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