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Robert Duvall has 56 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2020s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Godfather.
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The Godfather
1972 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

The Godfather Part II
1974 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

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

Hustle
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Netflix · Included

Bullitt
1968 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Thank You for Smoking
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%Prime Video · Included

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

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

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

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team's approval. Against the odds, they have one final shot to prove they have what it takes to make it in the NBA.
Dir. Jeremiah Zagar · With Adam Sandler, Queen Latifah, Juancho Hernangómez

Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.
Dir. Peter Yates · With Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
Dir. Joel Schumacher · With Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey

Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.
Dir. Jason Reitman · With Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright

Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.
Dir. Billy Bob Thornton · With Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh

The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
Dir. Henry Hathaway · With John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell

A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
Dir. David Dobkin · With Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
Dir. Kevin Costner · With Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Michael Gambon

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones and, when the snow falls, it is gray. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
Dir. John Hillcoat · With Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron

West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.
Dir. Scott Cooper · With Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Lucy Boynton

The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
Dir. Tim McCanlies · With Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment

One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould. Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, they adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate Army bureaucrats. Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff and Sally Kellerman co-star as a sanctimonious Major, an other-worldly Corporal, and a self-righteous yet lusty nurse.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt

John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Denzel Washington, James Woods, Kimberly Elise

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

A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
With Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Lane

Ex-car thief Randall Raines is forced out of retirement to save his brother Kip after a boost gone wrong. With the help of allies old and new, they race to meet the demands of notorious crime boss Raymond Calitri as the police are in hot pursuit.
Dir. Dominic Sena · With Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi

A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
Dir. Dennis Hopper · With Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, María Conchita Alonso

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
Dir. George Lucas · With Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Dir. John Sturges · With Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall

Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close

When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.
Dir. Scott Cooper · With Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close
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

Alcoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Dir. Bruce Beresford · With Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.
Dir. Kenny Ortega · With Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Ann-Margret

A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
Dir. Aaron Schneider · With Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek
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