73 Richard Widmark Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

This is a dramatized version of 3rd Nuremberg trial for war crimes held by the US authorities after WWII. Four German judges, who officiated during the Nazi regime, are tried before Chief Trial Judge Dan Haywood for crimes against humanity. Haywood has the most challenging task of deciding whether they are guilty of international crimes or were observing the orders of their government. 

Con man Harry Fabian aspires to become a major fight promoter who rules the neighbourhood. However, when an aging Greek wrestler whom Fabian was promoting dies, all he earns is a one-way ticket to trouble. 

Nick Bianco is a small time crook who gets caught during a jewelry heist. The prosecution offers him a lenient sentence if he gives them information regarding his partners. However, he refuses to rat them out, and goes to jail instead. However, when his depressed wife kills herself, Nick decides to provide information on his ex-partners, and within some time, he gets paroled. He gets a job, gets remarried and starts a new life, but things get ugly when one of the men he informed on, is released from custody, and he sets out for revenge against Nick.

Aging Captain Bering Joy is about to be replaced by First Mate, Dan Lunceford. In order to prove the ship’s owners wrong, Bering goes on one last whaling mission and brings his grandson Jed along with him. Though he initially resents Dan, disaster during the voyage forces the rivals to unite.  

A group of bank robbers hide out in a town and stumble into a place that appears to be a ghost town where a young woman, Mike, stays with her grandfather. Dude, the cruelest one of them all, discovers that the old man has been mining gold and he plans to rob them. However, things get ugly when Stretch, their gang leader opts out as he falls for Mike. What follows is a violent power struggle and showdown amidst the gang.

How the West Was Won is an epic Western film which takes us to the 19th century, and covers several events such as the Gold Rush, the Civil War, as well as the building of the railroads.

Detective Hercule Poirot is journeying home aboard the Orient Express, when a billionaire is murdered en route. Poirot takes up the case, and everyone on board becomes a suspect, as he realizes that many of them have revenge as a motive. 

Panic in the Streets is a crime drama thriller film which takes us to a dock in New Orleans, where a dead body is found. A police sergeant feels that the dead man is also displaying other symptoms. A doctor with the US Public Health Service named Clint Reed diagnoses a highly contagious disease, known as pneumonic plague. Although he tries to convince others about its danger, everyone, including the police, is doubtful. He also estimates that they have around 48 hours to stop its spread.

The Alamo is a Western historical war drama film which takes to the middle of the 19th century, where Mexican forces are invading Texas. Though the Mexican forces are stronger in number and have better arms and training, the Texans are not willing to give up, and their morale still remains high.

Guthrie is a corrupt Marshall who is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of several white prisoners of the Comanches, as the Army is also under pressure from their relatives. However, it soon seems that reintegrating them into society won’t be so easy.  

Military investigator, Colonel Edwards, is assigned to investigate into a case that involves Major Cargill, a Korean War POW, accused of treason. Cargill has not only admitted to his guilt, but has also placed all the evidences against him during the inquest, making it an open-and-shut case. What bothers Colonel Edwards is Cargill’s baffling refusal to defend himself.

During World War II, strict by the book disciplinarian Navy Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence is put in charge of an elite Underwater Demolition Team 4. Lawrence becomes increasingly unpopular with the men. When a Japanese torpedo hits the ship, Lawrence risks his life to save his crew and earns their respect. 

After being left by his girlfriend, pilot Jed Towers finds himself attracted to the beautiful Nell Forbes, while staying at a hotel in New York City. He soon learns that she is a babysitter, taking care of a child named Bunny. However, over time, he begins to doubt her mental stability, and feels that the child may be in some sort of danger.

Based on a novel of the same name, Coma is a mystery thriller film which tells the story of a young female doctor who notices that there has been an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital. She soon starts sensing that there might be a conspiracy.

Katie Connors journeys to San Marcos, Mexico to interview reclusive novelist and adventurer Mike Latimer. When she reaches there, the two fall in love. Mike offers to fly her back to Mexico City but their plane crashes. They are rescued by three men but their rescuers turn out to be Nazi war criminals who want to kill them. 

After spending most of his youth in a reform home for his brother's crime, Ralph is returning to his remote hometown in California as an adult lawyer and meeting his estranged father and brother after many years.

Set in the turn of the nineteenth century Texas, Death of a Gunfighter is the story of a traditional Old West style lawman struggling to keep a firm grip over the town in defiance of the community leaders’ verdict that he should resign.

Red Skies of Montana is a drama film which portrays the hazardous work of the US Forest Service’s paratroop fire-fighters in Montana. 

Based on a play by George Bernard Shaw, the movie tells the story of Joan of Arc. The French saint and heroine led the French army in many successful battles against the English until she was tragically betrayed and burnt at the stake for her connection to God.  

A psychopathic young man terrorizes people by placing bombs in several roller-coaster rides in several cities. He soon informs the FBI and threatens to detonate the bombs, if he isn’t paid a large amount of money. The FBI agrees to give him the money, but eventually the psychopath discovers that they had marked it, making the money useless to him. Therefore, he decides to teach them a lesson by blowing up a giant new rollercoaster on its opening day.   

This crime drama film tells the story of a federal agent who attempts to make some money before the ban on alcohol is lifted. Therefore, he plans to steal the whiskey cache of his old army friend.  

The Secret Ways is an American thriller film which tells the story of an American adventurer Michael Reynolds, who is hired by an international espionage ring to smuggle a noted scholar and resistance leader, named Professor Jansci, out of Hungary.  He decides to see the professor’s daughter and persuades her to help him in his mission.

A gangster asks a former football player Terry Brogan, to find his girlfriend. Since the latter is injured, penniless, and going through tough times, he reluctantly agrees. Eventually, Terry manages to track down Jessie, but unexpectedly, he also gets infatuated with her. Eventually, he finds himself trapped in an intricate web of suspicion and betrayal.

Augie and Isolde Poole turn in an application to an adoption agency, after failing to have a baby. Unfortunately, misunderstandings alienate Estelle Novick, a representative of the agency and later a drugged Augie starts believing he has impregnated Estelle. Augie must prove his innocence and save his marriage. 

Peter and Tim, both law students, are good friends. Despite their friendship, both friends have different ideals and ethics. Peter wants to enter the world of politics, while Tim wants to go for a career with the Department of Justice, a fact that doesn't sit well with Diana, his girlfriend, who is the daughter of a Senator. She eventually ends the relationship, before Tim could even propose. The friendship between the two men is tested when Peter confesses to Tim that he is having a relationship with Diana, and he plans to marry her. 

Set in the 1960s, this film revolves around a flight crew’s mission to rescue the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan, during a typhoon. 

A Talent for Loving is a Western comedy film which revolves around a gambler named Patten, who wins a deed for a Mexican ranch. Things get complicated when he finds that a curse is put on the place.

The Swarm is a horror thriller film which tells the story of Brad Crane, a scientist who teams up with General Slater in order to stop a huge swarm of bees, that are spreading terror over American cities and killing countless people.

A combination of three short segments, the spoof satirizes personal growth movies, soap operas, and other popular genres. The first segment, Growing Yourself ,satirizes family movies, the second, Success Wanters focuses on movies showing women looking for success and the third, Municipalians mocks law and order dramas.