Nicholas Ray Movies

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dean

Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Robert Mitchum

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ida Lupino

A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Taylor

On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang....

Genre: Western

Cast: Joan Crawford

On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang....

Genre: Western

Cast: Joan Crawford

On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang....

Genre: Western

Cast: Joan Crawford

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer...

Genre: History

Cast: Charlton Heston

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeffrey Hunter

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wim Wenders

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wim Wenders

Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Mitchum

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Fontaine

A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Cathy O'Donnell

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Cathy O'Donnell

A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gale Storm

Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he...

Genre: War

Cast: John Wayne

During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Burton

Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Burl Ives

Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union...

Genre: Western

Cast: Robert Wagner

A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Maureen O'Hara

Nicholas Ray plays himself, acting as mentor, friend, and artistic inspiration to his students at Binghamton. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nicholas Ray

Stephen Torino, who is tricked by his brother Marco into an arranged marriage with tempestuous Annie Caldash. Annie is willing to give the union a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Russell

An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.

Genre: Western

Cast: James Cagney

An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Quinn

Nicholas Ray plays himself, acting as mentor, friend, and artistic inspiration to his students at Binghamton. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nicholas Ray

Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Wayne

Nicholas Ray short film from 1974, originally a segment from the anthology film "Wet Dreams."

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It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Farley Granger

A propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election, produced by the Office of War information, for overseas distribution. It is...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Franklin D. Roosevelt

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Victor Mature

A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

A short film, this is technically the last film Nicholas Ray directed.

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Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Anna Karina

During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Burton

Experimental anthology film consisting of nine segments - Contrasts, The Janitor, The Plumber, Another Wet Dream, The Happy Necrophiliacs, On a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Melvin Miracle

An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Quinn

A scene from Ray's They Live by Night reimagined in the style of Matsumoto's Demons. With sound improved from Wilder Demons #1.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dylan Schor

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy McGuire

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dean

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ida Lupino