Direction: Robert Aldrich
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Robert Aldrich. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Bette Davis · Joan Crawford · Victor Buono · Wesley Addy
Plot In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation.
8.2
17K votes
8.2
17K votes
The Dirty Dozen
1967 · Movie · 145 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Lee Marvin · Charles Bronson · John Cassavetes · Ernest Borgnine
Plot An Army Major who likes to butt heads with his superiors, is being "given" a new assignment, to train 12 men who are either sentenced to death or life imprisonment,...
7.7
38K votes
7.7
38K 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
The Last Sunset
1961 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Rock Hudson · Kirk Douglas · Dorothy Malone · Carol Lynley
Plot Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's...
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
Kiss Me Deadly
1955 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Ralph Meeker · Albert Dekker · Paul Stewart · Juano Hernández
Plot Detective Mike Hammer fights to solve the murder of a beautiful hitchhiker with a mysterious connection to the Mob.
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K 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
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
Vera Cruz
1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Gary Cooper · Burt Lancaster · Denise Darcel · Sara Montiel
Plot During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.
6.9
6K votes
6.9
6K 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
Autumn Leaves
1956 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Joan Crawford · Cliff Robertson · Vera Miles · Lorne Greene
Plot Milly, a lonely older woman, marries Burt Hanson, a much younger man. But after the wedding, Milly discovers that Burt has been mentally unhinged by the discovery, some time before,...
6.7
422 votes
6.7
422 votes
Apache
1954 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Burt Lancaster · Jean Peters · Charles Bronson · John Dehner
Plot Refusing to let himself be re-settled on a Florida reservation, Massai, an Apache warrior, escapes his captors and returns to his homeland to become a peaceful farmer.
6.6
2K votes
6.6
2K 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 Big Knife
1955 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Jack Palance · Ida Lupino · Wendell Corey · Jean Hagen
Plot Charles Castle is a successful Hollywood actor who has opted for screen success over art. He must make critical decisions regarding his career...
6.5
397 votes
6.5
397 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
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
Ten Seconds to Hell
1959 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Jack Palance · Jeff Chandler · Martine Carol · Robert Cornthwaite
Plot Shortly after World War II, two bomb desposal experts and further complicate their relationship by falling in love with the same woman.
6.0
263 votes
6.0
263 votes
Big Leaguer
1953 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Vera-Ellen · Jeff Richards · Richard Jaeckel
Plot Big Leaguer was the inauspicious feature-film debut for director Robert Aldrich. Edward G. Robinson stars as the real-life Hans Lobert, the baseball scout in charge of the New York Giants'...
6.0
23 votes
6.0
23 votes