Alan ParkerFilmography

I Really Hate My Job

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Neve Campbell, Shirley Henderson, Alexandra Maria Lara, Anna Maxwell Martin, Oana Pellea, Danny Huston

Synopsis: As the employees at a London restaurant prepare for the arrival of a high-profile Hollywood actor, it quickly becomes apparent that the five women working to make this important meal a success suffer form delusions of grandeur. In the eye of most customers they're three waitresses, a cook, and a Read More

The Life of David Gale

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, Gabriel Mann, Matt Craven

Synopsis: The mystery of one man's guilt or innocence literally becomes a matter of life and death in this drama. David Gale (Kevin Spacey) was the head of the philosophy department at Austin University and the author of several well-regarded books; he was also an active and visible member of Deathwatch, an Read More

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Actors: Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick was one of the most acclaimed and controversial filmmakers of his generation, but he was also an intensely private man who rarely gave interviews and produced most of his films under a shroud of secrecy, which tended to foster a great deal of rumor and speculation about his working Read More

Angela's Ashes

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge

Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir by Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes is an alternately funny and heartbreaking look at growing up in Ireland. Born in Brooklyn, NY, young Frank (Joe Breen) moves at an early age to Limerick, Ireland, with his parents Angela (Emily Watson) and Malachy (Robert Carlyle Read More

Evita

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail

Synopsis: Evita is based on the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Actually, the film is more of an opera, with only short moments devoted to dialogue. "Evita" is the friendly, family version of the proper name "Eva," and this film tells the story of Eva Peron (1921-52), a woman whose name evokes Read More

Typically British

Synopsis: This documentary from British director Stephen Frears represents England's entry in the British Film Institute commissioned series, "Century of Cinema," designed to be a collection of the personal opinions of renowned international filmmakers concerning the cinema of their native countries. Frears Read More

The Road to Wellville

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack, Dana Carvey

Synopsis: This adaptation of the comic novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle is the story of real-life Corn Flakes inventor Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins), an eccentric health nut in the early 20th century. Convinced of the benefits of holistic health practices (mostly involving irrigation of the bowels Read More

The Commitments

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dave Finnegan, Johnny Murphy

Synopsis: "The Irish are the blacks of Europe, Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland, and the North Siders are the blacks of Dublin ... so say it loud -- I'm black and I'm proud!" Or so Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins) tells his slightly puzzled friends as he tries to assemble a rhythm & blues show band in a Read More

Come See the Paradise

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Stan Egi

Synopsis: One of the few American films to deal with the tragic story of the internment of Asian-Americans during World War II, Come See the Paradise opens in the late 1930s, as Jack McGurn (Dennis Quaid) is working as a union organizer in New York City. Jack finds himself on the wrong side of the law after Read More

Mississippi Burning

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Investigating the mysterious disappearances of the three activists are FBI agents Gene Hackman (older, wiser) and Willem Dafoe (younger, idealistic). A Southerner himself Read More

The Beiderbecke Connection

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After the success of the British mini-series The Beiderbecke Affair and its sequel The Beiderbecke Tapes, the BBC followed with The Beiderbecke Connection, the final installment of the trilogy. The lives of jazz lovers Trevor (James Bolam) and Jill (Barbara Flynn), now married and raising their Read More

Angel Heart

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fontelieu

Synopsis: The time is the 1950s: seedy Brooklyn private eye Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by shady Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to locate a pop singer who reneged on a debt. Harry ventures into Harlem, the first step of a Heart of Darkness-inspired odyssey. Each time Harry makes contact with someone Read More

Birdy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins, Sandy Baron, Karen Young, Delores Sage, Bruno Kirby

Synopsis: Director Alan Parker tackles this adapation of William Wharton's novel, which retains much of the source material's texture and complexity. Matthew Modine is Birdy, who comes back from Vietnam mentally shattered and deludes himself into thinking that he is a bird, an animal that has obsessed him Read More

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David, Kevin McKeon, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Inspired by Pink Floyd's album of the same name, Pink Floyd: The Wall is a dark, expressionistic musical, told from the point of view of Pink, a depressed rock musician. The film is structured around Pink's reflections on his life, all of which center on the building of "the wall." This wall is a Read More

Shoot the Moon

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Karen Allen, Peter Weller, Dana Hill

Synopsis: Director Alan Parker and writer Bo Goldman chronicle the emotional disintegration of an unhappy marriage. Albert Finney and Diane Keaton play George and Faith Dunlap, a seemingly happily married couple living with their four daughters in a converted farmhouse in Marin County, California. George is Read More

Fame

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Irene Cara, Paul McCrane, Barry Miller, Gene Anthony Ray, Lee Curreri

Synopsis: Fame is set at New York's High School of Performing Arts, where talented teens train for show-business careers. The film concentrates on five of the most gifted students: singer Irene Cara, actors Paul McCrane and Barry Miller, dancer Gene Anthony Ray, and musician Lee Currieri. More so than the Read More

Midnight Express

Crew: Director

Actors: Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paul L. Smith

Synopsis: Midnight Express is a harrowing tale of a naïve American caught in a nightmare of his own making thousands of miles from his home. Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is an American tourist visiting Turkey with his girlfriend Susan (Irene Miracle) when he's caught by customs officials trying to smuggle a Read More

Bugsy Malone

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, Florrie Dugger, John Cassisi, Martin Lev

Synopsis: Here's the basic "shtick" of Bugsy Malone: it's a gangster picture enacted by children. Acted out before scaled-down sets, the film details the career of Bugsy Malone (Scott Baio), who rises to the top of the criminal ladder in 1920s New York. Whenever gunfire is called for, the kiddie crooks Read More

The Evacuees

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Originally made for British television, The Evacuees was the first feature-length project of director Alan Parker. The film concentrates on the early war years, when London was under nightly attack from the German luftwaffe. It becomes necessary to evacuate the city children to the comparative Read More

Melody

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Camille Davies, Billy Franks, Craig Marriott, Kay Skinner, William Vanderpuye, Peter Walton, Tim Wylton, Jack Wild, Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde, Sheila Steafel, Roy Kinnear

Synopsis: An excellent musical score by the Bee Gees adds appeal to this curious little movie about two ten-year olds, Daniel and Melody (Mark Lester and Tracy Hyde) who are completely taken with each other and announce to their parents, in all seriousness, that they plan to get married. This marriage is Read More