Cast: Sam Jaffe
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Sam Jaffe. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Asphalt Jungle
1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Cast Sterling Hayden · Louis Calhern · Sam Jaffe · Jean Hagen
Plot Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewellery store. He...
8.1
12K votes
8.1
12K votes
Ben-Hur
1959 · Movie · 211 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Charlton Heston · Jack Hawkins · Stephen Boyd · Haya Harareet
Plot Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar's reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in...
7.9
66K votes
7.9
66K votes
The Scarlet Empress
1934 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Josef von Sternberg
Cast Marlene Dietrich · John Lodge · Louise Dresser · C. Aubrey Smith
Plot In this re-imagining of Catherine the Great’s life story, filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and star Marlene Dietrich supply some of the most eye-popping images and outrageously decadent antics in early...
7.5
920 votes
7.5
920 votes
Lost Horizon
1937 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Ronald Colman · Jane Wyatt · John Howard · Edward Everett Horton
Plot On 1935, the pacifist British diplomat and future Foreign Secretary Robert Conway helps a group of ninety Westerns white people to escape from the Chinese city of Baskul after the...
7.5
3K votes
7.5
3K votes
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Robert Wise
Cast Michael Rennie · Patricia Neal · Hugh Marlowe · Sam Jaffe
Plot A space craft lands in Washington D.C. and an alien named Klaatu appears with a robot, Gort. He's come to speak to the leaders of the world in the hope...
7.0
17K votes
7.0
17K votes
Gunga Din
1939 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction George Stevens
Cast Cary Grant · Victor McLaglen · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Joan Fontaine
Plot Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this takes place in British India during the Thuggee uprising. Three fun loving sergeants are doing fine until one of them wants...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
Rope of Sand
1949 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Burt Lancaster · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains · Peter Lorre
Plot Two years ago, hunting guide Mike Davis was with a client who trespassed on diamond company land and found a rich lode; Paul Vogel, sadistic commandant of company police, beat...
6.7
146 votes
6.7
146 votes
Bedknobs & Broomsticks
1971 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Angela Lansbury · David Tomlinson · Roddy McDowall · Sam Jaffe
Plot When a mail-order apprentice witch (Angela Lansbury) is saddled with three sibling refugees from London during World War II, the outlook is grim. But the kids soon discover her secret...
6.7
15K votes
6.7
15K votes
The Spies
1957 · Movie · 125 min. · France
Direction H.G. Clouzot
Cast Curd Jürgens · Peter Ustinov · O.E. Hasse · Sam Jaffe
Plot A psychiatrist, desperate for money to keep his faltering practice running, makes a deal with a spy to hide a mysterious person in his clinic in return for a million...
6.6
246 votes
6.6
246 votes
Columbo: Forgotten Lady (TV)
1975 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Harvey Hart
Cast Peter Falk · Janet Leigh · Maurice Evans · Sam Jaffe
Plot A faded dance star of film and stage murders her husband and makes it look like a suicide; Lt. Columbo doubts her seemingly perfect alibi.
6.6
278 votes
6.6
278 votes
13 Rue Madeleine
1946 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast James Cagney · Annabella · E.G. Marshall · Richard Conte
Plot A neat World War II thriller, 13 Rue Madeleine benefits from the postwar craze for shooting outside the studio. With Quebec doubling for occupied France, this is a spy movie...
6.5
506 votes
6.5
506 votes
Night Gallery (TV)
1969 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Boris Sagal · Barry Shear · Steven Spielberg
Cast Joan Crawford · Ossie Davis · Richard Kiley · Roddy McDowall
Plot In the pilot of the television series "Night Gallery" (1970), Rod Serling introduces three separate paintings, each with its own story of uncanny vengeance against evil to tell. The first...
6.5
203 votes
6.5
203 votes
The Accused
1949 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Loretta Young · Robert Cummings · Wendell Corey · Sam Jaffe
6.4
113 votes
6.4
113 votes
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Susan Hayward · Dan Dailey · George Sanders · Sam Jaffe
Plot A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the...
6.1
30 votes
6.1
30 votes
Guns for San Sebastian
1968 · Movie · 115 min. · France
Direction Henri Verneuil
Cast Anthony Quinn · Charles Bronson · Anjanette Comer · Sam Jaffe
Plot Leon Alastray (Anthony Quinn) is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John (Sam Jaffe), whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is...
5.7
526 votes
5.7
526 votes
The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Cast John Wayne · Eiko Ando · Sam Jaffe · Sô Yamamura
Plot The first US diplomat in Japan undergoes culture shock as well as a passionate love affair with a geisha, circa 1856.
5.6
387 votes
5.6
387 votes
Río abajo (On the Line)
1984 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction José Luis Borau
Cast David Carradine · Scott Wilson · Victoria Abril · Jeff Delger
5.2
298 votes
5.2
298 votes
The Great Bank Robbery
1969 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Hy Averback
Cast Kim Novak · Zero Mostel · Clint Walker · Claude Akins
4.8
79 votes
4.8
79 votes
Battle Beyond the Stars
1980 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Jimmy T. Murakami
Cast Richard Thomas · Robert Vaughn · John Saxon · George Peppard
Plot In yet another film patterned on "The Seven Samurai", a band of diverse heroes in outer space are assembled to defend a planet of peaceful colonists from an armada of...
4.5
676 votes
4.5
676 votes
The Dunwich Horror
1970 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Daniel Haller
Cast Dean Stockwell · Sandra Dee · Ed Begley · Lloyd Bochner
4.3
235 votes
4.3
235 votes