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Hollywood stars pay tribute to Lumet -
10 April 2011
-Directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen have paid tribute to legendary Hollywood filmmaker Sidney Lumet, who died on Saturday (09Apr11) at the age of 86.-Lumet passed away at his New York home after a battle with lymphoma.- A host of movie stars have paid their re
Sidney Lumet - what members say
review by Zamy from London
It's in the acting 9 September 2010
review by lukey27 from Wolverhampton, England
Courtroom classic 1 February 2005
review by AMoore18 from Norwich
Al Pacino is Brilliant 10 September 2008
Sidney Lumet - filmography
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Gloria
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Sharon Stone, Jeremy Northam, George C. Scott
Director: Sidney Lumet
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GLORIA is a Sidney Lumet-directed story about a woman who is looking to renew her lease on life. After finally completing her prison sentence, Gloria (an exuberant Sharon Stone) is back on the streets of New York. Somehow she becomes responsible for Nicky (Jean-Luke Figueroa), a little boy who is ..read more »
 
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from 193 members
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Critical Care
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren
Director: Sidney Lumet
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CRITICAL CARE, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring James Spader, focuses on a young medical doctor, Werner Ernst, who rebels against the hospital that employs him when he realises that the doctors favour wealthy patients and those with generous medical insurance.
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from 163 members
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Night Falls On Manhattan
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Andy Garcia, Richard Dreyfuss, Lena Olin
Director: Sidney Lumet
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A lawyer discovers just how fine the line between good and evil can be in this drama based on the novel Tainted Evidence by Robert Daley. When a carefully-planned bust of drug dealer Jordan Washington (Shiek Mahmud-Bey) goes sour, a shootout between Washington and officers from three precincts ..read more »
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from 380 members
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Guilty As Sin
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson
Director: Sidney Lumet
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A brilliant female lawyer meets her match when she agrees to defend David Greenhill, a smooth-talking playboy accused of murdering his wife.
53%
from 284 members
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A Stranger Among Us
(1992)
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Tracy Pollan
Director: Sidney Lumet
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In Sidney Lumet's A STRANGER AMONG US, an undercover police detective, Emily Eden (Melanie Griffith), integrates into a Hasidic neighborhood in New York City in order to identify a murderer who is suspected to be a member of the community.
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from 22 members
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Q And A
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Taking its title from the stenographer's record in a criminal investigation, Sidney Lumet's brutal look at police corruption peers at the rotten center of crime-fighting institutions and spotlights one man's naive attempt to intervene. Timothy Hutton is young District Attorney Al Reilly, called in ..read more »
61%
from 419 members
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Family Business
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Connery, Hoffman, and Broderick star as three generations of a family formerly linked to organized crime. Grandfather Jesse has been in and out of jail, and his son Vito has decided to leave a life of crime in order to become a respectable family man, but when grandson Adam comes up with a can't-..read more »
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from 708 members
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Garbo Talks
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Master dramatist Sidney Lumet takes a gentler, more lighthearted approach to human nature in his gentle comedy GARBO TALKS. While the film centers on the main character's obsession with the great Greta Garbo, it is Anne Bancroft as the obsessed woman herself who is the luminous heart of the film. ..read more »
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from 102 members
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Deathtrap
(1982)
Starring: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Sidney Lumet faithfully adapts Ira Levin's witty play of intertwining intentions and duplicitous loyalties in his stinging thriller DEATHTRAP. Set in the glittering milieu of New York's Hamptons, the film stars Michael Caine as Sidney Bruhl, a washed-up writer of Broadway hit thrillers reeling from ..read more »
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from 97 members
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Prince Of The City
(1981)
Starring: Treat Williams
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Inspired by a true story, Prince of the City stars Treat Williams as a Manhattan detective who agrees to help the US Department of Justice weed out corruption in the NYPD. Williams agrees on the assurance that he'll never have to turn in a close friend. Wired for sound, Williams almost immediately ..read more »
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from 30 members
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The Wiz
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Dorothy, a young African-American kindergarten teacher leaves a large family dinner one night to chase after her dog during a New York City snowstorm and gets swept up by a cyclone and transplanted to the urban version of the land of Oz.
