Direction: Robert Altman
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Robert Altman. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The James Dean Story
1957 · Documentary · 81 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman · George W. George
Plot This documentary, which was undertaken soon after James Dean's death, looks at Dean's life through the use of still photographs with narration, and interviews with many of the people involved...
6.1
75 votes
6.1
75 votes
Vincent & Theo
1990 · Movie · 134 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Tim Roth · Paul Rhys · Johanna ter Steege · Wladimir Yordanoff
Plot The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of...
6.1
409 votes
6.1
409 votes
Thieves Like Us
1974 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Keith Carradine · Shelley Duvall · Louise Fletcher · Bert Remsen
Plot Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing, their special talent and claim to fame. The youngest...
5.9
352 votes
5.9
352 votes
Streamers
1983 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Matthew Modine · Michael Wright · Mitchell Lichtenstein · David Alan Grier
Plot Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront thier prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is homosexual.
5.8
109 votes
5.8
109 votes
Health
1980 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Carol Burnett · Lauren Bacall · Glenda Jackson · James Garner
Plot A parody and satire of the U.S. political scene of the time, HealtH is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization...
5.8
56 votes
5.8
56 votes
A Prairie Home Companion
2006 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Woody Harrelson · Tommy Lee Jones · Meryl Streep · Lindsay Lohan
Plot Since 1974, the programme “A Prairie Home Companion” has been airing regularly (apart from a brief break in the 1980s) on public radio stations in the USA that now number...
5.7
2K votes
5.7
2K votes
Fool for Love
1985 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Sam Shepard · Kim Basinger · Randy Quaid · Harry Dean Stanton
Plot May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life...
5.6
254 votes
5.6
254 votes
Aria
1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Altman · Bruce Beresford · Jean-Luc Godard · Derek Jarman
Cast Theresa Russell · Jacques Neuville · Buck Henry · Elizabeth Hurley
Plot Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner),...
5.6
132 votes
5.6
132 votes
The Company
2003 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Neve Campbell · James Franco · Malcolm McDowell · Barbara Robertson
Plot With the complete cooperation of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, director Robert Altman follows the stories of the dancers, whose professional and personal lives grow impossibly close, as they cope...
5.5
1K votes
5.5
1K votes
The Gingerbread Man
1998 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Kenneth Branagh · Daryl Hannah · Robert Downey Jr. · Embeth Davidtz
Plot Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. He becomes hooked on her, and when he learns her nut-case father Dixon is threatening her, he puts the...
5.4
2K votes
5.4
2K votes
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
1976 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Paul Newman · Burt Lancaster · Geraldine Chaplin · Harvey Keitel
Plot Buffalo Bill (Paul Newman) plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden...
5.4
819 votes
5.4
819 votes
The Delinquents
1957 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Tom Laughlin · Peter Miller · Richard Bakalyan · Rosemary Howard
Plot Scotty White (age 19) must stop 'going steady' with Janice Wilson (age 16) when Janice's parents intervene. Frustrated, idle and without Janice's restraining influence, Scotty encounters Cholly and his band...
5.4
72 votes
5.4
72 votes
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (TV)
1988 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Eric Bogosian · Jeff Daniels · Brad Davis · Peter Gallagher
Plot A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".
5.2
65 votes
5.2
65 votes
A Perfect Couple
1979 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Paul Dooley · Marta Heflin · Titos Vandis · Belita Moreno
Plot A repressed, middle-aged divorced U.S. Greek meets a young singer through a dating service and becomes smitten.
5.2
31 votes
5.2
31 votes
Bonanza (TV Series)
1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction David Dortort · William F. Claxton · Lewis Allen · Don McDougall
Cast Lorne Greene · Michael Landon · Dan Blocker · Pernell Roberts
Plot TV Series (1959-1973). 14 Seasons. 430 Episodes. Western / Nevada, in the 1860s. Ben Cartwright and his sons Adam, Hoss and Joe life in a large ranch - The Ponderosa.
5.2
6K votes
5.2
6K votes
Countdown
1968 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman · William Conrad
Cast James Caan · Joanna Moore · Robert Duvall · Barbara Baxley
Plot The Apollo 3 crew are training when it is discovered that the Russians plan a moon landing. The Americans enact a makeshift plan to land a man on the moon...
4.7
181 votes
4.7
181 votes
Quintet
1979 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Paul Newman · Vittorio Gassman · Fernando Rey · Bibi Andersson
Plot During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called "Quintet." For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the...
4.6
351 votes
4.6
351 votes
Beyond Therapy
1986 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Glenda Jackson · Julie Hagerty · Jeff Goldblum · Tom Conti
Plot A few unusual characters and their unconventional therapists cross paths resulting in hilarious interactions.
4.6
110 votes
4.6
110 votes
O.C. and Stiggs
1985 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Daniel Jenkins · Neill Barry · Jane Curtin · Paul Dooley
Plot O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against it. They seek revenge against the middle class Schwab family, who embody...
4.1
42 votes
4.1
42 votes
Ready to Wear
1994 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Julia Roberts · Tim Robbins · Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni
Plot A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Lots of unconnected stories which all revolve around this show, and an all-star...
4.1
5K votes
4.1
5K votes