Direction: Stanley Kubrick
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Stanley Kubrick. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Paths of Glory
1957 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Kirk Douglas · George Macready · Adolphe Menjou · Ralph Meeker
Plot Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) is the commander of the battle-decimated 701st Infantry Regiment of the French Army, dug in along the Western Front in a stalemated WWI. It is 1916...
8.4
54K votes
8.4
54K votes
A Clockwork Orange
1971 · Movie · 137 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Malcolm McDowell · Patrick Magee · Michael Bates · Adrienne Corri
Plot United Kingdom. In an undetermined future, Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is the leader of a gang of «droogs» who walks the streets of London cultivating his sole two passions: ultraviolence and...
8.2
165K votes
8.2
165K votes
The Shining
1980 · Movie · 146 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Jack Nicholson · Shelley Duvall · Danny Lloyd · Scatman Crothers
Plot Writer Jack Torrance takes a job as a winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the remote Colorado mountains. He moves in, along with his wife Wendy and son Danny,...
8.2
145K votes
8.2
145K votes
Full Metal Jacket
1987 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Matthew Modine · Vincent D'Onofrio · R. Lee Ermey · Adam Baldwin
Plot A group of recruits trains in Parris Island. Sergeant Hartman, relentless and brutal, has the mission to train them until they become tough enough to fight the enemy. But not...
8.2
120K votes
8.2
120K votes
Spartacus
1960 · Movie · 196 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Kirk Douglas · Tony Curtis · Laurence Olivier · Peter Ustinov
Plot Based on the homonymous novel by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave who leads a violent...
8.0
68K votes
8.0
68K votes
Barry Lyndon
1975 · Movie · 183 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Ryan O'Neal · Marisa Berenson · Leon Vitali · Patrick Magee
Plot 18th century rural Ireland. After his father is killed in a duel, Barry Lyndon lives with his mother. He is in love with his cousin, Nora Brady, but she gets...
7.9
34K votes
7.9
34K votes
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Peter Sellers · George C. Scott · Sterling Hayden · James Earl Jones
Plot Convinced that the Russians have infiltrated America's "vital essence", the crazed Ripper gives the go code to the 843rd bomb wing to attack Russia, setting in motion a series of...
7.9
47K votes
7.9
47K votes
The Killing
1956 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Sterling Hayden · Coleen Gray · Vince Edwards · Jay C. Flippen
Plot Based on Lionel White's crime novel 'Clean Break'. Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) is an ex-con with a plan to steal $2 million from a San Francisco racetrack. He assembles an...
7.9
25K votes
7.9
25K votes
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · Movie · 139 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Keir Dullea · Gary Lockwood · William Sylvester · Daniel Richter
Plot A four-million-year-old black monolith is discovered on the moon, and the government (while hiding the situation from the public) sends a team of scientists on a fact-finding mission. Eighteen months...
7.8
113K votes
7.8
113K votes
Lolita
1962 · Movie · 152 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast James Mason · Sue Lyon · Shelley Winters · Peter Sellers
Plot Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) arrives in the small town...
7.6
23K votes
7.6
23K votes
Eyes Wide Shut
1999 · Movie · 159 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Tom Cruise · Nicole Kidman · Sydney Pollack · Marie Richardson
Plot A doctor (Tom Cruise) becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter after his wife (Nicole Kidman) admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met and chastising him for...
6.8
62K votes
6.8
62K votes
Killer's Kiss
1955 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Frank Silvera · Irene Kane · Jamie Smith · Ruth Sobotka
Plot Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the two together and they get involved with each...
6.4
5K votes
6.4
5K votes
Day of the Fight (S)
1951 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Plot Based on Kubrick's pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled "Prizefighter," "Day Of The Fight" tells of a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter...
5.5
661 votes
5.5
661 votes
Fear and Desire
1953 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Frank Silvera · Kenneth Harp · Paul Mazursky · Steve Coit
Plot Four soldiers whose plane has crashed discover they're behind enemy lines in an unnamed country. Desperate to escape, they decide to build a raft and travel up the nearby river...
5.5
2K votes
5.5
2K votes
Flying Padre (S)
1951 · Documentary · 9 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Plot Two days in the life of priest Father Fred Stadtmuller whose New Mexico parish is so large he can only spread goodness and light among his flock with the aid...
4.8
773 votes
4.8
773 votes
The Seafarers
1953 · Documentary · 30 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Don Hollenbeck
Plot Stanley Kubrick's first film made in color. Lost for over 40 years! The documentary extolls the benefits of membership to the Seafarers International Union.
4.4
364 votes
4.4
364 votes