Ralf Bode Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1942 in Berlin, Germany
Occupation:: Cinematographer
Biography:: Born in Germany and educated in New England, cinematographer Ralf Bode attended the film and drama departments of Yale University. While in the American army, Bode received the practical camera training that would serve him well in the movie industry. After working as a lighting designer for...Read More

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Boys and Girls

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Claire Forlani, Jason Biggs, Amanda Detmer, Heather Donahue, Alyson Hannigan

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, good friends change their feelings about each other over the course of their four years in college. Ryan (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Jennifer (Claire Forlani) have known each other since grade school, though their oil-and-water personalities don't always mesh. Engineering Read More

6/16/00
The Secret Life of Girls

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Linda Hamilton, Eugene Levy, Majandra Delfino, Meagan Good, Aeryk Egan

Synopsis: Yet another teenager discovers how difficult growing up can be in this comedy-drama. It's 1973, and 15-year-old Natalie (Majandra Delfino), shy and bookish, is caught in the emotional crossfire at home when her hippie-ish mom, Ruby (Linda Hamilton), discovers that dad, Hugh (Eugene Levy), a Read More

1999
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kevin Anderson, Tom Skerritt, Naomi Watts, Brian Kerwin, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: Based on a true story, The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer concerns the notorious Ira Einhorn, a political activist turned murder suspect who eluded Philadelphia police for nearly 20 years. In 1968, Texas-born Holly Maddux (Naomi Watts) left home to attend Bryn Mawr College, and two years later she Read More

1999
Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Jack Palance, Lexi Randall, Christopher Bell

Synopsis: This follow-up to the acclaimed made-for-TV movies Sarah, Plain and Tall and Skylark finds Sarah (Glenn Close) and her husband Jacob (Christopher Walken) dealing with the trials of life on their Kansas farm in 1918. Jacob must contend with the unexpected arrival of John (Jack Palance), his father Read More

1999
CBS: The First 50 Years

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Adam Arkin, Ed Bradley, Carol Burnett, David Copperfield, Roma Downey

Synopsis: This two-hour TV entertainment special takes a surface skim (95 minutes minus commercials and promos) over the history of CBS, quickly skipping past decades of CBS radio to concentrate on CBS television from the late '40s to the present. It features more than a dozen hosts (Adam Arkin, Ed Bradley, Carol Burnett Read More

1998
Sink or Swim

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Stephen Rea, Illeana Douglas, John Ritter, Dave Foley, Richard Kind

Synopsis: In this satirical "inside" look at the world of TV scripters, agent Danny (Tom Arnold) gives a 22-episode assignment to depressed, self-destructive writer-producer Brian (Stephen Rea), creatively spent and bereft of ideas. At his weekly poker game, Brian sees a romantic couple on a hotel balcony. Read More

1997
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Whitney Houston, Brandy, Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, Bernadette Peters

Synopsis: Seen on ABC's Wonderful World of Disney, this $12-million production is the only musical Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote for television. The CBS-TV original, with 21-year-old Julie Andrews in the title role and Edie Adams as the Fairy Godmother, played on live television March 31, 1957 to TV's Read More

1997
A Simple Wish

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Martin Short, Mara Wilson, Robert Pastorelli, Amanda Plummer, Francis Capra

Synopsis: This comic children's fantasy from director Michael Ritchie stars Mara Wilson as eight-year-old New Yorker Anabel, who wishes that her father Oliver (Robert Pastorelli), a hansom cab driver in Central Park, would see his dream come true. In a thinly veiled jab at the overblown stage productions of Read More

1997
A Streetcar Named Desire

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jessica Lange, Alec Baldwin, John Goodman, Diane Lane

Synopsis: This production presents the complete text of A Streetcar Named Desire, the 1947 Tennessee Williams masterpiece. The story centers on the destruction of a lonely Mississippi widow, Blanche DuBois (Jessica Lange), by her brutally outspoken brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Alec Baldwin). The play Read More

