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Woody Allen

Woody Allen
Woody Allen, born Allan Stewart Konigsberg 1st December 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, is an actor / writer / director best known for slice-of-life drama and comedy. His defining film is probably Annie Hall (1977).

A remarkable career starting in stand-up comedy and television chat show gag writing led to an astonishing number of films with an astonishing number of them very good to great and almost every single one containing great moments and lines. Woody Allen is one of the 20th-century's most iconic and brilliant filmmakers and is arguably the greatest screenwriter ever.



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Woody Allen - news / articles


  • Allen & Scorsese to battle for Directors Guild Award - 9 January 2012
    -Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese are set for a battle royal at the Directors Guild Awards after landing leading nominations on Monday (09Jan12).-The moviemakers' films Midnight in Paris and Hugo will compete alongside David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,


  • Allen changes confusing movie title - 14 October 2011
    -Director Woody Allen has changed the name of his new movie after the original title left fans baffled.-The filmmaker shot his latest project in Rome, Italy with Penelope Cruz, Alec Baldwin and Jesse Eisenberg, and the original title was slated to be The Bob Decamero


  • Allen eyes Obama for movie role - 6 October 2011
    -Woody Allen has confessed he'd love to cast America's First Lady Michelle Obama in his next movie - if he can write the perfect role for her.-The Annie Hall director's new film, Midnight in Paris, features a performance by Carla Bruni, the wife of French President N

Woody Allen - what members say


  • Annie Hall
  • Annie Hall review by HD from WEST BROMWICH
    Rated - 5.0 stars 8 June 2004
    ...must see movie for anyone who likes one liners and politically incorrect humor. Woody Allen does an excellent job in this film without coming across in a hateful manner. W...   Read customer review
  • Manhattan
  • Manhattan review by A customer from Ealing, London
    Rated - 5.0 stars Very Witty 18 February 2004
    ...Very witty Woody Allen film. It is both funny and quite sad - bitter-sweet, I suppose, but really enjoyable. A lot of the film is recorded on the streets of NY, so small...   Read customer review
  • Sweet And Lowdown
  • Sweet And Lowdown review by from East Sussex
    Rated - 4.0 stars Lets go to the dump and shoot some rats! 2 October 2004
    ...ng of the work that experts claim to be some of the best of the period. A great Woody Allen film, highly recommended....   Read customer review

Woody Allen - filmography


  • Midnight in Paris (2011)
    Starring: Rachel McAdams,  Marion Cotillard,  Michael Sheen
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A romantic comedy about a family travelling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 425 members
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  • Whatever Works on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Ed Begley Jr.,  Patricia Clarkson,  Larry David
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    After the failure of his career, his marriage, and his suicide attempt, world-class grouch Boris Yellnikoff, spends his days insulting the small children unfortunate enough to study chess with him and irritating his still-loyal friends with his never-ending tirades about the worthlessness of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 4,392 members
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  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Patricia Clarkson,  Kevin Dunn,  Javier Bardem
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    It’s the film that critics are hailing as Woody Allan’s return to form. Vicky Cristina Barcelona has become one of the most talked about movies of the year. A sizzling, erotically charged, relentlessly hilarious and touching romantic comedy that won Penelope Cruz (Volver, Vanilla Sky) a Best ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 5,015 members
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  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Javier Bardem,  Penelope Cruz,  Scarlett Johansson
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    It’s the film that critics are hailing as Woody Allan’s return to form. Vicky Cristina Barcelona has become one of the most talked about movies of the year. A sizzling, erotically charged, relentlessly hilarious and touching romantic comedy that won Penelope Cruz (Volver, Vanilla Sky) a Best ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 42,995 members
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  • Cassandra's Dream on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Colin Farrell,  Tom Wilkinson
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Woody Allen wrote and directed this London-set feature, a modern noir with black comic trimmings. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor play working class brothers who dream of better things than their respective mechanic and restaurant jobs. Hard-drinking Terry (Farrell) has a weakness for gambling, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 6,051 members
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  • Scoop (2006)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Scarlett Johansson,  Charles Dance
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An American journalism student (Scarlett Johansson) visiting London gets a hot tip on a notorious serial murder case after a ghostly encounter inside the disappearing cabinet of a neurotic vaudevillian (writer/director/co-star Woody Allen). But when she falls for the dashing aristocrat (Hugh ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 386 members
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  • Match Point on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Scarlett Johansson,  Jonathan Rhys Meyers,  Emily Mortimer
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    For the first time in his long career, writer-director Woody Allen takes his cast and crew to London, and the European location breathes new life into the normally Manhattan-centric auteur. Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars as Chris Wilton, a former pro on the world tennis circuit, with eyes set on a very ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 31,002 members
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  • The Outsider - A Film About James Toback (2005)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Robert Downey Jr.,  Neve Campbell
    Director: Nicholas Jarecki
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Documentary chronicling the turbulent production of writer/director James Toback's film WHEN WILL I BE LOVED. Woody Allen, Brooke Shields, Harvey Keitel, and boxer Mike Tyson are among the stars who speak about Toback's life, his chronic gambling addiction, and extraordinary career.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 23 members
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  • Melinda And Melinda (2004)
    Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor,  Will Ferrell,  Jonny Lee Miller
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Woody Allen mixes the tragic with the comic in MELINDA AND MELINDA, a delightful, intelligent look at two versions of the same story. After hearing a tale about a quirky woman who walks in unexpectedly on a dinner party in an apartment in New York City, Sy (Wallace Shawn) expands it into a romantic ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 16,003 members
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  • Anything Else (2003)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Jason Biggs,  Stockard Channing
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci star as a mismatched couple in Woody Allen's funny and well-made romantic comedy ANYTHING ELSE. Biggs plays Jerry Falk, a young comedy writer looking to make it big, while Ricci is Amanda, a self-absorbed free spirit whom men go wild for. They fall for each other ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 6,197 members
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  • Hollywood Ending (2002)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Tea Leone,  George Hamilton
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Allen plays an aging film director that is suddenly afflicted with temporary blindness. However, mid way through production on his latest film, he must soldier on without letting his producers know.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 127 members
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  • The Curse of the Jade Scorpion on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  John Tormey,  John Schuck
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 3,528 members
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  • Picking Up The Pieces on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Lou Diamond Phillips,  Lily Tomlin
    Director: Alfonso Arau
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In a mad rage, a kosher butcher named Tex (Woody Allen) murders his adulterous wife (Sharon Stone), chops her body into pieces, and buries them in a Mexican desert. In time, the dead woman's hand surfaces and an old blind woman trips over it. The fall remarkably restores her sight, leading the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 341 members
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  • Small Time Crooks (2000)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Tracey Ullman,  Woody Allen
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Woody Allen returns to his slapstick days with this comic romp, which centers on a small-time hood, Ray Winkler, who just can't catch a break. It's as if Virgil Starkwell (Allen's hysterically incompetent criminal mastermind from TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN) has finally gotten out of prison and is still ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,616 members
