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Sidney Lumet Filmography
Complete filmography of Sidney Lumet: 43 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | 2,007 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 | 1,679 | English | When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax. |
| Find Me Guilty | 2,006 | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.6 | 529 | English | Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history. |
| Strip Search | 2,004 | Drama | 6.2 | 45 | English | Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City. |
| Gloria | 1,999 | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 5.8 | 128 | English | After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-year-old urchin with a will of his own, whom she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down. |
| Night Falls on Manhattan | 1,997 | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 6.3 | 134 | English | A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner. |
| Critical Care | 1,997 | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 | 41 | English | Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient? |
| Guilty as Sin | 1,993 | Thriller, Drama | 5.7 | 143 | English | Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty. |
| A Stranger Among Us | 1,992 | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 5.5 | 100 | English | Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in. |
| Q & A | 1,990 | Action, Thriller, Crime | 5.8 | 190 | English | A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him. |
| Family Business | 1,989 | Crime, Drama, Comedy | 5.7 | 270 | English | Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past. |
| Running on Empty | 1,988 | Drama, Romance, Crime | 7.4 | 346 | English | The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms. |
| The Morning After | 1,986 | Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Crime | 5.9 | 130 | English | Failed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening -- and with a dead body in bed next to her. As she tries to piece together the events of the night, Alex cannot totally rely on friends or her estranged husband, Joaquin, for assistance. Only a single ally, loner ex-policeman Turner Kendall, can help her escape her predicament and find the true killer. |
| Power | 1,986 | Drama | 5.9 | 70 | English | Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio ... |
| Garbo Talks | 1,984 | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 32 | English | When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish: to meet the great Greta Garbo. Gilbert, wanting to do this last thing for her, sets out on a wild goose chase through the streets of New York City to track down the iconic star, at the expense of his personal life and much to the chagrin of his wife, Lisa. Can he find Garbo before it's too late? |
| Daniel | 1,983 | Drama | 6.6 | 33 | English | The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted. |
| The Verdict | 1,982 | Drama | 7.4 | 705 | English | Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer. |
| Deathtrap | 1,982 | Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.7 | 293 | English | A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script. |
| Prince of the City | 1,981 | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 7 | 171 | English | New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants. |
| Just Tell Me What You Want | 1,980 | Comedy, Romance | 4.3 | 15 | English | A television producer woman tries to let down her overbearing boyfriend who is her boss. She wants to marry with a young writer. |
| The Wiz | 1,978 | Music, Fantasy, Adventure | 6.1 | 284 | English | Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home. |
| Equus | 1,977 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7 | 141 | English | A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own. |
| Network | 1,976 | Drama | 7.8 | 1,955 | English | When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings. |
| Dog Day Afternoon | 1,975 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 | 3,264 | English | Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus. |
| Murder on the Orient Express | 1,974 | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | 7.1 | 1,536 | English | In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before. |
| Serpico | 1,973 | Crime, Drama | 7.5 | 2,130 | English | New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him. |
| The Offence | 1,973 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 | 168 | English | A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester. |
| Child's Play | 1,972 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6 | 53 | English | At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems. |
| The Anderson Tapes | 1,971 | Crime, Thriller, Action | 6.1 | 173 | English | Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance. |
| King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | 1,970 | Documentary | 7.1 | 11 | English | A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning with the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, MLK is followed through major steps in his struggle to promote racial equality. Including footage of King's stirring speeches, it is a fitting tribute to his legacy, and features clips narrated by a wide range of celebrities, including Harry Belafonte, Paul Newman Charlton Heston, Ruby Dee, Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quinn, Walter Matthau, Ben Gazzara, Clarence Williams III, Joanne Woodward, and James Earl Jones. |
| The Appointment | 1,969 | Drama, Mystery | 5.5 | 12 | English | Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid call-girls. |
| The Sea Gull | 1,968 | Romance, Drama | 6.2 | 10 | English | Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century. |
| Bye Bye Braverman | 1,968 | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 | 10 | English | One day, Morroe Rieff learns that his friend and fellow writer, Leslie Braverman, has died. After meeting Leslie's widow, Inez, who is more flirtatious than grieving, Morroe joins up with three other writer friends, Barnet, Felix, and Holly to attend funeral services. However, the quartet faces numerous obstacles that could keep them from paying their respects. |
| The Deadly Affair | 1,967 | Thriller, Mystery, Drama | 6.2 | 92 | English | Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan. |
| The Group | 1,966 | Drama | 5.6 | 31 | English | It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper-class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows. |
| The Hill | 1,965 | Drama, War | 7.5 | 241 | English | North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms. |
| The Pawnbroker | 1,965 | Drama | 7.1 | 172 | English | A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions. |
| Fail Safe | 1,964 | Thriller, Drama, War | 7.8 | 451 | English | Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring. |
| Long Day's Journey Into Night | 1,962 | Drama | 7 | 74 | English | An Irish miser, his morphine addicted wife, their debauched older son, and a gravely ill younger son. A quiet Connecticut vacation home on one foggy day in August 1912 becomes the backdrop for domestic decline. |
| A View from the Bridge | 1,962 | Drama | 6.1 | 12 | English | Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities. |
| The Fugitive Kind | 1,960 | Romance, Drama | 6.8 | 114 | English | Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family. |
| That Kind of Woman | 1,959 | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 5.9 | 13 | English | A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York. |
| Stage Struck | 1,958 | Drama, Romance | 5.9 | 15 | English | A young woman arrives in New York City determined to become a great theatrical star, but discovers that her goal may not be as easily attainable as she had hoped. |
| 12 Angry Men | 1,957 | Drama | 8.6 | 9,751 | English | The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other. |
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