Robert Altman

All Movies of Robert Altman

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  O Lucky Malcolm!
  Character: Himself

   2009

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  7.3
  A Prairie Home Companion
  Since 1974, the programme “A Prairie Home Companion” has been airing regularly (apart from a brief break in the 1980s) on public radio stations in the USA that now number some 558. A variety programme for the whole family, the...
  Director of the film

   2006

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  6.4
  Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (TV)
  A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power...
   2004

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  5.0
  Tanner on Tanner (TV)
  In 1988, filmmaker Robert Altman and writer/cartoonist Garry Trudeau joined forces to create a documentary-styled TV series on the presidential election. Rather than cover the politics from afar, they cast Michael Murphy to play a...
  Director of the film

   2004

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  6.8
  The Company
  With the complete cooperation of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, director Robert Altman follows the stories of the dancers, whose professional and personal lives grow impossibly close, as they cope with the demands of a life in the...
  Director of the film

   2003

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  7.2
  A Decade Under the Influence
  The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion, of questioning every accepted idea: political activism, hedonism, protests, the sexual revolution, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the music revolution, rage and l...
  Character: Self

   2003

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  7.8
  Gosford Park
  GOSFORD PARK explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines. In November 1932, a phalanx of moneyed guests arrives for a weekend s...
  Director of the film

   2001

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  5.5
  Dr. T. and the Women
  Dr. Sullivan Travis "Dr. T." is a wealthy Dallas gynecologist for some of the wealthiest women in Texas who finds his idealist life beginning to fall apart starting when his wife, Kate, suffers a nervous breakdown and is commited ...
  Director of the film

   2000

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  Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius (A.K.A. Dial H For Hitchcock: The Genius Behind the Showman) (TV)
  This documentary is a fascinating look at the cinematic genius of Alfred Hitchcock. Briefly covering much of his early British works, the film primarily focuses on his American classics, such as "Shadow of a Doubt", &quo...
  Character: Self

   1999

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  6.8
  Cookie's Fortune
  In a small Mississippi town, Cookie Orcutt discreetly kills herself in order to join her late husband. But her uptight daughter can't stand the idea of a suicide in the family, and rearranges the evidence to seem like murder. The ...
  Director of the film

   1999

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  6.0
  The Gingerbread Man
  Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. He becomes hooked on her, and when he learns her nut-case father Dixon is threatening her, he puts the weight of his law firm behind Mallory, has Dixon a...
  Director of the film

   1998

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  Gun (TV)
  TV miniseries (1997). 6 episodes. A security guard who is certain an Arab man who has entered the airport is a threat. A bunch of friends in a country club when an abandoned and loaded gun turns up. A young girl stuck with her pas...
  Director of the film

   1997

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  5.9
  Kansas City
  Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930's Kansas City. When Blondie O'Hara's husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held at the Hey Hey Club, she lauches a desper...
  Director of the film

   1996

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  4.7
  Ready to Wear
  A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Lots of unconnected stories which all revolve around this show, and an all-star cast.
  Director of the film

   1994

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  7.8
  Short Cuts
  Robert Altman interweaves the different everyday stories of Los Angeles who are seemingly unconnected to each other. Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the co...
  Director of the film

   1993

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  7.8
  The Player
  Robert Altman's adaptation of Michael Tolkin's novel gives the notorious director a chance to address perhaps his greatest nemesis: the Hollywood studio system. Disguised as a thriller, the film assembles virtually every famous ac...
  Director of the film

   1992

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  6.7
  Vincent & Theo
  The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.
  Director of the film

   1990

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  Tanner '88 (TV Miniseries)
  Written by Garry Trudeau and directed by Robert Altman, this is an amusingly vicious squint at the American electoral process. Michael Murphy plays Jack Tanner, Democratic Presidential nominee. Also featured are Cynthia Nixon as J...
  Director of the film

   1988

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  6.3
  Aria
  Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpr...
  Director of the film

   1987

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  5.5
  Beyond Therapy
  A few unusual characters and their unconventional therapists cross paths resulting in hilarious interactions.
  Director of the film