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  • Company Man on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Douglas McGrath,  John Turturro
    Director: Peter Askin,  Douglas McGrath
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    COMPANY MAN, cowritten and codirected by Douglas McGrath (EMMA) and Peter Askin, is an AUSTIN POWERS meets THE PINK PANTHER screwball farce about the 1959 Cuban revolution. Allen Quimp (McGrath) is a bumbling, gee-whiz high school teacher in 1950s Connecticut who believes grammar instruction is his ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 227 members
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  • Sweet And Lowdown (1999)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Samantha Morton,  Uma Thurman
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Allen's pseudo-biopic about 1930's jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Penn) is a personal tribute by the director to a period of musical history that has inspired and influenced him greatly. Penn immerses himself into the role of the boozing, womanizing Ray with his usual intensity (this time, with a comic ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,978 members
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  • Antz on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Sharon Stone,  Sylvester Stallone,  Woody Allen
    Director: Eric Darnell,  Tim Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Central Park ant drone Z longs to be an individual of accomplishment, but Z's colony is a society that puts the value of the colony over personal achievement. Young Z sets his sites on the colony's Queen daughter Bala- who is uninterested until Z successfully mounts a revolution within the colony ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 12,215 members
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  • Celebrity on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Kenneth Branagh,  Judy Davis,  Hank Azaria
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Woody Allen's star-studded CELEBRITY skewers America's fascination with fame and glamour. Kenneth Branagh stars as Lee Simon, a travel writer who also interviews celebrities when he's not working on his novel and screenplay-or at least talking about writing them. As he hangs out more and more with ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,585 members
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  • Deconstructing Harry on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Demi Moore,  Robin Williams
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Woody Allen wrote, directed, and stars in this very dark comedy about a novelist, Harry Block, who says with admirable honesty, I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. So far, Harry has made his way through six psychiatrists and three marriages (one, conveniently enough, with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,133 members
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  • Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Julia Roberts,  Goldie Hawn
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Featuring a soundtrack filled with beloved standard songs such as Just You, Just Me and My Baby Just Cares for Me, this musical comedy by Woody Allen concerns a polite and comfortably well-off group of people and their romantic difficulties. DJ (Natasha Lyonne), who narrates the picture, is the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 4,125 members
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  • Mighty Aphrodite on DVD (1995)
    Starring: F. Murray Abraham,  Woody Allen,  Claire Bloom
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    MIGHTY APHRODITE is Woody Allen's stab at Greek comedy/tragedy, and it is wildly successful. Allen stars as Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter married to ambitious Amanda Sloan (Helena Bonham Carter), who desperately wants her own art gallery in New York City and is willing to play the game to get it. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,830 members
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  • Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Peter Falk,  Sarah Jessica Parker
    Director: John Erman
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    An updated screen adaption of Neil Simon's hilarious 1972 play telling the tale of two legendary comedians Lewis and Clark (played by Woody Allen and Peter Falk) and their return to the stage after a lengthy hiatus from show business and each other. Also stars Sarah Jessica Parker.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 289 members
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  • Wild Man Blues (1995)
    Starring: Woody Allen
    Director: Barbara Kopple
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Barbara Kopple's entertaining and occasionally illuminating documentary about Woody Allen's 1995 jazz band tour of Europe divides its time between the concert commitments and the quiet times with Allen and future wife Soon-Yi Previn.
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 4 members
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  • Bullets Over Broadway on DVD (1994)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Dianne Wiest,  Jennifer Tilly
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    David Shayne (John Cusack, in performance his character that of a young Woody Allen) is an idealistic young playwright whose life (and play) is about to be turned upside down as it heads toward Broadway. In order to gain financing for GOD OF OUR FATHERS, Shayne agrees to hire Olive Neal (a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,753 members
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  • Don't Drink the Water (1994)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Dom DeLuise,  Michael J. Fox
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
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    Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region...
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 91 members
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  • Manhattan Murder Mystery on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Diane Keaton,  Alan Alda
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    There's a real murder and a real mystery in Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery, but these plot pegs are used mainly to allow Allen to explore modern urban relationships. Allen plays a N.Y.C. book editor, Larry Lipton, married to Carol (Diane Keaton, who replaced Mia Farrow at the last minute, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5,204 members
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  • Shadows And Fog on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Kathy Bates,  John Cusack
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,960 member
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  • Husbands And Wives on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Mia Farrow,  Blythe Danner
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One of Woody Allen's most seemingly biographical films, Husbands and Wives opens with upper-middle class Manhattan couple Sally (Judy Davis) and Jack (Sydney Pollack) announcing to their best friends, the Roths, that they are splitting up. Gabe Roth (Allen) and his wife Judy (Mia Farrow) are taken ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,142 members
