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Charles Bronson has 34 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Great Escape.
The Killer Elite
1975
Crime · Action
The Great Escape
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included
The Magnificent Seven
1960 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Prime Video · Included
Mr. Majestyk
1974 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%MGM+ · Included
The Mechanic
1972 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Prime Video · Included
Breakheart Pass
1975 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Prime Video · Included
Death Wish
1974 · Movie · Actor
Top 38%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Dir. John Sturges · With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
Dir. John Sturges · With Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
Dir. André de Toth · With Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Linda Cristal
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice. Arthur puts him through a rigorous training period and brings him on several hits. As Steven improves, Arthur worries that he'll discover who killed his father.
Dir. Michael Winner · With Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Keenan Wynn
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being transported to face trial for murder.
Dir. Tom Gries · With Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Anthony Quinn, Charles Bronson, Jaime Fernández
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Dir. Michael Winner · With Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a good deed that will put him in trouble.
Dir. Peter R. Hunt · With Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens
In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a valuable sword to the President of the United States, a gift from the Emperor of Japan. On board the same train are two robbers, Link and Gauche, ready to make their move…
Dir. Terence Young · With Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, Toshirō Mifune
Melancolie Mau is a lonely woman on the French seaside who falls victim to a horrific rape, but she manages to turn the tables and kill her attacker. She chooses not to tell anyone and dumps the body, but it comes back to haunt her when a U.S. colonel arrives, mysteriously armed with full knowledge about her ordeal. However, he seems to have his own agenda, and it may concern Melancolie's absent husband.
Dir. René Clément · With Charles Bronson, Marlène Jobert, Gabriele Tinti
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
Dir. Ken Annakin · With Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland
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
A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
Dir. Tom Gries · With Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
Dir. Michael Winner · With Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Gardenia
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Dir. Michael Winner · With Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.
Dir. Michael Winner · With Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore
A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Charles Bronson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Carrie Snodgress
When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.
Dir. Terence Young · With Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland
Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.
Dir. Sean Penn · With David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire
A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.
Dir. Sergio Sollima · With Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as they attempt to crack the safe's combination.
Dir. Jean Herman · With Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Olga Georges-Picot
Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr.
Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson
A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Maher) employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Charles Bronson, José Ferrer, Theresa Saldana
Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills while naked, wearing nothing but gloves, and further evades the law with his strong alibis. Veteran detective Leo Kessler is convinced of Stacy's guilt and begins using questionable methods to catch him.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens
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