Cast: Charles Bronson

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


The Great Escape

1963 · Movie · 168 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Steve McQueen · James Garner · Charles Bronson · Richard Attenborough

Synopsis The German high command has filtered out all of the allies' most talented escape artists and placed them in a POW camp specifically designed to foil any unwanted departures. But as soon as they arrive, the prisoners begin to work...

8.2

66K votes

8.2

66K votes

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968 · Movie · 165 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Henry Fonda · Charles Bronson · Claudia Cardinale · Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), the power-hungry owner of a railroad company, hires Frank (Henry Fonda), a gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the way of the completion of the railroad. After Frank murders land owner Brett McBain...

8.2

25K votes

8.2

25K 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

Synopsis 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 with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

The Dirty Dozen

1967 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Lee Marvin · Charles Bronson · John Cassavetes · Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis An Army Major who likes to butt heads with his superiors, is being "given" a new assignment, to train 12 men who are either sentenced to death or life imprisonment, to go behind enemy lines raid a chateau that the...

7.7

38K votes

7.7

38K votes

The Magnificent Seven

1960 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Yul Brynner · Steve McQueen · Charles Bronson · Eli Wallach

Synopsis John Sturges's remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI has become an influential film in its own right. A small farming Mexican village that makes involuntary donations of its harvest to a gang of bandits led by Calvera...

7.4

26K votes

7.4

26K votes

Crime Wave

1954 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Sterling Hayden · Gene Nelson · Phyllis Kirk · Ted de Corsia

Synopsis Three San Quentin escapees (Penny, Hastings and Morgan) kill a cop in a gas-station holdup. Wounded, Morgan flees through black-shadowed streets to the handiest refuge: with former cellmate Steve Lacey, who's paroled, with a new life and lovely wife, and...

7.0

658 votes

7.0

658 votes

The Mob

1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Broderick Crawford · Betty Buehler · Richard Kiley · Otto Hulett

Synopsis A police detective fakes a suspension so he can go undercover.

7.0

337 votes

7.0

337 votes

Jubal

1956 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Glenn Ford · Ernest Borgnine · Rod Steiger · Valerie French

Synopsis Ford plays a drifter who is rescued, then hired as ramrod, by rancher Ernest Borgnine, thereby stimulating the erotic interest of Borgnine's sexy young wife (Valerie French) and the Iago-like resentment of the former top hand (Rod Steiger).

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Vera Cruz

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Gary Cooper · Burt Lancaster · Denise Darcel · Sara Montiel

Synopsis During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

6.9

6K votes

6.9

6K votes

House of Wax

1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Vincent Price · Phyllis Kirk · Frank Lovejoy · Carolyn Jones

Synopsis House of Wax brought Vincent Price into the horror genre, where he fit as snugly as a scalpel in a mad scientist's hand. A remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum, this entertaining Gothic shocker casts Price...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

The People Against O'Hara

1951 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Spencer Tracy · Pat O'Brien · Diana Lynn · John Hodiak

Synopsis James Curtayne (Spencer Tracy) has retired from law but he returns to defend John O'Hara (James Arness) on a murder charge. Curtayne's drinking and rustiness result in O'Hara's being found guilty, but Curtayne makes further efforts to prove him innocent.

6.6

294 votes

6.6

294 votes

The Sandpiper

1965 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Eva Marie Saint · Charles Bronson

Synopsis Young Danny Reynolds and his mother Laura (Elizabeth Taylor) live an idyllic life near California's Big Sur. Laura teaches Danny at home. After Danny shoots a deer, authorities take the boy away to live and study in a parochial orphanage/school....

6.6

817 votes

6.6

817 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

This Property is Condemned

1966 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Robert Redford · Natalie Wood · Kate Reid · Charles Bronson

Synopsis In the Depression-era drama, Owen Legate (Redford) is a railroad official who comes to backwater Dodson, Mississippi, with a pocketful of pink slips for the yard employees. Wood portrays the town flirt whose affair with Legate ignites her mother's -...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Diplomatic Courier

1952 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Tyrone Power · Patricia Neal · Stephen McNally · Hildegard Knef

Synopsis Department of State courier Mike Kelly ends up in postwar hotbed Trieste after failing to collect a package from a colleague. The Military Police are happy for him to get more involved, but things get a bit tough. After all,...

6.5

310 votes

6.5

310 votes

The Indian Runner

1991 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Sean Penn

Cast Viggo Mortensen · David Morse · Dennis Hopper · Valeria Golino

Synopsis Sean Penn makes an arresting directorial debut with this intense character drama inspired in equal parts by the stark, folksy, early-'80s recordings of singer/songwriter Bruce Springsteen (the film is loosely based on his song "Highway Patrolman") and the improvisational films...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Pat and Mike

1952 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Aldo Ray · William Ching

Synopsis Pat Pemberton is a women's sports sensation - a champion in golf, tennis, and whatever else she decides to do. Knowing a good thing when he sees it, Mike Conovan becomes her manager. Mike has made his living fixing sports...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Battle of the Bulge

1965 · Movie · 167 min. · United States

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Henry Fonda · Robert Ryan · Robert Shaw · Dana Andrews

Synopsis This World War II spectacular tells the story of the tank battles of December, 1944, in which the Nazi Panzer forces staged a massive last-ditch offensive on the Belgian front. An action-packed drama about the battle that brought World War...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

Big House U.S.A

1955 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Howard W. Koch

Cast Broderick Crawford · Ralph Meeker · Reed Hadley · William Talman

Synopsis When young Danny Lambert runs away from camp in south-central Colorado, he becomes the object of a park-wide-search by his wealthy father Robertson Lambert. He is found by Jerry Barker and told to wait at an abandoned look-out tower while...

6.4

115 votes

6.4

115 votes