Barbra Streisand Filmography

Meet the Fockers

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner

Synopsis: After suffering the humiliation of being given the third degree by his girlfriend's father, one man now faces the even more embarrassing task of introducing his own mother and father in this star-studded sequel to the box-office smash Meet the Parents. After getting off on the wrong foot (to put Read More

Inside the Actors Studio: Barbra Streisand

Actors: Barbra Streisand, James Lipton

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand takes the legendary New School stage in conversation with James Lipton for this very special two-hour episode of the Bravo series Inside the Actors Studio. In it, the powerhouse diva, cinematic multihyphenate, and social activist retraces numerous phases of her early life -- from Read More

The Directors: Barbra Streisand

Actors: Barbra Streisand

Synopsis: Directors: Barbra Streisand profiles the actress, producer, film director, and notorious perfectionist. Streisand, who directed Yentl, The Prince of Tides, and The Mirror Has Two Faces, discusses the challenge and responsibility of being a female power player in the male-centered entertainment Read More

What Makes a Family

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Co-produced by Barbra Streisand and Whoopi Goldberg, the made-for-TV What Makes a Family stars Brooke Shields, cast against type as a woman happily committed to a lesbian relationship. Yearning for a family of their own, Janine Nielsen (Shields) and her partner, Sandy Cataldi (Cherry Jones), elect Read More

Frankie and Hazel

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joan Plowright, Mischa Barton, Ingrid Uribe, Richard Yniguez

Synopsis: Two friends get their first taste of adult responsibilities in this made-for-cable comedy-drama. Francesca (Mischa Barton) and Hazel (Ingrid Uribe) are two 12-year-old girls growing up in Percaucus, an economically depressed community that's seen better days. Hazel, who has an avid interest in Read More

Reel Models: The First Women of Film

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon, Hilary Swank, Minnie Driver, Barbra Streisand

Synopsis: Barbara Streisand produces this documentary look at four early cinematic female innovators -- Alice Guy, Lois Weber, Frances Marion, and Dorothy Arzner -- narrated by Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon, Hilary Swank, and Minnie Driver, respectively. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Barbra Streisand

Synopsis: On December 31, 1999, Barbara Streisand gave a concert that she announced would be her last. This video, Barbara Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert, is a record of that event. Streisand performs 40 songs, including the standards "Something's Coming," "The Way We Were," "Evergreen," "On a Clear Read More

Harold Arlen: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Synopsis: Songwriter Harold Arlen is the subject of this documentary. Arlen wrote several songs for famous artists, but remained in the shadows as singers such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett received the acclaim. Arlen's most popular song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", the noted song from the Wizard of Read More

The Long Island Incident

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Laurie Metcalf, MacKenzie Astin, Tyrone Benskin, Cedric Smith, Elisa Moolecherry

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand and Cis Corman are the executive producers of this TV movie, filmed in Toronto by director Joseph Sargent (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three). The fact-based film recounts the aftermath of the night of December 7, 1993 when gunman Colin Ferguson (Tyrone Benskin) opened fire on a Read More

City at Peace

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rickey Payton, Sr., City At Peace Youth Performers

Synopsis: Susan Koch made this film record of a Washington, D.C., theater project (titled City at Peace) in which teens created performance exercises extending their personal experiences, a program planned as an alternative to life on the streets. Koch's film follows a dozen of the 60 participants in the Read More

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Elizabeth Perkins, Sela Ward, Anne Jackson, Fritz Weaver, Al Waxman

Synopsis: Based on Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, a book by Gay Block and Malka Drucker, this made-for-cable drama was intended as the first of a trilogy inspired by the same literary source. The film is divided into two segments, both set in Europe during WWII. Scripted by Ernest Kinoy Read More

The Mirror Has Two Faces

Crew: Director, Producer, Songwriter

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall, Pierce Brosnan, Mimi Rogers, George Segal, Elle MacPherson

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy-drama, a couple learns that the relationship between the mind and the body can take many different forms. Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand) is a plain and pudgy middle-aged college English professor who shares a house with her mother, Hannah (Lauren Bacall). Rose got the Read More

Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Jan Rubes, Wendy Makkena, Susan Barnes

Synopsis: Glenn Close won the "Outstanding Lead Actress" Emmy for her performance in this made-for-television drama about the rights of homosexuals in the military. Close stars as Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, an Army medical officer with an eye on a promotion who is suddenly tossed into discharge Read More

