Direction: John Berry

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


Tension

1949 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast Richard Basehart · Audrey Totter · Cyd Charisse · Barry Sullivan

Plot Warren Quimby, mad about his beautiful but unfaithful wife, Claire, plans to murder her lover, Barney Deager. He creates another identity so that when he commits the murder he will...

6.9

159 votes

6.9

159 votes

The Hollywood Ten (S)

1950 · Documentary · 15 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast Alvah Bessie · Herbert J. Biberman · Lester Cole · Edward Dmytryk

Plot Who were the Hollywood Ten? This 1950 documentary gives us a closer look at the ten blacklisted film writers and directors who defied the government and the sentiments of their...

6.8

61 votes

6.8

61 votes

He Ran All the Way

1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast John Garfield · Shelley Winters · Wallace Ford · Selena Royle

Plot Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is killed, along with a policeman. Nick hides out in a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. He goes...

6.7

423 votes

6.7

423 votes

Claudine

1974 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast Diahann Carroll · James Earl Jones · Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs · Tamu Blackwell

Plot Claudine tries to provide for her six children in Harlem while on welfare. She has a romance with Roop, a cheerful garbageman she meets while working on the side as...

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

From This Day Forward

1946 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast Joan Fontaine · Mark Stevens · Rosemary DeCamp · Harry Morgan

Plot In flashbacks, the 1938 courtship and marriage of young machinist Bill Cummings and bookstore clerk Susan are recalled: newlywed bliss, unemployment and other tribulations, opportunity with a hidden drawback, war...

6.1

109 votes

6.1

109 votes

Casbah

1948 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast Yvonne De Carlo · Tony Martin · Peter Lorre · Märta Torén

Plot Pepe Le Moko (Tony Martin) leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France. Inez (Yvonne...

5.7

98 votes

5.7

98 votes

Don Juan

1956 · Movie · 93 min. · France

Direction John Berry

Cast Fernandel · Carmen Sevilla · Fernando Rey · Erno Crisa

Plot Film based on the myth of Don Juan.

4.0

87 votes

4.0

87 votes

East Side / West Side (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Tom Gries · Daniel Petrie · Herschel Daugherty · Marc Daniels

Cast George C. Scott · Elizabeth Wilson · Cicely Tyson · Linden Chiles

Plot TV Series (1963-1964). 1 season. 26 episodes. Neil Brock is a young social worker in the slums of New York City; his boss is Frieda Hechlinger; and Jane Foster is...

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Tamango

1958 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction John Berry

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Curd Jürgens · Jean Servais · Alex Cressan

Plot John Reinke, the Dutch captain of a slave ship, is carrying a live cargo of slaves from Africa to Cuba in the 1800s. He has his mistress and servant-slave, Aiche,...

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Headlines of Destruction

1955 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction John Berry

Cast Eddie Constantine · Bella Darvi · Olivier Hussenot · Walter Chiari

Plot Michel was just released from prison when he is suspected of having killed his wife as she was the one who brought him into prison. She also betrayed him with...

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Chillers (TV Series)

1990 · Series · 50 min. · France

Direction Mai Zetterling · Roger Andrieux · Maroun Bagdadi · John Berry

Cast Anthony Perkins · Stéphane Freiss · Assumpta Serna · Jean-Pierre Bisson

Plot Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the darkest depths of human nature. Episode 1: The Cat Brought It In Episode 2: Sauce for the...

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Honeyboy (TV)

1982 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast Erik Estrada · Morgan Fairchild · Hector Elizondo · James McEachin

Plot Rico 'Honeyboy' Ramirez is a Puerto Rican from the south Bronx who finds fame and fortune as a middleweight boxer. But he soon learns that it's not all it's cracked...

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There Goes Barder

1955 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction John Berry

Cast Eddie Constantine · May Britt · Monique van Vooren · Irène Galter

Plot A con man (Eddie Constantine) is approached by a shipping magnate to become one of his security agents.

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Breaking It Up

1968 · Movie · 88 min. · France

Direction John Berry

Cast Eddie Constantine · Johnny Hallyday · Catherine Allegret · Annabella Incontrera

Plot Frankie and his friends open a nightclub above the lair of Morelli, a notorious gangster. The latter is planning the heist of the century and resents the noise made by...

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Oh! Qué mambo

1959 · Movie · 82 min. · France

Direction John Berry

Cast Magali Noël · Dario Moreno · Jean Poiret · Michel Serrault

Plot Miguel Montero foils a bank robbery and finds success as a night club singer, but doesn't know his wife is being courted by an Italian fitness instructor.

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It Happened in Paris

1952 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Henri Lavorel · John Berry

Cast Henri Vidal · Evelyn Keyes · Jean Wall · Frederick O'Brady

Plot A wealthy American,Patricia ,comes to spend some days in her uncle's place,in Paris.A modern woman ,she goes out alone and meets in a bar a pseudo -Russian prince,Wladimir.

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Maya

1966 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast Clint Walker · Jay North · Sajid Khan · I.S. Johar

Plot Teenager Terry Bowen arrives in India to live with his father, a famous hunter. When he finds out that his father, who has reluctantly accepted his presence, is a supposed...

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Boesman & Lena

2000 · Movie · 90 min. · South Africa

Direction John Berry

Cast Danny Glover · Angela Bassett · Willie Jonah · Graham Weir

Plot On a cold afternoon during the Apartheid era, an aging "Brown" couple arrive at the Swartkops mud flat near Cape Town. They are scavengers rousted out of their shanty town...

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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

1978 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast Tony Curtis · Jackie Earle Haley · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Antonio Inoki

Plot In this third film of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promoter/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the...

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Angel on My Shoulder (TV)

1980 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

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