Cinematography: Stanley Cortez

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


Blue

1968 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Silvio Narizzano

Cast Terence Stamp · Joanna Pettet · Karl Malden · Stathis Giallelis

Synopsis A Mexican bandit, part of a gang led by his father, goes on a raid into the U.S. He falls for a beautiful woman and decides to leave his life of crime and settle down with her. Eventually his father...

5.2

33 votes

5.2

33 votes

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Charles Laughton · Hillary Brooke

Synopsis Oliver "Puddin' Head" Johnson (Lou Costello) and Rocky Stonebridge (Bud Abbott) are on their way to Death's Head Tavern, where they work. They encounter Lady Jane (Fran Warren), who asks them to bring a love note to the tavern singer,...

5.2

91 votes

5.2

91 votes

Another Man, Another Chance

1977 · Movie · 136 min. · France

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast James Caan · Geneviève Bujold · Francis Huster · Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis A photographer, who has been hired to photograph the wild west of America where he has lived his entire life, tells his client of a photograph he has that was taken one hundred years ago by his French great-grandmother that...

5.0

49 votes

5.0

49 votes

Thunder in the Sun

1959 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Russell Rouse

Cast Susan Hayward · Jeff Chandler · Jacques Bergerac · Blanche Yurka

Synopsis A western about a wagon train of french Basque immigrants -running away from the Napoleonic Wars to America- making its way through Indian territory with a cargo of special vines so they can start a vineyard in the "new world".

4.8

216 votes

4.8

216 votes

The Admiral Was a Lady

1950 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Wanda Hendrix · Rudy Vallee · Johnny Sands

Synopsis Four ex-Flyers, who served in the Army during World War II, and who refuse to work seriously, staying through various tricks, meet a girl, another ex-soldier, who plans to meet with her fiancé. All of them will undertake the search...

4.6

29 votes

4.6

29 votes

The Angry Red Planet

1960 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction I.B. Melchior

Cast Gerald Mohr · Naura Hayden · Les Tremayne · Jack Kruschen

Synopsis Our first manned flight to Mars returns after being thought lost in space. Only two survivors (Mohr & Hayden) of the original four are on board. Mohr has a green growth on his arm, and nothing that the doctors do...

4.6

185 votes

4.6

185 votes

Bombay Clipper

1942 · Movie · 54 min. · United States

Direction John Rawlins

Cast William Gargan · Irene Hervey · Charles Lang Jr. · Maria Montez

Synopsis An American Foreign Correspodent, Jim Wilson, and his wife Frankie, who wishes he would give up his traveling job and settle down in one location, get involved with some foreign spies of an unnamed country (Japan, in this USA pre-WWII...

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Furia roja

1951 · Movie · 101 min. · Mexico

Direction Steve Sekely · Víctor Urruchúa

Cast Arturo de Córdova · Emilia Guiú · Sara Montiel · Felipe de Alba

Synopsis A southern belle and her mother flee the horrors of the Civil War by moving to their lands in Mexico. Instead of the peace and stability they are searching for, they find themselves in the middle of a violent revolution.

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A Dangerous Game

1941 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction John Rawlins

Cast Andy Devine · Richard Arlen · Jean Brooks · Edward Brophy

Synopsis Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to...

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Armored Car

1937 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Lewis R. Foster

Cast Robert Wilcox · Judith Barrett · Cesar Romero · Irving Pichel

Synopsis An undercover man helps break a gang planning to rob armoured cars carrying bullion.

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The Madmen of Mandoras

1963 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction David Bradley

Cast Walter Stocker · Audrey Caire · Carlos Rivas · John Holland

Synopsis Hitler's Brain is saved by Nazi madmen, and is giving orders on a small tropical island!

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Meet the Wildcat

1940 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Ralph Bellamy · Margaret Lindsay · Joseph Schildkraut · Allen Jenkins

Synopsis Bellamy plays a New York gumshoe on the trail of an art thief. His investigation is confounded by the presence of snoopy girl reporter Lindsay.

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Exposed

1938 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Harold D. Schuster

Cast Glenda Farrell · Otto Kruger · Herbert Mundin · Charles D. Brown

Synopsis A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.

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Dinosaurus!

1960 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.

Cast Ward Ramsey · Paul Lukather · Kristina Hanson · Alan Roberts

Synopsis After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population. Freed from his watery tomb, as well, is a very friendly Neanderthal man who proceeds to befriend a local orphan boy. The boy, Neanderthal and...

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Four Days Wonder

1936 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Salkow

Cast Jeanne Dante · Kenneth Howell · Martha Sleeper · Alan Mowbray

Synopsis A 13-year-old girl who is a murder mystery fanatic gets mixed up in a real murder.

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Smart Woman

1948 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Edward A. Blatt

Cast Brian Aherne · Constance Bennett · Barry Sullivan · Michael O'Shea

Synopsis The last credited screenplay by Alvah Bessie, using his own name, as he was soon to become one of the Hollywood Ten. This one is a 1940s gender-clasher involving a crusading district attorney, Robert Larrimore, butting heads in court with...

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Danger on the Air

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Otis Garrett

Cast Nan Grey · Donald Woods · Jed Prouty · Berton Churchill

Synopsis Caesar Kluck, soft-drink magnate, is found dead in the office of a big radio-broadcasting company. Benjamin Franklin Butts, a sound engineer, discovers that Kluck met his death from cyanogen gas, administered in some mysterious fashion. Harry Jones, head of the...

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