1995
The Big Green

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this Disney comedy that bears a suspicious resemblance to The Mighty Ducks, the down-trodden cynical young misfits of a run-down Texas town, devastated by the closing of its one major industry, find renewed hope and spirit at the hands of a plucky British foreign-exchange teacher who introduces Read More

1995
Don Juan DeMarco

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Géraldine Pailhas, Bob Dishy

Synopsis: A psychiatrist treats a most unusual patient, only to find that the doctor is the one who gains the most from their sessions in this philosophical romantic comedy. A young man in a mask and cape (played by Johnny Depp) is standing atop a billboard, threatening to jump. When the potential suicide Read More

1995
Bad Girls

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, Drew Barrymore, James Russo

Synopsis: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, and Drew Barrymore are the stars of this Western whose main gimmick is making heroes into heroines. They all start out as prostitutes, as Cody (Stowe) shoots a drunken colonel who attempts to molest Anita (Masterson). She is about to be Read More

1994
Safe Passage

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Sam Shepard, Robert Sean Leonard, Sean Astin, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: A large, dysfunctional family awaits word on a loved one's fate in this domestic drama starring Susan Sarandon as Mag Singer, mother of seven sons. One, Percival (Matt Keeslar) is serving in the Marine Corps, and when news comes that his barracks in the Middle East has been bombed by terrorists Read More

1994
Gypsy

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bette Midler, Cynthia Gibb, Peter Riegert

Synopsis: Based on a Broadway play and featuring the Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim score, this is a remake of the 1962 movie which was based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, a stripper, depicting her life growing up in "show biz." ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
George Balanchine's The Nutcracker

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Darci Kistler, Damian Woetzel, Kyra Nichols, Bart Robinson Cook, Macaulay Culkin

Synopsis: Director Emile Ardolino's final film brings to the screen George Balanchine's famed ballet of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. Balanchine's choreography has been restaged by the New York City Ballet under the direction of Peter Martins and features dancers Darci Kistler and Damian Woetzel as the Read More

1993
Made in America

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Will Smith, Nia Long, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: Richard Benjamin directed this farce that plays like "Guess Who's Coming for Insemination?" Whoopi Goldberg stars as Sarah Matthews, who runs an African-American oriented bookstore in Oakland. She is raising her daughter, a beautiful high school student named Zora (Nia Long), on her own after her Read More

1993
Love Field

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert, Stephanie McFadden, Brian Kerwin, Louise Latham

Synopsis: Jonathan Kaplan directs this drama which grafts a nostalgic mood piece with a race-to-the-finish road movie. Lurene Hallett (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an insulated middle-class wife living in Texas in the early 1960s who adores the Kennedys, particularly Jackie, whom she feels is a kindred soul. When Read More

12/11/92
Leaving Normal

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Christine Lahti, Meg Tilly, Lenny Von Dohlen, Patrika Darbo, James Gammon, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: Meg Tilly and Christine Lahti star in this female buddy story that recalls the earlier Thelma and Louise. Marianne (Meg Tilly) is a quiet waif who has just walked out on her abusive husband. Darly (Christine Lahti) is a brassy waitress who was a ballsy stripper using the stage name Pillow Talk. Read More

4/29/92
One Good Cop

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Keaton, Rene Russo, Anthony LaPaglia, Kevin Conway, Rachel Ticotin

Synopsis: An honest man struggles to do the right thing, even if it means breaking the law, in this drama. Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton) is a scrupulously ethical cop who believes in his work, loves his wife Rita (Rene Russo), and stands by his partner Stevie Diroma (Anthony LaPaglia). Stevie is a single Read More

5/3/91
Uncle Buck

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann, Macaulay Culkin

Synopsis: In this cheerful, lightweight comedy, excruciatingly clumsy, disorganized, and messy Uncle Buck Russell (John Candy) becomes the screens most unlikely babysitter since Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty. While their parents are away, eight-year old Miles (Macaulay Culkin), six-year old Maizy (Gaby Read More

