Direction: Robert Kramer
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Robert Kramer. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Route One / USA
1989 · Documentary · 255 min. · United States
Direction Robert Kramer
Cast Jesse Jackson · Paul McIsaac · Pat Robertson
Plot From more than 65 hours of film footage, acclaimed American independent filmmaker Robert Kramer crafted this epic portrait of the famous highway that runs from Maine to Key West, Florida.
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64 votes
8.0
64 votes
Milestones
1975 · Documentary · 195 min. · United States
Direction Robert Kramer · John Douglas
Plot A many-faceted portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It cuts back and forth between six major...
7.8
127 votes
7.8
127 votes
Doc's Kingdom
1987 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Robert Kramer
Cast Paul McIsaac · Vincent Gallo · Ruy Furtado · Roslyn Payn
Plot Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. As a doctor, he knows that the illness he has contracted ten years before...
7.0
25 votes
7.0
25 votes
Ice
1970 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Robert Kramer
Cast Tom Griffin · Paul McIsaac · Robert Kramer · Barbara Stone
Plot An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife to stage urban guerilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States. Interspersed throughout the narrative are rhetorical sequences that...
6.6
78 votes
6.6
78 votes
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal
1977 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States
Direction Robert Kramer
Cast Philip J. Spinelli
Plot Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary focuses on the antifascist, anti-imperialist efforts of labor groups, peasants, and working-class soldiers to liberate Portugal from the control...
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Guns
1980 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Robert Kramer
Cast Patrick Bauchau · Juliet Berto · Peggy Frankston · Keja Ho Kramer
Plot Tony (Patrick Bauchau), a journalist, speaks of ‘a nonsensical story.’ We no longer have any way to penetrate this wider world. The other strand concerns our intimate and personal experiences,...
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FALN (S)
1965 · Documentary · 25 min. · United States
Direction Peter Gessner · Robert Kramer
Plot Cinematography by members of the FALN. This is a straightforward account of the birth of the revolutionary Venezuelan organization FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación). It traces the history of social...
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The Edge
1968 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Robert Kramer
Cast Tom Griffin · Howard Loeb Babeuf · Jeff Weiss · Anne Waldman Warsch
Plot A troubled antiwar activist plans to assassinate the President of the United States. His resolve forces others in a fragmented and disillusioned group of political allies to face the threat...
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Naissance
1981 · Documentary · 42 min. · United States
Direction Robert Kramer
Plot Episodio of the series "the great days and the ordinary days".
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Dear Doc
1990 · Documentary · 35 min. · France
Direction Robert Kramer
Cast Paul McIsaac
Plot Video-letter sent to Doc, central figure of Doc's Kingdom (1987) and Route One / USA (1989).
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Notre nazi
1984 · Documentary · 113 min. · France
Direction Robert Kramer
Cast Thomas Harlan · Alfred Filbert
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Diesel
1985 · Movie · 79 min. · France
Direction Robert Kramer
Cast Gérard Klein · Agnès Soral · Richard Bohringer · Niels Arestrup
Plot A prositute (Anges Sorel) tries to change her life after her release from prison, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fole...
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Starting Place
1994 · Documentary · 83 min. · France
Direction Robert Kramer
Plot In this film from late in his career, Kramer returns to Hanoi after nearly 25 years to re-envision the city’s struggle through an uncertain and daunting past, present, and future....
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In the Country
1967 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Robert Kramer
Cast William Devane · Catherine Merrill · Jane Kramer · Henry Heifitz
Plot During the Vietnam War, a young revolutionary, isolated with his lover in a country house, struggles to comprehend his self-inflicted inactivity and his alienation from former political associates.
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Walk the Walk
1996 · Movie · 115 min. · France
Direction Robert Kramer
Cast Jacques Martial · Laure Duthilleul · Betsabée Haas · Eliane Boisgard
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At Full Speed
1982 · Movie · 61 min. · France
Direction Robert Kramer
Cast Laure Duthilleul · William Cherino · Bernard Ballet · Manuelle Lidsky
Plot At La Defense's roller skating rink, Nelly and Serge work hard to become roller derby champions, go to America, and join the Chicago Flyers. But how can they get the...
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Against Oblivion
1991 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Patrice Chéreau · Philippe Muyl · Chantal Akerman · René Allio
Cast Paul Amar · Robert Badinter · Guy Bedos · Jane Birkin
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