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...
5.8
4K votes
5.8
4K votes