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