Burt Lancaster

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.

Dir. Alexander Mackendrick · With Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.

Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner

A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.

Dir. Frank Perry · With Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule

A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?

Dir. Jules Dassin · With Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

Dir. Anatole Litvak · With Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

Dir. Richard Brooks · With Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.

Dir. Richard Brooks · With Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.

Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.

Dir. Phil Alden Robinson · With Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffmann

Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Dir. John Sturges · With Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Jo Van Fleet

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

Dir. Bill Forsyth · With Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea

The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel.

Dir. Delbert Mann · With Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.

Dir. Carl Reiner · With Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd

After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.

Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.

Dir. Robert Wise · With Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

Dir. Louis Malle · With Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid

After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.

Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.

Dir. George P. Cosmatos · With Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen

Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio” Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last mission together, the CIA orders Scorpio to eliminate Cross, leaving him no choice but to obey.

Dir. Michael Winner · With Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield

While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.

Dir. Michael Winner · With Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb