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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Richard Condon, George Axelrod, John Frankenheimer
Cast Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
Plot An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
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The Train (1964)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Franklin Coen, Frank Davis, Rose Valland
Cast Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
Plot In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Guy Trosper, Thomas E. Gaddis
Cast Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter
Plot A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.
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Seven Days in May (1964)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Fletcher Knebel, Charles W. Bailey II, Rod Serling
Cast Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
Plot United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
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Seconds (1966)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Lewis John Carlino, David Ely
Cast Rock Hudson, Frank Campanella, John Randolph
Plot A sinister company transforms a plain client.
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Ronin (1998)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer J.D. Zeik, David Mamet
Cast Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone
Plot A freelancing former U.S. intelligence agent tries to track down a mysterious package that's wanted by both the Irish and the Russian governments.
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Grand Prix (1966)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Robert Alan Aurthur, John Frankenheimer, William Hanley
Cast James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand
Plot American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard.
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French Connection II (1975)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Alexander Jacobs, Robert Dillon, Laurie Dillon
Cast Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson
Plot "Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.
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The Young Savages (1961)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Edward Anhalt, J.P. Miller, Evan Hunter
Cast Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews
Plot A district attorney investigates three white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid.
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Black Sunday (1977)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Thomas Harris, Ernest Lehman, Kenneth Ross
Cast Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller
Plot When a Black September terrorist group begins a plot to carry out a massive terrorist attack in the United States, an Israeli commando works with the FBI to identify the target and conspirators, and prevent the plan from succeeding.
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All Fall Down (1962)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer William Inge, James Leo Herlihy
Cast Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden
Plot Ralph (Karl Malden) and Annabell Willart (Dame Angela Lansbury) are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry (Warren Beatty). When Berry-Berry begins yet another meaningl...
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52 Pick-Up (1986)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Elmore Leonard, John Steppling
Cast Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity
Plot A secret extramarital fling between successful Los Angeles construction magnate Harry Mitchell and his stripper mistress Cini leads to three strangers blackmailing him for a six-figure sum, followed by burglary, theft, and Cini's ...
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The Gypsy Moths (1969)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer William Hanley, James Drought
Cast Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman
Plot Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
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Prophecy (1979)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer David Seltzer
Cast Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante
Plot A government health inspector is dispatched to assess the damage a logging company is causing to a patch of forest claimed by Native Americans, and comes face to face with true terror wreaking havoc in the woods.
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The Fixer (1968)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Bernard Malamud, Dalton Trumbo
Cast Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown
Plot In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.
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Reindeer Games (2000)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Ehren Kruger
Cast Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron
Plot After assuming his dead cell-mate's identity to get with the other man's girlfriend, an ex-convict finds himself a reluctant participant in a casino heist.
