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

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...

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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...

Max

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