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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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47%
from 171 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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45%
from 134 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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Sean Casey joins the New York district attorney's office after years as a street cop and a part time law student. He successfully prosecutes a high profile case and feels that at last everything is within reach, but he soon discovers the case was based on tainted evidence...
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57%
from 311 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.
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52%
from 242 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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50%
from 19 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 »
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60%
from 349 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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51%
from 604 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 80 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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66%
from 80 members
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Prince Of The City
(1981)
Starring: Treat Williams
Director: Sidney Lumet
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A detective living a luxurious life style, finds himself lured into a web of betrayal, when he agrees to co-operate in an investigation of police methods.
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72%
from 18 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 689 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 951 members
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Network
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden
Director: Sidney Lumet
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With stunning prescience, Sidney Lumet's searing satire of television and the contemporary moment chronicles the media's imminent corruption and the public's wholesale purchase into the myths that it creates. With a verbose and visceral script from Paddy Chayefsky, NETWORK follows the doomed path ..read more »
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69%
from 5,925 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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Before Peter Finch was 'mad as hell' in NETWORK, Sidney Lumet's scorching indictment of the American television industry, Al Pacino played an equally ferocious and fed-up bank robber in Lumet's classic film DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Pacino is heartbreakingly real as Sonny, a smart and tough if self-..read more »
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72%
from 11,217 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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38%
from 44 members
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Serpico
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Watch now: £0.99
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 6,567 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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63%
from 501 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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THE ANDERSON TAPES, directed by Sidney Lumet, stars Sean Connery as a man who has just been released from a lengthy prison sentence. He quickly recalls his criminal past when he plots to rob every apartment in an large, wealthy building. What he does not suspect is that the entire building is ..read more »
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54%
from 487 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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66%
from 301 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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73%
from 176 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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71%
from 36 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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Following closely on the heels of Stanley Kubrik's DR. STRANGELOVE (all too closely for Kubrick and company, who quickly filed a lawsuit alleging plagiarism), Sidney Lumet's FAIL-SAFE employs a similarly stylized and heightened dramatic structure in its nerve-crushing moral tale. Taking place over ..read more »
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77%
from 270 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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80%
from 18,840 members
Sidney Lumet - watch online
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Serpico
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(1973)
Starring: Al Pacino, Tony Roberts, Jack Kehoe
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Run time: 90 minutes
Adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from Peter Maas's book, Sidney Lumet's drama portrays the real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system. Neophyte officer Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) is determined not to let his job get in the way of his individuality. Despite his ..read more »
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81%
from 45 members
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Child's Play
to Watch Now
(1972)
Starring: James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 167 minutes
Leon Prochnik adapted the evocative Robert Moresco play Child's Play for the screen, with Sidney Lumet assuming directorial duties. Beau Bridges stars as a young teacher at an exclusive Catholic boy's boarding school named Paul Reis. An outbreak of violence and brutality among the students has Reis ..read more »
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84%
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Sidney Lumet facts
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Courtroom classic 1 February 2005
...g time in one setting and still remain enthralling is testimony to its director Sidney Lumet and its heavyweight cast lead by Henry Fonda.
Fonda plays the eighth juror ...
Al Pacino is Brilliant 10 September 2008
Solid techno-thriller 14 January 2005
