The best Robert Mitchum’s thriller movies

Robert Mitchum

Robert Mitchum

06/08/1917- 01/07/1997
Today we present the best Robert Mitchum’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 Robert Mitchum’s movies.
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The Night of the Hunter

The Night of the Hunter
8/10
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

Cape Fear

Cape Fear
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 15/11/1991
  • Character: Lieutenant Elgart
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Cape Fear

Cape Fear
7.7/10
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.

The Big Steal

The Big Steal
6.9/10
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.

Out of the Past

Out of the Past
8/10
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, CA. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

Farewell, My Lovely

Farewell, My Lovely
7/10
LA private eye Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle (Charlotte Rampling) and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden. Soaked in 1940s period detail, Farewell, My Lovely is a neo noir remake of the 1944 film but it follows the original Raymond Chandler's novel more closely.

The Yakuza

The Yakuza
7.2/10
Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia...

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 13/03/1978
  • Character: Philip Marlowe
Private eye Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster. This neo-noir remake of the iconic 1946 Bogart film transfers the setting of Raymond Chandler's novel from 1940s California to 1970s London.

Crossfire

Crossfire
7.3/10
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?

The Racket

The Racket
6.7/10
Mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all attempts at bribery. Prosecuting attorney, Welch, and a police detective, Turck, are crooked and make McQuigg's job as an honest officer nearly impossible.

Angel Face

Angel Face
7.2/10
An ambulance driver gets involved with a rich girl that might have a darker side.

5 Card Stud

5 Card Stud
6.4/10
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.

Undercurrent

Undercurrent
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 11/11/1946
  • Character: Michael Garroway
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
7.4/10
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.

Woman of Desire

Woman of Desire
4.1/10
A yacht captain, Jack Lynch, is accused of murdering his boss and raping the victim's wife, Christina Ford. Nothing is how it first appears. Jack seeks the help of veteran attorney Walter J. Hill to help prove his innocence.

The List of Adrian Messenger

The List of Adrian Messenger
6.8/10
Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without asking him the reason why he should do so.

Second Chance

Second Chance
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 18/07/1953
  • Character: Russ Lambert
The story tells of Russ Lambert (Robert Mitchum), a prize-fighter with a lethal right-handed punch, who through no fault of his own, killed a fighter in the ring. Since the fight his life has gone downhill.

His Kind of Woman

His Kind of Woman
7/10
In a desperate attempt to get out of debt, career gambler Dan Milner agrees to rendezvous with a mysterious contact at a distant Mexican resort in exchange for $50,000. Upon arriving, Milner meets his fellow guests, including a plastic surgeon, a philandering movie star and his beautiful girlfriend. Soon Milner discovers that the man who hired him may be the ruthless gangster Nick Ferraro -- a deported crime boss looking to re-enter the USA.

Secret Ceremony

Secret Ceremony
6.2/10
A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother, and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness, in this powerful psychological thriller.

Where Danger Lives

Where Danger Lives
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 16/11/1950
  • Character: Dr. Jeff Cameron
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.

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