Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen
Date of Birth: 24 Mar 1930
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 37 (Actor)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (37)
Dust to Glory
An all out action-adventure documenting the most notorious and dangerous race in the world, the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000. (IFC Films)
The Great Escape
Several hundred Allied POWs plan a mass escape from a German POW camp. (imdb)
+10
Papillon
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape. (imdb)
+6
The Cincinnati Kid
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game. (imdb)
+3
Bullitt
An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. (imdb)
The Towering Inferno
At the opening party of a collosal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it. (imdb)
+2
The Blob
An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows. (imdb)
+3
The Magnificent Seven
An oppressed Mexican peasant village assembles seven gunfighters to help defend their homes. (imdb)
+12
Junior Bonner
Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts. (imdb)
The Getaway
Doc McCoy has been granted parole. The catch is that Sheriff Beynon expects a small favor from McCoy for his generosity: robbing another bank... (imdb)
+3
The Thomas Crown Affair
A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man. (imdb)
Hell Is for Heroes
Small squad must hold off German attack. (imdb)
+3
The Sand Pebbles
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" system which runs the ship and the uneasy sybiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. (imdb)
Soldier in the Rain
Two highly irregulars, in the very regular army! And this is the story of the million-dollar schemes they dared, the fabulous dolls and dates, they shared. (Cedar Productions)
The Honeymoon Machine
As Lieutenant Fergie Howard and Ensign Beau Gilliam are playing poker on board their ship, "El Mira", they are interrupted with the announcement that "Operation Honeymoon" has been launched successfully. This is due to Max the computer- a computer that can pin point exactly where and when a missile will land once it has been launched... (imdb)
Love with the Proper Stranger
Angie Rossini is an innocent (Italian Catholic) Macy's salesgirl, who discovers she's pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Angie finds Rocky (who doesn't remember her at first) to tell him she's pregnant and needs a doctor for an abortion. He finds her a doctor and they work together to raise the money. Can these two strangers find love with one another before it's too late? (imdb)
+4
Never So Few
Captain Tom Reynolds and his band of skilled O.S.S. operatives are in WWII Burma to train the Kachin natives in modern warfare. But jungle combat, particularly against a Japanese army as familiar with the terrain as the Kachin, is more grueling than Reynolds had reckoned. Some respite is found in the arms of beautiful Carla, but after Chinese rebels cross the border to loot and murder American soldiers, Reynolds abandons all notions of "military protocol" and seeks requital. (imdb)
+3
The Reivers
An old man looks back 60 years to a road trip from rural Mississippi to Memphis, a horse race, and his own coming of age... (imdb)
+1
On Any Sunday
A documentary following the lives of motorcycle racers and racing enthusiasts, including actor Steve McQueen. First asking the question "Why do they do it?" this film looks at the people who devote (and sometimes risk) their lives to racing on tracks and off-road courses around the world. (imdb)
+18
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Rocky Graziano is building a career in crime, when he's finally caught and arrested. In jail, he is undisciplined, always getting into trouble. When he gets out after many years he has decided to start a new life. However, he is immediately drafted to the army. But they can't keep him and he goes AWOL. Rocky discovers boxing as a way of earning quick money, and is discovered as a new talent. (imdb)
The Hunter
In order to track down bail jumpers, Ralph 'Papa' Thorson goes on a series of routine and not-so-routine searches. Sometimes he takes down his quarry easily. At other times, he's forced to extreme measures which result in the injury or death of a lawbreaker. And then again, there are other moments when his own life is on the line. It's all enough to make Thorson question what he has done with his life. (imdb)
+6
Nevada Smith
A naive half-Indian, half-white man evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents' murderers. (IMDb)
+2
Tom Horn
A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ambitions of ranchers and corrupt officials as progress marches over him and the old west. (imdb)
Le Mans
This movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. The race goes over 24 hours on 14.5 kilometers of cordoned country road. Every few hours the two drivers per car alternate but it's still a challenge for concentration and material. (IMDb)
+2
Baby the Rain Must Fall
A musician struggles deal with his dark side as he bounces between the penitentiary and life with his wife and daughter.
+3
The War Lover
Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dangerous missions. His crew lives with this aspect of his personality only because they know he always brings them back alive. (imdb)
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
The life and times of actor Steve McQueen, on the 75th anniversary of his birth (imdb)
Never Love a Stranger
Frankie Kane (John Drew Barrymore) is brought up in a Catholic orphanage and befriends Martin Cabell (Steve[n] McQueen), a Jewish law student whose sister Julie (Lita Milan) becomes Frankie's sweetheart. At sixteen, Frankie learns that he is himself Jewish and therefore has to be moved to a Jewish home. That prospect proves so awful that he runs away - and goes bad... (imdb)
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
A group of three criminals is planning to rob the Southwest Bank in St. Louis. Gino, one of the criminals, has brought along George Fowler, who is to be the driver for the other three. The other two criminals are uncomfortable with him, and the boss insists on testing George first. Gino also makes George ask Ann, Gino's sister and George's former girlfriend, for money. The gang starts to case the bank carefully, and to test possible plans. But Ann suspects something, and she begins to confront G (imdb)
Dixie Dynamite
When their moonshiner father is killed by a corrupt deputy, two young girls decide to take over his business and get revenge on the men who had him killed. (imdb)
An Enemy of the People
A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted. (imdb)
Girl on the Run
Police investigate a murder that occurred in a burlesque theater. (imdb)
I Am Steve McQueen
The life and career of the American actor, notable for his roles in The Great Escape and The Thomas Crown Affair. The programme looks at the the personality behind this iconic figure, focusing specifically on his relentless drive and competitive nature, and the effortless verved with which he carried himself
Wanted: Dead or Alive
A Civil War veteran with a sawed-off rifle as a holstered weapon makes a living as a bounty hunter in the Wild West of the 1870s.
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
Steve McQueen's Mantra: "I decide what is right and what is wrong and I don't have to explain it to anybody. I like women but I'm a little afraid of them. I'm not gonna make a commitment because if you make a commitment to a woman they can hurt you. I wont pick a fight with you but if you pick a fight with me or back me into a corner I will fucking kill you." (imdb)
Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie
A documentary about the car racing movie that Hollywood legend and avid racing fan Steve McQueen started production on in the mid-1960s as his passion project, but never completed. (imdb)
Family Affair
Short film produced by the Bell Telephone Company to encourage the effective use of their phones.