8/16/89
Cousins

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young, William L. Petersen, Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, two people brought together by marriage are brought even closer by their mates. Maria Hardy (Isabella Rossellini) and Larry Konzinski (Ted Danson) first meet at a wedding, where Maria's mother and Larry's uncle are tying the knot. However, the new cousins also have Read More

2/10/89
Distant Thunder

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Lithgow, Ralph Macchio, Kerrie Keane, Reb Brown, Janet Margolin

Synopsis: Discharged from Vietnam, John Lithgow and his army buddies have trouble fitting into a hostile home-front society. Rather than endure dirty looks and taunts of "baby killer," Lithgow and his friends wander aimlessly all through the Pacific Northwest. Several years pass, during which time Lithgow's Read More

11/11/88
The Accused

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson, Leo Rossi, Ann Hearn

Synopsis: Based on a real-life 1983 incident, The Accused tells the story of Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster), a working-class party girl who likes to live it up with her friends and flirt hard with the guys. After a fight with her boyfriend, she heads to a local bar to cool down -- and after a few drinks, plus Read More

10/14/88
The Big Town

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The Big Town is Chicago, circa 1957. Matt Dillon stars as a small-town crapshooter who heads to the Windy City to seek his fortune. There he becomes the pawn of two high-rolling professional gamblers, played by Lee Grant and Bruce Dern. He later gets mixed up in a revenge scheme cooked up by Diane Lane Read More

9/25/87
Critical Condition

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Pryor, Rachel Ticotin, Rubén Blades, Joe Mantegna, Bob Dishy

Synopsis: When a small-time businessman (Richard Pryor) needs a loan, he goes to a loan shark and ends up in jail on false pretenses. After feigning madness to get out, he is tossed into the mental ward of a hospital. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1/16/87
The Whoopee Boys

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael O'Keefe, Paul Rodriguez, Denholm Elliott, Carole Shelley, Marsha Warfield, Andy Bumatai

Synopsis: In this comedy, a relocation to Florida throws lowlife New Yorkers Barney (Paul Rodriguez) and Jake (Michael O'Keefe) into a dilemma when Jake falls for a beautiful schoolteacher, Olivia Farragut (Lucinda Jenney), who is struggling to find enough money to keep her school open. However, when they Read More

8/15/86
Violets Are Blue

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Kevin Kline, Bonnie Bedelia, Jim Standiford

Synopsis: This small-town romance may be trying to ride the coattails of the Big Chill that also featured Kevin Kline. Kline plays Henry here, and when the film opens he and his love Gussie Sawyer (Sissy Spacek, wife of director Jack Fisk), are sitting together planning the future they will have. She will Read More

4/11/86
Sting: Bring on the Night

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sting, Omar Hakim, Darryl Jones, Kenny Kirkland, Branford Marsalis

Synopsis: This is an enjoyable and often humorous documentary on the formation of Sting's new band and their first live performance in 1985. Filmed over a nine-day period, the musicians in the band are shown bantering in their usual repartee and quick come-backs as they rehearse for the big opening night. Read More

1985
Firstborn

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Teri Garr, Peter Weller, Christopher Collet, Corey Haim, Sarah Jessica Parker

Synopsis: A teenager and his kid brother spar with their mother's shady new boyfriend in this dramatic thriller from veteran British director Michael Apted. When her ex-husband remarries, Wendy (Teri Garr) feels despondent -- until she starts dating handsome, unctuous Sam (Peter Weller), an underemployed Read More

1984
Gorky Park

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Joanna Pacula

Synopsis: In the dead of a Moscow winter, three bodies are found in Gorky Park. Police Inspector Renko (William Hurt) is unable to identify the corpses, since even their fingerprints have removed. For reasons unknown to him, Renko's investigation is somehow being stymied by his higher-ups. Ferreting out Read More

1983
A Little Sex

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tim Matheson, Kate Capshaw, Edward Herrmann, John Glover, Joan Copeland

