Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Feature Films With Richard Basehart

1. Being There (1979)

PG | 130 min | Comedy, Drama

After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.

Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden

Votes: 77,839 | Gross: $30.18M

2. Moby Dick (1956)

Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Drama

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice

Votes: 22,027 | Gross: $10.40M

3. The Road (1954)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani

Votes: 66,709

4. Titanic (1953)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance

An unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the luxurious, ill-fated RMS Titanic.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton

Votes: 7,678 | Gross: $4.91M

5. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)

PG | 99 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.

Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera

Votes: 7,175 | Gross: $8.72M

6. The Turning Point (1977)

PG | 119 min | Drama, Music, Romance

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.

Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt

Votes: 5,193 | Gross: $33.60M

7. Chato's Land (1972)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Western

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland

Votes: 6,294 | Gross: $0.42M

8. He Walked by Night (1948)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann | Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell

Votes: 6,738

9. The Satan Bug (1965)

Approved | 114 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A germ that could destroy life on Earth is stolen from a biological warfare lab and the thief threatens to release it into the open, prompting a security officer to act.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews

Votes: 3,058

10. Mansion of the Doomed (1976)

R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller

A mad scientist fills his basement dungeon with victims in an insane attempt to restore his daughter's eyesight.

Director: Michael Pataki | Stars: Richard Basehart, Gloria Grahame, Trish Stewart, Lance Henriksen

Votes: 1,199

11. Decision Before Dawn (1951)

Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, War

As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners of war to spy behind German lines.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegard Knef

Votes: 3,010

12. Reign of Terror (1949)

Approved | 89 min | History, Romance, Thriller

Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart, Arlene Dahl

Votes: 2,135

13. Repeat Performance (1947)

Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field, Tom Conway

Votes: 2,008

14. Kings of the Sun (1963)

Approved | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, History

On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Basehart

Votes: 2,190

15. The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance

Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb

Votes: 3,062

16. Outside the Wall (1950)

Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A paroled convict's infatuation with a gold-digger nurse working at a sanitarium leads him to crime.

Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Richard Basehart, Marilyn Maxwell, Signe Hasso, Dorothy Hart

Votes: 419

17. Fourteen Hours (1951)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

An unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget

Votes: 2,976

18. The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder after she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan, Fay Baker

Votes: 3,862

19. Cry Wolf (1947)

Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Recently widowed Sandra Demarest arrives at the isolated home of her late husband for his wake, but his uncle will not allow her to view the corpse.

Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks, Richard Basehart

Votes: 1,932

20. The Good Die Young (1954)

Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In London, three otherwise law-abiding good men and their unscrupulous leader are about to commit a serious crime, but for different reasons.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart, Joan Collins

Votes: 1,516

21. The Swindle (1955)

Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi

Votes: 6,933

22. Rage (1972)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable for their actions, he runs up against a wall of silence.

Director: George C. Scott | Stars: George C. Scott, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes

Votes: 1,282

23. Tension (1949)

Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife's lover.

Director: John Berry | Stars: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan

Votes: 3,584

24. Portrait in Black (1960)

Approved | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a married woman and her lover murder her cruel husband, they find themselves targeted by someone who is aware of their crime.

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Sandra Dee

Votes: 1,799

25. Time Limit (1957)

Approved | 96 min | Drama, War

During the Korean War former prisoner of war, Major Harry Cargill admits to having collaborated with the enemy but military investigator Colonel William Edwards wants the details.

Director: Karl Malden | Stars: Richard Widmark, Richard Basehart, Dolores Michaels, June Lockhart

Votes: 1,261

26. Side Street (1949)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals money from the office of a shady lawyer--with catastrophic consequences.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig, Paul Kelly

Votes: 3,339

27. Fixed Bayonets! (1951)

Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Drama, War

The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea, Richard Hylton

Votes: 2,119

28. 5 Branded Women (1960)

Approved | 101 min | Drama, War

Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Van Heflin, Silvana Mangano, Jeanne Moreau, Vera Miles

Votes: 612

29. Love Is a Funny Thing (1969)

R | 110 min | Drama, Romance

Filming in the USA, Henri and Françoise meet and fall in love with each other.

Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Annie Girardot, Maria Pia Conte, Marcel Bozzuffi

Votes: 751

30. Finger of Guilt (1956)

Approved | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir

A married movie studio executive's life starts to unravel when he is stalked by a seductively beautiful woman he claims he does not know.

Directors: Joseph Losey, Alec C. Snowden | Stars: Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy, Constance Cummings, Roger Livesey

Votes: 665

31. Hitler (1962)

Approved | 107 min | Biography, Drama, War

Biopic of Adolf Hitler focusing on his relationships with various women from 1923 to 1945.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Richard Basehart, Maria Emo, Cordula Trantow, Martin Kosleck

Votes: 367

32. Passport to China (1960)

75 min | Adventure, Drama

A pilot slips his plane into Red China to rescue an American girl trapped there, but when he lands he discovers that the girl has a surprise for him--she wants him to fill his plane with ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Carreras | Stars: Richard Basehart, Athene Seyler, Lisa Gastoni, Eric Pohlmann

Votes: 252

33. Four Days in November (1964)

Not Rated | 122 min | Documentary, Biography, History

From more than eight million feet of newsreels, amateur footage, tape-recordings and more, David L. Wolper presents a priceless detailed account of the time and events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Richard Basehart, John Brewer, Raymond Buck, Earle Cabell

Votes: 661

34. Roseanna McCoy (1949)

89 min | Drama, Romance

The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's "Roseanna McCoy." Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the title character, whose elopement with Johnse Hatfield serves ... See full summary »

Directors: Irving Reis, Nicholas Ray | Stars: Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Charles Bickford, Raymond Massey

Votes: 303

35. The Great Bank Hoax (1977)

PG | 87 min | Comedy

The officers of a small town bank discover a huge shortfall just before the bank examiners are due to visit. Not knowing who the crook is, they decide to fix the books and then rob the bank themselves to cover up everything.

