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
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Jack Palance · Eddie Albert · Lee Marvin · William Smithers
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
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Beryl Reid · Susannah York · Coral Browne · Ronald Fraser
6.4
322 votes
6.4
322 votes