The best Robert Ryan’s drama movies on Apple iTunes

Robert Ryan

Robert Ryan

11/11/1909- 11/07/1973
Today we present the best Robert Ryan’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 Ryan’s movies.

King of Kings

King of Kings
7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 11/10/1961
  • Character: John the Baptist
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.

Battle of the Bulge

Battle of the Bulge
6.8/10
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.

Clash by Night

Clash by Night
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/05/1952
  • Character: Earl Pfeiffer
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

Caught

Caught
7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 17/02/1949
  • Character: Smith Ohlrig
It was Leonora Eames' childhood dream come true. She had married Smith Ohlrig, a man worth millions. But her innocent dream became a nightmare once she realizes the truth about her husband - he is power mad and insane! Since he will not grant her a divorce, she leaves her life of luxury on Long Island and goes to work as a receptionist in an impoverished doctor's office in NYC's lower east side. After Smith deceives her into a temporary reconciliation, Leonora becomes pregnant. By the time she realizes she is expecting, she and one of the doctors, Larry Quinada (James Mason), have fallen in love. But she is again lured backed to her wealthy husband to give her child financial security. Her sadistic husband is hell-bent on keeping her and her child prisoner. What will happen to Leonora?

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?

Billy Budd

Billy Budd
7.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 12/11/1962
  • Character: John Claggart, Master of Arms
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.

Flying Leathernecks

Flying Leathernecks
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 28/08/1951
  • Character: Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin
Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone to always finding excuses to do what is easy rather than what is necessary. The root of the problem is the second in command, Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin. Griff is the best flier in the group but Kirby finds him a poor commander who is not prepared to the difficult decision that all commanders have to make - to put men in harm's way knowing that they may be killed.

Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock
7.7/10
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

On Dangerous Ground

On Dangerous Ground
7.2/10
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.

Berlin Express

Berlin Express
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 01/05/1948
  • Character: Robert Lindley
Robert Ryan leads a group of Allied agents fighting an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.

Lolly-Madonna XXX

Lolly-Madonna XXX
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/02/1973
  • Character: Pap Gutshall
Laban Feather brews Tennessee moonshine with his sons Thrush, Zack, Hawk, and Finch. The chief rivals of the Feather Family in producing and selling illegal corn liquor are the Gutshalls, father Pap, and sons Ludie, Seb, and Villum. In addition to fighting over the white lightning market, the two families have also been feuding over some land that each believes is their property. As a prank, Ludie mails a postcard from a fictitious woman named Lolly-Madonna to the Feather household, in order to get the brothers squabbling over which son has attracted the mysterious admirer. But the joke has unexpected consequences when Thrush and Hawk kidnap a woman who was passing through town to meet her fiancée, assuming that she is Lolly Madonna.

Born to Be Bad

Born to Be Bad
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/09/1950
  • Character: Nick Bradley
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.

Back from Eternity

Back from Eternity
6.5/10
A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found.

Bombardier

Bombardier
6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 14/05/1943
  • Character: Joe Connors
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.

Return of the Bad Men

Return of the Bad Men
6.3/10
US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws.

Executive Action

Executive Action
6.7/10
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.

Behind the Rising Sun

Behind the Rising Sun
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/08/1943
  • Character: Lefty O'Doyle
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

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