Cast: Martin Balsam

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


12 Angry Men

1957 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Henry Fonda · Lee J. Cobb · Jack Warden · E.G. Marshall

Plot Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same...

8.7

67K votes

8.7

67K votes

Psycho

1960 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Anthony Perkins · Janet Leigh · John Gavin · Vera Miles

Plot Office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. One Friday Marion is entrusted with $40,000 to take to the bank. Seeing the opportunity to...

8.4

106K votes

8.4

106K votes

On the Waterfront

1954 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Marlon Brando · Eva Marie Saint · Karl Malden · Lee J. Cobb

Plot Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is an ex-prize fighter struggling against union corruption along the New York waterfront. Malloy's battle takes him all the way to the witness stand, where he...

8.1

28K votes

8.1

28K votes

The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Plot TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end...

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

Breakfast at Tiffany's

1961 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Audrey Hepburn · George Peppard · Patricia Neal · Buddy Ebsen

Plot Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is New York call girl, whose allure captivates her upstairs neighbour Paul Varjak (George Peppard), a writer who pays the rent with the help of his...

7.7

68K votes

7.7

68K votes

Everybody Go Home

1960 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

7.6

718 votes

7.6

718 votes

The Time Element (TV)

1958 · Movie · 54 min. · United States

Direction Allen Reisner

Cast William Bendix · Martin Balsam · Darryl Hickman · Jesse White

Plot Though not the pilot episode of Rod Serling's series, "The Twilight Zone," it was Rod Serling's production that lead to "The Twilight Zone" TV series. Because TV viewers at the...

7.6

64 votes

7.6

64 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

Seven Days in May

1964 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Kirk Douglas · Ava Gardner · Burt Lancaster · Fredric March

Plot At the height of the cold war, a weakened President and a popular four-star general face off in a battle for control of the US government. President Jordan Lyman has...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K 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

Little Big Man

1970 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Faye Dunaway · Martin Balsam · Richard Mulligan

Plot Jack Crabb is about 100 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming...

7.2

4K votes

7.2

4K votes

All the President's Men

1976 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Alan J. Pakula

Cast Robert Redford · Dustin Hoffman · Jason Robards · Martin Balsam

Plot In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to...

7.2

12K votes

7.2

12K votes

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer · Kinji Fukasaku · Toshio Masuda

Cast Martin Balsam · Sô Yamamura · Joseph Cotten · Tatsuya Mihashi

Plot In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy...

7.2

13K votes

7.2

13K votes

The Twilight Zone: The New Exhibit (TV)

1963 · Movie · 51 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Martin Balsam · Will Kuluva · Margaret Field · William Mims

Plot A wax-museum employee fights to preserve five figures of famous murderers.

7.0

62 votes

7.0

62 votes

Hombre

1967 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Paul Newman · Fredric March · Richard Boone · Diane Cilento

Plot In this film more is said with just one look than in 100 cute one-liners. An Indian policeman travels by stagecoach and encounters more than his share of trouble. Filled...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

1974 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast Walter Matthau · Robert Shaw · Martin Balsam · Hector Elizondo

Plot Four armed men hijack a New York City subway train and demand 1 million dollars - which must be delivered in 1 hour - for the train and the lives...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

Murder on the Orient Express

1974 · Movie · 127 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Albert Finney · Lauren Bacall · Ingrid Bergman · Sean Connery

Plot The Famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express, and one of the passengers requests his protection. The next day the passenger is found dead in his compartment, and...

7.0

14K votes

7.0

14K votes

Time Limit

1957 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Karl Malden

Cast Richard Widmark · Richard Basehart · Dolores Michaels · June Lockhart

Plot Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits his guilt and Edwards' superiors are impatiently...

6.9

229 votes

6.9

229 votes

Confessions of a Police Captain

1971 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

6.7

149 votes

6.7

149 votes

The Carpetbaggers

1963 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast George Peppard · Carroll Baker · Alan Ladd · Robert Cummings

Plot George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach...

6.6

419 votes

6.6

419 votes