Cinematography: Joseph F. Biroc

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


It's a Wonderful Life

1946 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Donna Reed · Lionel Barrymore · Thomas Mitchell

Plot A good but slightly ineffectual man tries to off himself after an error that really wasnt his fault. In Christmas carol fashion, his crusty-but-lovable guardian angel shows up to give...

8.2

52K votes

8.2

52K votes

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

1964 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Bette Davis · Olivia de Havilland · Joseph Cotten · Agnes Moorehead

Plot Charlotte Hollis, wealthy southern spinster, is shunned by her community for the grisly murder some 40 years prior of her intended, John Mayhew. Even though her guilt in the matter...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Emperor of the North Pole

1973 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Lee Marvin · Ernest Borgnine · Keith Carradine · Charles Tyner

Plot It is during the great depression in the US, and the land is full of people who are now homeless. Those people, commonly called "hobos", are truly hated by Shack...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Ulzana's Raid

1972 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Burt Lancaster · Bruce Davison · Joaquín Martínez · Jorge Luke

Plot After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The Grissom Gang

1971 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Kim Darby · Scott Wilson · Tony Musante · Robert Lansing

Plot Set in the Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish and Slim proceeds to fall in love with her.

7.1

690 votes

7.1

690 votes

The Flight of the Phoenix

1965 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast James Stewart · Richard Attenborough · Peter Finch · Ernest Borgnine

Plot After a cargo plane crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara, the surviving crew must fight starvation and their own fears in order to escape from the harsh desert before...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Forty Guns

1957 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Barry Sullivan · Dean Jagger · John Ericson

Plot Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is a despotic landowner who, with a posse of hired guns, has made herself the law of Cochise County, Arizona, with the weak-willed sheriff Ned Logan...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Attack!

1956 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

6.9

773 votes

6.9

773 votes

Robert Aldrichs's Too Late the Hero

1970 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Michael Caine · Cliff Robertson · Henry Fonda · Ian Bannen

Plot A reluctant hero, American Lt. Sam Lawson, is secunded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island.

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Towering Inferno

1974 · Movie · 165 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin · Irwin Allen

Cast Steve McQueen · Paul Newman · William Holden · Faye Dunaway

Plot Doug Roberts, Architect, returns from a long vacation to find work nearly completed on his skyscraper. He goes to the party that night concerned he's found that his wiring specifications...

6.8

16K votes

6.8

16K votes

Without Warning!

1952 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Adam Williams · Meg Randall · Edward Binns · Harlan Warde

Plot Carl Martin is a morose and deranged Los Angeles gardener, who,in retribution for the infidelity of his unfaithful wife, sets about to kill as many blonde's as he can. From...

6.6

27 votes

6.6

27 votes

Cry Danger

1951 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Dick Powell · Rhonda Fleming · Richard Erdman · William Conrad

Plot An innocent man just released from prison searches for the people who framed him and for the stashed $100,000 bankroll. Along the way he meets the wife of a fellow...

6.6

303 votes

6.6

303 votes

Brian's Song (TV)

1971 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Buzz Kulik

Cast James Caan · Billy Dee Williams · Jack Warden · Bernie Casey

Plot Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.

6.6

45 votes

6.6

45 votes

The Legend of Lylah Clare

1968 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Kim Novak · Peter Finch · Ernest Borgnine · Milton Selzer

Plot A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

6.6

270 votes

6.6

270 votes

The Detective

1968 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Frank Sinatra · Lee Remick · Ralph Meeker · Jack Klugman

Plot Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a homosexual man. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a...

6.6

606 votes

6.6

606 votes

Home Before Dark

1958 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Jean Simmons · Dan O'Herlihy · Rhonda Fleming · Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Plot Director Mervyn LeRoy's psychological drama follows recovering mental patient Charlotte (Jean Simmons), who leaves the secure confines of a psychiatric ward to return to the dysfunctional environment responsible for her...

6.5

129 votes

6.5

129 votes

Nightmare

1956 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Maxwell Shane

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Kevin McCarthy · Connie Russell · Virginia Christine

Plot A musician was hypnotised in order to commit a crime. When he wakes up he tries to find the truth with the help of his brother-in-law who is a police...

6.5

171 votes

6.5

171 votes

Verboten!

1959 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast James Best · Susan Cummings · Tom Pittman · Paul Dubov

Plot A young American serviceman, stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his position with the Marshall Plan relief effort by breaking the non-fraternisatiom rule and falling...

6.5

154 votes

6.5

154 votes

Vice Squad

1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Paulette Goddard · K.T. Stevens · Porter Hall

Plot When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby uses his skills and contacts to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist plan in the...

6.5

78 votes

6.5

78 votes

The Killing of Sister George

1968 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

6.4

322 votes

6.4

322 votes