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Warren Oates has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Wild Bunch.
State of Siege
1972
Thriller · Drama
In the Heat of the Night
1967 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
Stripes
1981 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Major Dundee
1965 · Movie · Actor
Top 47%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
Dillinger
1973 · Movie · Actor
Top 55%MGM+ · Included
Return of the Seven
1966 · Movie · Actor
Top 80%Prime Video · Included
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
Dir. Terrence Malick · With Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber
Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, enlists in the U.S. Army with his close pal, Russell Ziskey. After his barely satisfactory performance in basic training, the irreverent Winger emerges as the figurehead for a ragtag band of misfits. However, his hijinks threaten to cause an international scandal when he inadvertently commandeers a military assault vehicle behind enemy lines.
Dir. Ivan Reitman · With Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates
A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn
A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who challenges them to a cross-country race.
Dir. Monte Hellman · With James Taylor, Warren Oates, Dennis Wilson
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Dir. Jack Starrett · With Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.
Dir. John Milius · With Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips
Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic behavior, they begin to suspect that her true purpose is quite different.
Dir. Monte Hellman · With Warren Oates, Will Hutchins, Millie Perkins
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Dir. Tony Richardson · With Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine
Chico, one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven, now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico.
Dir. Burt Kennedy · With Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos
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
Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.
Dir. John Badham · With Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark
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