Rod Steiger

All Movies of Rod Steiger

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  6.5
  Poolhall Junkies
  Obsessed by the world of pool, Johnny (Mars Callahan) could be one of the best. But his mentor and "trainer" Joe (Chazz Palminteri), a shady hustler who decides how and who Johnny plays, is holding him back from his drea...
  Character: Nick

   2002

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  Muhammad Ali: Through the Eyes of the World
  Muhammad Ali: Through The Eyes Of The World is a unique account of one of the greatest icons of the 20th century, told by some of the greatest living sportsmen, entertainers and writers, as well as those closest to him. From boxin...
   2001

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  4.5
  The Last Producer
  An old-time mogul struggles to reenter the club where power and money make the rules.
  Character: Sheri Ganse

   2000

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  The Films of Sidney Lumet
  Character: Self

   1999

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  5.9
  End of Days
  The blood-soaked story of a twenty-year-old girl (Tunney) who has nightmares about a mysterious man. Security guard Jericho (Schwarzenegger) finds himself caught up in the situation when he discovers that Satan (Byrne) is roaming ...
  Character: Father Kovak

   1999

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  5.7
  Crazy in Alabama
  Based on the novel by Mark Childress, the film takes place in the summer of 1965, and centres on an Alabama boy named Peejoe living in racially divided times. He gets a fast education in grown-up matters like freedom from the most...
  Character: Judge Mead

   1999

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  7.6
  The Hurricane
  In June 1966, Rubin Hurricane Carter was a strong contender for the middleweight boxing title. When three people were murdered in a New Jersey bar, Carter's dreams were destroyed. Driving home from a nearby club, Carter was wrongl...
  Character: Juez Sarokin

   1999

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  5.3
  Modern Vampires (TV)
  A borderline fascistic Dr. Van Helsing unwittingly hires crack smoking gang-bangers to pursue the decadent vampires who secretly control Hollywood and the United States.
  Character: Dr. Frederick Van Helsing

   1998

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  Animals with the Tollkeeper (Animal Attraction)
  Michael Di Jiacomo made his directorial debut with this allegory that opens with a 12-minute black-and-white prologue about three French filmmakers who encounter the tuba-playing Tollkeeper (Mickey Rooney) on a silent stretch betw...
   1998

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  Legacy
  A dedicated war photographer joins a beautiful Eurasian girl on a dangerous quest for her legacy.
   1998

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  6.0
  Incognito
  Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture h
   1997

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  The Films of John Frankenheimer
  Profile of acclaimed director John Frankenheimer, featuring extensive clips from his films and interviews with cast members.
  Character: Self

   1997

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  Shiloh
  An abused beagle runs away from his owner. On the road, he meets young Marty Preston and follows him home. The boy immediately forms a bond with the dog and names him Shiloh. His stern father won't let him keep the dog because it ...
   1996

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  5.8
  Carpool
  A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds hi...
   1996

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  5.9
  Mars Attacks!
  Director Tim Burton unleashes MARS ATTACKS!, a vicious, affectionate, brightly-colored homage to 1950s alien invasion movies. When a shiny silver flying saucer lands in the Nevada desert, a group of skull-faced Martians exit the g...
  Character: General Decker

   1996

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  4.0
  The Specialist
  Character: Joe Leon

   1994

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  4.0
  Seven Sundays
   1994

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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...
  Character: Rod Steiger

   1992

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  6.0
  The Ballad of The Sad Cafe
  A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine. She takes in her half-sister's son, a diminutive crook-back named Lymon. He suggests...
   1991

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  6.4
  Men of Respect
  In this contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a professional hitman becomes obsessed with a spiritualist's prophecy claiming he will eventually lead his crime syndicate. To secure his position, he begins a ruthless cl...
   1990

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  Tennessee Nights
  An innocent fishing trip in the hills of Tennessee entangles Wolfgang Leighton in a murderous web of intrigue, sparked by a torrid encounter with the provocative Sally Lomas. Inexplicably pursued by faceless stalkers, Wolfgang tur...
   1989

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  5.5
  The January Man
  Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him back. A web that includes Frank's wife, bribery, and corruption all are in the background ...
  Character: Eamon Flynn

