Top 10 Robert Redford films to stream now
With news of the legendary actor's passing at the age of 89, here are ten of his best films to watch now — from star-making turns in the 1970s to directorial efforts and late-career standouts. Presented in no particular order.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
Western
Adventure
PG
Oscar-winning western starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the eponymous outlaw heroes, who have a knack for robbing banks. Their most audacious plan yet is for a daring robbery of the Union Pacific railroad, but the authorities have a surprise in store for the lovable rogues.
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1984
Sport
Drama
PG
Baseball drama starring Robert Redford. When a tree on the family farm is hit by lightning, young Roy Hobbs fashions a baseball bat from its trunk. The bat, which he names "Wonderboy", is invested with awesome power and launches Roy on a promising baseball career.
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1976
Drama
Documentary
15
Political thriller starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. Based on the real-life investigation by Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, this film painstakingly reconstructs the events surrounding the most significant political scandal of the 1970s which led to the Watergate hearings.
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1973
Comedy
Drama
PG
Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in this Oscar-winning period crime caper as conmen Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker, who plan an elaborate racing scam at the expense of powerful racket boss Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw).
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2018
Documentary
Drama
12A
Crime comedy drama based on a true story, starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck. Gentlemanly career criminal Forrest Tucker is on the run when he helps a stranger, Jewel, with her car. The two spend time together and grow close, even as Forrest continues to pull his audacious, non-violent bank heists. But the law isn't far behind...
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2013
Thriller
Action
12A
Drama starring Robert Redford. When a lone sailor's yacht is badly damaged after a collision with a shipping container in the middle of the Indian Ocean, he must use the basic skills of seamanship and draw on all his resolve and experience to stay alive.
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1994
Documentary
Drama
15
An up-and-coming lawyer discovers a Fifties TV game show is fixed, prompting him to launch an investigation focusing on two contestants - a working-class Jewish man from Queens and a popular English lecturer, who descends from one of America's renowned literary families. Fact-based drama directed by Robert Redford, starring Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow and David Paymer
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1967
Comedy
Romance
PG
Romantic comedy starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. When newlyweds Paul and Corie move into a one-room flat high above Greenwich Village, Corie is on cloud nine. In spite of having no lift and no heating, she refuses to come down to earth.
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1972
Drama
Comedy
PG
Political drama starring Robert Redford and Peter Boyle. An idealistic young lawyer, whose father was a former governor of California, is persuaded to run for the Senate, but only on the condition that he is not forced to toe the party line.
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1980
Drama
15
A wealthy American family faces upheaval and heartbreak following the tragic death of the eldest son in a boating accident. His brother finds it particularly hard to cope, convincing himself that he should have died instead, and finds little solace in his parents. Robert Redford's directorial debut won four Oscars including Best Film, and stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton
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