Movies by Robert Markowitz
As a director:
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Avenger (2006)
Cast: Sam Elliott, Timothy Hutton, Jamie Bartlett …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
When hired gun and mercenary Cal Dexter (Sam Elliott) meddles with a CIA sting, the agent in charge (Timothy Hutton) orders his operatives to take Dexter out in this gripping political…
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Word of Honor (2003)
Cast: Don Johnson, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Sharon Lawrence …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
Accused of participating in a massacre and cover-up during the Vietnam War, businessman Ben Tyson relives painful memories as he defends himself in a military court of law in this taut drama…
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The Pilot's Wife (2002)
Cast: Christine Lahti, Campbell Scott, John Heard …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
Kathryn Lions's (Christine Lahti) perfect life is turned upside down when the plane her husband (John Heard) is piloting explodes mid-flight. When accusations emerge that her husband may…
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The Great Gatsby (2000)
Cast: Mira Sorvino, Toby Stephens, Paul Rudd …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
Nick Carraway (Paul Rudd) narrates the calamitous story of his neighbor, the extravagant Jay Gatsby (Toby Stephens), who is single-mindedly attempting to rekindle his lost romance with…
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Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997)
Cast: Peter Horton, Christopher McDonald, Nathaniel Parker …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
This made-for-TV movie follows author Jon Krakauer as he joins a team of mountain climbers making the journey to the top of Mount Everest. Krakauer has come along to write an article, but…
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The Bible Collection: David (1997)
Cast: Leonard Nimoy, Nathaniel Parker, Jonathan Pryce …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
Nathaniel Parker stars as David, the shepherd boy who grew to be king of Israel, as his saga comes to life in this epic production originally broadcast on TNT -- part of a series of tales…
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The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
Cast: Courtney B. Vance, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Allen Payne …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
In World War II, the 332nd Air Force squadron was honored for keeping casualties low and bombers safe. But it also made history because its members were the first African-American pilots to…
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Nicholas' Gift (1994)
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Alan Bates, Hallie Kate Eisenberg …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
While vacationing with their two children, Maggie and Reg Green are attacked and their son's life is taken by a bullet. In the wake of his death, the Greens offer his organs to patients…
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Afterburn (1992)
Cast: Laura Dern, Vincent Spano, Michael Rooker …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
When Janet's (Laura Dern) pilot husband, Ted (Vincent Spano), is killed in a military plane crash, the Air Force rules that the tragedy was caused by pilot error. Knowing Ted's…
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Decoration Day (1990)
Cast: James Garner, Judith Ivey, Ruby Dee …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
In this drama based on the novel by John William Corrington, Albert Sidney Finch (James Garner), a cranky loner, is forced out of seclusion when he takes on the cause of a childhood friend,…
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Too Young to Die? (1990)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, Michael Tucker …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
After street hustler Billy Canton (Brad Pitt) turns her on to a life of drugs, theft and prostitution, abused and homeless Amanda Bradley (Juliette Lewis) stabs a man while high and finds…
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Adam: His Song Continues (1986)
Cast: Daniel J. Travanti, JoBeth Williams, Richard Masur …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
His Song Continues follows the true story of John (Daniel J. Travanti) and Reve Walsh (JoBeth Williams) who, after their child was murdered, fought to raise national awareness of the problem…
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The Wall (1982)
Cast: Tom Conti, Lisa Eichhorn, Gerald Hiken …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
Faced with the grim inevitability of being shipped to Nazi death camps and exterminated, a brave handful of Polish Jews doggedly held off thousands of German soldiers in the historic 1943…