   1989

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  That Summer of White Roses
  It's the last summer of the Second World War in Yugoslavia, but so far nothing much of this has touched Andrea. He's the lifeguard who has never had to save a life and as such is a well-liked figure of fun. Yet, as far as he is co...
   1989

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  5.5
  American Gothic (Hide and Shriek)
  On a lonely island in the Pacific Northwest, a group of travelers find themselves targeted by a crazed, homicidal family.
  Character: Pa

   1988

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  5.6
  The Kindred
  Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan....
  Character: Dr. Phillip Lloyd

   1987

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  6.4
  Sword of Gideon (TV)
  Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
  Character: Mordechai Samuels

   1986

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  6.0
  The Naked Face
  For some inexplicable reason, a Chicago psychiatrist is the target of a gang of sinister killers. As his assailants move in for the kill, the doctor finds that he must face his adversaries alone in a deadly final showdown.
   1984

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  7.0
  The Magic Mountain
  Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to rema...
   1982

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  6.0
  Cattle Annie and Little Britches
  The outlaws the girls find are the demoralised remnants of the Doolin-Dalton gang, led by the aging Bill Doolin (Burt Lancaster). Annie (Amanda Plummer), shames, and inspires the men, to become what she had imagined them to be. Th...
  Character: Tilghman

   1981

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  6.6
  The Chosen
  Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, 1944. Reuven "Robert" Malter and Daniel "Danny" Saunders are two 15-year-old Jewish youths living in the same predominant Jewish neighborhood whom have never met nor have ...
  Character: Reb Saunders

   1981

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  7.0
  Wolf Lake
  Character: Charlie

   1980

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  Breakthrough
  German sergeant gets involved in anti-Hitler conspiracy, and saves the life of an American colonel.
  Character: Gen. Webster

   1979

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  6.0
  The Amityville Horror
  Based on a true story that was claimed by writer Jay Anson, The Amityville Horror is about a large house on the coast of Long Island where newly weds George and Kathy Lutz and their three children move into the house that they hop...
   1979

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  4.0
  Love & Bullets
  The FBI sends detective Charlie Congers to Switzerland to bring Jackie Pruitt, the moll of mob boss Joe Bomposa, safely home. Upon meeting Jackie, Congers not only falls in love with her, he discovers that she knows nothing incrim...
   1978

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  6.2
  F.I.S.T
  Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign t...
  Character: Senator Madison

   1978

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  8.1
  Jesus of Nazareth (TV)
  Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth (six hours plus) version of Jesus' life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth. The film doesn't skimp on some of the other landmark events of t...
  Character:  Pontius Pilate 4 episodes, 1977

   1977

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  7.6
  W.C. Fields and Me
  Character: W.C. Fields

   1976

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  6.0
  Hennessy
  Set in the Seventies, Niall Hennessy is a Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. Hennessy's family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth of England.
  Character: Niall Hennessy

   1975

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  7.2
  Innocents with Dirty Hands
  Saint Tropez, France. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the assassination of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie fi...
  Character: Louis Wormser

   1975

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  6.0
  The Last Tyrant
  The true story of the greatest manhunt of the century!
  Character: Benito Mussolini

   1974

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  6.0
  Lucky Luciano
   1973

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  7.7
  A Fistful of Dynamite
  An IRA explosives expert on the run in Mexico meets an amoral Mexican bandit; together they get drawn into the Mexican revolution.
  Character: Juan Miranda

   1971

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  Happy Birthday, Wanda June
  Based on a play by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Happy Birthday, Wanda June takes us to the Ryan household, where Penelope Ryan (Susannah York) has learned to accept the death of her husband Harold, a supremely macho explorer and big game h...
   1971

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  Waterloo
  The film begins with Napoleon's forced abdication in 1814, after the battle of Leipzig. As the British contribution there was confined to one rocket artillery battery, to say (as the film does) that British forces were involved in...
   1970

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  6.0
  Three Into Two Won't Go
  Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Ste...
  Character: Steve Howard

