Direction: Robert Zemeckis

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


Forrest Gump

1994 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Tom Hanks · Robin Wright · Gary Sinise · Mykelti Williamson

Synopsis Despite Forrest's (Tom Hanks) low IQ, he is not your average guy. Learning early on from his mother (Sally Field) that "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get", Gump, without trying, stumbles upon...

8.2

199K votes

8.2

199K votes

Back to the Future

1985 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Michael J. Fox · Christopher Lloyd · Lea Thompson · Crispin Glover

Synopsis Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is a typical 17 year old child. Marty is good friends with Doc Brown, the local crackpot scientist, who recently invented a time machine. When Marty accidently launches himself to the year 1955, he meets...

7.5

139K votes

7.5

139K votes

Back to the Future. Part II

1989 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Michael J. Fox · Christopher Lloyd · Lea Thompson · Thomas F. Wilson

Synopsis This movie picks up where the last one left off; with Doc Brown and Marty going into the future to help Marty's future offspring. After doing that they returned to their own time, only to discover that things have changed....

7.2

64K votes

7.2

64K votes

Cast Away

2000 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Tom Hanks · Helen Hunt · Nick Searcy · Chris Noth

Synopsis Tom Hanks stars as Tom Noland, a FedEx executive who flies around the world solving problems for his shipping company. A taskmaster and devotee of time management, he squeezes in a rushed Christmas Eve dinner with his fiancée (Helen Hunt),...

7.2

83K votes

7.2

83K votes

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Amazing Stories (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction Steven Spielberg · Lesli Linka Glatter · Phil Joanou · Paul Bartel

Cast Priscilla Pointer · Brad Bird · Douglas Seale · JoAnn Willette

Synopsis TV Series (1985-1987). 2 Seasons. 45 Episodes. Television series created, produced, and twice directed by Steven Spielberg. Truly amazing, and sometimes odd stories are narrated. Many famous actors and actresses made guest appearances. Steven Spielberg's mid-'80s foray into television, Steven...

6.9

6K votes

6.9

6K votes

Tales from the Crypt: Yellow (TV)

1991 · Movie · 39 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Kirk Douglas · Eric Douglas · Lance Henriksen · Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis The year is 1918. During World War I, somewhere in France, it's the 49th day of continuous battle on the front lines. Lieutenant Martin Kalthrob doesn't want to be in the army anymore and asks his father, General Kalthrob, for...

6.6

85 votes

6.6

85 votes

Flight

2012 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Denzel Washington · Kelly Reilly · Don Cheadle · Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis Capt. Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) is an airline pilot who saves a commercial flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunctions reveals something troubling.

6.6

34K votes

6.6

34K votes

Back to the Future. Part III

1990 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Michael J. Fox · Christopher Lloyd · Mary Steenburgen · Thomas F. Wilson

Synopsis The final segment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty McFly in the wild west the year 1885. In an attempt to save Doc from Bill Tannen's outlaw grandfather, Marty digs up the old Delorean, fits it with...

6.6

53K votes

6.6

53K votes

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Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Christopher Lloyd · Scott Coffey · Mary Stuart Masterson · Tom Bresnahan

Synopsis In this hour-long episode, a teenage horror buff (Coffey) is so smitten with a sexy classmate (Masterson) that he helps her use black magic on their loathsome English teacher, with shocking and bewildering results.

6.6

597 votes

6.6

597 votes

Tales from the Crypt (TV Series)

1989 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Steven Dodd · Russell Mulcahy · Elliot Silverstein · Robert Zemeckis

Cast John Kassir · Roy Brocksmith · Miguel Ferrer · Larry Drake

Synopsis TV Series (1989-1996). 7 Seasons. 93 Episodes. Based on the legendary and gruesome 1950's EC Comics from publisher, William M. Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, greed, lust, gore and the supernatural, with touches of humor sprinkled throughout,...

6.5

6K votes

6.5

6K votes

Contact

1997 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Jodie Foster · Matthew McConaughey · James Woods · John Hurt

Synopsis She's known it since she was a young girl, when she would magically connect with distant voices on her father's shortwave radio. She's known it since college, when she chose the search for intelligent extraterrestrial messages as her discipline. She's...

6.5

36K votes

6.5

36K votes

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1988 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Bob Hoskins · Christopher Lloyd · Joanna Cassidy · Mike Edmonds

Synopsis Roger Rabbit is a cartoon character who (along with many others) exists along side of real humans. Eddy is a private eye who has seen better days and has been on the skids since the death of his brother at...

6.5

65K votes

6.5

65K votes

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Romancing the Stone

1984 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Michael Douglas · Kathleen Turner · Danny DeVito · Alfonso Arau

Synopsis Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner), a mousy romance novelist, receives a treasure map in the mail from her recently murdered brother-in-law. Meanwhile, her sister Elaine is kidnapped in Colombia and the two criminals responsible demand that she travel to Colombia to...

6.3

47K votes

6.3

47K votes

The Walk

2015 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt · Ben Kingsley · Charlotte Le Bon · James Badge Dale

Synopsis Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man - Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy...

6.3

16K votes

6.3

16K votes

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Humphrey Bogart · John Lithgow · Isabella Rossellini · Sherilyn Fenn

Synopsis Plastic surgery makes a criminal look like Humphrey Bogart. Years later, he's a successful businessmen. His angry wife finds out about his past and threatens him. He asks his plastic surgeon friend to end her. Twist after twist ensues.

6.3

27 votes

6.3

27 votes

A Christmas Carol

2009 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Jim Carrey · Gary Oldman · Colin Firth · Robin Wright

Synopsis An animated retelling of Charles Dickens classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions. Ebenezer Scrooge (Carrey) begrudges his ever-suffering clerk Bob Cratchit (Oldman) Christmas Day off, and is so...

6.2

10K votes

6.2

10K votes

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Allied

2016 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Brad Pitt · Marion Cotillard · Jared Harris · Daniel Betts

Synopsis Year 1942 during WWII. After falling in love with a French agent during a dangerous North African mission, an Allied counter-intelligence agent is quietly notified that the woman he has married and had a baby with is likely a Nazi...

6.2

15K votes

6.2

15K votes

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

1978 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Nancy Allen · Bobby Di Cicco · Marc McClure · Susan Kendall Newman

Synopsis If they missed Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A. they would hate themselves for the rest of their lives! So they (six young girls from New Jersey) set off even though they don't have tickets for the show! The journey...

6.1

350 votes

6.1

350 votes

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Mary Ellen Trainor · Larry Drake · Marshall Bell · Lindsey Whitney Barry

Synopsis A greedy woman makes the mistake of murdering her husband while an escaped mental patient dressed in a Santa Claus outfit is on the loose.

6.0

213 votes

6.0

213 votes

What Lies Beneath

2000 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Harrison Ford · Michelle Pfeiffer · Diana Scarwid · Joe Morton

Synopsis A housewife (Michelle Pfeiffer) married to a scientist (Harrison Ford) gets entangled in a murder mystery, when the ghost of a murdered student appears to her for help.

6.0

33K votes

6.0

33K votes

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