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The Best John Badham Movies Ranked And Where to Watch them
If you're looking for the best John Badham movies of all time then here is a definitive list. We rank every movie directed by John Badham based on their popularity score from IMDB from best to worst. Click on the ‘see more’ button to find out where to watch them in Australia covering all streaming services. In April 2024 there are 21 films in this list.
List of the Best Movies Directed by John Badham In Order of Popularity
- Whose Life Is It Anyway?
- WarGames
- Saturday Night Fever
- The Jack Bull
- The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
- Stakeout
- Short Circuit
- American Flyers
- Dracula
- Incognito
- Blue Thunder
- Nick of Time
- The Hard Way
- Point of No Return
- Bird on a Wire
- Incognito
- Drop Zone
- Another Stakeout
- Footsteps
- The Gun
- The Law
Stream the top 21 Movies directed by John Badham
Rated: R
7.3/10
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
Rated: PG
7.1/10
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Rated: R
6.8/10
Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.
Rated: R
6.8/10
The Jack Bull tells the story of Myrl Redding, a Wyoming horse trader who clashes with Henry Ballard, a fellow rancher, after Ballard abuses two of Myrl's horses and their Crow Indian caretaker, Billy. When Judge Wilkins throws out Myrl's complaint, the war he wages to force Ballard to nurse the emaciated animals back to health escalates into a vigilante manhunt, murder and the possible defeat of Wyoming's bid for statehood.
5. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Rated: PG
6.8/10
Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930s.
Rated: R
6.7/10
Two cops are given the 'dirty' job of staking out the home of an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend. Chris and the beautiful girlfriend accidentally meet and fall in love. Just as Chris confesses, the convict appears, but will she betray him ?
Rated: PG
6.6/10
When one of an experimental range of military robots is hit by lightning, it is given consciousness and escapes from the military and befriends a young woman. Its creator, Newton Crosby, is desperate to find it, or his entire project may be scrapped.
Rated: PG-13
6.5/10
When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he decides to make peace with his sibling, and invites him on a trip to the Rockies. There, the brothers bond over their shared enthusiasm for cycling and decide to enter a grueling bike race through the mountains. However, Marcus' health soon begins to fail, and David must compete without his brother at his side.
Rated: M
6.5/10
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.
Rated: M
6.4/10
Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.
Rated: R
6.4/10
Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.
Rated: R
6.3/10
An unimpressive, every-day man is forced into a situation where he is told to kill a politician to save his kidnapped daughter.
Rated: R
6.3/10
Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollywood action star Nick Lang works a deal with New York City Police Capt. Brix, who by chance is one of his fans. Nick will be paired with detective Lt. John Moss and learn how to act like a real cop. But when Nick drives John crazy with questions and imitating him, he gets in the way of John's pursuit of a serial killer.
Rated: R
6.1/10
Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a phantom killer and subdued into obedience.
Rated: PG-13
6.0/10
An FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years. Now an old flame has recognised him, and the bad guys are back for revenge.
Rated: R
5.9/10
Claude Banner befriends Patrick Frimpong from Ghana who does different jobs. Unbeknownst to him he starts to work for a Russian syndicate headed by Dimitri Pulev a ruthless hoodlum. Things take a bizarre twist when Patrick become the target of the syndicate.
Rated: R
5.6/10
A team of skydiving crooks led by rogue DEA agent Ty Moncrief specialize in landing on police roofs and breaking in so they can steal undercover agents' files and sell them to drug lords. Federal Marshal Pete Nessip lost a brother to this crew and learns skydiving with the help of the tough instructor Jessie Crossmann so he can track them down.
Rated: PG-13
5.6/10
Chris and Bill are called upon for their excellent surveillance record to stakeout a lakeside home where a Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading or already hiding.
Rated: Not Rated
5.2/10
Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan who knows almost everything about her, and two men — one of whom may be trying to kill her, the other of whom could save her life, causing Daisy to be thrown into the middle of a real-life drama.
Rated: N/A
/10
The odyssey of an American handgun and the dramatic way it reshapes the lives of its various owners.
Rated: N/A
/10
An examination of the workings of a big city's legal system as seen through the eyes of people involved in a sensational murder trial.