Cape Fear (1991)

#775 worldwide · charting in 13 countries

Movie · 128 min · 18 · crm, drm, trl, eur

Cape Fear poster

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

  • 7.3 IMDb
  • 7.3 TMDB
  • 77% Rotten Tomatoes
  • 92 JustWatch

Where to watch Cape Fear

Available on 24 platforms across 12 countries.

Chart positions today

Currently charting in 13 countries, best placed at #60 in Canada.

Available languages

Audio: Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Turkish

Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, NB, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Chart history

Cape Fear has spent 2 days in a top 3, 8 days in a top 10 and 88 days in a top 100 across the markets we track. Its best position anywhere is #1.

Cast

Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Martin Balsam, Illeana Douglas, Fred Thompson, Zully Montero, Craig Henne, Forest Burton, Edgar Allan Poe IV, Rod Ball, W. Paul Bodie, Joel Kolker, Antoni Corone

Crew

Martin Scorsese (director), Wesley Strick (screenplay), Barbara De Fina (producer)

Awards

0 wins from 2 nominations.

  • Academy Award for Best Actor 1992 — nominated
  • Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1992 — nominated