Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood
Date of Birth: 31 May 1930
Country: USA
Biography: Clinton Eastwood, Jr. is an American film director, film actor, producer, and composer. He has won the Academy Award five times - twice each as Best Director and as producer of the Best Picture and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1995.
Total Credits at Criticker: 97 (Actor), 41 (Director)
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Absolute Power
He was where he shouldn't have been, saw what he shouldn't have seen. But who'll believe the word of a career thief and ex-con when he says he saw a woman killed - and that the man responsible is the President of the United States?
Blood Work
A retired FBI profiler is brought back into service under unusual circumstances involving his own blood analysis to track a ruthless serial killer. (Warner Bros.)
A Decade Under the Influence
For American cinema, the 1970s was an era during which a new generation of filmmakers created work for a new kind of audience. In this documentary, pioneering writers, directors and actors talk about the times, their films and their colleagues. (IFC Films)
Million Dollar Baby
Frankie Dunn has trained and managed some incredible fighters during a lifetime spent in the ring. The most important lesson he teaches his boxers is the one that rules life: above all, always protect yourself. In the wake of a painful estrangement from his daughter, Frankie has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time... (imdb)
Space Cowboys
When a retired engineer is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space. (imdb)
True Crime
Steve Everett, Oakland Tribune journalist with a passion for women and alcohol, is given the coverage of the upcoming execution of murderer Frank Beachum. His attractive colleague Michelle died in a car accident the night before. Bob Findley, Steve's boss and husband to Steve's current affair, wants him dead and gone as soon as possible. When Steve stumbles across the possibility of Frank Beachum being innocently on death row, Bob feels his time to have come... (imdb)
Unforgiven
Two retired sharp-shooters and a would-be gunslinger team up to claim a $1,000 reward for killing two cowboys who brutally disfigured a prostitute.
For a Few Dollars More
Two bounty hunters with completely different intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Three gunmen set out to find a hidden fortune. Who will walk away with the cash? (imdb)
Kurosawa
Kurosawa (2001) - TV Episode
An indelible portrait of a master auteur, this feature-length documentary provides an illuminating critical assessment of Akira Kurosawa's esteemed career.
Escape from Alcatraz
A dramatization of the one possibly successful escape from the notorious prison. (imdb)
Where Eagles Dare
Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding an American General prisoner... but that's not all that's really going on. (imdb)
Bronco Billy
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest. (imdb)
Revenge of the Creature
The Creature from the Black Lagoon is back! This time he's captured by scientists and transported to an aquarium in south Florida... (imdb)
Dirty Harry
A San Francisco cop with little regard for rules (but who always gets results) tries to track down a serial killer who snipes at random victims. (imdb)
Pale Rider
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land. (imdb)
High Plains Drifter
A stranger rides out of the hot desert into a small town in the wild west. The towns people are scared of him, and 3 gunmen try, unsuccessfully, to kill him. He takes a room and decides to stay. Meanwhile, a group of outlaws are about to return to the town and take their revenge - will the towns leaders convince the mysterious man to help? (imdb)
Hang \
A band of vigilantes catch Jed Cooper and, incorrectly believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder, hang him and leave him for dead. But he doesn't die. He returns to his former profession of lawman to hunt down his lynchers and bring them to justice. (imdb)
A Fistful of Dollars
A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
Firefox
A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink (imdb)
Sudden Impact
A rape victim is exacting revenge on her agressors in a small town outside San Francisco. Dirty Harry, on suspension for angering his superiors (again), is assigned to the case. (imdb)
The Bridges of Madison County
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s. (imdb)
The Outlaw Josey Wales
A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family. (imdb)
The Beguiled
While imprisoned in a Confederate girls boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts. (imdb)
Kelly\
A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure. (imdb)
The Enforcer
Dirty Harry must foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans. But this time, he's teamed with a rookie female partner that he's not too excited to be working with. (imdb)
Play Misty for Me
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture. (imdb)
A Perfect World
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal. (imdb)
City Heat
A slick private eye and tough police lieutenant--once partners, now bitter enemies--reluctantly team up to investigate a murder. (imdb)
In the Line of Fire
Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.