Director: Joseph Jacoby | Stars: Richard Basehart, Ned Beatty, Charlene Dallas, Burgess Meredith

Votes: 257

36. La mano dello straniero (1954)

Approved | 85 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A British lad tries to investigate his father's disappearance in Venice when nobody believes him.

Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Trevor Howard, Alida Valli, Richard Basehart, Eduardo Ciannelli

Votes: 142

37. The Savage Guns (1961)

83 min | Drama, Romance, Western

In Sonora, in a lonesome valley near the border of Arizona: ex-major Summer tries to forget about the horrors of the war of independence on his farm. He has foresworn to violence. His ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Carreras | Stars: Richard Basehart, Paquita Rico, Don Taylor, Alex Nicol

Votes: 235

38. Los jueves, milagro (1957)

84 min | Comedy, Fantasy

In the village of Fuentecilla is a medicinal spa which was very popular in the past but has now been forgotten by the public. To bring back the tourists, the "prominent men" of the village ... See full summary »

Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Richard Basehart, José Isbert, Paolo Stoppa, Juan Calvo

Votes: 909

39. Canyon Crossroads (1955)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

During the 1950s, a mining engineer is hired by an investor-scientist to prospect for uranium deposits in Utah but their effort is sabotaged by a murderous local mine-owner who wants to jump their claim.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Richard Basehart, Phyllis Kirk, Stephen Elliott, Russell Collins

Votes: 119

40. Angels of Darkness (1954)

94 min | Drama

Tamara, a Roman prostitute, tries to kill herself throwing herself out of the window of the licensed brothel she works in. While she is being taken to hospital the other girls learn that, ... See full summary »

Director: Giuseppe Amato | Stars: Linda Darnell, Valentina Cortese, Lea Padovani, Giulietta Masina

Votes: 195

41. Bix: 'Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet' (1981)

116 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

Documentary of the life and music of Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, considered to be the greatest jazz cornet player. Dead at 28 and still a legend. He and Louis Armstrong pioneered the playing of... See full summary »

Director: Brigitte Berman | Stars: Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Richard Basehart, Hoagy Carmichael

Votes: 54

42. The Restless and the Damned (1959)

89 min | Drama

Set in French Polynesia, a man trades his old life for one in the Pacific.

Director: Yves Allégret | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Richard Basehart, Andréa Parisy, Nicole Berger

Votes: 28

43. For the Love of Mike (1960)

87 min | Drama, Family, Western

A young Indian boy trains a horse for an important race, hoping to win enough money to build a shrine for his village.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Richard Basehart, Stuart Erwin, Arthur Shields, Danny Bravo

Votes: 57

44. La vena d'oro (1955)

86 min | Drama

Jealous of his widowed mother's new lover, a boy does everything to separate them. Then, after he realizes their profound feelings for each other, he tries to reunite them.

Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Märta Torén, Richard Basehart, Titina De Filippo, Terence Hill

Votes: 129

45. The Extra Day (1956)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama

The final scene of a film has been lost and the extras have to be rounded up for it to be re-shot.

Director: William Fairchild | Stars: Richard Basehart, Simone Simon, George Baker, Josephine Griffin

Votes: 183

46. Jons und Erdme (1959)

112 min | Drama

Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors.

Director: Victor Vicas | Stars: Giulietta Masina, Carl Raddatz, Karin Baal, Richard Basehart

Votes: 77

47. Cartouche (1955)

Approved | 85 min | Adventure

Jacques de Maudy, the son of a sick nobleman, returns to France to try and clear his name from a framed-up crime. He avoids the traps sets for him and, with the aid of an actors' troupe, ... See full summary »

Directors: Steve Sekely, Gianni Vernuccio | Stars: Richard Basehart, Patricia Roc, Massimo Serato, Akim Tamiroff

Votes: 42

48. Amore e guai (1958)

87 min | Comedy, Romance

Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.

Director: Angelo Dorigo | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, Maurizio Arena

Votes: 78

49. Avanzi di galera (1954)

94 min | Crime, Drama

Three prisoners are discharged from jail: Stefano Luprandi, a surgeon accused of murdering a patient by doing an unauthorized surgery, Giuseppe Rasi, unjustly processed for robbery, and ... See full synopsis »

Director: Vittorio Cottafavi | Stars: Richard Basehart, Walter Chiari, Eddie Constantine, Valentina Cortese

Votes: 70

50. Land of Celtic Ghosts (1979)

93 min | Documentary

A documentary that explores several of the more infamous hauntings in Ireland.

Director: Jerry Johnson | Star: Richard Basehart