The best Richard Crenna’s drama movies

Richard Crenna

Richard Crenna

30/11/1926- 17/01/2003
Today we present the best Richard Crenna’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Richard Crenna’s movies.
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Marooned

Marooned
5.9/10
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a Hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.

Star!

Star!
6.4/10
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

The Flamingo Kid

The Flamingo Kid
6.2/10
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his father in favor of the patronage of smooth-talking Phil Brody and is seduced by the ample bikini charms of club member Carla Samson. But thanks to a couple of late-summer hard lessons, the teen eventually realizes that family should always come first.

Doctors' Wives

Doctors' Wives
4.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/02/1971
  • Character: Dr. Peter Brennan
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 23/10/1973
  • Character: Father
Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his sea-gull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn't fit in, the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets out to discover the world beyond the horizon in quest for wisdom.

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
6/10
The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers.

Passions

Passions
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 01/10/1984
  • Character: Richard Kennerly
A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make her and her son suffer by trying to throw them out of the house he bought for them but now it legally belongs to his wife. And at the same time, wanting to ensure her son's future, she sues his estate for her son's education fund. While they are butting heads, they both discover that they were both deceived by him.

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity
4.6/10
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.

Thief

Thief
6.4/10
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.

Police Story: The Freeway Killings

Police Story: The Freeway Killings
6.3/10
Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.

Midas Run

Midas Run
4.8/10
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.

Fugitive Family

Fugitive Family
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1980
  • Character: Brian Roberts / Matthews
To the world Brian Roberts looks like a successful businessman, with a lovely wife and two children all living in a dream home. Nevertheless, he has really been working undercover for the Justice Department to snare a mob boss. When his cover is blown, he has to break the news to his family about the nature of his real job and, worse, that they are now in real danger! Consequently, they are forced into the federal government's Witness Relocation Program. However, the trauma to the family does not stop there, as the gangsters he double-crossed are determined he and his family shall not escape 'mob justice.'

The Day Reagan Was Shot

The Day Reagan Was Shot
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/12/2001
  • Character: Ronald Reagan
The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss as Alexander Haig and Richard Crenna as Ronald Reagan.

Murder in Black and White

Murder in Black and White
5.8/10
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.

Footsteps

Footsteps
5.9/10
A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don't want the team to improve.

Over-Exposed

Over-Exposed
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1956
  • Character: Russell Bassett
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.

A Fire in the Sky

A Fire in the Sky
6/10
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but without 100% certainty, the governor of Arizona is reticent to cause a panic. Even after a television news reporter discovers the truth and threatens to go live with it, the response is understated enough to doom some residents of Phoenix to certain death.

Table for Five

Table for Five
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/02/1983
  • Character: Mitchell
J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie Perkins) and her new husband (Richard Crenna) to take the kids on a Mediterranean cruise. On the journey he comes to realise it's not that easy and, feeling overwhelmed, begins to doubt his abilities until a tragedy back home forces him to become the father he always hoped to be.

Out of the Ashes

Out of the Ashes
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/04/2003
  • Character: Jake Smith
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.

To Serve and Protect

To Serve and Protect
5.4/10
Three generations of Dallas police officers join together to track down the deadliest serial killer ever to terrorize Texas.

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