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  • Scenes From A Mall on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Bette Midler,  Woody Allen
    Director: Paul Mazursky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bette Midler and Woody Allen star in director Paul Mazursky's comedy as a professional Los Angeles couple--Deborah (Midler) is the author of a best-selling self-help book about marriage and has been wed to successful lawyer Nick (Allen) for 16 years. They live a high-pressure professional life, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 472 members
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  • Crimes And Misdemeanors on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Martin Landau,  Claire Bloom,  Anjelica Huston
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, Judah Rosenthal is a successful ophthalmologist who is having an affair with Dolores. Dolores threatens to reveal their relationship unless Judah commits to her and leaves his wife. He admits his sin to Ben, a friend, a patient, and a learned rabbi who is losing his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,149 members
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  • Alice on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Mia Farrow,  William Hurt,  Alec Baldwin
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Alice Tate (Mia Farrow) is a rich Manhattan wife who spends her days shopping, getting pedicures, going to the salon, working out with her personal trainer, and seeing her chiropractor. But when she can't get rid of her back pain, she goes to an Asian herbalist (the wonderful Keye Luke, in his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,587 member
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  • Another Woman on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Gena Rowlands,  Gene Hackman,  John Houseman
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A university professor, Marion Post is experiencing a type of midlife crisis, so she rents an apartment in order to write a book. The apartment is next to a psychiatrist's office, and she inadvertently hears what transpires between the doctor and some of her patients. She becomes obsessed with the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,169 member
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  • September on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Mia Farrow,  Denholm Elliott,  Sam Waterston
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In a serene Vermont country house, six people share their dreams, their fears, and their desires, as secrets are revealed and trusts broken. The cast is led by Mia Farrow, who plays Lane, a woman who has never fully dealt with a long-ago shooting. Elaine Stritch plays Diane, Lane's mother, who ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 941 members
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  • Radio Days on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Dianne Wiest,  Julie Kavner,  Michael Tucker
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    RADIO DAYS is Woody Allen's charming, nostalgic, very funny love letter to growing up in 1940s Brooklyn during the golden age of radio. The setting is the close-knit working-class neighborhood of Rockaway, New York, where a warm, crazy, sprawling Jewish family lives, sharing their happiness as well ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,847 members
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  • Hannah And Her Sisters on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Michael Caine,  Mia Farrow
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Woody Allen combined the best parts of his earlier films in creating HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, his 1986 masterwork about the changing relationships among three sisters living in New York City. Hannah (Mia Farrow) has put her acting career aside in order to take care of her family with second husband ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 7,369 members
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  • The Purple Rose Of Cairo on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Mia Farrow,  Jeff Daniels,  Danny Aiello
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Lonely Depression-era waitress Cecilia (Farrow) is hopelessly addicted to Hollywood movies. Spellbound by her new favorite, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Cecilia is astonished when the leading man (Daniels) suddenly walks off the screen to meet her. Wooed by his charm, Cecilia finds herself falling for ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,368 members
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  • Broadway Danny Rose on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Mia Farrow,  Milton Berle
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this Woody Allen comedy, a group of Borscht Belt comedians gathers at the Carnegie Deli to reminisce and tell anecdotes about showbiz legend Danny Rose (Allen). Danny is a no-luck Broadway talent agent with a heart of gold who shepherds his flock of dead-end performers with a sense of compassion ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,278 members
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  • Zelig on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Mia Farrow,  Woody Allen,  Michael Jeter
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Leonard Zelig, the human chameleon, is profiled in this mock-documentary. Director Woody Allen appears as Zelig in scenes that purport to be vintage newsreel clips of the 1920s and 1930s, but are actually clever recreations, aged and scratched-up Citizen Kane-style by special-effects maestros Joel ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,054 members
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  • A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Mia Farrow,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This wonderful, frothy treat from Woody Allen follows three couples frolicking in the countryside at the turn of the century. At a beautiful farmhouse in upstate New York, wealthy Andrew (Allen) passes his summer days tinkering as a hack inventor and attempting to make love with his frigid wife, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,200 members
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  • Stardust Memories on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Charlotte Rampling,  Woody Allen,  Jessica Harper
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Sandy Bates is a comic filmmaker who no longer feels funny. When he ventures into serious cinema for a new challenge, he is not well received by the critics or the public, and he becomes depressed. Spending a weekend at Stardust Hotel during a retrospective showing of his films, Sandy reflects upon ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,226 member
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  • Manhattan on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Diane Keaton,  Mariel Hemingway
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    On the heels of Annie Hall, the Oscar-winning romantic comedy that rocketed Woody Allen to the front ranks of American filmmakers, Manhattan continued Allen's romantic obsessions in a slightly darker, more pessimistic vein. Allen stars as Isaac Davis, a TV comedy writer sick of the pap he is forced ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 13,914 members
