Direction: David Miller

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by David Miller. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Lonely are the Brave

1962 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Kirk Douglas · Gena Rowlands · Walter Matthau · Michael Kane

Plot In order to free his best friend Bondi, Jack Burns lets himself be imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Sudden Fear

1952 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Joan Crawford · Jack Palance · Gloria Grahame · Bruce Bennett

Plot Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a "romantic leading man." On...

7.1

832 votes

7.1

832 votes

The Story of Esther Costello

1957 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Miller

Cast Joan Crawford · Rossano Brazzi · Heather Sears · Lee Patterson

Plot Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate...

6.6

33 votes

6.6

33 votes

Executive Action

1973 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Burt Lancaster · Robert Ryan · John Anderson · Colby Chester

Plot Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.

6.4

473 votes

6.4

473 votes

Midnight Lace

1960 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Doris Day · Rex Harrison · John Gavin · Myrna Loy

Plot Kit and Anthony Preston never had a real honeymoon, and the midnight lace pajamas are for when they can finally get out of London. Anthony's business is very pressing these...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Captain Newman, M.D.

1963 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Gregory Peck · Tony Curtis · Angie Dickinson · Eddie Albert

Plot Dr. Josiah Newman runs the psychiatric unit of a U.S. Military Hospital during WWII. Short of help, Newman coerces newly arrived neurotic orderly Jackson Leibowitz to work in his ward....

6.2

320 votes

6.2

320 votes

Love Happy

1949 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes

Back Street

1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Susan Hayward · John Gavin · Vera Miles · Charles Drake

Plot Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II....

6.0

139 votes

6.0

139 votes

Billy the Kid

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction David Miller · Frank Borzage

Cast Robert Taylor · Brian Donlevy · Ian Hunter · Mary Howard

Plot It's Pat Garrett vs. Billy the Kid again in a remake of the 1930 Johnny Mack Brown starrer. At least this one's in vibrant Technicolor.

5.9

653 votes

5.9

653 votes

Flying Tigers

1942 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast John Wayne · John Carroll · Anna Lee · Paul Kelly

Plot Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send...

5.6

128 votes

5.6

128 votes

Diane

1956 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Lana Turner · Pedro Armendáriz · Roger Moore · Marisa Pavan

Plot The action is set in 16th century France. Diane de Poitiers (Lana Turner), mistress of Prince Henri (Roger Moore), the future King Henry II, rises to a position of absolute...

5.6

44 votes

5.6

44 votes

Our Very Own

1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Ann Blyth · Farley Granger · Joan Evans · Jane Wyatt

Plot Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan. With the reluctant support of her adopted parents and baby sister, Penny, Gail...

5.5

42 votes

5.5

42 votes

The Opposite Sex

1956 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast June Allyson · Joan Collins · Dolores Gray · Ann Sheridan

Plot Shortly after their tenth wedding anniversary, New York theater producer Steven Hilliard and his wife, former popular radio singer Kay Hilliard née Ashley, are getting a Kay-initiated Reno divorce after...

5.2

50 votes

5.2

50 votes

Hammerhead

1968 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Miller

Cast Vince Edwards · Judy Geeson · Peter Vaughan · Diana Dors

Plot Hammerhead is a dangerous international criminal suspected by British Intelligence of trying to steal NATO defense secrets. In desperation, a young, charming soldier of fortune is called in to match...

4.8

40 votes

4.8

40 votes

Seeds of Destiny (S)

1946 · Documentary · 20 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Ralph Bellamy

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Love for Rent (TV)

1979 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Annette O'Toole · Lisa Eilbacher · Rhonda Fleming · Eugene Roche

Plot Lynn is the innocent midwestern girl who comes to wicked old New York looking for her sister Carol. Carol is now gainfully employed by an "escort bureau", and Lynn is...

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Not rated

Hail, Hero!

1969 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Michael Douglas · Arthur Kennedy · Teresa Wright · John Larch

Plot During the Vietnam War, college student Carl Dixon quits school and joins the Army in hopes of using love, not bullets, to combat the Viet Cong.

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Saturday's Hero

1951 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast John Derek · Donna Reed · Sidney Blackmer · Alexander Knox

Plot High school football hero Steve Novak finds himself caught up in the world of big-time college athletics at Jackson University in the 1950's. He must balance his desire to get...

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Not rated

Happy Anniversary

1959 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

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Penny Wisdom (S)

1937 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

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Not rated