Direction: Gilbert Cates

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


I Never Sang for My Father

1970 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Melvyn Douglas · Gene Hackman · Dorothy Stickney · Estelle Parsons

Synopsis Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far...

6.7

87 votes

6.7

87 votes

Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Peter Medak · Gilbert Cates · Graeme Clifford · Robert Iscove

Cast Shelley Duvall · John Achorn · Patrick DeSantis · David McCharen

Synopsis TV Series (1982-1987). 6 seasons. 27 chapters. At a time when most other shows for children were either low-budget productions or product-inspired cartoons that were little more than half-hour commercials, this program set out to produce high-quality classic entertainment that...

6.4

119 votes

6.4

119 votes

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Tatum O'Neal · Shelley Duvall · Hoyt Axton · Alex Karras

Synopsis It's hard to find porridge, a chair and a bed that's "just right" nowadays, as a little girl is about to find in this charming retelling of the classic tale Goldilocks And The Three Bears. Tatum O'Neal (Academy-Award winner for...

5.5

194 votes

5.5

194 votes

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Shelley Duvall · Jeff Bridges · Phil Fondacaro · Roddy McDowall

Synopsis Long hair and true love conquer all in this retelling of the classic tale of Rapunzel. A childless Witch (Hope Floats' Gena Rowlands) steals a baby girl and whisks her away to a tall tower where she raises her as...

5.5

196 votes

5.5

196 votes

Backfire

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Karen Allen · Keith Carradine · Jeff Fahey · Dinah Manoff

Synopsis Mara, the wife who wants more... Jake, the lover she wants more of... Donny, the husband the war almost destroyed... Reed, the stranger who answers everyone's darkest prayers. Mara and Donny are the ideal couple, young, rich and attractive. Only...

4.9

30 votes

4.9

30 votes

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The Affair (TV)

1973 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Natalie Wood · Robert Wagner · Bruce Davison · Jamie Smith-Jackson

Synopsis It was love at first sight for Marcus Simon an attorney when he saw Courtney Patterson a 32 year old composer crippled by polio. Marcus tries to slowly and gently remove the emotion barriers Courtney built around herself and give...

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Country Gold

1982 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Loni Anderson · Earl Holliman · Linda Hamilton · Cooper Huckabee

Synopsis An aging country singer is not yet ready to be yesterday's news, so she resents the success of a popular young country singer.

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Las dos caras del mal (TV)

1994 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Jason Bateman · James Wilder · Arye Gross · William Converse-Roberts

Synopsis From the Christmas eve murder of a police officer, 2 confessions come forward; (1) Robert Paul Berndt, has a rather heavy criminal background, (2)'William Mothershed, is a college student with no previous record. Both confessions stand up well to scrutiny.

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Absolute Strangers (TV)

1991 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Henry Winkler · Richard Kiley · Karl Malden · Patty Duke

Synopsis A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a legal campaign to gain legal custody of the fetus.

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One Summer Love

1976 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Beau Bridges · Susan Sarandon · James Noble · Ann Wedgeworth

Synopsis A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.

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Oh, God! Book II

1980 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast George Burns · Suzanne Pleshette · David Birney · Louanne

Synopsis God asks a young girl to help spread his word and influence with a slogan.

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A Death in the Family (TV)

2002 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Annabeth Gish · John Slattery · Austin Wolff · Kathleen Chalfant

Synopsis A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.

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Do You Know the Muffin Man? (TV)

1989 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Pam Dawber · John Shea · Stephen Dorff · Brian Bonsall

Synopsis Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife Kendra are living the american dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, and a lovely home and a dog named Rex. What they know and how they live as a family...

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Rings Around the World

1966 · Documentary · 79 min. · United States

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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

1973 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Joanne Woodward · Martin Balsam · Sylvia Sidney · Tresa Hughes

Synopsis Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.

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Víctimas inocentes (TV)

1996 · Movie · 240 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Rick Schroder · John Corbett · Tom Irwin · Howard Hesseman

Synopsis Defense attorneys attempt to reverse Timothy Hennis' supposed wrongful prosecution on three charges of murder and his sentence to death.

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Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye (TV)

1977 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Tom Berenger · Joseph Bova · Kevin Conway · Paddy Croft

Synopsis Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.

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The Promise

1979 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Kathleen Quinlan · Stephen Collins · Beatrice Straight · Laurence Luckinbill

Synopsis Two college students, one from a rich background, and the other from a poor one, decide to elope. They are involved in a serious car wreck, with the young girl's face severely injured. In order to get the necessary surgery,...

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After the Fall (TV)

1974 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast Faye Dunaway · Christopher Plummer · Bibi Andersson · Mariclare Costello

Synopsis Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his troubled relationship with Holga.

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