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.

8.0

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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Berlin 10/90

1991 · Documentary · 64 min. · France

Direction Robert Kramer

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Notre nazi

1984 · Documentary · 113 min. · France

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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

War

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

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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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