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Robert Zemeckis has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Back to the Future.
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
2011
Documentary
Forrest Gump
1994 · Movie · Director
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included
Back to the Future
1985 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%Disney+ · Included
Back to the Future Part II
1989 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%Disney+ · Included
Back to the Future Part III
1990 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 3%Disney+ · Included
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 · Movie · Director
Top 3%Disney+ · Included
Allied
2016 · Movie · Director
Top 18%Paramount+ · Included
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover
Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself marooned on a desolate island. With no way to escape, Chuck must find ways to survive in his new home.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy
The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen
Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris
Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis
The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon
When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Tom Hanks, Leslie Zemeckis, Eddie Deezen
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly
Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current.
Dir. Gilbert Adler · With Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham
Two Arkansas firemen, Vince and Don, get hold of a map that leads to a cache of stolen gold in an abandoned factory in East St. Louis. What they don't know is that the factory is on the turf of a local gang, who come by to execute one of their enemies. Vince sees the shooting, the gang spots Vince, and extended mayhem ensues. As Vince and Don try to escape, gang leader King James argues with his subordinate Savon about how to get rid of the trespassers.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Bill Paxton, Ice-T, William Sadler
If they miss The Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A., they will hate themselves for the rest of their lives - so four young girls from New Jersey set off even though they don't have tickets for the show! The journey is full of surprises and misfortunes but the young ladies are determined to reach their idols.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure
In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci
A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hanks, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany
When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Merritt Wever
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth
Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Diana Scarwid
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi
Cast, crew and fans explore the "Back to the Future" time-travel trilogy's resonance throughout our culture, thirty years after Marty McFly went back in time.
Dir. Jason Aron · With Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd
A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Grendel.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins
