To celebrate the career of the twice winner of the Oscar AwardThen a list of his best films as director, and also some who also have him as the protagonist.
Play Misty for me
It was the great debut of Eastwood as director. The 1971 tape tells the story of Dave Garland (Clint Eastwood), A popular radio announcer from Californiawhich receives frequent calls from a mysterious woman who always requests the same song. One day in a pub a woman, Evelyn (Jessica Walter), seduces Dave, and both end up in her apartment with the idea that it will be an adventure of one night, however things are not what they seem.
The substitute
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Universal Pictures
“The substitute” (2008) is one of the few films starring a woman Eastwood has directed. The film earned its protagonist Angelina Jolie His second Óscar nomination. The story is set in 1928 and is based on a real story, Jolie plays a woman who meets her missing son, only to realize that the child is not her son, even if everyone wants to make him believe.
Available on Apple TV+.
A perfect world
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Warner Bros.
The plot is located in Texas, year 1963. Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner) is a dangerous and intelligent murderer who has escaped from jail in the company of another prisoner. During the escape both are forced to take young Philip hostage (TJ Lowther), An eight -year -old boy who lives with his devout mother, Jehovah’s witness, and his two sisters. The Rager Red Garnett (Clint Eastwood) and a criminologist (Laura Dern) They will go on the runway of the fugitives, while kidnapping for the child begins to feel like an adventure.
Available on Apple TV+.
Bird
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Warner Bros.
Considered by many one of the best films that have been made about jazz. “Bird” Account the life of the saxophonist Charly “Bird” Parker (Forest Whitaker) from Bird’s childhood to his marriage to Chan Parker (Diane Venora), His collaboration with the Jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie (Samuel E. Wright) and its fatal introduction to heroine through the trumpeter Rodney Red (Michael Zelniker).
Available on Apple TV+.
Madison’s bridges
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Warner Bros.
The peaceful but anodine life of Francesca Johnson (Meryl Streep), A housewife who lives on a farm with his family, is altered with the arrival of Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood), A veteran photographer from the magazine National Geographicwho visits Madison County (Iowa) to photograph your old bridges. When Francesca invites Robert to dinner, a true love and an unknown passion will be born among them.
Available in Max.
Letters from Iwo Jima
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Warner Bros.
Next to “Banderas of our parents”, The tape “Letters from Iwo Jima” is part of a diptych made by Clint Eastwood on the Iwo Jima Battleoccurred in the Pacific Ocean during the II World War. Rolled in full in Japanese, the film offers the Japanese version of history. The objective of the battle for the Japanese was to conserve an insignificant islet, but of great strategic value, since from there they defended the integrity of their territory.
Available on Apple TV+.
Unforgiven
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Warner Bros.
William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is a retired gun, widower and father, who has economic difficulties to get his children forward. His only exit is to do a last job in the company of an old colleague (Morgan Freeman) and an inexperienced young man (Jaimz Woolvett). The film won 4 Oscar awards, including those with Best Film and Best Director.
Available in Max.
Great Torino
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Warner Bros.
Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood), a veteran of the Korea WarHe is a retired worker in the automobile sector that has recently welcomed. Its maximum passion is to take care of its most precious treasure: a car Great Torino of 1972. He is an inflexible man and Cascarrabias, who is difficult to assimilate the changes that occur around him, especially the arrival of a multitude of Asian immigrants to his neighborhood. However, the circumstances will make you force each other to rethink your ideas.
Available in Max and Prime Video.
Million Dollar Baby
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Warner Bros.
Eastwood won his second prize of the Academy as director for this film that was also the winner of the year 2004 for the best film.
Frankie Dunn (Eastwood) is the owner a gym and has the help of Scrap (Morgan Freeman), An ex-boxer who is also his only friend. One day, he enters his Maggie Fitzgerald gym (Hillary Swank), a volunteer girl who wants to box and who is willing to fight boldly to get it. Frankie rejects her claiming that he does not train girls and that, in addition, she is too old, but Maggie does not give up easily. Freeman and Swank also won the Oscar for Best Actor of Delivery and Best Actress respectively.
Available in Play Market, Netflix, Claro Video and Prime Video.
Mystical River
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Warner Bros.
When Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn), Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins) and are devine (Kevin Bacon) They were children who grew together in a dangerous workers neighborhood in Boston, the days playing hockey on the street. But, one day, something happened to Dave that marked his life and that of his friends. Twenty -five years later, another tragedy joins them again: Katie’s murder (Emmy Rossum), Jimmy’s 19 -year -old daughter. They are, who is a policeman, assign the case; But he also has to be very aware of Jimmy because, in his despair, he is trying to resolve the crime by his own means.
Available in Max.
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