Cinematography: John A. Alonzo

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


Scarface

1983 · Movie · 163 min. · United States

Direction Brian De Palma

Cast Al Pacino · Steven Bauer · Michelle Pfeiffer · Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Plot Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and incestuous desire...

8.2

89K votes

8.2

89K votes

Chinatown

1974 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Jack Nicholson · Faye Dunaway · John Huston · Perry Lopez

Plot It is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes...

7.9

44K votes

7.9

44K votes

Harold and Maude

1971 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Hal Ashby

Cast Bud Cort · Ruth Gordon · Vivian Pickles · Cyril Cusack

Plot A suicidal young man gets a new lease on life when he falls for an 80-year-old woman.

7.5

7K votes

7.5

7K votes

Farewell, My Lovely

1975 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Dick Richards

Cast Robert Mitchum · Charlotte Rampling · Sylvia Miles · John Ireland

Plot This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - Murder, My Sweet (1944), which tended to avoid some of the...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Conrack

1974 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Jon Voight · Paul Winfield · Madge Sinclair · Hume Cronyn

Plot The true story of Pat Conroy, who tried to teach a group of illiterate Black children in South Carolina by using common-sense teaching techniques to inspire their interest. Voight is...

6.8

179 votes

6.8

179 votes

Sounder

1972 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Cicely Tyson · Paul Winfield · Kevin Hooks · Carmen Mathews

Plot The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of...

6.8

112 votes

6.8

112 votes

Vanishing Point

1971 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Richard C. Sarafian

Cast Barry Newman · Cleavon Little · Dean Jagger · Victoria Medlin

Plot Kowalski, the hero of the story, works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to Frisco, California. Shortly after pickup,...

6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes

Norma Rae

1979 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Sally Field · Beau Bridges · Ron Leibman · Pat Hingle

Plot Veteran director Martin Ritt directed this earnest and very popular tale of a naive textile worker, widow, and mother in the U.S. South who becomes empowered by standing up for...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Back Roads

1981 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Sally Field · Tommy Lee Jones · David Keith · Miriam Colon

Plot A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

6.4

26 votes

6.4

26 votes

Roots: The Gift (TV)

1988 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Kevin Hooks

Cast Louis Gossett Jr. · LeVar Burton · Avery Brooks · Kate Mulgrew

Plot The characters of Kunta Kinte and Fiddler from Roots are back in this movie. In this movie the two of them accompany their owner to another plantation at Christmas time...

6.4

51 votes

6.4

51 votes

Fail Safe (TV)

2000 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Harvey Keitel · James Cromwell · George Clooney

Plot Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.

6.4

516 votes

6.4

516 votes

Steel Magnolias

1989 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Ross

Cast Sally Field · Julia Roberts · Daryl Hannah · Dolly Parton

Plot Revolving around Truvy's Beauty Parlor in a small parish in modern-day Louisiana, STEEL MAGNOLIAS is the story of a close-knit circle of friends whose lives come together there. As the...

6.4

5K votes

6.4

5K votes

Lady Sings the Blues

1972 · Movie · 144 min. · United States

Direction Sidney J. Furie

Cast Diana Ross · Billy Dee Williams · Richard Pryor · James T. Callahan

Plot Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Diana Ross made her film debut opposite Billy Dee Williams in this romantic biopic. LADY SINGS THE BLUES captures...

6.3

277 votes

6.3

277 votes

Black Sunday

1977 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Robert Shaw · Bruce Dern · Marthe Keller · Fritz Weaver

Plot An Isreali anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl.

6.2

871 votes

6.2

871 votes

Cross Creek

1983 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Mary Steenburgen · Rip Torn · Peter Coyote · Dana Hill

Plot The time was 1928. The place was Cross Creek, a remote, unremarkable hamlet in a wild, untamed portion of Central Florida. After 10 years as a frustrated newspaper reporter and...

6.2

150 votes

6.2

150 votes

Bloody Mama

1970 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Roger Corman

Cast Shelley Winters · Robert De Niro · Bruce Dern · Pat Hingle

Plot A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Tom Horn

1980 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction William Wiard

Cast Steve McQueen · Richard Farnsworth · Linda Evans · Billy Green Bush

Plot A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job...

6.2

858 votes

6.2

858 votes

The Bad News Bears

1976 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Michael Ritchie

Cast Walter Matthau · Chris Barnes · Tatum O'Neal · Ben Piazza

Plot One of director Michael Ritchie’s most universally recognized comedies, THE BAD NEWS BEARS is a film that continues to entertain audiences of all ages. The story concerns a hopeless Little...

6.2

299 votes

6.2

299 votes

Pete 'n' Tillie

1972 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Walter Matthau · Carol Burnett · Geraldine Page · Barry Nelson

Plot Pete (Mathau) and Tillie (Burnett) marry, have a child and have their marriage tested by the child's death (Lee Montgomery).

5.9

118 votes

5.9

118 votes

Star Trek Generations

1994 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction David Carson

Cast Patrick Stewart · Jonathan Frakes · Brent Spiner · LeVar Burton

Plot In the late twenty-third century, the gala maiden voyage of the third Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) boasts such luminaries as Pavel Chekov, Montgomery Scott, and the legendary Captain James T. Kirk...

Max

5.8

4K votes

5.8

4K votes