Marlon Brando

Listen to Me Marlon (2015)

As: Himself (voice)

With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man ...

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Stevan Riley

Stars: Marlon Brando | Bette Davis | Montgomery Clift | Anna Kashfi | Stella Adler

Final Cut - Ladies & Gentlemen (2012)

A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.

Runtime: 84 min.

Directed by: György Pálfi

Stars: Isabelle Adjani | Julie Andrews | Fanny Ardant | Agustín Almodóvar | Rosanna Arquette

Brando (2007)

As: Himself (archive footage)

The life and legacy of Marlon Brando and how he changed acting.

Runtime: 165 min.

Directed by: Leslie Greif | Mimi Freedman

Stars: John Turturro | Marlon Brando | John Travolta | Al Pacino | Sean Penn

Superman II - The Richard Donner Cut (2006)

As: Jor-El

Kryptonian villain General Zod (Terence Stamp) and his henchmen are accidentally freed from their outer-space imprisonment and threaten Earth with destruction, just as Superman (Christopher Reeve) decides to renounce his superpowers for his new love, Lois Lane (Margot Kidder). This alternate version of the film is based on footage shot by director Richard Donner before being replaced on the project, and it ...

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Richard Lester | Richard Donner

Stars: Ned Beatty | Marlon Brando | Margot Kidder | Christopher Reeve | Gene Hackman

Superman Returns (2006)

As: Jor-El

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

Runtime: 154 min.

Directed by: Bryan Singer

Stars: Kevin Spacey | Brandon Routh | Kate Bosworth | Parker Posey | James Marsden

Broadway: The Golden Age (2003)

As: Himself

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most ...

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Rick McKay

Stars: Alec Baldwin | Bryan Batt | Kaye Ballard | Edie Adams | Bea Arthur

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies (2001)

As: Himself (archive footage)

The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this classy documentary created for the PBS American Masters series. Based on A. Scott Berg's acclaimed biography, the film includes new interviews with Goldwyn's surviving family members as well as vintage interviews with such luminaries as Bette Davis, ...

Runtime: 118 min.

Directed by: Mark A. Catalena | Peter Jones

Stars: Bette Davis | Dustin Hoffman | Ann Blyth | Tony Goldwyn | Samuel Goldwyn

The Score (2001)

As: Max

An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.

Runtime: 124 min.

Directed by: Frank Oz

Stars: Edward Norton | Robert De Niro | Marlon Brando | Jamie Harrold | Angela Bassett

A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)

A Huey P. Newton Story is a 2001 film directed by Spike Lee. It is a filmed performance of Roger Guenveur Smith's one-man show of the same name. Smith sits in a chair on a stage and tells about the past, mostly dealing with Huey P. Newton's life and times.

Runtime: 86 min.

Directed by: Spike Lee

Stars: Roger Guenveur Smith | Marlon Brando | Jim Brown | Stokely Carmichael | H. Rap Brown

Free Money (1998)

As: Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson

The Swede (Marlon Brando), a prison warden, rules his family and his prison with an iron hand in one of the coldest parts of North Dakota. When an inmate dies under mysterious circumstances, however, the FBI sends in agent Karen Polarski (Mira Sorvino) to investigate. On the home front, the sons-in-law of the Swede, Larry (Thomas Haden Church) and Bud (Charlie Sheen) accidentally discover ...

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Yves Simoneau

Stars: Donald Sutherland | Martin Sheen | Charlie Sheen | Marlon Brando | David Arquette

The Brave (1997)

As: McCarthy

A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.

Runtime: 123 min.

Directed by: Johnny Depp

Stars: Marshall Bell | Johnny Depp | Marlon Brando | Frederic Forrest | Elpidia Carrillo

The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

As: Dr. Moreau

A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA with horrific results.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: John Frankenheimer

Stars: David Thewlis | Val Kilmer | Fairuza Balk | Marlon Brando | Daniel Rigney

Don Juan DeMarco (1995)

As: Dr. Jack Mickler

John Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Dr. Jack Mickler to cure him of his apparent delusion. But the psychiatric sessions have an unexpected effect on the psychiatric staff and, most profoundly, Dr Mickler, who rekindles the romance in his complacent marriage.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Jeremy Leven

Stars: Géraldine Pailhas | Johnny Depp | Faye Dunaway | Marlon Brando | Bob Dishy

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)

As: Tomas de Torquemada

Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies, by traveling west instead of east, across the unchartered Ocean sea. After failing to find backing from the Portugese, he goes to the Spanish court to ask Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand for help. After surviving a grilling from the Head of the Spanish Inquisition Tomas de Torquemada, he eventually ...

