The best Warren Oates’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best Warren Oates’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Warren Oates.
Badlands
7.7/10
A dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Blue Thunder
6.4/10
Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.
In the Heat of the Night
7.9/10
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
Two-Lane Blacktop
7.2/10
A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gains a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.
Dillinger
6.9/10
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.
The Border
6.4/10
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
7.4/10
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Cockfighter
6.9/10
A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.
Sleeping Dogs
6.3/10
Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.
Tough Enough
5.5/10
An aspiring country singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. Amazingly enough, he wins it, and is picked to go onto the national finals. He's torn between his first love, music, and the glitz, glamor and money of the "Tough Man" world.
Up Periscope
6.4/10
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.
Drum
5.5/10
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
92 in the Shade
6/10
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
And Baby Makes Six
6.5/10
A couple faces a dilemma when the 46-year-old wife unexpectedly becomes pregnant. She wants to have the baby, but her husband has plans for the future that do not involve raising another child. Their 3 grown children, as well as other family and friends, all have their own opinions on the situation. Their relationship and their marriage itself are tested as they try to resolve the conflict.
The Reluctant Heroes
7.1/10
An army tale about an egghead ninety-day-wonder who relies on ancient tactics he remembers from the history books to save his beleaguered squad on an important mission in Korea.
Chandler
4.4/10
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.
The Night America Trembled
6.6/10
A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in 1938.
The White Dawn
7.1/10
Three stranded 1890s whalers (Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr.) corrupt the culture of their Eskimo saviors.
My Old Man
5.9/10
An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When frank is hurt prior to the opening race, Jo must go it alone.
The African Queen
7/10
After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and forced to tug one of their big cannons that could bring the Nazis victory against the local Allied forces.
