The best Mel Ferrer’s movies

Mel Ferrer

Mel Ferrer

25/08/1917- 02/06/2008
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The Longest Day

The Longest Day
7.7/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 25/09/1962
  • Character: Maj. Gen. Robert Haines
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Rancho Notorious

Rancho Notorious
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 01/03/1952
  • Character: Frenchy Fairmont
A cowboy infiltrates a bandit hideout in search of his girlfriend's killer.

Wait Until Dark

Wait Until Dark
7.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeHorrorThriller
  • Release: 26/10/1967
  • Character: French-Canadian Radio Speaker (voice) (uncredited)
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

Scaramouche

Scaramouche
7.5/10
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

Sex and the Single Girl

Sex and the Single Girl
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1964
  • Character: Dr. Rudolph (Rudy) DeMeyer
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.

The Fall of the Roman Empire

The Fall of the Roman Empire
6.7/10
Drawn from the same events that later inspired Gladiator, the film charts the power-hungry greed and father-son betrayal that led to Rome's collapse at the bloody hands of the Barbarians.

War and Peace

War and Peace
6.7/10
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

Brannigan

Brannigan
6.1/10
Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard in order to recapture this mobster with both a price tag on his head and a stuffy old London cop to contend with.

L'immoralità

L'immoralità
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 20/11/1978
  • Character: Vera's husband
Federico is a child-killer running from the law. Wounded, he is taken in by a 12 year old girl named Simona. Their strange love affair is interrupted by Simona's depressed, oversexed mother Vera, who concocts a plan with Federico to kill her wheelchair-bound, reclusive husband. Simona does not take kindly to this new relationship between Federico and Vera.

Paris When It Sizzles

Paris When It Sizzles
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/03/1964
  • Character: M. Hyde (uncredited)
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.

The Antichrist

The Antichrist
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 22/11/1974
  • Character: Massimo Oderisi
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.

Eaten Alive

Eaten Alive
5.5/10
A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

The World, the Flesh and the Devil
6.8/10
Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York City only to find it deserted. Making a life for himself there, he is flabbergasted to eventually find Sarah Crandall, who also managed to survive. Together, they form a close friendship until the arrival of Benson Thacker who has managed to pilot his small boat into the city's harbor. At this point the tensions rise between the three, particularly between Thacker, who is white and Burton, who is black.

Nightmare City

Nightmare City
5.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 11/12/1980
  • Character: General Murchison
In a nameless European city, a local reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from hordes of blood thirsty zombies, undead people exposed to nuclear radioactivity, while the military leaders fight a losing war of attrition against the relentless atomic zombies.

Eaten Alive!

Eaten Alive!
5.1/10
A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an expatriate guide encounter a cult leader and flesh-hungry natives.

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

The Devil and the Ten Commandments
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/09/1962
  • Character: Philip Allan
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.

Lili Marleen

Lili Marleen
7.1/10
The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert's family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song "Lili Marleen."

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/08/1957
  • Character: Robert Cohn
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.

The Visitor

The Visitor
5.2/10
An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to reproduce Satan's next generation of evil.

Knights of the Round Table

Knights of the Round Table
6.2/10
In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.

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