7 Best Warren Beatty Movies

By Vlad Zakh · January 13, 2026

Warren Beatty used his own star power to produce and shepherd some of the most ambitious, politically minded American films of the 1970s. Shampoo juggles a Beverly Hills hairdresser’s affairs on election eve, Heaven Can Wait gives a football player a new body, Reds follows a journalist through the Russian Revolution, and Bulworth turns a disillusioned senator radically honest. Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe & Mrs. Miller and Splendor in the Grass round out the list.

Bulworth (1998)

TMDB ★ 6.6

A disillusioned senator, believing he's about to be assassinated, starts speaking with reckless, radical honesty.

Directed by Warren Beatty · 1h 48m · Rated R

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Reds (1981)

TMDB ★ 7.4

An American journalist becomes swept up in the passion and chaos of the Russian Revolution.

Directed by Warren Beatty · 3h 15m · Rated PG

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Heaven Can Wait (1978)

TMDB ★ 6.9

A football star mistakenly taken to heaven before his time must adjust to life in a stranger's body.

Directed by Buck Henry & Warren Beatty · 1h 41m · Rated PG

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Shampoo (1975)

TMDB ★ 6.7

A womanising Beverly Hills hairdresser juggles multiple relationships over one chaotic Election Day.

Directed by Hal Ashby · 1h 50m · Rated R

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Stream: Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

TMDB ★ 7.5

A gambler and a brothel madam build an unlikely business partnership in a remote mining town.

Directed by Robert Altman · 2h 00m · Rated R

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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

IMDb ★ 7.7 RT 91% Metacritic 86

Two Depression-era outlaws rob their way across the Midwest and into folk-hero infamy.

Directed by Arthur Penn · 1h 51m · Rated R

Won 2 Oscars23 wins & 29 nominations

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Splendor in the Grass (1961)

TMDB ★ 7.5

Two teenagers' intense romance is crushed by the rigid social expectations of 1920s Kansas, with Natalie Wood in the lead.

Directed by Elia Kazan · 2h 04m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: YouTube TV · Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Spectrum On Demand · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

7 Best Warren Beatty Movies

Bulworth (1998)

Reds (1981)

Heaven Can Wait (1978)

Shampoo (1975)

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Splendor in the Grass (1961)

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