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the Arrowhead Pond

Synopsis: In 1994, Barbra Streisand embarked on her first concert tour in 28 years, presenting an ambitious show that attempted to chart the myriad twists and turns of a career that had so far spanned four decades, as well as her own life during a tumultuous time in American history. Barbra Streisand Read More

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand performs some of her most popular songs over the course of two mid-'90s shows at Las Vegas' MGM Grand hotel and casino in this concert film from Sony. Culled from performances by the legendary singer and actress on December 31, 1993, and January 1, 1994, Barbra Streisand: The Read More

The Prince of Tides

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Nick Nolte, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Kate Nelligan, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand directed and stars in this love story about two people of dissimilar backgrounds who form a connection based on their unhappy experiences. Adapted from the novel by Pat Conroy, the story concerns Tom Wingo (Nick Nolte), a rudderless, unemployed football coach. Stuck in a loveless Read More

Listen Up!: The Lives of Quincy Jones

Actors: Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis

Synopsis: The extraordinary life of Quincy Jones -- one of the 20th century's most influential and talented composers, musicians and music producers -- provides the basis of this offbeat, free-form documentary tribute. With little regard for formal timelines and traditional documentary biography methods Read More

Betsy's Wedding

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Alan Alda, Madeline Kahn, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper (Molly Ringwald) and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Jake Lovell(Dylan Walsh), just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie (Alan Alda), a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP Read More

The Earth Day Special

Synopsis: A cast of celebrities gathered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. It is an entertaining special that points out the crisis state of our planet's environment. It provides scientific facts and detailed analysis. The show provides ways in which everyone can participate in saving the Read More

Nuts

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Producer

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: High-priced hooker Barbra Streisand has been arrested for the murder of one of her clients. The attorney engaged by Streisand's parents hope to cop an insanity plea so that she can avoid a trial and manslaughter conviction. But she refuses this, citing a proviso in New York law which may result in Read More

Barbra Streisand: Putting it Together - The Making of "The Broadway Album"

Barbra Streisand: Unforgettable & Special

Synopsis: Legendary entertainer Barbra Streisand sings her way through twenty-two standards and favorites before an appreciative live audience in this release of a vintage concert featuring an impressive collection of hits that includes "Give me the Simple Life," "When the Sun Comes Out," "Lover Where Can Read More

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

Synopsis: Originally broadcast as an exclusive special on HBO, Barbra Streisand launched her September 6, 1986 concert One Voice, in part, as a protest against Reagan-era nuclear arms proliferation in the late Cold War; the event marked the diva's first official live performance since 1972. Streisand and Read More

Directed by William Wyler

Actors: William Wyler, Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Lillian Hellman, Gregory Peck, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: This excellent biographical documentary looks at the life and work of director William Wyler. The film is dominated by clips from many of Wyler's better-known works, such as Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur, and Funny Girl. A long interview with the director himself (conducted a few days before he died) Read More

Yentl

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff, Steven Hill

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand's directorial debut, Yentl, is a musical adaptation of a story by the beloved Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. Yentl (Streisand) is a young woman who wants nothing more than to study religious scripture. She is denied that possibility because she is a woman. She moves, passes Read More

All Night Long

Actors: Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, Diane Ladd, Dennis Quaid, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: Gene Hackman plays a disgruntled suburbanite who manages the Ultra-Sav, an all-night drugstore. He hates his job, hates his debts and responsibilities, and isn't overly fond of his wife (Diane Ladd) and son (Dennis Quaid). Partly as a form of protest, Hackman enters into an affair with Barbra Streisand Read More

The Main Event

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Sand, Patti D'Arbanville, Whitman Mayo, Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal attempt to recapture the screwball spark of What's Up, Doc? in the labored farce The Main Event. Streisand plays Hillary Kramer, a bankrupt perfume executive who discovers that one of her tax write-offs from more prosperous times was the ownership of prizefighter Read More

A Star Is Born

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Paul Mazursky, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark

Synopsis: The third remake of the 1932 drama What Price Hollywood?, this adaptation of A Star Is Born moved the story into the mid-1970's and changed the milieu from the movie business to pop music. John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson) is a rock star whose career has peaked; he is numbed by booze and Read More

Funny Lady

Actors: Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: Funny Lady, the follow-up to the 1968 Funny Girl which made a movie star of Barbra Streisand, picks up the character of Fanny Brice in the 1930s. Although she is a tremendously famous Broadway star, she has suffered from the stock market crash and needs to boost her finances. Even Ziegfeld, who Read More

Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals

Synopsis: Originally produced for the late-night TV anthology ABC Wide World of Entertainment, this fascinating documentary guides the viewer through four decades' worth of 20th Century Fox musicals. Host Fred Astaire is amply represented via clips from his 1955 Fox starrer Daddy Long Legs. Also highlighted Read More

For Pete's Sake

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Michael Sarrazin, Estelle Parsons, William Redfield, Molly Picon

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand returns to the screwball-comedy milieu of What's Up Doc? in the lightweight For Pete's Sake. As a Brooklyn hausfrau named Henry (!), our heroine will do anything to help her cabdriver husband Pete (Michael Sarrazin) get ahead. When Pete begins to play the stock market, Henry Read More

The Way We Were

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Sally Kirkland, James Woods, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Patrick O'Neal, Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis: "Gorgeous goyish guy" meets Jewish radical girl in Sydney Pollack's glossy romance. In 1937, frizzy-haired Red co-ed Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand) briefly captures the attention of preppy jock Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford) with her passionate pacifism, while the writing talent beneath his Read More

Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments

Actors: Barbra Streisand

Up the Sandbox

Actors: Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Jane Hoffman, John C. Becher, Jacobo Morales

Synopsis: Up The Sandbox is a complex and difficult film, and it is ambiguous on many points, particularly on whether the protagonist Margaret Reynolds (Barbara Streisand) is a women's liberationist, a closet lesbian, or a masochist. Based on the novel by Anne Richardson Rolphe, it follows Margaret's Read More

What's Up, Doc?

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth Mars, Austin Pendleton, Sorrell Booke

Synopsis: With Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby (1938) as his blueprint, Peter Bogdanovich resurrected and payed homage to 1930s screwball comedy in What's Up, Doc? (1972). When wacky co-ed Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand, in the Katharine Hepburn part) spies nebbishy musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal Read More

The Owl and the Pussycat

Actors: Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Robert Klein, Allen Garfield, Roz Kelly

Synopsis: The Owl and the Pussycat began life as a two-character Broadway play by Bill Manhoff, about a stuffy author who entered into an explosive relationship with his neighbor, a foulmouthed, freewheeling prostitute. Manhoff wrote the part of the hooker for a black actress, but all that changed when Barbra Streisand Read More

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: Vincente Minnelli directed, and Alan Jay Lerner adapted the stage musical he had written with Burton Lane, for this this feature film version. Barbra Streisand stars as Daisy Gamble, a chain smoker who, at the urging of her uptight fiance Warren (Larry Blyden), seeks help in kicking the habit from Read More

Hello, Dolly!

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Louis Armstrong, Marianne McAndrew

Synopsis: Twenty-seven-year-old Barbra Streisand seemed an inappropriate choice for middle-aged, match-making widow Dolly Levi, but her energy carries her right through the role and dominates the lackluster movie around her. The plot, drawn from Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker (itself based on a Read More

Funny Girl

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon

Synopsis: "Hello, gorgeous!" was Barbra Streisand's first comment to the Oscar statuette which she won for her performance in this biopic of entertainer Fanny Brice. This is also her first line in the film itself, the catalyst for a movie-long flashback. Repeating her Broadway role, Streisand stars as Read More

Barbra Streisand: The Belle of 14th Street

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Jason Robards, Jr.

Synopsis: Experience turn-of-the-century vaudeville as few modern audiences have as singer Barbra Streisand pays loving tribute to a bygone era in a classic television special that features a variety of talented guest stars including Jason Robards, Susan Alpern, Lee Allen, and John William Sublett. Read More

Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park

Barbra Streisand: Color Me Barbra

Synopsis: This is a music performance video -- Barbra Streisand's second -- in which she performs "Yesterdays," "The Minute Waltz," and "Where Am I Going?" ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Barbra Streisand: My Name is Barbra

Synopsis: Originally telecast April 28, 1965, My Name is Barbra was Barbra Streisand's first television special. The taped, hour-long program is fragmented into three segments. In part one, Barbra plays a little girl making a comically painful transition to womanhood. Part two, taped at New York's Bergdorf Read More

Judy Garland: Judy Garland & Friends

Synopsis: In this collection of clips from The Judy Garland Show, which ran for 26 episodes on CBS television in 1963 and 1964, the legendary singer and actress performs a number of songs, several of them collaborations with up-and-comer Barbra Streisand, grand dame Ethel Merman, and Garland's own daughter Read More