The best Peter Hansen’s drama movies

Peter Hansen

Peter Hansen

06/12/1921- 09/04/2017
We present our ranking of the best Peter Hansen’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Peter Hansen.
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The War of the Roses

The War of the Roses
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/12/1989
  • Character: Mr. Marshall
The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.

Daddy

Daddy
5.7/10
Oliver Watson has never been luckier: he is a successful advertising executive, shares a marriage of eighteen years with Sarah and has three loving kids: 17-year-old Ben, 15-year-old Melissa, and 9-year-old Sam. His perfect life suddenly falls apart when his wife Sarah announces that she wants to enter a graduate school 200 miles away from home, as she regrets that she gave up her bohemian protester's life and promising writing career to become the wife of a conservative traditionalist. Oliver unsuccessfully tries to save his marriage, until Sarah announces that she is seeing someone else. The children start acting out as a reaction and life is complicated by the death of Oliver’s mother and accepts a job in L.A. where he falls in love with Charlotte Sampson. Life again challenges Oliver when Charlotte is offered her dream job on Broadway.

Harlow

Harlow
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/06/1965
  • Character: Hansen
Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both released in 1965 and both with the same title, about the '30s platinum blonde movie star.

Three Violent People

Three Violent People
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 01/12/1956
  • Character: Lt. Marr
A rancher (Charlton Heston), his shady bride (Anne Baxter) and his one-armed brother (Tom Tryon) fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.

A Bullet for Joey

A Bullet for Joey
6/10
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.

Something to Live For

Something to Live For
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/03/1952
  • Character: Stage Cast
Alcoholic actress aided by a married Alcoholics Anonymous member with whom she has an affair.

The Deep Six

The Deep Six
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 15/01/1958
  • Character: Lieutenant Dooley
The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members. When he refuses to fire upon an unidentified plane, the word spreads that Austin cannot be relied upon in battle (never mind that the plane turns out to be one of ours). To prove that he's worthy of command, Austin volunteers for a dangerous mission: the rescue of a group of US pilots on a Japanese-held island. The ubiquitous William Bendix costars as Frenchy Shapiro (!), Austin's Jewish petty officer and severest critic. If the film has a villain, it is Keenan Wynn as ambitious Lt. Commander Edge, who seems to despise anyone who isn't a mainline WASP.

Hell on Frisco Bay

Hell on Frisco Bay
6.4/10
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.

A Cry in the Night

A Cry in the Night
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/08/1956
  • Character: Dr. Frazee
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.

The Proud and Profane

The Proud and Profane
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/06/1956
  • Character: Lieutenant (jg) Hutchins
In this romantic drama, beautiful Red Cross volunteer Lee Ashley (Deborah Kerr) arrives on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the death of her husband, Howard, in the Battle of Guadalcanal. There, Ashley falls for the gruff, seductive Marine Lt. Col. Colin Buck (William Holden), but struggle and tragedy follow when the widow learns about the reality of Buck's life back home.

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