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

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

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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