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from 918 members
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Equus
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Sidney Lumet directed this film version of Peter Shaffer's dramatic play, transforming theatrical symbolism into cinematic realism. Richard Burton received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance as Martin Dysert, a psychiatrist determined to unravel the disturbed mind of ..read more »
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from 1,194 member
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Network
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden
Director: Sidney Lumet
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A trenchant satire of trash TV, Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the dean of newscasters at the United Broadcasting System, is put out to pasture because he skews old. Network executive Max Schumacher (William Holden), Howard's best friend,..read more »
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from 8,202 members
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Dog Day Afternoon
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Al Pacino, Charles Durning, James Broderick
Director: Sidney Lumet
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On the blistering afternoon of August 22, 1972, two optimistic losers attempt to rob a Brooklyn bank-the frantic master-mind Sonny (Academy Award-winner Al Pacino, 'Scent of a Woman,' 'Carlito's Way'), and his slow-witted buddy Sal (John Cazale, 'The Godfather,' 'The Deer Hunter'). But then the ..read more »
72%
from 13,636 members
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Lovin' Molly
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges, Blythe Danner
Director: Sidney Lumet
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This Sidney Lumet-directed film focuses on two brothers in a small town in Texas who both love Molly Taylor so much they share her for forty years. LOVIN' MOLLY is based on a novel by Larry McMurtry.
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from 52 members
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Serpico
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Shot on location on New York's energetic and crime-filled streets, Sidney Lumet's SERPICO, based on Peter Maas's book, is a rousing portrait of courage in the face of insidious corruption, initiating a motif that Lumet would continue to mine in PRINCE OF THE CITY. Al Pacino is forcefully real as ..read more »
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from 8,236 members
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Offence
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Detective Sergeant Johnson (Sean Connery, in a career-defining role) has been on the Force for twenty years. He has seen too much dying, too much lying and too much maiming. When confronted with a suspect in a child-molesting case, he can no longer contain his fury.
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from 687 members
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The Anderson Tapes
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Dyan Cannon
Director: Sidney Lumet
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This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career criminal who's just been released from his latest prison term. Seeking a quick financial turnover, Anderson uses mob funding to finance an ambitious robbery. With a gang of expert thieves, Anderson sets about to rob ..read more »
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from 582 members
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The Deadly Affair
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: James Mason, Simone Signoret, Harry Andrews
Director: Sidney Lumet
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A Foreign Office man apparently commits suicide. A colleague is not convinced and teams up with a retired CID Inspector to look into it. They finally uncover a spy ring but in doing so endanger their own lives.....
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from 457 members
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The Hill
(1965)
Starring: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen
Director: Sidney Lumet
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THE HILL, a World War II drama directed by Sidney Lumet, focuses on the cruel British soldiers who were based in the desert in Libya, Africa.
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from 209 members
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The Pawnbroker
(1964)
Starring: Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Even social worker Marilyn Birchfield's love is inadequte in resurrecting the spirit of Sol Nazerman, a miserible New York pawnbroker who has become bitter and resentful after enduring Nazi imprisonment. Nazerman's sad convictions are reinforced when he learns that the real owner of the pawnshop ..read more »
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from 68 members
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Fail-Safe
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Based on the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe is set for the most part at Strategic Air Command headquarters, where a misguided transmission sends a squadron of bombers hurtling towards Russia, fully prepared to drop their atomic weaponry on Moscow. Air Force commander Frank ..read more »
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from 450 members
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Twelve Angry Men
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
Director: Sidney Lumet
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In the definitive version of Reginald Rose's timeless script, an all-white jury decides the fate of a youth accused of murder. This tightly constructed searing exposé of prejudice in the American legal system stars Henry Fonda and a pantheon of great character actors.
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from 23,547 members
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Sidney Lumet facts
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...Having recently viewed a number of Sidney Lumets films the one thing they all have in common is strong acting performances of the best sort: natural and un-forced. I am su...
