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...
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
Direction Philip Kaufman · Benjamin Manaster
Cast Lou Gilbert · Ellen Madison · Tom Erhart · Ben Carruthers
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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,...
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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.
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