Direction: Ted Kotcheff
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Ted Kotcheff. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Wake in Fright (Outback)
1971 · Movie · 114 min. · Australia
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Gary Bond · Donald Pleasence · Chips Rafferty · Jack Thompson
Plot Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundayabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane...
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
First Blood
1982 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Sylvester Stallone · Richard Crenna · Brian Dennehy · David Caruso
Plot Sylvester Stallone stars as ex-Green Beret John Rambo, a shell-shocked Vietnam vet adrift in the Pacific Northwest. Harassment by an unsympathetic small-town sheriff brings on nasty flashbacks of torture at...
6.6
72K votes
6.6
72K votes
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
1999 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Dick Wolf · David Platt · Peter Leto · Constantine Makris
Cast Mariska Hargitay · Ice-T · Dann Florek · Richard Belzer
Plot TV Series (1999-present). Originally called Sex Crimes, executive producer Dick Wolf wisely opted for something less lurid when the second in the inexhaustible Law & Order franchise hit the air...
6.4
2K votes
6.4
2K votes
Life at the Top
1965 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Laurence Harvey · Jean Simmons · Honor Blackman · Michael Craig
Plot Joe Lampton thought he had really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill town. But he finds he is being sidelined at work and his private...
6.2
46 votes
6.2
46 votes
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974 · Movie · 121 min. · Canada
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Micheline Lanctôt · Jack Warden · Randy Quaid
Plot It took a pair of Canadian ex-pats to beat Hollywood at its own game. The nascent Canadian film industry of the seventies suffered from two shortcomings when it came to...
6.2
59 votes
6.2
59 votes
The Human Voice (TV)
1966 · Movie · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Ingrid Bergman
Plot The Human Voice chronicles the drama which unfolds throughout the course of the protagonist's monologue. Performed by the iconic Ingrid Bergman, a middle-aged woman reeling from a recently ended love...
6.1
26 votes
6.1
26 votes
North Dallas Forty
1979 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Nick Nolte · Mac Davis · Charles Durning · Dayle Haddon
Plot A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
5.8
80 votes
5.8
80 votes
Billy Two Hats
1974 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Gregory Peck · Desi Arnaz Jr. · Jack Warden · David Huddleston
Plot When someone gets killed during a bank robbery by Deans, half-breed Billy Two Hats (Gregory Peck and Desi Arnaz, Jr.) and their partner, the robbers flee. Sheriff Gifford (Jack Warden)...
5.6
330 votes
5.6
330 votes
Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast George Segal · Jacqueline Bisset · Robert Morley · Jean-Pierre Cassel
5.5
192 votes
5.5
192 votes
Fun With Dick and Jane
1977 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast George Segal · Jane Fonda · Ed McMahon · Dick Gautier
Plot Manager Dick Harper and his attractive young wife Jane are used to a comfortable lifestyle. They just build a swimming-pool when Dick is fired very unexpectedly - leaving him with...
5.5
170 votes
5.5
170 votes
Uncommon valor
1983 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Gene Hackman · Fred Ward · Reb Brown · Randall "Tex" Cob
Plot A group of Vietnam War veterans are re-united under the leadership of retired Colonel Cal Rhodes (Gene Hackman) whose son is still thought to be in Vietnam as a Prisoner...
5.2
1K votes
5.2
1K votes
Winter People
1989 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Kurt Russell · Kelly McGillis · Lloyd Bridges · Mitchell Ryan
Plot A young widower moves with his daughter into a North Carolina mountain town in 1934. He quickly takes up with a young woman with an illegitimate baby. First he must...
5.2
48 votes
5.2
48 votes
Switching Channels
1988 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Kathleen Turner · Burt Reynolds · Christopher Reeve · Henry Gibson
Plot A remake of "Front Page", the play from Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur. Sully is the producer of a cable news network program. Christy is his ex-wife and best reporter....
5.1
1K votes
5.1
1K votes
Split Image
1982 · Movie · 110 min. · Canada
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Michael O'Keefe · Karen Allen · James Woods · Peter Fonda
Plot Danny Stetson is a clean-cut, all-American college student , when he's lured by a compellingly beautiful girl into "Homeland", a youth-oriented religious commune. Here he is programmed by the charismatic...
5.1
23 votes
5.1
23 votes
Weekend at Bernie's
1989 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Andrew McCarthy · Jonathan Silverman · Catherine Mary Stewart · Terry Kiser
Plot When two bumbling businessmen, Larry Wilson (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard Parker (Jonathan Silverman), alert their boss, Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser), to an expensive discrepancy in the company books, he invites...
5.0
8K votes
5.0
8K votes
Folks
1992 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Tom Selleck · Michael Murphy · Christine Ebersole · Don Ameche
4.9
156 votes
4.9
156 votes
Family of Cops (TV)
1995 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Charles Bronson · Angela Featherstone · Sebastian Spence · Kate Trotter
Plot A police detective's oversexed daughter is charged with murder when someone kills the wealthy married man she slept with.
4.4
137 votes
4.4
137 votes
Borrowed Hearts: A Holiday Romance (TV)
1997 · Movie · 98 min. · Canada
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Roma Downey · Eric McCormack · Hector Elizondo · Shawn Thompson
Plot Kathleen's a hard-working single mother, who's saving to buy a house for herself and her daughter, Zoe. Sam's a businessman who has to pretend he has a family in order...
4.1
31 votes
4.1
31 votes
The Shooter
1995 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast Dolph Lundgren · Maruschka Detmers · Assumpta Serna · John Ashton
Plot The Ambassador of Cuba was killed in New York. To prevent another attack of the terrorists at the US-Cuba-summit in Prague the CIA sends one of their best federal agents,...
3.2
342 votes
3.2
342 votes
The Desperate Hours (TV)
1967 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ted Kotcheff
Cast George Segal · Arthur Hill · Michael Conrad · Mart Hulswit
Plot The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed, tormenting the Hilllards plus his meek...
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