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  • Interiors on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Diane Keaton,  Kristin Griffith,  Mary Beth Hurt
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After the tremendous success of ANNIE HALL, Woody Allen took a huge risk and turned serious with INTERIORS, his Bergmanesque masterpiece--a dark, intense look at a family suffocating itself in thoughts of failure and death. Geraldine Page is extraordinary as Eve, a troubled woman who cannot face ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,443 member
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  • Annie Hall on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Diane Keaton,  Tony Roberts
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Woody Allen cowrote, directed, and stars in this award-winning film as a kvetchy Brooklyn comedian wistfully recalling his bygone relationship with flighty, adorable, and irrepressibly midwestern (read: not Jewish) Annie Hall. The film marked a transition from Allen's earlier absurdist comedies to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 27,605 members
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  • Love And Death on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Diane Keaton,  Harold Gould
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Woody Allen reinvents himself again with the epic historical satire, Love and Death. A wonderfully funny and eclectic distillation of the Russian literary soul, the film represents a bridge between Allen's early slapstick farces and his darker autobiographical comedies. One of his most visual, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,280 members
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  • Sleeper on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Diane Keaton,  John Beck
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When cryogenically preserved Miles Monroe (Allen) is awakened 200 years after a hospital mishap, he discovers the future’s not so bright: All women are frigid, all men are impotent, and the world is ruled by an evil dictator: a disembodied nose! Pursued by the secret police and recruited by anti-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 6,586 members
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  • Play It Again Sam on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Diane Keaton,  Susan Anspach
    Director: Herbert Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Herbert Ross directed this adaptation of Woody Allen's hit Broadway play concerning a shy film critic who has trouble with women. Woody Allen plays Allan Felix, a writer for Film Quarterly consumed by movies, particularly his favorite film of all time, Casablanca. At the start of the film, Allan's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 4,153 members
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  • Bananas on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Carlos Montalban,  Louise Lasser
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Woody Allen leads a revolution in a small Latin American dictatorship in this hysterical comedy that parodies everything from the American media and political activism to the CIA and the judicial system. Allen plays Fielding Mellish, a nebbish unwilling to commit to anything--until he meets Nancy, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,543 members
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  • Take The Money And Run on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Janet Margolin,  Marcel Hillaire
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Woody Allen's directorial debut, TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN, is a hilarious mock documentary about the life and crimes of one Virgil Starkwell--a man who always ends up getting his glasses crushed. Familiar newsreel voice Jackson Beck narrates the tale of the hapless criminal and his ridiculous plans ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 3,105 members
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  • What's Up Tiger Lily? on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Tatsuya Mihashi,  Akiko Wakabayashi
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A Japanese spy thriller dubbed into English with a totally new plot. In the new version agent Phil Moskowitz is on a dangerous mission to secure the recipe for the world's greatest egg salad. But, he must stop the recipe from falling into the hands of the evil Shepherd Wong.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 772 members
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  • Casino Royale on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  David Niven,  Ursula Andress
    Director: Val Guest,  John Huston,  Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    This swinging spoof of Ian Fleming's spy hero concerns an aging James Bond (David Niven), reluctantly dragged out of retirement to face down the evil crime clique called SMERSH. In order to confound the enemy, the Secret Service sends five other agents, also under the name "Bond," and all six ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 2,847 members
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  • Casino Royale - Blu-ray (1966)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  David Niven,  Ursula Andress
    Director: Val Guest,  John Huston,  Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    This swinging spoof of Ian Fleming's spy hero concerns an aging James Bond (David Niven), reluctantly dragged out of retirement to face down the evil crime clique called SMERSH. In order to confound the enemy, the Secret Service sends five other agents, also under the name "Bond," and all six ..read more »
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  • What's New Pussycat on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  Peter Sellers,  Woody Allen
    Director: Clive Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A notorious womanizer, fashion editor Michael James (Peter O'Toole) decides to seek the help of a psychiatrist when he begins to feel that his inability to commit to a relationship is adversely affecting his personal life. Desperate to remain faithful to his fiancée Carole (Romy Schneider), Michael ..read more »
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Woody Allen facts

5 most recent films

Midnight in Paris - 3.5 stars
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger - 3.0 stars
Whatever Works - 3.0 stars
Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Play It Again Sam - 3.5 stars
Manhattan - 3.5 stars
Midnight in Paris - 3.5 stars
Glass - A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts - 3.5 stars
Hannah And Her Sisters - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Casino Royale - Blu-ray - 3 stars
The Outsider - A Film About James Toback - 3.0 stars
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Wild Man Blues - 4.0 stars
Company Man - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Mia Farrow - 21 times - show films
Diane Keaton - 17 times - show films
Julie Kavner - 12 times - show films
Tony Roberts - 10 times - show films
Alan Alda - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Scott Hicks - 4 times - show films
Robert P - 3 times - show films
Ken Hughes - 3 times - show films
Val Guest - 3 times - show films
John Huston - 3 times - show films