Cinematography: Gerald Hirschfeld

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Gerald Hirschfeld. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Fail-Safe

1964 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Dan O'Herlihy · Henry Fonda · Walter Matthau · Fritz Weaver

Synopsis A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly beyond their fail safe distance. At this point the flight...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

Young Frankenstein

1974 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Mel Brooks

Cast Gene Wilder · Peter Boyle · Marty Feldman · Cloris Leachman

Synopsis Young Frankenstein (1974) follows Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, a brilliant but reluctant scientist who inherits his infamous grandfather's estate in Transylvania. Determined to distance himself from his family's controversial legacy, Frederick is drawn into the world of reanimating the dead after...

7.6

35K votes

7.6

35K votes

The Incident

1967 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Larry Peerce

Cast Martin Sheen · Tony Musante · Beau Bridges · Thelma Ritter

Synopsis The passengers on a New York subway car are terrorized by two teenage delinquents. Although outnumbered, the teenagers take advantage of the passenger's passivity and unwillingness to act together.

7.5

740 votes

7.5

740 votes

My Favorite Year

1982 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Richard Benjamin

Cast Peter O'Toole · Mark Linn-Baker · Jessica Harper · Joseph Bologna

Synopsis Benjy Stone is the junior writer on the top rated variety/comedy show, in the mid 50s (the early years). Its a new medium and the rules were not fully established. Alan Swann, an Erol Flynn type actor with a drinking...

6.3

414 votes

6.3

414 votes

Last Summer

1969 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Barbara Hershey · Richard Thomas · Bruce Davison · Catherine Burns

Synopsis During summer vacation on Long Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has...

6.3

86 votes

6.3

86 votes

Guilty Bystander

1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Lerner

Cast Zachary Scott · Faye Emerson · Mary Boland · Sam Levene

Synopsis An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.

6.2

32 votes

6.2

32 votes

Diary of a Mad Housewife

1970 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Richard Benjamin · Frank Langella · Carrie Snodgress · Lorraine Cullen

Synopsis Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful and...

6.0

40 votes

6.0

40 votes

Goodbye, Columbus

1969 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Larry Peerce

Cast Richard Benjamin · Ali MacGraw · Jack Klugman · Nan Martin

Synopsis Neil Klugman works in the public library and lives in New York with his Jewish aunt rather than in Arizona with his parents. College-girl Brenda Patimkin very much lives with her well-to-do Jewish family. Even so, the two are attracted...

6.0

59 votes

6.0

59 votes

Cotton Comes to Harlem

1970 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Ossie Davis

Cast Godfrey Cambridge · Raymond St. Jacques · Calvin Lockhart · Judy Pace

Synopsis The Charismatic black nationalist leader Rev Deke O'Malley is trying to sell the people of Harlem a dream. Invest $100 in his company and live in Africa. But cops Gravedigger and Coffin know all about Deke and his fraudulent schemes...

5.8

123 votes

5.8

123 votes

Child's Play

1972 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast James Mason · Robert Preston · Beau Bridges · Ronald Weyand

Synopsis At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

5.7

144 votes

5.7

144 votes

Doc

1971 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Stacy Keach · Faye Dunaway · Harris Yulin · Michael Witney

Synopsis The story of notorious criminals Wyatt Earp (Harris Yulin) and Doc Holliday (Stacy Keach) and the gunfight at the OK Corral in a revisal fashion.

5.7

441 votes

5.7

441 votes

To Be or Not to Be

1983 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Alan Johnson

Cast Mel Brooks · Anne Bancroft · Tim Matheson · Charles Durning

Synopsis A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude but World War II in the form of an invasion. His wife has the habit of entertaining young polish officers while he's on stage which...

5.7

762 votes

5.7

762 votes

The Car

1977 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Elliot Silverstein

Cast James Brolin · Kathleen Lloyd · John Marley · Ronny Cox

Synopsis While traveling through the desert nearby the small town of Santa Ynez on their bicycles to camp, two teenage bicyclers are murdered by a mysterious black car. Then the car hit-and-run a hitchhiker and the crime is witnessed by the...

5.7

592 votes

5.7

592 votes

T.R. Baskin

1971 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Ross

Cast Candice Bergen · Peter Boyle · James Caan · Marcia Rodd

Synopsis An idealistic young woman arrives in Chicago with hopes of finding romance, adventure and a fulfilling career.

5.6

34 votes

5.6

34 votes

Two-Minute Warning

1976 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Larry Peerce

Cast Charlton Heston · John Cassavetes · Martin Balsam · Beau Bridges

Synopsis A psychotic man, armed with a hunting rifle and acting alone, goes on a sniping spree and is hunted by the police and a SWAT team. Sniper and SWAT converge at a crowded major-league football game, where at the two-minute...

5.5

971 votes

5.5

971 votes

W

1974 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Twiggy · Michael Witney · Eugene Roche · Dirk Benedict

Synopsis Is a young woman being stalked by her ex, or is she imagining things?

5.3

21 votes

5.3

21 votes

The Ultimate Warrior

1975 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert Clouse

Cast Yul Brynner · Max von Sydow · Joanna Miles · William Smith

Synopsis Atomic holocaust is not the only plague that threatens our future. New York City, 2012 A.D.: In a devastated world, one tired man finds a reason to fight. Only a few people still live in New York. They are organized...

5.2

328 votes

5.2

328 votes

Malone

1987 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Harley Cokeliss

Cast Burt Reynolds · Cliff Robertson · Kenneth McMillan · Cynthia Gibb

Synopsis Ex-CIA hit-man running from his past (Malone) finds just how difficult it is to retire when he runs accross a small town controlled by mercenaries and a family that's resisting their control.

5.0

155 votes

5.0

155 votes

Sunday Lovers

1980 · Movie · 125 min. · France

Direction Bryan Forbes · Edouard Molinaro · Dino Risi · Gene Wilder

Cast Roger Moore · Lino Ventura · Ugo Tognazzi · Gene Wilder

Synopsis A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy).

5.0

44 votes

5.0

44 votes

Neighbors

1981 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast John Belushi · Dan Aykroyd · Cathy Moriarty · Kathryn Walker

Synopsis The Keeses (Belushi and Walker) live in a quiet, middle-class suburban neighborhood where life is calm and sweet. But their new neighbors, Ramona and Vic (Aykroyd and Moriarty), prove to be loud, obnoxious, crazy, and freeloading. Will Earl and Enid...

4.9

436 votes

4.9

436 votes