   1986

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  6.2
  Fool for Love
  May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
  Director of the film

   1985

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  6.9
  Secret Honor
  In this speculative one-man drama, we see former President Richard Milhous Nixon alone in his study, dictating his thoughts into a tape recorder. His only company are a four-screen closed-circuit TV setup, the portraits on the wal...
  Director of the film

   1984

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  6.3
  Streamers
  Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront thier prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is homosexual.
  Director of the film

   1983

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  6.6
  Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
  It tells the story of a group of women, all members of a James Dean fan club, who meet on the anniversary of his death in the small town in which Giant was filmed. They experience a day full of revealed secrets and revelatory expe
  Director of the film

   1982

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  7.0
  Health
  A parody and satire of the U.S. political scene of the time, HealtH is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president.
  Director of the film

   1980

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  5.5
  Popeye
  Popeye is a muscular sailor who arrives in the seaside town Sweet Haven in search of his long-lost father. Popeye finds Sweet Haven is governed by the pirate and big bully Bluto. In Sweet Haven, Popeye meets new friends who live i...
  Director of the film

   1980

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  7.0
  A Perfect Couple
  A repressed, middle-aged divorced U.S. Greek meets a young singer through a dating service and becomes smitten.
  Director of the film

   1979

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  6.0
  Quintet
  During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called "Quintet." For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the game with living pieces ... and only the winn
  Director of the film

   1979

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  6.9
  A Wedding
  Altman returns to the narrative strategy of Nashville, using a massive cast and a complex web of subplots to probe the flaws and fissures in modern America as made evident at a big society wedding marrying old money with new, Ital...
  Director of the film

   1978

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  7.7
  3 Women
  In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse "Thoroughl...
  Director of the film

   1977

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  5.7
  Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
  Buffalo Bill (Paul Newman) plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.
  Director of the film

   1976

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  8.0
  Saturday Night Live (SNL) (TV Series)
  TV Series (1975-Present). "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" A late-night comedy show featuring several short skits, parodies of television commercials, a live guest band, and a pop-cultural guest host each week....
  Director of the film

   1975

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  8.3
  Nashville
  Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspira...
  Director of the film

   1975

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  6.5
  Thieves Like Us
  Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing, their special talent and claim to fame. The youngest of the three falls in love along the way with a girl met at the...
  Director of the film

   1974

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  7.2
  California Split
  A down on his luck gambler (George Seagal) links up with free spirit Elliot Gould at first to have some fun on, but then gets into debt when Gould takes an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of desperation, he pawns most ...
  Director of the film

   1974

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  7.3
  Images
  A man and his wife visit their weekend cottage located in a scenic but isolated corner of the countrytside. The man is in good spirits but has his mind on other things. He doesn't pay much attention to his wife's concerns. She's e...
  Director of the film

   1972

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  8.2
  McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. The shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She off...
  Director of the film

   1971

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  Brewster McCloud
  Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique...
  Director of the film

   1970

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  Great Performances (TV Series)
  TV Series (1970-...). 39 Seasons. The series is the longest running performing arts anthology on television, as opposed to a program like Hallmark Hall of Fame, which presents only adaptations of plays and novels as well as made-f...
  Director of the film

   1970

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  7.7
  M.A.S.H.
  November, 1951. The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is shaken up by the arrival of Captains Hawkeye Pierce and Duke Forrest...crack surgeons but lousy soldiers. Joined by renowned chest-cutter Trapper John McIntyre, the surge...
  Director of the film

   1970

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  That Cold Day in the Park
  A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there.
  Director of the film

   1969

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  Countdown
  The Apollo 3 crew are training when it is discovered that the Russians plan a moon landing. The Americans enact a makeshift plan to land a man on the moon first, using an older style Gemini spacecraft. Lee is chosen as the astrona...
  Director of the film

   1968

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  6.0
  Bonanza (TV Series)
  TV Series (1959-1973). 14 Seasons. 430 Episodes. Western / Nevada, in the 1860s. Ben Cartwright and his sons Adam, Hoss and Joe life in a large ranch - The Ponderosa.
  Director of the film

   1959