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.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Silent Witness (TV)
1957 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Paul Henreid
Cast Don Taylor · Dolores Hart · Patricia Hitchcock · Harry Bellaver
6.4
71 votes
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
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast James Stewart · Vera Miles · Murray Hamilton · Nick Adams
5.9
757 votes
5.9
757 votes
Donovan's Brain
1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Felix E. Feist
Cast Lew Ayres · Gene Evans · Nancy Reagan · Steve Brodie
5.9
128 votes
5.9
128 votes