Cinematography: Bruce Surtees

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


Escape from Alcatraz

1979 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Clint Eastwood · Patrick McGoohan · Roberts Blossom · Jack Thibeau

Plot San Francisco, january 1960. Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood), a hardened con with a history of prison breaks, is sent to serve the rest of his life sentence at Alcatraz --...

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7.6

33K votes

7.6

33K votes

The Outlaw Josey Wales

1976 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Chief Dan George · Sondra Locke · John Vernon

Plot The film opens as Union soldiers destroy the home and family of Missouri farmer Josey Wales (Eastwood). He joins up with Confederate soldiers to get his revenge, and, after years...

7.4

10K votes

7.4

10K votes

Lenny

1974 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Bob Fosse

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Valerie Perrine · Jan Miner · Stanley Beck

Plot Interview-style biography of controversial and pioneering stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. The film traces Bruce from his beginnings as a Catskills comic to his later underground popularity based on his anti-establishment...

7.4

4K votes

7.4

4K votes

Pale Rider

1985 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Sydney Penny · Michael Moriarty · Chris Penn

Plot A cadre of men employed by powerful strip-miner Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart) rides into a small mining encampment and begins shooting up the place. One of the terrorists kills the...

7.4

19K votes

7.4

19K votes

Dirty Harry

1971 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Clint Eastwood · Harry Guardino · Reni Santoni · John Vernon

Plot Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is a truculent San Francisco police detective well known for his vicious take-no-prisoners attitude toward criminals. With the city of San Francisco being terrorized by the...

7.3

58K votes

7.3

58K votes

Mogambo

1953 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Clark Gable · Ava Gardner · Grace Kelly · Donald Sinden

Plot Clark Gable reprises his role as veteran big-game trapper and guide Vic Marswell in John Ford's remake of RED DUST, the actor's 1932 hit directed by Victor Fleming. After a...

7.2

9K votes

7.2

9K votes

The Beguiled

1971 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Clint Eastwood · Geraldine Page · Elizabeth Hartman · Jo Ann Harris

Plot Eastwood plays a wounded Union soldier who has been taken in at a Southern girls' school. The girls become curious and then sensuous. Eastwood's character takes advantage of the situation...

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

High Plains Drifter

1973 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Verna Bloom · Marianna Hill · Mitchell Ryan

Plot Year 1870. The story begins as a mysterious stranger (Eastwood) materializes out of the desert heat. He rides into the small town of Lago, where his presence is considered a...

7.1

9K votes

7.1

9K votes

Honkytonk Man

1982 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Kyle Eastwood · John McIntire · Alexa Kenin

Plot Red Stovall (Clint Eastwood) is a Depression-era rascal whose fire-in-the-belly passion comes from the whiskey he slugs and the dream he chases: singing at the Grand Ole Opry. He takes...

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

Night Moves

1975 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Gene Hackman · Jennifer Warren · Melanie Griffith · Susan Clark

Plot Former footballer and present private detective Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as an aging Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks...

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

Bad Boys

1983 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Rick Rosenthal

Cast Sean Penn · Reni Santoni · Jim Moody · Eric Gurry

Plot Teenage tough guy Mick O'Brien is a delinquent whose crimes eventually land him in a juvenile correctional facility. There, he soon becomes the head honcho amongst the JD's, but his...

6.6

998 votes

6.6

998 votes

The Outfit

1973 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

6.6

240 votes

6.6

240 votes

The Shootist

1976 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast John Wayne · Lauren Bacall · Ron Howard · James Stewart

Plot The last film of John Wayne, The Shootist, could not have been more fitting, full of details that can't help but make one reflect upon his legacy in the movies...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Play Misty for Me

1971 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Jessica Walter · Donna Mills · John Larch

Plot This was Clint Eastwood's directorial debut. Dave Garver (Eastwood) is a Carmel, California, disc jockey who gets a call every night from a mysterious woman listener who requests that he...

6.5

5K votes

6.5

5K votes

White Dog

1982 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Kristy McNichol · Paul Winfield · Burl Ives · Jameson Parker

Plot Julie Sawyer hits a handsome white dog with her car one night and then nurses it back to health. One day, the theretofore mild-mannered dog saves her life by viciously...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Big Wednesday

1978 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction John Milius

Cast Jan-Michael Vincent · William Katt · Gary Busey · Patti D'Arbanville

Plot The lives of some California surfers from the early '60s to the '70s.

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

1995 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction James Keach

Cast Robert Duvall · Aidan Quinn · Frances Fisher · Brian Dennehy

Plot The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he...

6.4

38 votes

6.4

38 votes

Blume in Love

1973 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Paul Mazursky

Cast George Segal · Susan Anspach · Kris Kristofferson · Marsha Mason

Plot Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.

6.4

23 votes

6.4

23 votes

Movie Movie

1978 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast George C. Scott · Harry Hamlin · Trish Van Devere · Eli Wallach

Plot A double feature spoof of the typical 1930s: "Dynamite Fists" and "Blansky's Beauties of 1933".

6.1

212 votes

6.1

212 votes

Tightrope

1984 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Richard Tuggle

Cast Clint Eastwood · Geneviève Bujold · Dan Hedaya · Alison Eastwood

Plot Wes Block (Clint Eastwood) is a New Orleans police detective on the trail of a vicious killer who has been slaying the prostitutes and massage parlor girls who work the...

6.1

4K votes

6.1

4K votes