# John Frankenheimer's films, ranked

Cold War paranoia, trains and car chases: Frankenheimer's films ordered from Taste of Cinema, Flickchart and Letterboxd rankings, with The Manchurian Candidate on top.

- 336 votes · 14 items
- May 15, 2022 · Jenna L.
- https://even.best/en/l/3505/john-frankenheimer-s-films-ranked

## Top 14

1. **The Train (1964)** (30 · ▲32 ▼2) — Burt Lancaster stops a train full of looted art.
2. **The Manchurian Candidate (1962)** (29 · ▲33 ▼4) — Frank Sinatra and a brainwashed war hero.
3. **Seconds (1966)** (26 · ▲28 ▼2) — Rock Hudson buys a new identity.
4. **Seven Days in May (1964)** (24 · ▲27 ▼3) — Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in a coup plot.
5. **French Connection II (1975)** (16 · ▲20 ▼4) — Gene Hackman's Popeye Doyle in Marseille.
6. **Black Sunday (1977)** (16 · ▲19 ▼3) — A terrorist plot to attack the Super Bowl with a blimp.
7. **Grand Prix (1966)** (16 · ▲17 ▼1) — Formula One on Cinerama; three Oscars.
8. **52 Pick-Up (1986)** (14 · ▲16 ▼2) — Roy Scheider blackmailed, from Elmore Leonard.
9. **The Iceman Cometh (1973)** (12 · ▲14 ▼2) — Lee Marvin in Eugene O'Neill's play.
10. **Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)** (11 · ▲18 ▼7) — Burt Lancaster as prisoner and ornithologist Robert Stroud.
11. **The Fixer (1968)** (9 · ▲14 ▼5) — Alan Bates as a Jewish handyman falsely accused in Tsarist Russia.
12. **Ronin (1998)** (8 · ▲14 ▼6) — Robert De Niro and Jean Reno; the Paris car chase.
13. **All Fall Down (1962)** (7 · ▲14 ▼7) — Warren Beatty, Eva Marie Saint and Angela Lansbury.
14. **The Gypsy Moths (1969)** (6 · ▲14 ▼8) — Burt Lancaster and Gene Hackman as skydivers.

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