   1969

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  The Sergeant
  It is the story of the dark inner struggle of Master Sergeant Albert Callan to overcome the overwhelming attraction he feels for one of his charges. In the staid and stifling environment of a post-World War II army post in France,...
   1968

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  7.0
  No Way to Treat a Lady
  Steiger is a psychotic master of disguise who stalks and kills various women in this suspenseful cat-and-mouse game. Segal, as the detective assigned to the case, uncovers clues, falls in love, and discovers that his new girl may ...
   1967

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  7.9
  In the Heat of the Night
  When a prominent local businessman is found murdered in the tiny southern town of Sparta, Mississippi, Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) gets picked up at the train station as a potential suspect, having essentially three strikes agai...
  Character: Gillespie

   1967

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  6.4
  The Girl and the General
  A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly.
   1967

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  8.1
  Doctor Zhivago
  Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition...
  Character: Komarovsky

   1965

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  6.5
  Time of Indifference
  A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
  Character: Leo

   1964

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  7.4
  The Pawnbroker
  The Pawnbroker, directed by Sidney Lumet, stars Rod Steiger in this grim, dark tale of a Holocaust survivor who runs a pawnshop in Harlem. The film traces his deterioration as modern times force old memories to painfully flood bac
  Character: Sol Nazerman

   1964

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  8.3
  Hands Over the City
  Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven ...
   1963

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  Convicts 4
  Based on "Reprieve," the autobiography of real-life prisoner John Resko. Convicts 4 tells the true story of death row prison inmate John Resko, who was sentenced to the electric chair at the age of 18 for murdering a paw...
  Character: Tiptoes

   1962

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  7.7
  The Longest Day
  England in June 1944. Unseasonal storms. Allied troops are massed ready for the invasion of France, some already on the boats. The Normandy beaches will be their destination while paratroopers are dropped inland to take key towns ...
  Character: Destroyer Commander

   1962

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  The Mark
  A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist. This is the story of a 33 year old man, Jim Fuller (Stuart Whitman), released from prison after servi...
  Character: Dr. Edmund McNally

   1961

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  6.8
  Seven Thieves
  A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
  Character: Paul Mason

   1960

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  6.0
  Suspicion (TV Series)
  TV Series (1957-1958). 1 season. 41 episodes. An anthology television mystery drama series. The executive producer was film director Alfred Hitchcock.
  Character:  Frank Marre 1 episode, 1958

   1957

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  7.5
  Run of the Arrow
  When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.
   1957

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  7.0
  Across the Bridge
  Corporate executive Carl Schaffner is a German-born British industrialist in New York on business. After he gets word that Scotland Yard is investigating a $3,000,000 embezzlement he has committed, the imperious, mean-spirited Sch...
   1957

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  6.5
  Jubal
  Ford plays a drifter who is rescued, then hired as ramrod, by rancher Ernest Borgnine, thereby stimulating the erotic interest of Borgnine's sexy young wife (Valerie French) and the Iago-like resentment of the former top hand (Rod
   1956

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  7.5
  The Harder They Fall
  Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hamp...
   1956

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  The Big Knife
  Charles Castle is a successful Hollywood actor who has opted for screen success over art. He must make critical decisions regarding his career...
   1955

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  7.0
  The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
  The true story of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneering crusader for the Army's fledgling air corp. In spite of an impressive performance during the First World War, the commanders of America's armed forces still think of the airpl...
  Character: Maj. Allan Guillion

   1955

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  6.5
  Oklahoma!
  Set in the times of the early 1900s', the musical is partially about the Indian Territory becoming the state of Oklahoma. Curly is a stubborn cowboy who had trouble admitting his feelings to Laurey, as does she. They both love eac...
  Character: Jud Fry

   1955

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  8.1
  On the Waterfront
  Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is an ex-prize fighter struggling against union corruption along the New York waterfront. Malloy's battle takes him all the way to the witness stand, where he finds himself testifying against union lea
   1954

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  6.5
  Teresa
  Teresa (Pier Angeli) is the Italian bride of GI Philip (John Ericson), who is established from the outset as mentally disturbed. Taking Teresa home with him to New York, Philip begins to crack under the pressure of married life --...
  Character: Frank

   1951