Direction: Frank Pierson
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Frank Pierson. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 13
Conspiracy (TV)
2001 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Frank Pierson
Cast Kenneth Branagh · Stanley Tucci · Colin Firth · Nicholas Woodeson
Synopsis It is Nazi Germany, 1942. The Russian Front has bogged down in snow and mud, and the Americans have entered the war. For the first time, defeat is a possibility. In light of this, fifteen high-ranking members from all areas...
6.8
3K votes
6.8
3K votes
Soldier's Girl (TV)
2003 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Frank Pierson
Cast Troy Garity · Lee Pace · André Braugher · Shawn Hatosy
Synopsis The true story of a young soldier who falls in love with a transgendered nightclub performer.
6.6
175 votes
6.6
175 votes
King of the Gypsies
1978 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Frank Pierson
Cast Sterling Hayden · Shelley Winters · Susan Sarandon · Judd Hirsch
6.1
73 votes
6.1
73 votes
Citizen Cohn (TV)
1992 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Frank Pierson
Cast James Woods · Joe Don Baker · Joseph Bologna · Ed Flanders
Synopsis A harsh look at the life and times of Roy Marcus Cohn, Esquire, thorough flashbacks as he's dying of AIDS in a New York hospital.
6.0
44 votes
6.0
44 votes
A Star Is Born
1976 · Movie · 139 min. · United States
Direction Frank Pierson
Cast Barbra Streisand · Kris Kristofferson · Gary Busey · Oliver Clark
Synopsis Rock star John Norman (Kris Kristofferson) has seen his popularity dwindle and he has difficulties keeping promises to his agent or journalists. He meets the young singer Esther (Barbra Streisand) and helps her to get a contract with a record...
5.6
952 votes
5.6
952 votes
The Looking Glass War
1969 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Pierson
Cast Christopher Jones · Pia Degermark · Ralph Richardson · Paul Rogers
Synopsis At the height of the Cold War, British Intellegence discovers evidence that suggests Soviet missiles are being positioned close to the German border. With no active agents available to investigate, Fred Leiser must be called back to the colors and...
5.4
53 votes
5.4
53 votes
Truman (TV)
1995 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Frank Pierson
Cast Gary Sinise · Diana Scarwid · Tony Goldwyn · Lois Smith
Synopsis Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decission to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President.
5.0
30 votes
5.0
30 votes
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1994 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Frank Pierson
Cast Irene Bedard · Charles Abourezk · Lawrence Bayne · Nathan Bison
Synopsis Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their...
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Empire (TV Series)
1962 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Kathleen Hite · Bernard McEveety · Abner Biberman · John Farrow
Cast Richard Egan · Ryan O'Neal · Anne Seymour · Terry Moore
Synopsis TV Series (1962-1964). 33 Episodes. Jim Redigo is foreman for the enormous Garrett Ranch owned by matriarch Lucia with her children Tal and Constance. Redigo had his hands full managing people, machines, and animals with a specific interest in the...
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Dirty Pictures (TV)
2000 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Frank Pierson
Cast James Woods · Craig T. Nelson · Diana Scarwid · Leon Pownall
Synopsis Fact-based story about the court proceedings that followed Cincinnati art museum director Dennis Barrie after his decision to display a controversial art exhibit by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The proceedings start with an inflamed County Sheriff who is determined to put...
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Nichols (TV Series)
1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Frank Pierson · Ivan Dixon · William Wiard
Cast James Garner · Margot Kidder · Neva Patterson · John Beck
Synopsis In 1914, Nichols, a soldier, sick of killing, returns to his Arizona hometown, named after his family, and is strong-armed into serving as Sheriff by the Ketcham clan, who run the area. Nichols, who doesn't believe in toting a gun,...
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The Neon Ceiling (TV)
1971 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Frank Pierson
Cast Gig Young · Lee Grant · Denise Nickerson · Herb Edelman
Synopsis A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stops in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work are the neon sculptures he creates and attaches...
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Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture (TV)
1990 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Frank Pierson
Cast Roy Scheider · Bonnie Bedelia · Robert Carradine · André Braugher
Synopsis Raymond Eames, a small-time drug dealer, has been sentenced to death for the shooting death of a policeman. After seven years of appeals are exhausted, the date of his execution arrives. His last request is that his execution be photographed....
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