Direction: John Guillermin

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


Rapture

1965 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Melvyn Douglas · Patricia Gozzi · Dean Stockwell · Gunnel Lindblom

Synopsis A dark fairy tale set against the rugged beauty of the Brittany seacoast, it tells the story of a young girl whose lonely isolation under the watchful eye of her stern and bitter father is abruptly shattered by the arrival...

7.2

33 votes

7.2

33 votes

Death on the Nile

1978 · Movie · 140 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Peter Ustinov · Bette Davis · Mia Farrow · David Niven

Synopsis A deluxe version of Agatha Christie's favorite mystery story, published in 1937, and a thematic follow-up to her Murder on the Orient Express. Set aboard a steamship cruising down the Nile, an extremely unpopular heiress is murdered and everyone on...

6.8

6K votes

6.8

6K votes

The Towering Inferno

1974 · Movie · 165 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin · Irwin Allen

Cast Steve McQueen · Paul Newman · William Holden · Faye Dunaway

Synopsis Doug Roberts, Architect, returns from a long vacation to find work nearly completed on his skyscraper. He goes to the party that night concerned he's found that his wiring specifications have not been followed and that the building continues to...

6.8

16K votes

6.8

16K votes

Never Let Go

1960 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Richard Todd · Peter Sellers · Elizabeth Sellars · Adam Faith

Synopsis Car salesman John (Richard Todd) can't seem to catch a break, so he decides to buy a car himself as a way to increase sales. But when his vehicle is stolen, John will stop at nothing to get it back,...

6.6

166 votes

6.6

166 votes

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Aldo Ray · Elizabeth Sellars · Peter O'Toole · Kieron Moore

Synopsis London at the turn of the century. Three men is on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their leader, discovers the bank's weak spot: an old forgotten...

6.5

372 votes

6.5

372 votes

The Blue Max

1966 · Movie · 156 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast George Peppard · James Mason · Ursula Andress · Jeremy Kemp

Synopsis The tactics of a German fighter pilot offend his aristocratic comrades but win him his country's most honored medal, the Blue Max. The General finds him useful as a hero even though his wife also finds him useful as a...

6.5

610 votes

6.5

610 votes

The Bridge at Remagen

1969 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast George Segal · Robert Vaughn · Ben Gazzara · Bradford Dillman

Synopsis As the Allied armies close in, the Nazis decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen?

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

I Was Monty's Double

1958 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Guillermin

Cast M.E. Clifton-James · John Mills · Cecil Parker · Patrick Allen

Synopsis The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.

6.2

88 votes

6.2

88 votes

Guns at Batasi

1964 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Richard Attenborough · Jack Hawkins · Flora Robson · John Leyton

Synopsis A British regiment stationed in a Newly independent African state is preparing to celebrate the Queen's birthday when Colonel Deal is ordered to hand over command to the African Captain Abraham pending the result of political agitation. Deal leaves for...

6.1

122 votes

6.1

122 votes

Town on Trial

1957 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Charles Coburn · John Mills · Barbara Bates · Derek Farr

Synopsis When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the...

5.9

36 votes

5.9

36 votes

The Whole Truth

1958 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Stewart Granger · Donna Reed · George Sanders · Gianna Maria Canale

Synopsis Movie producer Max Poulton is having an on again, off again affair with Gina Bertini, the temperamental leading lady in his latest movie which is filming in the French Riviera. Gina and Max's current off again status is due to...

5.8

24 votes

5.8

24 votes

El Condor

1970 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Jim Brown · Lee Van Cleef · Patrick O'Neal · Marianna Hill

Synopsis Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians in 19th century Mexico to capture a large, heavily armed fortress for the millions -- or billions -- of dollars in gold...

5.6

394 votes

5.6

394 votes

King Kong

1976 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Jeff Bridges · Jessica Lange · Charles Grodin · John Randolph

Synopsis The owner of the oil company Petrox Corporation, Fred Wilson, invests all his possessions searching oil in an unexplored island. The vessel leaves Surubaya, in Indonesia, with the stowaway Jack Prescott, who wants to protect an ape called Kong. While...

5.4

6K votes

5.4

6K votes

Waltz of the Toreadors

1962 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Peter Sellers · Dany Robin · Margaret Leighton · John Fraser

Synopsis This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster: a confirmed womanizer, Leo has infuriated his wife Emily, now...

5.3

45 votes

5.3

45 votes

The Tracker (TV)

1988 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Kris Kristofferson · Scott Wilson · David Huddleston · Mark Moses

Synopsis After a series of vicious crimes by a renegade group of cowboys, a legendary tracker, Noble Adams, is pulled out of retirement to capture them, dead or alive. Reluctantly, needing more men, he allows his son to tag along, revealing...

5.1

45 votes

5.1

45 votes

House of Cards

1968 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast George Peppard · Inger Stevens · Orson Welles · Keith Michell

Synopsis Leschenhaut and Morillon are trying to organize a plot to overthrow the French government and set up a new fascist organization. Their plans are interrupted by Davis, an American boxer, tutor of young Paul de Villemont.

5.1

90 votes

5.1

90 votes

Shaft in Africa

1973 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Richard Roundtree · Frank Finlay · Vonetta McGee · Neda Arneric

Synopsis While in Africa, John Shaft is persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor, to assume the identity of a native-speaking itinerant worker in the country. His job is to help...

4.8

219 votes

4.8

219 votes

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure

1959 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Gordon Scott · Anthony Quayle · Sara Shane · Niall MacGinnis

Synopsis Four British villains raid a settlement to obtain explosives for use in a diamond mine. In doing so they nearly destroy the settlement, so and Tarzan pursues them to their mine.

4.7

173 votes

4.7

173 votes

Skyjacked

1972 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Charlton Heston · Yvette Mimieux · James Brolin · Claude Akins

Synopsis A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.

4.7

245 votes

4.7

245 votes

King Kong Lives

1986 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Brian Kerwin · Linda Hamilton · John Ashton · Peter Michael Goetz

Synopsis A giant ape King Kong, which was shot and fell off the Empire State Building, appears to be alive, but is in coma for 10 years and desperately needs a blood transfusion in order to have an artificial heart implanted....

3.5

762 votes

3.5

762 votes