Jodie Foster Filmography

The Brave One

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt, Naveen Andrews, Mary Steenburgen

Synopsis: Neil Jordan's The Brave One stars Jodie Foster as a happy woman whose life changes irrevocably after a brutal assault leaves her partner (Naveen Andrews) dead. The woman, feeling that the police investigation will be unable to catch the perpetrators, begins to live in constant fear. This outlook Read More

100 Films and a Funeral

Actors: Michael Kuhn

Inside Man

Actors: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Synopsis: The volatile showdown between a determined cop and a perfectionist bank robber is sent spiraling toward disaster when a scheming power broker steps in to take control of the situation in this hair-raising heist flick directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster Read More

Flightplan

Actors: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby

Synopsis: A woman is forced to prove her own sanity to save the life of her daughter in this taut thriller. Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a successful aircraft designer who has recently been dealing with the traumatic death of her husband. After traveling to Berlin on business with her six-year-old daughter Read More

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

Actors: George Clooney, Danny DeVito, Peter Bogdanovich, David Brown, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Take a walk on the fine line between box-office blockbusters and instantly forgettable bombs as Oscar and Emmy-winning producer/director Bill Couturie sets out to explore just what separates such high-profile hits as Jaws from such room-clearing disasters as Howard the Duck. Executive produced by Read More

A Very Long Engagement

Actors: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jean-Pierre Becker, Dominique Bettenfeld, Clovis Cornillac

Synopsis: Audrey Tautou, who rose to international stardom with the title role in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's worldwide smash Amélie, reunites with the director for this drama, set during the darkest days of World War I and its immediate aftermath. Mathilde (Tautou) is a pretty but frail young women who was left Read More

In the Company of Women

Actors: Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko, Patricia Clarkson, Jodie Foster, Shari Frilot

Synopsis: Gini Reticker and Lesli Klainberg direct the 74-minute documentary In the Company of Women, a production of the Independent Film Channel. The film offers an introduction to the major women of independent filmmaking, starting in the 1980s. It includes commentary from directors Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko Read More

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

Actors: James Cameron, Joe Dante, Dede Allen, Jerry Bruckheimer, Conrad Buff, Donn Cambern, Richard Chew, Anne V. Coates, Rob Cohen, Chris Columbus, Wes Craven, Jodie Foster, Antony Gibbs, Mark Goldblatt, Paul Hirsch, Alan Heim, Tina Hirsch, Peter Honess, Joe Hutshing, Michael Kahn, Lawrence Kasdan, Chris Lebenzon, Carol Littleton, George Lucas, Richard Marks, Craig McKay, Sally Menke, Anthony Minghella, Walter Murch, Alexander Payne, Sean Penn, Tom Rolf, Howard Smith, Pietro Scalia, Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Zach Staenberg, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Tent, Michael Tronick, Frank J. Urioste, Paul Verhoeven, Jay Cassidy, Kevin Tichenor, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Editing teaches the viewer how editors compile strips of film in order to create memorable moviegoing experiences. In addition to interviews with a variety of respected and award-winning editors, the movie offers clips form some of the most memorable films in the Read More

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone, Emile Hirsch, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jodie Foster

Synopsis: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys brings Chris Fuhrman's well-received, posthumously published teen novel to the screen. Set in the 1970s, the film concerns two rebellious Catholic schoolboys -- bashful, pensive Francis (Emile Hirsch) and whip-smart, impulsive Tim (Kieran Culkin) -- who spend Read More

Panic Room

Actors: Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto, Kristen Stewart

Synopsis: A well-regarded spec script by A-list screenwriter David Koepp became this stylish thriller from director David Fincher. Jodie Foster stars as Meg Altman, a single mother of an diabetic preteen daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart). Meg's going through an unhappy divorce that forces her and Sarah to Read More

20th Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years

Synopsis: This documentary about the movie studio 20th Century Fox takes a look at the hit films produced by the company during the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. It includes clips from classics like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Star Wars, Alien, Speed, Titanic, and Fight Club, interspersed with comments Read More

Waking the Dead

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Molly Parker, Janet McTeer, Paul Hipp

Synopsis: A man finds his melancholy turning to madness in this thriller. Young lawyer Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) has just thrown his hat in the ring for an upcoming congressional election. He has also been haunted by the memory of his girlfriend Sarah (Jennifer Connelly), who recently died in a car Read More

The Directors: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: The American Film Institute's Directors: Martin Scorsese profiles the great director and offers insight into Scorsese's working methods, philosophies, and intentions. The documentary examines his total career, including his apprenticeship with Roger Corman, the great controversy over Last Temptation of Christ Read More

The Directors: Robert Zemeckis

Synopsis: The American Film Institute's Directors: Robert Zemeckis profiles the Academy Award-winning director of blockbuster hits and critic's picks. The video chronicles Zemeckis progression from a teenager obsessed with making 8 mm movies to a hungry USC Film School student to a red-hot Hollywood Read More

Anna and the King

Actors: Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat, Bai Ling, Tom Felton, Syed Alwi

Synopsis: The true story of Anna Leonowens' experiences as a governess to the children of an eccentric Asian king has been adapted into a book of memoirs, a biography, a stage play called Anna and the King of Siam -- which was adapted into a 1946 film, a stage musical called The King and I -- made into both Read More

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies: In Search of...