The Gauntlet
A hard but mediocre cop is assigned to escort a prostitute into custody from Las Vegas to Phoenix, so that she can testify in a mob trial. But a lot of people are literally betting that they won't make it into town alive. (imdb)
Pink Cadillac
Bounty hunter Tommy Nowak has been assigned to bring in Roy McGuinn. After arriving at the McGuinn house... (imdb)
Every Which Way But Loose
Phil Beddoe is an easy-going trucker and a great fist-fighter. With two friends - Orville, who promotes prize-fights for him, and Clyde, the orang-utan he won on a bet - he roams the San Fernando Valley in search of cold beer, country music and the occasional punch-up (imdb)
Any Which Way You Can
Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business... (imdb)
Honkytonk Man
As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success (imdb)
The Dead Pool
Dirty Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder local celebrities, which includes himself as a target. (imdb)
Heartbreak Ridge
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude. (imdb)
The Rookie
Clint Eastwood plays a veteran cop who gets stuck with a rookie cop (Charlie Sheen) to chase down a German criminal (Raul Julia.) (imdb)
White Hunter Black Heart
A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa. (imdb)
The Eiger Sanction
Jonathan Hemlock is an Art teacher and collector who finances his hobby by performing the odd sanction (assassination) for an obscure government bureau. (imdb)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist. (imdb)
Joe Kidd
An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader. (imdb)
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Set in Mexico, a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan, who is on his way to do some reconnaissance, for a future mission to capture a French fort. The French are chasing Sara, but not for the reasons she tells Hogan, so he decides to help her in return for information about the fort defences. (imdb)
Paint Your Wagon
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boomtown. (imdb)
Coogan\
Coogan, an Arizona cop, is sent to New York to collect a prisoner. Everyone in New York assumes Coogan is from Texas, much to his annoyance. To add to Coogan's problems the prisoner isn't ready, so he decides to cut a few corners. (imdb)
Magnum Force
Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables. (imdb)
The Witches
This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their own stories about witches. The five stories are "The Witch Burned Alive", "Civic Sense", "The Earth As Seen From The Moon", "The Girl From Sicily", and "A Night Like Any Other". (All Movie Guide)
Tarantula
A spider escapes from an isolated desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
El Magnifico extranjero
Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault. (imdb)
Tightrope
Wes Block (Eastwood) is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened. (imdb)
The Spaghetti West
The Spaghetti West (2005) - Direct-to-Video
A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s. (imdb)
Directed by John Ford
Interviewing some of Ford's most frequent collaborators, Bogdanovich examines the life and films of one of America's greatest directors.
Ennio Morricone
A documentary exploring the life and work of the great Italian composer. (imdb)
Gran Torino
Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski (Eastwood) sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino.
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Documentary about the career of legendary insult comic, Don Rickles. (supergloo)
Ambush at Cimarron Pass
The survivors of an Army patrol ambushed by Indians hook up with a group of cowboys who have also been attacked, and together they try to get to safety at the fort. Unfortunately for them, they're carrying a shipment of several dozen rifles that the Indians want, and are determined to get. (imdb)
Away All Boats
The story of a U.S. naval ship and its crew in the Pacific, 1943-1945. (imdb)
Never Say Goodbye
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family. (imdb)
Lady Godiva of Coventry
Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady. (imdb)
Clint Eastwood, le franc-tireur
Documentary about the work life of Clint Eastwood, especially as a director, always switching forth and back between his early years and the making of Flags of our father and Letters from Iwo Jima.
Reel Injun
For more than a century, the film industry has depicted North American native people in a variety of ways -- many of them wildly inaccurate. Recently, however, that's begun to change. Director Neil Diamond captures both sides of the coin here. Through interviews with a gallery of actors and directors, including Clint Eastwood, this documentary reveals the film industry's impact on the experiences of native people in the United States and Canada.
