The best Stanley Kubrick’s movies

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

26/07/1928- 07/03/1999
Today we present the best Stanley Kubrick’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 Stanley Kubrick’s movies.

Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket
8.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 26/06/1987
  • Character: Murphy (voice) (uncredited)
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Filmworker

Filmworker
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 11/05/2018
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's devoted right-hand man.

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 02/05/2001
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.

Kubrick by Kubrick

Kubrick by Kubrick
7.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 22/10/2020
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
A rare and transcendent journey into the life and films of the legendary Stanley Kubrick like we've never seen before, featuring a treasure trove of unearthed interview recordings from the master himself.

Dark Side of the Moon

Dark Side of the Moon
7.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 16/10/2002
  • Character: Stanley Kubrick (Archivmaterial)
A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.

A Forbidden Orange

A Forbidden Orange
6.3/10
Spain, 1970s. A Clockwork Orange, a film considered by critics and audiences as one of the best works in the history of cinema, directed by Stanley Kubrick and released in 1971, was banned by the strict Franco government. However, the film was finally premiered, without going through censorship, during the 20th edition of the Seminci, the Valladolid Film Festival, on April 24, 1975. How was this possible?

Day of the Fight

Day of the Fight
6.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 26/04/1951
  • Character: Himself (man at ringside with camera) (uncredited)
American short subject documentary film in black-and-white, which is notable as the first picture directed by Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick financed the film himself, and it is based on an earlier photo feature he had done as a photographer for Look magazine in 1949. 'Day of the Fight' shows Irish-American middleweight boxer Walter Cartier during the height of his career, on the day of a fight with black middleweight Bobby James, which took place on April 17, 1950.

Making The Shining

Making The Shining
7.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 04/10/1980
  • Character: Self
Directed and edited by Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian Kubrick, this film offers a look behind the scenes during the making of The Shining.

Kubrick Remembered

Kubrick Remembered
7.4/10
An 83-minute candid look into the life of Kubrick, including interviews with his widow, family, coworkers and actors, and featuring a tour of the Archive in London and an inside look into Kubrick's home.

Trumbull Land

Trumbull Land
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 15/10/2018
  • Character: Himself
Everyone has seen a Trumbull sequence in Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey", Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" or Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Recognized and respected SFX maestro, he has also directed two full-length films which left their mark on sci-fi cinema: "Silent Running" and "Brainstorm". Today, at over 70, Trumbull-the-pioneer continues his quest for innovation and still dreams of a cinema which places spectators into the film. "Trumbull Land" is an immersive portrait of Douglas Trumbull in his studios and a diving headfirst in his cinema.

Once Upon a Time... A Clockwork Orange

Once Upon a Time... A Clockwork Orange
7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/12/2012
  • Character: Himself
A dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange. Where a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Dreams That Money Can Buy

Dreams That Money Can Buy
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 01/09/1947
  • Character: Theatre extra (Uncredited)
An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will improve his customer's lives. This frame story serves as a link between several avant-garde sequences created by leading visual artists of their day, most of whom were emigres to the US during WWII.

OTO - Ordo Templi Orientis

OTO - Ordo Templi Orientis
  • Release: 18/04/2020
The structure of the Order Templi Orientis, like that of Freemasonry, is based on a staged series of initiations or degrees. Similar to many secret societies, the OTO membership is based on an initiatory system with a series of degree ceremonies that use ritual drama to establish fraternal bonds and impart spiritual and philosophical teachings. English author and occultist Aleister Crowley has become the best-known member of the order.

2001: A Space Odyssey – A Look Behind the Future

2001: A Space Odyssey – A Look Behind the Future
6.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1966
  • Character: himself
A short documentary about the making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and its impact on the '60s view of the future.

Stanley Kubrick - Réalisateur de légende

Stanley Kubrick - Réalisateur de légende

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 13/02/2021
  • Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
An exceptional survey of the work of American film director Stanley Kubrick (1928-99), focusing on its narrative and technical aspects.

The Mysterious Work of Stanley Kubrick

The Mysterious Work of Stanley Kubrick
  • Character: Himself
Explores the conspiracy theory that the acclaimed director was murdered by the real-life sex and death cult that inspired his film “Eyes Wide Shut.”

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