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Marlon Brando has 30 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2010s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Godfather.
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Room at the Top
1958
Drama · Romance

Clash by Night
1952
Drama · Romance

A Place in the Sun
1951
Drama · Romance

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
Drama

Women in Love
1969
Drama · Romance

The Truth
1960
Drama · Romance

Sweet Bird of Youth
1962
Drama · Romance

East of Eden
1955
Drama

The Godfather
1972 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

Apocalypse Now
1979 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Superman
1978 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Max · Included

A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Mutiny on the Bounty
1962 · Movie · Actor
Top 20%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Score
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Frederic Forrest

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.
Dir. Lewis Milestone · With Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris

An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.
Dir. Frank Oz · With Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando

With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.
Dir. Stevan Riley · With Marlon Brando, Stella Adler, Bette Davis

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
Dir. Arthur Penn · With Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud

John Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Dr. Jack Mickler to cure him of his apparent delusion. But the psychiatric sessions have an unexpected effect on the psychiatric staff and, most profoundly, Dr Mickler, who rekindles the romance in his complacent marriage.
Dir. Jeremy Leven · With Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a Salvation Army missionary to Havana, and unexpectedly they fall for each other. And the bet has a hidden motive ... classic song and dance ensues!
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn

Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
Dir. Marlon Brando · With Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.
Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo · With Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
Dir. Edward Dmytryk · With Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin

After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.
Dir. Andrew Bergman · With Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
Dir. Joshua Logan · With Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Dir. Euzhan Palcy · With Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae

When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan's gang decides to get even by purchasing a small farm next to Braxton's ranch. From there the rustlers begin stealing horses, using the farm as a front for their operation. Determined to stop the thefts at any cost, Braxton retains the services of eccentric sharpshooter Robert E. Lee Clayton, who begins ruthlessly taking down Logan's gang.
Dir. Arthur Penn · With Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid

The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
Dir. László Benedek · With Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith

Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
Dir. John Huston · With Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith
A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.
Dir. Charlie Chaplin · With Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey

A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.
Dir. Johnny Depp · With Johnny Depp, Marshall Bell, Elpidia Carrillo

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
Dir. Godfrey Reggio · With Marlon Brando, Elton John, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
A plane crash surviving attorney stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis
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