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: John Glen

Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones | Robert Davi | Rachel Ward | Marlon Brando | Tom Selleck

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

As: Himself

A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Eleanor Coppola | George Hickenlooper | Fax Bahr

Stars: George Lucas | Francis Ford Coppola | Sam Bottoms | Eleanor Coppola | John Milius

The Freshman (1990)

As: Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan

Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, an "importer" bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he can't refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Andrew Bergman

Stars: Bruno Kirby | Marlon Brando | Frank Whaley | Matthew Broderick | Penelope Ann Miller

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990)

As: Himself

A documentary on the making of the three Godfather films, with interviews and recollections from the film makers and cast. This feature also includes the original screen tests of some of the actors for "The Godfather" film, and some candid moments on the set of "The Godfather: Part III."

Runtime: 73 min.

Directed by: Jeff Werner

Stars: James Caan | Marlon Brando | Francis Ford Coppola | John Cazale | Mario Puzo

A Dry White Season (1989)

As: Ian McKenzie

Taking place during the 1976 Soweto uprising, the story follows a white school teacher whose life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Euzhan Palcy

Stars: Susan Sarandon | Jürgen Prochnow | Donald Sutherland | Janet Suzman | Zakes Mokae

The Formula (1980)

As: Adam Steiffel, Chairman Titan Oil

A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and anyone who knows about it.

Runtime: 117 min.

Directed by: John G. Avildsen

Stars: Marthe Keller | Marlon Brando | George C. Scott | John Gielgud | G. D. Spradlin

Apocalypse Now (1979)

As: Colonel Walter E. Kurtz

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Runtime: 147 min.

Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola

Stars: Martin Sheen | Robert Duvall | Marlon Brando | Frederic Forrest | Sam Bottoms

Superman (1978)

As: Jor-El

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

Runtime: 143 min.

Directed by: Richard Donner

Stars: Ned Beatty | Marlon Brando | Margot Kidder | Christopher Reeve | Gene Hackman

The Missouri Breaks (1976)

As: Robert Clayton

Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.

Runtime: 126 min.

Directed by: Arthur Penn

Stars: Randy Quaid | Marlon Brando | Frederic Forrest | Jack Nicholson | Kathleen Lloyd

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

As: Paul

A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middle-aged American businessman who lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex.

Runtime: 129 min.

Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci

Stars: Catherine Breillat | Marlon Brando | Jean-Pierre Léaud | Maria Schneider | Veronica Lazar

The Godfather (1972)

As: Don Vito Corleone

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

Runtime: 175 min.

Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola

Stars: James Caan | Robert Duvall | Marlon Brando | Al Pacino | Richard S. Castellano

The Nightcomers (1971)

As: Peter Quint

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Michael Winner

Stars: Marlon Brando | Harry Andrews | Stephanie Beacham | Thora Hird | Verna Harvey

Burn! (1969)

As: Sir William Walker

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.

Runtime: 132 min.

Directed by: Gillo Pontecorvo

Stars: Marlon Brando | Renato Salvatori | Evaristo Márquez | Norman Hill | Thomas Lyons

The Night of the Following Day (1969)

As: Chauffeur

Two kidnappers snatch a girl off the streets and imprison her in a remote beach house.

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Hubert Cornfield

Stars: Marlon Brando | Rita Moreno | Jess Hahn | Pamela Franklin | Richard Boone

Candy (1968)

As: Grindl

Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel, a send-up of Voltaire's Candide. Young Candy is a high school girl who seeks truth and meaning in life, encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process.

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Christian Marquand

Stars: Marlon Brando | James Coburn | Richard Burton | Charles Aznavour | Ewa Aulin

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

As: Weldon Penderton

Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: John Huston

Stars: Marlon Brando | Elizabeth Taylor | Julie Harris | Brian Keith | Zorro David

A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

As: Ogden Mears

A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Charlie Chaplin

Stars: Marlon Brando | Sophia Loren | Tippi Hedren | Sydney Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin

Meet Marlon Brando (1966)

As: Himself

Journalists from all over America meet Marlon Brando in a New York hotel room to interview him about his new film, Morituri. Seeing this as an opportunity to let the legendary actor promote the film, they find Brando unwilling to talk about it, instead he is more interested in larking about and turning on the charm when being interviewed by a former winner of the Miss USA competition.

Runtime: 28 min.

Directed by: Albert Maysles | David Maysles

Stars: Marlon Brando | Mary Frann | Lee Murray | Rex Morgan | Stan Kann

The Appaloosa (1966)

As: Matt

Man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit. The Appaloosa (also known as Southwest to Sonora) is a 1966 American Western film Technicolor (set in the 1870s) from Universal Pictures starring Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer and John Saxon, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a Mexican bandit. The film was directed by Sidney J. Furie, ...

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Sidney J. Furie

Stars: Marlon Brando | John Saxon | Anjanette Comer | Emilio Fernández | Alex Montoya

The Chase (1966)

As: Sheriff Calder

Most everyone in town thinks that Sheriff Calder is merely a puppet of rich oil-man Val Rogers. When it is learned that local baddie Bubber Reeves has escaped prison, Rogers' son is concerned because he is having an affair with Reeves' wife. It seems many others in town feel they may have reasons to fear Reeves. Calder's aim is to bring Reeves in alive, unharmed. Calder will have to oppose the powerful ...

Runtime: 134 min.

Directed by: Arthur Penn

Stars: Angie Dickinson | Robert Redford | Marlon Brando | Jane Fonda | E.G. Marshall

Morituri (1965)

As: Robert Crain

A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.

Runtime: 123 min.

Directed by: Bernhard Wicki

Stars: Marlon Brando | Martin Benrath | Yul Brynner | Trevor Howard | Janet Margolin

Bedtime Story (1964)

As: Freddy Benson

Benson, is a Casanova who tricks women into having sex with him before leaving them. He is content with his game until he meets Jamison, a real operator who poses as an exiled prince and not only gets women to share his bed but also to give him money to help him fund his supposed counter-revolution.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Ralph Levy

Stars: Marlon Brando | David Niven | Shirley Jones | Dody Goodman | Aram Stephan

The Ugly American (1963)

As: Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for ...

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: George Englund

Stars: Marlon Brando | Pat Hingle | Arthur Hill | Eiji Okada | Sandra Church

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

As: First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the ...

Runtime: 178 min.

Directed by: Lewis Milestone

Stars: Richard Harris | Marlon Brando | Trevor Howard | Hugh Griffith | Percy Herbert

One-Eyed Jacks (1961)

As: Rio

Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.

Runtime: 141 min.

Directed by: Marlon Brando

Stars: Marlon Brando | Ben Johnson | Katy Jurado | Karl Malden | Pina Pellicer

The Fugitive Kind (1960)

As: Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.

Runtime: 119 min.

Directed by: Sidney Lumet

Stars: Marlon Brando | Maureen Stapleton | Joanne Woodward | Anna Magnani | Victor Jory

The Young Lions (1958)

As: Lt. Christian Diestl

The Young Lions follows the lives of three soldiers: one German and two Americans, paralleling their experiences in World War II until they meet up at the end for a confrontation

Runtime: 167 min.

Directed by: Edward Dmytryk

Stars: Marlon Brando | Hope Lange | Dean Martin | Montgomery Clift | Barbara Rush

Sayonara (1957)

As: Major Lloyd Gruver

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe ...

Runtime: 147 min.

Directed by: Joshua Logan

Stars: Marlon Brando | Red Buttons | Ricardo Montalban | Miiko Taka | Miyoshi Umeki

The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)

As: Sakini

Comedy satirizing the U.S. occupation of Japan following the end of World War II.

Runtime: 123 min.

Directed by: Daniel Mann

Stars: Marlon Brando | Eddie Albert | Paul Ford | Machiko Kyō | Glenn Ford

Guys and Dolls (1955)

As: Sky Masterson

Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.

Runtime: 150 min.

Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Stars: Marlon Brando | Jean Simmons | Robert Keith | Frank Sinatra | Vivian Blaine

Désirée (1954)

As: Napoleon Bonaparte

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable ...

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Henry Koster

Stars: Marlon Brando | Cameron Mitchell | Merle Oberon | Jean Simmons | Michael Rennie

On the Waterfront (1954)

As: Terry Malloy

Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that ...

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Elia Kazan

Stars: Marlon Brando | Rod Steiger | Karl Malden | Lee J. Cobb | Pat Henning

The Wild One (1953)

As: Johnny Strabler

A gang of forty motorcyclists, the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club, gate-crash a legitimate motorcycle race. They are eventually thrown out, but one of the gang steals the second prize trophy and gives it to their leader, Johnny.

Runtime: 79 min.

Directed by: László Benedek

Stars: Marlon Brando | Lee Marvin | Jay C. Flippen | Robert Keith | Mary Murphy

Julius Caesar (1953)

As: Marc Antony

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Stars: Marlon Brando | James Mason | John Gielgud | Louis Calhern | Greer Garson

Viva Zapata! (1952)

As: Emiliano Zapata

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Diaz in the early 20th century.

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: Elia Kazan

Stars: Marlon Brando | Anthony Quinn | Joseph Wiseman | Arnold Moss | Jean Peters

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

As: Stanley Kowalski

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

Runtime: 122 min.

Directed by: Elia Kazan

Stars: Marlon Brando | Rudy Bond | Kim Hunter | Karl Malden | Vivien Leigh

The Men (1950)

As: Ken Wilcheck/Bud

Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving screen debut. He plays Lt. Bud Wilozek, one of a group of veterans recovering in the paraplegic ward of a hospital in his hometown. His former fiancée, Ellen (Teresa Wright), explains to his physician, Dr. Brock (Everett Sloane), her concern about his isolation and apparent ...

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Fred Zinnemann

Stars: Marlon Brando | Richard Erdman | Jack Webb | Teresa Wright | Everett Sloane