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Stanley Kubrick
Date of Birth: 26 Jul 1928
Country: USA
Biography: Stanley Kubrick was an influential and acclaimed film director and producer considered among the greatest of the 20th century. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and sometimes controversial films. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his slow method of working, the variety of genres in his movies and his reclusiveness about his films and personal life.
Total Credits at Criticker: 6 (Actor), 16 (Director), 13 (Writer)
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After a startling confession from his wife, a wealthy New York doctor spirals into a night-long odyssey of sexual temptation and secret ritual. His descent is triggered by jealousy and curiosity, leading him through the city's hidden world of masked orgies and privileged decadence. He struggles to reconcile his ordinary life with the dark, surreal underworld he has briefly entered, ultimately straining the foundations of his marriage.
The film is a harrowing two-part exploration of the Vietnam War's dehumanizing effects. The first half details the brutal psychological transformation of a group of U.S. Marine recruits under the sadistic guidance of a drill instructor. The second half follows one of the surviving Marines, now a cynical combat correspondent, through the chaos and moral ambiguity of the 1968 Tet Offensive in the streets of Huế.
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Redmond Barry, an ambitious 18th-century Irish rogue, flees his home following a fatal duel over love. Navigating the Seven Years' War as a soldier, gambler, and opportunist, he relentlessly climbs the European social ladder. His ambition peaks when he seduces and marries the wealthy Lady Lyndon, assuming her aristocratic status while struggling to maintain his lavish, precarious new life.
A savage and satiric morality play centering on Alex, who fights, robs, rapes and kills like any conscienceless predator. Captured and imprisoned, he undergoes treatment to condition him "safe", a "clockwork orange" healthy and whole on the outside - but crippled within by reflex mechanisms beyond his control.
A unique cinematic journey, "2001: A Space Odyssey" travels across enormous distances of both space and time. The story it tells is on the one hand about the collective adventure of human life on and off this planet. But it is also about something lying beyond the bounds of humanity, something lying in the true realms of the mysterious.
An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. (imdb)
A Thracian slave is trained as a gladiator in Rome. Driven by the brutal conditions, he leads a massive slave revolt that threatens the very foundation of the Roman Republic. As his army grows, they face the full might of the Roman legions in an epic struggle for freedom, resulting in one of history's most famous uprisings.
When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them (imdb)
After getting out of prison, Johnny Clay masterminds a complex race-track heist, but his scheme is complicated by the intervention of the wife of a teller (George Peatty) in on the scheme, the boyfriend of the wife, airport regulations, and a small dog. (imdb)
Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello... (imdb)
A ficticious war in an unidentified country provides the setting for this drama. Four soldiers survive the crash-landing of their plane to find themselves in a forest six miles behind enemy lines... (imdb)
The Seafarers (1953) - Short Film
Stanley Kubrick's first feature made in color. Lost for over 40 years! The documentary extolls the benefits of membership to the Seafarers International Union. (imdb)
Day of the Fight (1951) - Short Film
Based on Kubrick's pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled "Prizefighter," "Day Of The Fight" tells of a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier, particularly the day of his bout with black middleweight Bobby James... (imdb)
Flying Padre (1951) - Short Film
Two days in the life of priest Father Fred Stadtmuller whose New Mexico parish is so large he can only spread goodness and light among his flock with the aid of a mono-plane. The priestly pilot is seen dashing from one province to the next at the helm of his trusty Piper Club administering guidance (his plane, the Flying Padre) to unruly children, sermonizing at funerals and flying a sickly child and its mother to a hospital. (imdb)
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