes

5.8

296 votes

Storm Fear

1955 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

5.7

62 votes

5.7

62 votes

Marooned

1969 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Gregory Peck · Richard Crenna · David Janssen · Gene Hackman

Plot Gregory Peck stars as Charles Keith, the ground-based supervisor of a crew of astronauts led by mission commander Jim Pruett (Richard Crenna) conducting a series of endurance tests while in...

5.6

676 votes

5.6

676 votes