Cinematography: John Alcott

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


A Clockwork Orange

1971 · Movie · 137 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Malcolm McDowell · Patrick Magee · Michael Bates · Adrienne Corri

Synopsis A Clockwork Orange (1971) follows Alex, a charismatic yet violent teenager who leads a gang in a dystopian future. After a night of brutal crimes, Alex is betrayed by his friends and arrested. In prison, he undergoes an experimental psychological...

8.2

165K votes

8.2

165K votes

The Shining

1980 · Movie · 146 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Jack Nicholson · Shelley Duvall · Danny Lloyd · Scatman Crothers

Synopsis Writer Jack Torrance takes a job as a winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the remote Colorado mountains. He moves in, along with his wife Wendy and son Danny, in the hope that the isolation will cure his writer’s...

8.2

145K votes

8.2

145K votes

Barry Lyndon

1975 · Movie · 183 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Ryan O'Neal · Marisa Berenson · Leon Vitali · Patrick Magee

Synopsis 18th century rural Ireland. After his father is killed in a duel, Barry Lyndon lives with his mother. He is in love with his cousin, Nora Brady, but she gets engaged to the British Captain John Quin. Barry challenges him...

7.9

34K votes

7.9

34K votes

Under Fire

1983 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Nick Nolte · Joanna Cassidy · Gene Hackman · Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis Russell Price (Nick Nolte) is a photojournalist caught up in the political crossfire in war-torn Nicaragua. Under pressure from radio reporter Claire (Joanna Cassidy), Price becomes involved with the Sandanista revolutionaries. Gene Hackman stars as other colleague who is in...

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes

Fort Apache, the Bronx

1981 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Petrie

Cast Paul Newman · Ed Asner · Ken Wahl · Danny Aiello

Synopsis From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country....

6.5

3K votes

6.5

3K votes

Overlord

1975 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stuart Cooper

Cast Brian Stirner · Davyd Harries · Nicholas Bal · Julie Neesam

Synopsis Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, Stuart Cooper’s immersive account of one twenty-year-old’s journey from basic training to the front lines of D-Day brings all the terrors and isolation of war to life with jolting authenticity. Overlord,...

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6.4

165 votes

6.4

165 votes

No Way Out

1987 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Roger Donaldson

Cast Kevin Costner · Sean Young · Gene Hackman · Will Patton

Synopsis In No Way Out (1987), a gripping political thriller, a Navy officer finds himself entangled in a web of deceit and danger after a passionate affair takes a deadly turn. As he navigates a high-stakes investigation, he must outwit powerful...

6.4

12K votes

6.4

12K votes

Vice Squad

1982 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Gary Sherman

Cast Season Hubley · Gary Swanson · Wings Hauser · Pepe Serna

Synopsis A Los Angeles businesswoman, known only by her street name of Princess, turns to prostitution to support herself and her young daughter when she's forced by Detective Tom Walsh and his vice squad to help them arrest a brutal pimp...

6.2

103 votes

6.2

103 votes

Direction Hugh Hudson

Cast Christopher Lambert · Andie MacDowell · Ralph Richardson · James Fox

Synopsis A shipping disaster in 1886 has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house...

5.9

7K votes

5.9

7K votes

March or Die

1977 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Dick Richards

Cast Gene Hackman · Terence Hill · Catherine Deneuve · Max von Sydow

Synopsis Foreign Legion Major Foster (Gene Hackman), an American haunted by his memories of the recently-ended Great War, is assigned to protect a group of archaeologists at their dig. Foster's unit includes the charming, thieving rascal Marco (Terence Hill), who joined...

5.6

614 votes

5.6

614 votes

The Beastmaster

1982 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Don Coscarelli

Cast Marc Singer · Tanya Roberts · Rip Torn · John Amos

Synopsis After receiving a prophecy that he will die at the hands of the king’s unborn child, the sorcerer Maax transfers the unborn child into the womb of a cow and has the cow taken outside the city to be killed....

5.4

6K votes

5.4

6K votes

White Water Summer

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jeff Bleckner

Cast Kevin Bacon · Sean Astin · Jonathan Ward · K.C. Martel

Synopsis An experienced guide (Vic) accompanies a city boy (Alan) and his three friends on their first wilderness experience. Hoping to teach the four boys lessons not only about the wilderness, but about themselves, Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon...

5.2

256 votes

5.2

256 votes

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

1983 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction John Hough

Cast Richard Harris · Michael Beck · Ana De Sade · Vaughn Armstrong

Synopsis An Englishman, John Morgan, lives 30 years as a Sioux named Man Called Horse. In 1874, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, on tribal land guaranteed to the Sioux in the Laramie Treaty of 1868. Settlers pour in and...

5.0

174 votes

5.0

174 votes

Terror Train

1980 · Movie · 90 min. · Canada

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Ben Johnson · Jamie Lee Curtis · Hart Bochner · David Copperfield

Synopsis A college fraternaty prank goes bad and student ends up in the mental ward. Four years later, it's graduation time, and the members of the fraternity decide to have a costume party aboard a train trip to celebrate thier graduation....

5.0

1K votes

5.0

1K votes

Miracles

1986 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Jim Kouf

Cast Tom Conti · Teri Garr · Paul Rodriguez · Christopher Lloyd

Synopsis Roger and Jean learn the hard way that when you are meant to be together, nothing can keep you apart! Newly divorced couple keep running into one another (literally) and in the process, rediscover their love for one another.

4.7

86 votes

4.7

86 votes

Baby... Secret of the Lost Legend

1985 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Bill L. Norton

Cast William Katt · Sean Young · Patrick McGoohan · Julian Fellowes

Synopsis Paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.

4.5

502 votes

4.5

502 votes

The Disappearance

1977 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stuart Cooper

Cast Donald Sutherland · Francine Racette · David Hemmings · John Hurt

Synopsis Thriller about a contract killer whose wife has disappeared. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a "shy" or hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.

4.4

55 votes

4.4

55 votes

Little Malcolm

1974 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stuart Cooper

Cast John Hurt · John McEnery · Raymond Platt · Rosalind Ayres

Synopsis Booted out of art school, misfit John Hurt uses his anger to organize a radical anti-establishment organization with two fellow malcontents. What seems at first attractive and trendy turns out to be a dangerous neo-fascist movement.

Not rated

Not rated

Fangio: A Life at 300 an Hour

1980 · Documentary · Italy

Direction Hugh Hudson

Cast Juan Manuel Fangio

Synopsis A documentary of Fangio's life with his own testimony.

Not rated

Not rated