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Robert Ellis Miller is a Director American born on 18 july 1932 at New York City (USA)
Robert Ellis Miller (born July 18, 1932 in New York, New York) is an American film director. He has directed 50 films and TV episodes between 1959 and 1996.
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, 1h32Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Christmas films
Actors Diana Scarwid, Robert Urich, Tegan Moss, Brittney Irvin, Alexander Pollock, Alf Humphreys
Rating62%
After an unemployed Detroit man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, his three children travel 1,000 miles to the White House in search of help from President Herbert Hoover in order to have their father home for Christmas.
Bed & Breakfast (1991)
, 1h37Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Roger Moore, Talia Shire, Colleen Dewhurst, Nina Siemaszko, Jamie Walters, Ford Rainey
Rating54%
A charming Englishman (Roger Moore) changes the lives of three generations of women who run a near-bankrupt bed and breakfast. The three women find him out cold on a beach and offer him free board in return for fixing the place up and being the handy man. Claire (Talia Shire), widow of Senator Blake Wellesly, is initially unwilling to let him in the house, partly due to the mystery around him caused by amnesia. Her mother-in-law Ruth (Colleen Dewhurst), recently retired and craving adventure, insists on allowing him inside. Claire's teenage daughter Cassie (Nina Siemaszko), who is rebellious against her mother's old-fashioned behavior most of the time, names him Adam.
Brenda Starr (1989)
, 1h33Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Actors Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Diana Scarwid, Nestor Serrano, Jeffrey Tambor, Charles Durning
Rating47%
Mike is a struggling artist who draws the Brenda Starr comic strip for a newspaper. When Brenda comes to life and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the comic. To return her to her rightful place and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip.
Hawks (1988)
Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Timothy Dalton, Anthony Edwards, Camille Coduri, Robert Lang, Jill Bennett, Geoffrey Palmer
Rating66%
The Other Lover (1985)
, 1h40Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Lindsay Wagner, Jack Scalia, Max Gail, Millie Perkins, John Bennett Perry, Shannen Doherty
Rating58%
Jack Hollander is a novelist, infuriated with his publicists for putting a soft-porn cover on his latest novel. He confronts marketing director Claire Fielding and demands to know what the cover has to do with the book itself. She admits she didn't read the book before deciding what cover should be used, but assures him it will only help selling the book.
Reuben, Reuben (1983)
, 1h41Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about suicide, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis, Roberts Blossom, Joel Fabiani, Cynthia Harris, Lois Smith
Rating67%
Gowan McGland (Tom Conti) is a creatively blocked Scottish poet who ekes out a day-to-day existence by exploiting the generosity of strangers in an affluent Connecticut suburb, where he recites his verse to various arts groups and women's clubs. Gowan is something of a leech, cadging expensive dinners from well-off patrons (usually stealing the tips afterward) while seducing their bored wives and affecting a superior attitude toward the smug bourgeois types he exploits.
Madame X (1981)
, 1h40Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Tuesday Weld, Jeremy Brett, Len Cariou, Robert Hooks, Eleanor Parker, Jerry Stiller
Rating65%
A woman is thrown out of her home by her jealous husband and sinks into depravity. Twenty years later, she finds herself accused of murder for saving her daughter (it was her son in all other versions) who does not know who she is.
Rough Cut (1980)
, 1h52Directed by Don Siegel, Robert Ellis Miller, Peter Hunt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven, Timothy West, Joss Ackland, Patrick Magee
Rating57%
Jewel thief Jack Rhodes, a.k.a. "Jack of Diamonds," is masterminding a heist of $30 million worth of uncut gems. He also has his eye on lovely Gillian Bromley, who becomes a part of the gang he is forming to pull off the daring robbery. Chief Inspector Cyril Willis from Scotland Yard, however, is blackmailing Gillian, threatening her with prosecution on another theft if she doesn't cooperate in helping him bag the elusive Rhodes, the last jewel in his crown before the Chief Inspector formally retires from duty.
The Baltimore Bullet (1980)
, 1h43Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Sports films
Actors James Coburn, Bruce Boxleitner, Omar Sharif, Ronee Blakley, Jack O'Halloran, Michael Lerner
Rating59%
Nick Casey, whose nickname is the "Baltimore Bullet," is a legendary pool player whose best days are behind him. He decides to teach everything he knows to a young up-and-comer, Billie Joe Robbins, all leading up to a big winner-take-all match between the two of them.
Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978)
Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dennis Weaver, Eloy Casados, Joaquín Martínez, Geno Silva
Rating67%
The Girl from Petrovka (1974)
, 1h43Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Goldie Hawn, Hal Holbrook, Anthony Hopkins, Grégoire Aslan, Richard Marner, Harry Towb
Rating52%
Joe (Hal Holbrook) is a cynical American journalist assigned to work in the Soviet Union, where he meets Oktyabrina (Goldie Hawn), a spirited and erratic Russian ballet dancer who lives illegally without proper documents. Their ensuing romance opens new possibilities for both; but also draws the attention of the Soviet authorities.
Big Truck and Sister Clare (1972)
, 1h30Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Ustinov, Francesca Annis, Perry King, Yosef Shiloach
Rating62%
Un chauffeur de camion se retrouve bloqué dans le désert israélien avec son neveu et Clare, une religieuse.
The Buttercup Chain (1970)
, 1h35Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Hywel Bennett, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jane Asher, Sven-Bertil Taube, Clive Revill, Roy Dotrice
Rating55%
France and Manny are cousins, born on the same day to twin sisters. They grow up feeling a bond as if brother and sister. When he returns to London from boarding school, France and Manny make a pact in which each finds a suitable romantic partner for the other. But when they go away to the countryside with Margaret and Fred, a strange incestuous impulse seems to exist between the cousins, while Manny also must deal with a pregnancy.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
, 2h3Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Stacy Keach, Cicely Tyson, Chuck McCann, Biff McGuire
Rating75%
John Singer (Alan Arkin) is a deaf-mute who works as a silver engraver in a small southern town. His only friend is a mentally disabled mute, Antonapoulos (Chuck McCann), who continually gets into trouble with the law since he doesn't know any better. When Antonapoulos is committed to a mental institution by his family, Singer decides to move to a town near the institution in order to be near his friend. Singer finds work there and rents a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kelly (Biff McGuire and Laurinda Barrett), who are having financial difficulties as a result of Mr. Kelly's recent hip injury. Because the Kellys' teenage daughter, Mick (Sondra Locke), resents having to give up her room to him, Singer makes a few tentative efforts to win her friendship. Singer also tries to become friends with Blount (Stacy Keach), a semi-alcoholic drifter, and Dr. Copeland (Percy Rodriguez), an embittered segregationist African American who is secretly dying of lung cancer. Copeland's deepest disappointment is that his educated daughter, Portia (Cicely Tyson), works as a domestic and is married to a field hand.
Sweet November (1968)
, 1h54Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel, Burr DeBenning, Sandy Baron, Marj Dusay
Rating67%
Successful British box manufacturer Charlie Blake (Anthony Newley) meets Sara Deever (Sandy Dennis) when they both take a driver's exam in New York City. She tries to get a few answers from him, but he is the one who gets expelled for cheating. They run into each other later and go out on a date.