Escapade in Japan
After his plane crashes in Tokyo, an American boy tries to find his way home. (TCM.com)
Lafayette Escadrille
American youth and flying ace flies for France in World War I; meets and loves a French girl and prostitute (imdb)
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
German television documentary about classic Spaghetti Western movies.
The Blues - Season 1
Pure
Pure (2009) - Short Film
The action hero is wary, then in pursuit. There's confrontation, an escape, and the inevitable car chase, which leads to an explosion-heavy climax, and the look back from the weary hero. A meditation on genre, a commentary on visual cliches, and a celebration of the visceral pleasures of cinema.
The First Traveling Saleslady
At the turn of the century Rose and ex-showbiz friend Molly get involved in selling steel. When they come unstuck with corsets they embark on the even more hazardous project of selling barbed wire to highly suspicious Texas cowboys. (imdb)
Francis in the Navy
Complaining that Francis the Mule was getting more fan mail than he was, Donald O'Connor bade adios to the "Francis" series with this 1955 entry. Once more, O'Connor plays Army lieutenant Peter Sterling, who heads to a navy base when it looks like his old pal Francis is about to be auctioned off as surplus. In short order, Sterling is mistaken for a bos'n's mate whom he resembles, and it's off to sea for both Peter and the mule. (allmovie.com)
Star in the Dust
The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sam; the farmers hope to lynch him before he can be rescued; and Hall schemes for escape with his girl Nellie. But Sheriff Jorden is most concerned with finding out who hired Hall: a leading suspect is the sheriff's future brother-in-law. (imdb)
Fog City Mavericks
A look at the careers of famous San Francisco Bay Area filmmakers, specifically those of Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, and George Lucas.
Biography
The Eastwood Factor
The Eastwood Factor (2010) - Direct-to-Video
Documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman with Clint Eastwood commenting on his film career as an actor... (imdb)
Trouble with the Curve
An ailing baseball scout in his twilight years takes his daughter along for one last recruiting trip. (imdb)
Casting By
The surprising, never-before-told tale of the indispensable yet unsung Casting Director - Iconoclasts whose keen eye, exquisite taste and gut instincts redefined Hollywood (imdb)
Milius
A look at the life of filmmaker,John Milius. (imdb)
Eastwood on Eastwood
Autobiography of Clint Eastwood up to his movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."
Leone\
Leone's West (2004) - Short Film
Documentary about Sergio Leone
The Leone Style
Documentary about Sergio Leone.
Hell Hath No Fury
The making of the film "The Outlaw Josey Wales" featuring film footage, behind the scenes footage, and current interviews with the cast. (imdb)
Rawhide
Rawhide (1959) - TV Series
Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive; he is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way. (imdb)
Tab Hunter Confidential
The story of matinee idol Tab Hunter from teenage stable boy to closeted Hollywood star of the 1950s.
Eastwood in Action
A behind-the-scenes promo for the film "The Outlaw Josey Wales". (imdb)
Kurosawa\
Eleven major filmmakers from Europe, Asia and America talk about Akira Kurosawa and explore some ways on which he influenced their own work. (imdb)
Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend
A retrospective on the life and career of actor Gary Cooper, includes memorial scenes from his best films. Narrated by Clint Eastwood. (imdb)
The Man with No Name
Profile of Clint Eastwood. (imdb)
The Mule
An elderly Korean War Veteran and horticulturalist who has become isolated from his family falls into a new line of work as a drug mule for a Mexican cartel.
Sad Hill Unearthed
A documentary following film fans working to restore the set of the climatic graveyard scene from the iconic spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).
Ennio
A documentary on composer Ennio Morricone.
Cry Macho
A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder takes a job to bring a man's young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. On their journey, the horseman finds redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.
Mister Ed - Season 2
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Documentary exploring the career of noted film directer William A. Wellman. (imdb)
Rawhide - Season 4
Rawhide - Season 6
Rawhide - Season 3
Sergio Leone - L\
A worldwide homage by various artists to the legendary italian director Sergio Leone, pioneer in the western genre and famous for the creation of the subgenre "speghetti western".