Direction: Philip Kaufman

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


Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1978 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Donald Sutherland · Brooke Adams · Leonard Nimoy · Jeff Goldblum

Plot In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion. Version -with slight variations- of Don Siegel's sci-fi...

7.1

13K votes

7.1

13K votes

The Right Stuff

1983 · Movie · 193 min. · United States

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Scott Glenn · Ed Harris · Barbara Hershey · Dennis Quaid

Plot Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test pilots courageously fought to break the sound barrier. These maverick men would stop at nothing to achieve winning speed. Led by...

6.8

4K votes

6.8

4K votes

Quills

2000 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Geoffrey Rush · Kate Winslet · Joaquin Phoenix · Michael Caine

Plot You are about to embark on a gothic tale of virtue and vice, of comedy and terror, of love and shocking erotica, of brutal censorship and, ultimately, the uncrushable spirit...

6.8

7K votes

6.8

7K votes

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1987 · Movie · 164 min. · United States

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Juliette Binoche · Lena Olin · Stellan Skarsgard

Plot Based on the acclaimed novel by Milan Kundera, Kaufman’s film explores the highly active love life of a charming Czech surgeon (Day-Lewis) against the backdrop of the Prague Spring of...

6.6

4K votes

6.6

4K votes

The Wanderers

1979 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Ken Wahl · John Friedrich · Karen Allen · Toni Kalem

Plot Tully High School seniors Richie, Joey and Perry run with a gang called the Wanderers in the Bronx. The time is fall 1963 but their experiences are universal: falling in...

6.2

818 votes

6.2

818 votes

Henry & June

1990 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Fred Ward · María de Medeiros · Uma Thurman · Richard E. Grant

Plot In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with...

5.7

2K votes

5.7

2K votes

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

1972 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Cliff Robertson · Robert Duvall · Luke Askew · R.G. Armstrong

Plot The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield.

5.5

156 votes

5.5

156 votes

Rising Sun

1993 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Sean Connery · Wesley Snipes · Harvey Keitel · Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Plot At the offices of a Japanese corporation, during a party, a woman, who's evidently a professional mistress, is found dead, apparently after some rough sex. A police detective, Web Smith...

5.5

7K votes

5.5

7K votes

Hemingway & Gellhorn (TV)

2012 · Movie · 154 min. · United States

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Nicole Kidman · Clive Owen · Robert Duvall · Parker Posey

Plot Hemingway & Gellhorn recounts one of the great romances of the last century - the passionate love affair and tumultuous marriage of literary master Ernest Hemingway and the trailblazing war...

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5.0

1K votes

5.0

1K votes

Twisted

2004 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Ashley Judd · Samuel L. Jackson · Andy García · Russell Wong

Plot Newly promoted police inspector Jessica Shepard (Ashley Judd) is searching for a serial killer, and is shocked to discover that men she has recently slept with are the victims. The...

4.8

6K votes

4.8

6K votes

Goldstein

1964 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

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The White Dawn

1974 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Warren Oates · Timothy Bottoms · Louis Gossett Jr. · Joanasie Salamonie

Plot In 1896, three whalers are stranded in the Arctic North Canada and seek refuge with an Eskimo tribe. Gradually they gain control with the Eskimo village and introduce gambling, booze,...

Not rated

Not rated

Fearless Frank

1967 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Jon Voight · Monique van Vooren · Severn Darden · Joan Darling

Plot A satirical comedy about an unsophisticated country boy who treks off to Chicago, gets shot by mobsters and awakens to find that he has the powers of Superman. In HD.

Not rated

Not rated