Screenplay: John Milius

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Milius. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Apocalypse Now

1979 · Movie · 153 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Martin Sheen · Marlon Brando · Robert Duvall · Frederic Forrest

Synopsis Apocalypse Now (1979) follows Captain Willard, a troubled U.S. Army officer, on a secret mission during the Vietnam War. Tasked with assassinating Colonel Kurtz, a renegade Special Forces officer who has gone insane and established his own brutal kingdom deep...

8.2

105K votes

8.2

105K votes

Rome (TV Series)

2005 · Series · 52 min. · United States

Direction John Milius · William J. MacDonald · Bruno Heller · Michael Apted

Cast Kevin McKidd · Ray Stevenson · Polly Walker · James Purefoy

Synopsis Rome (TV Series) (2005) is a historical drama set in the turbulent final years of the Roman Republic. The story follows the lives of two soldiers, Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, whose fates intertwine with the political machinations of Rome's...

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7.8

32K votes

7.8

32K votes

Jeremiah Johnson

1972 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Robert Redford · Will Geer · Allyn Ann McLerie · Stefan Gierasch

Synopsis Jeremiah Johnson (1972) follows a disillusioned war veteran who seeks solitude in the untamed Rocky Mountains during the mid-1800s. Embracing the harsh wilderness, he learns survival skills from a seasoned trapper and befriends a grieving widow and her son. As...

7.6

11K votes

7.6

11K votes

Direction John Huston

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

Synopsis 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 of Vinegaroon where he sets himself up as judge, through...

6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes

Dillinger

1973 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction John Milius

Cast Warren Oates · Ben Johnson · Cloris Leachman · Michelle Phillips

Synopsis After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing...

6.7

780 votes

6.7

780 votes

The Wind and the Lion

1975 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction John Milius

Cast Sean Connery · Candice Bergen · Brian Keith · John Huston

Synopsis At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers. The attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

Conan the Barbarian

1982 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction John Milius

Cast Arnold Schwarzenegger · James Earl Jones · Sandahl Bergman · Max von Sydow

Synopsis Thulsa Doom, evil ruler of the snake cult of Set, raids a Cimmerian village, decimating most of the populace and selling the rest into slavery, including young Conan. Conan grows up as powerfully-built man and is trained as a fighter,...

6.6

66K votes

6.6

66K votes

Big Wednesday

1978 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction John Milius

Cast Jan-Michael Vincent · William Katt · Gary Busey · Patti D'Arbanville

Synopsis The lives of some California surfers from the early '60s to the '70s.

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Magnum Force

1973 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Ted Post

Cast Clint Eastwood · Hal Holbrook · Mitchell Ryan · David Soul

Synopsis Eastwood plays cop Harry Callahan, who is baffled by a series of killings of prominent Bay Area criminals. He notes that all of the deaths were caused by the same weapon, a .357 Magnum. This is the gun that's widely...

6.4

8K votes

6.4

8K votes

Clear and Present Danger

1994 · Movie · 141 min. · United States

Direction Phillip Noyce

Cast Harrison Ford · Willem Dafoe · Anne Archer · Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis Jack Ryan is back and this time the bad guys are in his own government. When Admiral James Greer becomes sick with cancer, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. Almost before he can draw a breath in...

6.2

33K votes

6.2

33K votes

Extreme Prejudice

1987 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Walter Hill

Cast Nick Nolte · Powers Boothe · Michael Ironside · Maria Conchita Alonso

Synopsis A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Farewell to the King

1989 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction John Milius

Cast Nick Nolte · Nigel Havers · James Fox · Frank McRae

Synopsis During the Second World War, an American soldier (Nick Nolte) escapes his Japanese captors and flees into the jungles of Borneo, where he is found and taken in by Dayak headhunters. Two years later, British commandos arrive and are amazed...

6.0

517 votes

6.0

517 votes

1941

1979 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast John Belushi · Bobby Di Cicco · Tim Matheson · Dianne Kay

Synopsis It's been six days since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Panic grips California, supposedly the next target of the Japanese forces. Everywhere in California, people are suffering from war nerves. Chaos erupts all over the state. An Army Air Corps...

5.5

5K votes

5.5

5K votes

Geronimo, an American Legend

1993 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Walter Hill

Cast Gene Hackman · Robert Duvall · Jason Patric · Wes Studi

Synopsis The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken...

5.5

2K votes

5.5

2K votes

Rough Riders (TV Miniseries)

1997 · Movie · 184 min. · United States

Direction John Milius

Cast Tom Berenger · Sam Elliott · Gary Busey · Brad Johnson

Synopsis In 1898 the US government decided to intervene on the side of the Cuban rebels in their struggle against Spanish rule. Assistant Navy Secretary Theodore Roosevelt decides to experience the war first hand by promoting and joining a volunteer cavalry...

4.6

30 votes

4.6

30 votes

Red Dawn

1984 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction John Milius

Cast Patrick Swayze · C. Thomas Howell · Lea Thompson · Charlie Sheen

Synopsis A film depicting the invasion of the United States from the north and south by communist forces from Cuba and Russia in the beginning of WWIII and the efforts of partisans from a small mid-western town to turn back the...

4.2

3K votes

4.2

3K votes

Red Dawn

2012 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Dan Bradley

Cast Chris Hemsworth · Adrianne Palicki · Josh Hutcherson · Josh Peck

Synopsis In Red Dawn, an American city awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky – shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves...

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3.7

2K votes

3.7

2K votes

Apocalypse Oz

2006 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Ben Telford

Cast M.C. Gainey · Alexandra Gizela · Billy Briggs · Kevin Glikmann

Synopsis Dorothy Willard, delinquent Amerasian offspring of the Vietnam War, lives very out of place in Kansas with her abusive aunt and uncle. Deciding that "there's no horror like home" she accepts a dream mission, one that takes her deep into...

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Evel Knievel

1971 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky

Cast George Hamilton · Sue Lyon · Bert Freed · Rod Cameron

Synopsis Biography of the famed motorcycle daredevil, much of which was filmed in his home town of Butte, Montana. The film depicts Knievel reflecting on major events in his life just before a big jump.

Not rated

Not rated

The Emperor (S)

1967 · Documentary · 24 min. · United States

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Not rated