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV comedy, a womanizer (Tim Matheson) marries his live-in girlfriend (Kate Capshaw) only to quickly resume his wicked ways. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Raggedy Man

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, William Sanderson, Tracey Walker, Henry Thomas

Synopsis: Sissy Spacek was directed by her husband Jack Fisk in 1981's Raggedy Man. Spacek plays a divorced mother of two who tries to go it alone in mid-1940s Texas. Shunned by the "respectable" townsfolk because of her marital breakup, Spacek must endure the unwanted attentions of every low-life man in Read More

1981
Dressed to Kill

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz

Synopsis: One of Brian De Palma's most divisive films, Dressed to Kill is a spine-chilling Alfred Hitchcock update for the late 1970s. Sexually frustrated wife and mother Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson) visits her New York psychiatrist, Dr. Elliott (Michael Caine), to complain about her unfulfilling erotic Read More

1980
Coal Miner's Daughter

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm, Phyllis Boyens

Synopsis: Loretta Lynn was one of the first female superstars in country music and remains a defining presence within the genre; with her strong, clear, hard-country voice and tough, no-nonsense songs about husbands who cheat and wives who weren't about to be pushed around, Lynn introduced a feminist Read More

1980
Just out of Reach

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lorna Lesley, Sam Neill, Martin Vaughan, Judi Farr, Ian Gilmour

Synopsis: In this youthful drama, a teenager attempts to put her life back together after attempting suicide. The events leading up to the attempt are presented via flashback. Included are scenes of the conflicts between her parents, her sister, and her boyfriend. All of these struggles lead her to marry an Read More

1979
Rich Kids

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Trini Alvarado, Jeremy Levy, Kathryn Walker, John Lithgow, Terry Kiser

Synopsis: The rich kids of the title are 12-year-old Trini Alvarado and her intellectual pal Jeremy Levy. Alvarado is down in the dumps because her parents are going through a divorce. She finds a kindred spirit in Levy, whose folks split up long ago. He points out the advantages and privileges of being a Read More

1979
Slow Dancing in the Big City

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Paul Sorvino, Anne Ditchburn, Nicolas Coster, Anita Dangler, Hector Mercado

Synopsis: This sentimental tearjerker is also a slice-of-New York-life melodrama directed by John G. Avildsen as his follow-up to the career-high smash success of Rocky (1976). Paul Sorvino stars as Lou Friedlander, a Manhattan newspaper columnist who is instantly smitten by Sarah Gantz (Anne Ditchburn, who Read More

1978
Somebody Killed Her Husband

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Wood, Tammy Grimes, John Glover

Synopsis: In this comic mystery, a department store clerk dreams of becoming a famous writer of children's books. He is also having an affair with a lovely patron of the store. The trouble begins when the lovers find that her husband, a pair of neighbors and a bogus detective have been murdered. The lovers Read More

1978
Saturday Night Fever

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Travolta, Karen Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape

Synopsis: John Travolta graduated from minor celebrity to superstar with Saturday Night Fever. Travolta plays Tony Manero, a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Read More

12/15/77
Saturday Night at the Baths

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ellen Sheppard, Robert Aberdeen, Don Scotti, Steve Ostrow

Synopsis: The Continental Baths, a favorite hangout of New York homosexuals, provides the background of this socially conscious comedy drama that tries to examine the relationships between gay and heterosexual people. The story centers around a macho, heterosexual piano player who gets a job at the Read More

1975
S.O.S.

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jody Maxwell, Jim Buckley, Al Goldstein

1975
Foreplay

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Zero Mostel, Estelle Parsons, Pat Paulsen, Jerry Orbach, George Irving

Synopsis: This comedy film revolves around the unusual life of a fictional former American president (Zero Mostel) as he reveals the reasons behind his loss of power on a television program. Three short skits depict a randy and raucous life in the White House. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
There Is No 13

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bonnie Inch

Synopsis: In this wartime drama, a young soldier spends much of stint in Vietnam remembering his life and his 12 love affairs. The story ends before he can have a 13th. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974

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