Richard Brooks

When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. 

At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organises an endurance horse race: 700 miles to run in a few days. Nine adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.

Follows a crime (usually a murder), usually adapted from current headlines, from two separate vantage points, the police investigation and the prosecution in court.

Follows a crime (usually a murder), usually adapted from current headlines, from two separate vantage points, the police investigation and the prosecution in court.

A murder victim is brought back to life by a mysterious crow in this sequel to the 1994 cult classic. With the help of a woman named Sarah, he exacts revenge on his killers -- only to realise his enemy has discovered the one weakness that can destroy him forever.

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

In this film noir crime thriller a disillusioned ex-GI visits Key Largo to pay his respects to his former comrade's father and widow. He finds the family's run-down hotel closed for the season and overrun by gangsters looking to seek shelter from an approaching hurricane.

When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behaviour and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck (Michael Nouri) is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher (Kyle MacLachlan) determine the cause in this sci-fi thriller.

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.

Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman take the leads in this classic adaptation of Tennessee Williams' cracking 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play - a raw story of family and loyalty set in the Mississippi Delta.

Follows a crime (usually a murder), usually adapted from current headlines, from two separate vantage points, the police investigation and the prosecution in court.

When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.

Filmmaker Richard Brooks (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) adapts the crime biography written by author Truman Capote. Nominated for Best Director, Screenplay, Cinematography and Original Music (by Quincy Jones) at the 1968 Academy Awards.