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.


6.4

71 votes

Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?

1969 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Lee H. Katzin

Cast Geraldine Page · Ruth Gordon · Michael Barbera · Peter Brandon

Plot Oscar winner Geraldine Page (THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL) stars as Claire Marrable, an Arizona widow with a habit of murdering her housekeepers and stealing their savings. Enter Aunt Alice (Ruth...

6.4

582 votes

6.4

582 votes

Airplane!

1980 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Jim Abrahams · David Zucker · Jerry Zucker

Cast Robert Hays · Julie Hagerty · Leslie Nielsen · Lloyd Bridges

Plot The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the '80s, not to...

6.4

87K votes

6.4

87K votes

The Devil at Four O'Clock

1961 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Spencer Tracy · Frank Sinatra · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Kerwin Mathews

Plot When a volcano erupts near a children's hospital in the South Pacific, three convicts and a priest must rescue the patients and staff. This forerunner of the volcano disaster pics...

6.4

947 votes

6.4

947 votes

The Garment Jungle

1957 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman · Robert Aldrich

Cast Lee J. Cobb · Kerwin Mathews · Gia Scala · Richard Boone

Plot Tulio Renata (Robert Loggia), an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, campaigns to unionize the employees of dress factory owner Walter Mitchell (Lee J. Cobb). Viscerally opposed to...

6.3

160 votes

6.3

160 votes

The Glass Wall

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Maxwell Shane

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Gloria Grahame · Ann Robinson · Douglas Spencer

Plot No one can believe his story of survival in the European concentration camps. When he escapes into the streets of Manhattan we get the feel of what the town was...

6.3

78 votes

6.3

78 votes

The Ride Back (The Way Back)

1957 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Allen H. Miner · Oscar Rudolph

Cast Anthony Quinn · William Conrad · Lita Milan · Victor Millan

Plot A Sheriff goes into Mexico in search of a man wanted back in the States. Finding him, he starts back. But it's a long way back, he has a reluctant...

6.2

28 votes

6.2

28 votes

Down Three Dark Streets

1954 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Broderick Crawford · Ruth Roman · Martha Hyer · Marisa Pavan

Plot When FBI Agent Zack Stewart is killed, Agent John Ripley takes over the three cases he was working on, hoping one will lead to his killer. The first involves gangster...

6.2

90 votes

6.2

90 votes

Hammett

1982 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Frederic Forrest · Peter Boyle · Marilu Henner · Roy Kinnear

Plot San Francisco, 1928. Dashiell Hammet, a former detective of the Pinkerton Agency, in his thirties, is a tuberculous drunkard who barely survives writing detective stories. An old colleague, Jimmy Ryan...

6.2

996 votes

6.2

996 votes

Run of the Arrow

1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Rod Steiger · Sara Montiel · Brian Keith · Ralph Meeker

Plot When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming

1966 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Alan Arkin · Eva Marie Saint · Paul Ford · Brian Keith

Plot When a Soviet submarine captain comes up for a look at America (off the coast of a small island in Massachusetts) he runs aground. He sends his two English speaking...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Johnny Allegro

1949 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast George Raft · Nina Foch · George Macready · Will Geer

Plot A reformed hoodlum gets mixed up with counterfeiters and a deadly manhunt.

6.1

53 votes

6.1

53 votes

Tony Rome

1967 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Frank Sinatra · Jill St. John · Richard Conte · Sue Lyon

Plot The beautiful daughter of a wealthy industrialist turns up drunk and unconscious in a hotel room. To avoid a scandal the hotel house detective hires his former partner, private detective...

6.1

422 votes

6.1

422 votes

Toys in the Attic

1963 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Dean Martin · Geraldine Page · Yvette Mimieux · Wendy Hiller

Plot Julian Berniers (Dean Martin ) return from Illinois with his young bride Lily (Yvette Mimieux) to the family in New Orleans. Sisters Carrie (Geraldine Page) and Anne (Wendy Hiller) welcome...

6.1

97 votes

6.1

97 votes

The Killer That Stalked New York

1950 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Earl McEvoy

Cast Evelyn Keyes · Charles Korvin · William Bishop · Dorothy Malone

Plot Sheila Bennett smuggles some diamonds, from Cuba, through the port of New York City but is unaware she is also bringing in a smallpox virus. Doctor can not diagnose the...

6.1

63 votes

6.1

63 votes

Fitzwilly

1967 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Dick Van Dyke · Barbara Feldon · John McGiver · Edith Evans

Plot When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses...

6.1

188 votes

6.1

188 votes

Blazing Saddles

1974 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Mel Brooks

Cast Gene Wilder · Cleavon Little · Slim Pickens · Madeline Kahn

Plot To ruin a western town, a corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

6.0

4K votes

6.0

4K votes

Magic Town

1947 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast James Stewart · Jane Wyman · Kent Smith · Ned Sparks

Plot Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run...

6.0

474 votes

6.0

474 votes

The FBI Story

1959 · Movie · 149 min. · United States

5.9

757 votes

5.9

757 votes

Donovan's Brain

1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

5.9

128 votes

5.9

128 votes