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

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

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