Cinematography: John Alcott
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by John Alcott. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Titles found: 20
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,...
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
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984 · Movie · 129 min. · United States
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
Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast George Segal · Jacqueline Bisset · Robert Morley · Jean-Pierre Cassel
5.5
192 votes
5.5
192 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.
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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.
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Not rated