Adrian Lyne Filmography

Born:: March 4, 1941 in Peterborough, England
Occupation:: Director, Producer
Biography:: British-born director Adrian Lyne "grew up" professionally in TV commercials, carrying over the quick-cut, hard-sell techniques of that specialized genre into his first film, Foxes (1980). Lyne went on to embrace the burgeoning "MTV" directorial school for his breakthrough feature, Flashdance...Read More

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Crew: Director

1/1/08
Prince of Thieves

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Fatal Attraction director Adrian Lyne adapts author Chuck Hogan's Hammett Prize-winning novel concerning four thieves who are hunted on the streets of Boston by a determined FBI agent and a woman with the power to bring them all to their knees. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/08
Unfaithful

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan

Synopsis: Diane Lane is a wayward wife and Richard Gere is her suspicious husband in Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful. Connie (Lane) leaves her suburban home on an errand, venturing into Manhattan during a wicked windstorm. On a trash-strewn Soho street, she literally runs into Paul Martel (Olivier Martinez), a Read More

5/10/02
Lolita

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, Dominique Swain, Suzanne Shepherd

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov (previously filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962), Lolita stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert, a college literature professor. In early adolescence, Humbert fell hopelessly and tragically in love with a girl his own age, and, as he grew into adulthood, he Read More

10/2/98
Indecent Proposal

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Oliver Platt, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Adrian Lyne buffs the premise of Honeymoon in Vegas to a fine gloss in this yuppie melodrama that poses the conundrum of whether the loving husband of an equally loving wife will accept $1 million to allow his wife to spend one night with a billionaire who looks like Robert Redford. All the cynics Read More

1993
Jacob's Ladder

Crew: Director

Actors: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, Ving Rhames, Pruitt Taylor Vince

Synopsis: A tortured man finds himself caught in a middle-ground between hallucination and reality in this supernatural thriller, scripted by Bruce Joel Rubin of Ghost (1990) and My Life (1993).
Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is a soldier stationed in Vietnam who undergoes a traumatic experience on the Read More

11/2/90
Fatal Attraction

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Fred Gwynne, Ellen Hamilton Latzen, Mike Nussbaum

Synopsis: "Fatal attraction" has become a household term for love turned to murderous obsession, thanks to the success of Adrian Lyne's 1987 movie. Dan (Michael Douglas) is a family man whose one-night affair with Alex (Glenn Close) turns into a nightmare when she insists on continuing the relationship Read More

9/18/87
9 1/2 Weeks

Crew: Director

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Margaret Whitton, David Margulies, Christine Baranski

Synopsis: The title refers to the duration of the relationship between self-absorbed Wall Street shark Mickey Rourke and divorced art gallery owner Kim Basinger. Kim is looking for true love, while Mickey is searching for...gosh knows what. His notions of lovemaking include blindfolds, ice cubes, chocolate Read More

2/21/86
Flashdance

Crew: Director

Actors: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson, Kyle Heffner

Synopsis: Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel-mill welder by day, and bar dancer by night. Harboring dreams of a career in ballet, she is given financial support in this endeavor by her boss Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) and moral support by demanding but big-hearted instructor Hanna Long (Lilia Skala Read More

1983
Foxes

Crew: Director

Actors: Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, Lois Smith, Marilyn Kagan

Synopsis: Foxes details the exploits of four teenage San Fernando Valley girls as they drink, dope and sleep their way into oblivion. Jeanie (Jodie Foster, in a standout performance), the most grounded of the quartet, deals with her burned-out working-student-mother (Sally Kellerman, also excellent) while Read More

1980