Direction: Michael Winner

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


Scorpio

1973 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Burt Lancaster · Alain Delon · Paul Scofield · John Colicos

Plot A CIA hit man is stalked by a former partner when the agency turns on him.

6.4

821 votes

6.4

821 votes

Lawman

1971 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Burt Lancaster · Robert Ryan · Lee J. Cobb · Sheree North

Plot A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.

6.3

671 votes

6.3

671 votes

The Games

1970 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Ryan O'Neal · Charles Aznavour · Michael Crawford · Athol Compton

Plot The story of four marathon runners and their preparations for the Olympics. One is a British runner with a highly demanding coach. Another is an American who participates even though...

6.2

63 votes

6.2

63 votes

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

1967 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Oliver Reed · Carol White · Orson Welles · Harry Andrews

Plot Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine....

6.1

25 votes

6.1

25 votes

The Sentinel

1977 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Cristina Raines · Chris Sarandon · Burgess Meredith · Arthur Kennedy

Plot A fashion model moves into a house inhabited (on the top floor) by a blind priest. She begins having strange physical problems, has trouble sleeping at night, and has some...

5.9

977 votes

5.9

977 votes

The Jokers

1967 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Michael Crawford · Oliver Reed · Harry Andrews · James Donald

Plot Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford play two brothers who are always trying to find some way to succeed with cleverness rather than simple drudgery. Crawford is constantly living in his...

5.9

87 votes

5.9

87 votes

The Mechanic

1972 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Charles Bronson · Jan-Michael Vincent · Keenan Wynn · Jill Ireland

Plot Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson) is the mechanic, a hit man hired by the Organization (a Mafia-life firm) as its own assassin. Bishop's contact to the Organization is Harry, a long...

5.8

904 votes

5.8

904 votes

Death Wish

1974 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

5.7

3K votes

5.7

3K votes

Chato's Land

1972 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Charles Bronson · Jack Palance · Richard Basehart · James Whitmore

Plot Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson) is an Apache half-breed who finds himself pursued by a relentless posse, headed by Joshua Everette (Jack Palance), after Chato has killed a white sheriff. But...

5.6

680 votes

5.6

680 votes

Appointment with Death

1988 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Peter Ustinov · Lauren Bacall · Carrie Fisher · John Gielgud

Plot Emily Boynton, step-mother to the three Boynton children and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying a second will of her late husband which would have...

5.6

828 votes

5.6

828 votes

The Big Sleep

1978 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Robert Mitchum · Sarah Miles · Richard Boone · Candy Clark

Plot Filmmaker Michael Winner switched the setting of Raymond Chandler's classic mystery novel from 1940's Los Angeles to 1970's London. When wealthy General Sternwood is blackmailed, he hires private detective Philip...

5.5

549 votes

5.5

549 votes

The Nightcomers

1971 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

5.3

419 votes

5.3

419 votes

The Stone Killer

1973 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Charles Bronson · Martin Balsam · Jack Colvin · Paul Koslo

Plot Top detective Lou Torrey is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso to use Vietnam veterans to murder all his enemies in a rerun of...

5.1

278 votes

5.1

278 votes

Hannibal Brooks

1969 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Oliver Reed · Michael J. Pollard · Wolfgang Preiss · John Alderton

Plot A prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he's been caring...

5.0

33 votes

5.0

33 votes

Scream for Help

1984 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Rachael Kelly · Marie Masters · David Allen Brooks · Lolita Lorre

Plot A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.

4.9

24 votes

4.9

24 votes

A Chorus of Disapproval

1989 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Jeremy Irons · Anthony Hopkins · Jenny Seagrove · Richard Briers

Plot A man new to a smallish British town joins an amateur theatre company. Once there, he discovers that the drama on stage is quite often nothing compared to what's happening...

4.8

120 votes

4.8

120 votes

Death Wish 3

1985 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Charles Bronson · Deborah Raffin · Ed Lauter · Martin Balsam

Plot Paul Kersey, the vigilante, returns to New York to visit a friend. But when he arrives he finds his friend dead, and the police enter and find him standing over...

Max

4.8

2K votes

4.8

2K votes

Death Wish II

1982 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Max

4.7

2K votes

4.7

2K votes

Fire Power

1979 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

4.7

104 votes

4.7

104 votes

Bullseye!

1990 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Michael Caine · Roger Moore · Sally Kirkland · Deborah Moore

Plot Moore and Caine play dual rolls in this off-beat and highly silly caper - a pair of small time con-men and a partnership of nuclear physicists. As con-men, they use...

3.9

155 votes

3.9

155 votes