Direction: John Huston

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by John Huston. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Asphalt Jungle

1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Sterling Hayden · Louis Calhern · Sam Jaffe · Jean Hagen

Plot Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewellery store. He...

8.1

12K votes

8.1

12K votes

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Walter Huston · Tim Holt · Bruce Bennett

Plot Two down-and-out friends, Fred Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Curtin (Tim Holt) find themselves working a dead-end job in Tampico, Mexico. Wishing they could turn their luck around, the two meet...

8.1

15K votes

8.1

15K votes

The Maltese Falcon

1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Mary Astor · Gladys George · Peter Lorre

Plot Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is a private eye who gets involved in the hunt for a statuette while searching for the murderer of his partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan). His...

8.0

32K votes

8.0

32K votes

The African Queen

1951 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Katharine Hepburn · Robert Morley · Peter Bull

Plot Based on the 1935 novel by C.S. Forester. The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut (Bogart), saves prim, sober, and proper missionary Rose Sayer (Hepburn), "a...

7.9

33K votes

7.9

33K votes

The Man Who Would Be King

1975 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Sean Connery · Michael Caine · Christopher Plummer · Saeed Jaffrey

Plot The film begins with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his office, his privacy is broken by the arrival of a dishevelled old acquaintance and fellow Freemason, Peachy Carnahan...

7.9

28K votes

7.9

28K votes

Key Largo

1948 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Edward G. Robinson · Lauren Bacall · Lionel Barrymore

Plot Frank McCloud is an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida in order to meet Nora Temple, the wife of a friend of his who died in...

7.9

19K votes

7.9

19K votes

The Night of the Iguana

1964 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Richard Burton · Deborah Kerr · Ava Gardner · Sue Lyon

Plot When defrocked American minister Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is expelled from his Virginia church, he travels to Mexico in search of his destiny and sanity. There he becomes a tour...

7.5

6K votes

7.5

6K votes

The Misfits

1961 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Clark Gable · Marilyn Monroe · Montgomery Clift · Eli Wallach

Plot Roslyn Tabor (Marilyn Monroe) befriends three cowboys while in Reno to obtain a divorce, and is extremely upset when she realizes they plan to trap wild horses to sell them...

7.4

6K votes

7.4

6K votes

Fat City

1972 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Stacy Keach · Jeff Bridges · Susan Tyrrell · Candy Clark

Plot The film tells the story of two boxers and their problems. One of them is on the decline of his career while the other one just begins to ascent in...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Moby Dick

1956 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Huston

Cast Gregory Peck · Richard Basehart · Leo Genn · James Robertson Justice

Plot The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

7.3

9K votes

7.3

9K votes

The Dead

1987 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Huston

Cast Anjelica Huston · Donal McCann · Helena Carroll · Cathleen Delany

Plot John Huston's last film is a labor of love at several levels: an adaptation of perhaps one of the greatest pieces of English-language literature by one of Huston's favorite authors,...

7.3

7K votes

7.3

7K votes

Moulin Rouge

1952 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast José Ferrer · Zsa Zsa Gabor · Colette Marchand · Claude Nollier

Plot Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge, where he drinks cognac and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. Though the son of a French count, Henri's legs were...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

The Unforgiven

1960 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Burt Lancaster · Audrey Hepburn · Audie Murphy · John Saxon

Plot The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Prizzi's Honor

1985 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Jack Nicholson · Kathleen Turner · Anjelica Huston · Robert Loggia

Plot Adapted from Richard Condon's novel, the film stars Nicholson as a none-too-bright hit man for a Mafia family who falls in love with an independent operator--a female killer played by...

7.0

19K votes

7.0

19K votes

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

1957 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Deborah Kerr · Robert Mitchum

Plot For different reasons, Irish Catholic nun Sister Angela and U.S. Marine Corporal Allison are stranded on deserted Tuasiva Island in the South Pacific in 1944, the island deserted due to...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Freud

1962 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Montgomery Clift · Susannah York · Larry Parks · Susan Kohner

Plot This pseudo-biographical movie depicts 5 years from 1885 on in the live of the Viennan psychologist Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients,...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

In This Our Life

1942 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Bette Davis · Olivia de Havilland · George Brent · Charles Coburn

Plot Selfish Stanley Timberlake abruptly breaks up with her fiancé and seduces her sister's husband, who runs away with her. After the wayward spouse gets divorced, he marries the wicked woman,...

6.8

973 votes

6.8

973 votes

Let There Be Light

1946 · Documentary · 58 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Plot The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. This documentary film follows 75 U.S. soldiers who have sustained debilitating emotional trauma and...

6.8

237 votes

6.8

237 votes

Reflections in a Golden Eye

1967 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Marlon Brando · Brian Keith · Julie Harris

Plot Peculiar, overheated melodrama about sexual frustration, jealousy and madness on a Southern military base. Pretentious treatment bores some viewers, but hysterical performances, over-the-top scenario should keep Southern Gothic fans entertained.

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

1972 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Paul Newman · Ava Gardner · Jacqueline Bisset · Victoria Principal

Plot A comic take on the legendary hanging judge, Roy Bean. Told through a series of vignettes, the story covers different stages of Bean's life, from his arrival in the town...

6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes