Robert Duvall
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Chase, The (1966)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda…
- Action–packed Southern potboiler set around the attempts of a sheriff to protect an escaped convict from mob–justice in smalltown…
- Bullitt (1968)
- Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn…
- A taut, action–packed cop thriller boasting the most spectacular car chase to be committed to screen, through the streets of San Fransisco.
- Countdown (1968)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. James Caan, Robert Duvall, Joanna Moore…
- An early and unusual space–travel drama from dir. Altman, in which American astronaut Caan must undergo tough training with instructor Duvall…
- Detective, The (1968)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker…
- Interestingly dark and unsentimental policier has Frank Sinatra play an embattled cop investigating the murder of a wealthy homosexual while trying…
- MASH (M*A*S*H) (1969)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt…
- Dir. Robert Altman's biggest commercial success came with this irreverant and influential black comedy that spawned the more famous, but less daring…
- True Grit (1969)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. John Wayne, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate…
- John Wayne subtly sends–up his hardcase persona, playing an over–the–hill marshall who drags himself out of semi–retirement…
- Lawman (1970)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb…
- Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan are veteran adversaries in this violent '70s Western. Saddle–sore Lancaster is on the trail of a band of…
- THX-1138 (1970)
- Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley
- The man behind STAR WARS and, yep, THX digital sound, made his feature debut with this stark sci–fi chamber piece, most remembered for its…
- Godfather, The (1972)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro…
- Adaptation of Mario Puzo's novel is a vivid and immaculately staged chronicle of a Sicilian family's ascension to NY gangland dominance. Seamlessly…
- Joe Kidd (1972)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon…
- An amoral Clint Eastwood gets involved in a range fued between land baron Robert Duvall and Mexican settlers. Despite a screenplay by Elmore Leonard,…
- Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, The (1972)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Robert Duvall, Cliff Robertson
- Hard–edged Western tells the story of the fading Jesse James gang and their most daring and ill–fated bank raid.
Duvall and Robertson…
- Godfather Part 2, The (1974)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton…
- The Corleone saga continues with the same passion and exacting standards, it both broadens the scope and bolsters the stature of the original. Hailed…
- Killer Elite, The (1975)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Robert Duvall, James Caan
- Minor Peckinpah shoot–em–up with mercenary Duvall double–crossing partner Caan. Gripping finale, though.
- Breakout (1975)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland…
- Action–adventure vehicle for Charles Bronson, giving the furrow–browed actor a more lighthearted role as a bush pilot who is hired for…
- Network (1976)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway…
- Explosive drama about an ailing TV station desperate to improve their ratings. Peter Finch won the Best Actor Oscar post–humously as the…
- Seven Percent Solution, The (1976)
- Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall…
- Intriguing re–imagining of the Sherlock Holmes legend has the master sleuth fighting his own drug addiction under the guidance of Sigmund…
- Eagle Has Landed, The (1977)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall
- German commandos plot to assasinate Winston Churchill in this suspenseful thriller, apparently based on fact. Michael Caine, strangely plausible as a…
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall…
- A harrowing account of a soldier's hazardous river journey, his mission to assasinate a renegade colonel who has gone mad in the depths of the…
- Great Santini, The (1979)
- Dir. Lewis John Carlino
Feat. Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe
- Exploring the internal contradictions of ex–fighter pilot Robert Duvall, stranded in post WWll peacetime with his long–suffering family,…
- Apocalypse Now Redux (1979)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall…
- Twenty years after its release, dir. Coppola’s expressionist epic of the Vietnam War, is ‘healed’ (redux in Latin) by the re–inclusion of…
- Ike (TV Mini-series) (1979)
- Dir. Boris Sagal, Melville Shavelson
Feat. Robert Duvall, Lee Remick, Dana Andrews…
- Robert Duvall is expectedly good in this three–part miniseries detailing the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who commanded American forces during…
- True Confessions (1981)
- Dir. Ulu Grosbard
Feat. Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall
- Roberts' De Niro and Duvall act their socks off as cop and priest who happen to be brothers. Conflicting loyalties come to a head through a…
- Tender Mercies (1982)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Robert Duvall
- Robert Duvall gives an Oscar winning performance as a down–out–his–luck country singer who paves the slow road back to sobriety.…
- Colors (1988)
- Dir. Dennis Hopper
Feat. Sean Penn, Robert Duvall
- A grim portrait of law enforcement. Mismatched police partners are assigned to the rife gang–related problems in South–Central L.A.
- Lonesome Dove (TV Mini-series) (Lonesome Dove, Streets Of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk, Return to Lonesome Dove) (1989-1993)
- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover…
- A hefty star cast congregate for this acclaimed TV adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel about two former Texas Rangers (Duvall, Jones) who retire to…
- Handmaid's Tale, The (1990)
- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway
- Disturbing but thoroughly rewarding version of Margaret Atwood's novel set in a near future where 99% of women have become infertile. Privileged…
- Rambling Rose (1991)
- Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd
- Laura Dern plays the title nymphet, a free–spirited nanny whose promiscuous ways elicit more than a few raised eyebrows in '30s Georgia.
- Plague, The (1992)
- Dir. Luis Puenzo
Feat. John Hurt, Robert Duvall, Raul Julia…
- William Hurt, Robert Duvall and Raul Julia star in this truncated adaptation of Albert Camus's complex novel. Bubonic plague besieges a modern South…
- Newsies (1992)
- Dir. Kenny Ortega
Feat. Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Ann-Margret…
- Disney musical based loosely on the 1899 New York City Newsboys' strike, in which the young newspaper hawkers of the city rose up to demand fair…
- Paper, The (1993)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall…
- Michael Keaton and Glenn Close clash ethics in the cut–throat world of the New York tabloids. A hectic morality play with pace, humour and…