The best Steve McQueen’s movies

Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen

24/03/1930- 07/11/1980
Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw during the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles. His other popular films include The Cincinnati Kid, Love With the Proper Stranger, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, and Papillon, as well as the all-star ensemble films The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and The Towering Inferno.
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The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven
7.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/04/1960
  • Character: Vin
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Papillon

Papillon
8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/12/1973
  • Character: Henri "Papillon" Charriere
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

The Great Escape

The Great Escape
8.2/10
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

The Towering Inferno

The Towering Inferno
7/10
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—office building, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Bullitt

Bullitt
7.4/10
Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.

The Thomas Crown Affair

The Thomas Crown Affair
6.9/10
Young businessman, Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.

The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles
7.5/10
  • Genre: AdventureWar
  • Release: 20/12/1966
  • Character: Jake Holman
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

The Getaway

The Getaway
7.3/10
A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.

The Cincinnati Kid

The Cincinnati Kid
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/10/1965
  • Character: Eric Stoner ("The Cincinnati Kid")
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

The Blob

The Blob
6.3/10
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/07/1956
  • Character: Fidel
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

Never So Few

Never So Few
5.8/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 07/12/1959
  • Character: Bill Ringa
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.

Hell Is for Heroes

Hell Is for Heroes
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWar
  • Release: 26/06/1962
  • Character: John Reese
World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.

The Hunter

The Hunter
6.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/08/1980
  • Character: Ralph "Papa" Thorson
During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.

Nevada Smith

Nevada Smith
6.9/10
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct.

Bruce Lee: The Legend

Bruce Lee: The Legend
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1984
  • Character: Himself
The Official Golden Harvest tribute to the Master of the Martial Arts Film, Bruce Lee.

Le Mans

Le Mans
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 23/06/1971
  • Character: Michael Delaney
Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, Michael Delaney is a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow.

And the Oscar Goes To...

And the Oscar Goes To...
7.1/10
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.

Tom Horn

Tom Horn
6.8/10
A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ambitions of ranchers and corrupt officials as progress marches over him and the old west.

The Kid Stays in the Picture

The Kid Stays in the Picture
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 16/08/2002
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans, based on his famous 1994 autobiography.

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