Actors: Jodie Foster

Synopsis: In this installment of AFI's 100 Years. . .100 movies, viewers take a look back at some of American film's greatest films. This episode examines the role of the quest in American film, investigating movies whose characters are in search of a state of grace. Films looked at include The Searchers Read More

The Baby Dance

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Laura Dern, Stockard Channing, Peter Riegert, Richard Lineback, Wally Dalton

Synopsis: For this TV movie, writer-director Jane Anderson adapted her own play contrasting biological and adoptive mothers. Impoverished and pregnant Wanda LeFauve (Laura Dern) lives in a trailer outside Shreveport with her four children and her unemployed husband Al LeFauve (Richard Lineback). When Wanda Read More

NOVA: Everest - The Death Zone

Synopsis: We may never know what drives people to risk life and limb tackling the most dangerous peak in the world, but Nova is there investigating the hard science of what happens to human bodies once they enter "the death zone." Frozen, oxygen-depleted, dehydrated, buffeted by high winds and solar Read More

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies: The Antiheroes

Actors: Jodie Foster

Synopsis: In this episode of AFI's 100 Years. . .100 movies, viewers examine and celebrate films about outcasts, those who live by their own rules. Films looked at include The Wild Bunch, Citizen Kane, Raging Bull, and many others. Other titles in the AFI series include Beyond the Law and Family Portraits Read More

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies: Fantastic Flights

Actors: Jodie Foster

Synopsis: In this episode of AFI's 100 Years. . .100 movies, viewers examine those films that provide perhaps the movies' greatest feat -- transport to another world. Films looked at include The Wizard of Oz, Fantasia, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and many more. Other titles in the AFI series include Beyond the Read More

Contact

Actors: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: The search for life outside our solar system becomes a personal and spiritual quest for a young researcher. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a scientist who lost her faith in God after her parents died when she was a child. However, Ellie has learned to develop a different sort of faith in the Read More

Frasier: Moon Dance

Synopsis: In preparation for the annual Snow Ball, Niles (David Hyde Pierce) takes dancing lessons from Daphne (Jane Leeves). He hadn't actually planned to take her to the ball -- but that's how things wind up. Upon seeing his estranged wife, Maris, with her date, Niles determines to show her up by Read More

Home for the Holidays

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Holly Hunter, Robert Downey, Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: It's been said that while most people love their families, they don't always like them very much, and that emotional dividing line is the heart of this comedy directed by Jodie Foster. Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) usually approaches family reunions with a certain trepidation, but as she prepares Read More

Maverick

Actors: Noah Emmerich, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, James Coburn

Synopsis: A gunslinging con man develops a tricky scheme to make a killing at a major poker tournament in this comic Western inspired by the popular television show. Mel Gibson assumes the role of Bret Maverick, the handsome rogue who hopes to cheat his way to success. In need of a large stake to enter a Read More

Nell

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Richard Libertini, Nick Searcy

Synopsis: A woman is brought to civilization after spending her life in the wilds in this drama. Dr. Jerome Lovell (Liam Neeson) happens upon a shack deep in the woods, where he discovers a strange woman who appears to be about 30, speaking an incomprehensible language. The woman, named Nell (Jodie Foster) Read More

It Was a Wonderful Life

Actors: Jodie Foster

Synopsis: For the six women profiled in the documentary It Was A Wonderful Life, the emphasis is on the word was. They all went from a comfortable middle-class existence to dire poverty and homelessness when the support of their husbands was withdrawn by divorce or abandonment. Nonetheless, as a group, they Read More

Sommersby

Actors: Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Lanny Flaherty, James Earl Jones, Wendell Wellman, William Windom, Bill Pullman

Synopsis: This Americanized remake of the French classic The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) transports the story's setting from the 16th century Gallic countryside to 19th century Tennessee at the conclusion of the U.S. Civil War. Richard Gere stars as Jack Sommersby, a wealthy landowner who returns to his Read More

Hollywood Remembers: All About Bette

Synopsis: Known equally for her steely persona as her award-winning talent, Bette Davis was Tinseltown's greatest diva. Her legacy is documented in Hollywood Remembers: All About Bette. Davis took the movie business by storm playing everything from a fragile blind woman to a vicious killer. Her years at the Read More

Shadows and Fog

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, Madonna, Kathy Bates, Lily Tomlin, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and Death Read More

Little Man Tate

Crew: Director

Actors: Jodie Foster, Adam Hann-Byrd, Dianne Wiest, Harry Connick, Jr., David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: Jodie Foster made her directorial debut (with a script by Scott Frank) in this tale of a child prodigy's search for social acceptance. Fred Tate (Adam Hann-Byrd) is a precocious fourth grader who has no problem with the most complex mathematical problems or in banging out a Rachmaninoff concerto Read More

The Silence of the Lambs

Actors: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith

Synopsis: In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then Read More

Backtrack

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, John Turturro, Fred Ward

Synopsis: Originally prepared for European release under the title Catchfire, Backtrack wasn't given a wide distribution until 1991, and then only to capitalize on the Oscar win of Silence of the Lambs star Jodie Foster. In Backtrack, Foster plays a youngish innocent who witnesses a mob hit. Professional Read More

Rabbit Ears: The Fisherman and His Wife

Synopsis: Based on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, this story features cut-out animation in relating the adventures of a kindly fisherman and his greedy wife. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Accused

Actors: Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson, Leo Rossi, Ann Hearn

Synopsis: Based on a real-life 1983 incident, The Accused tells the story of Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster), a working-class party girl who likes to live it up with her friends and flirt hard with the guys. After a fight with her boyfriend, she heads to a local bar to cool down -- and after a few drinks, plus Read More

Stealing Home

Actors: Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jodie Foster, Jonathan Silverman, Harold Ramis

Synopsis: The storytelling device of the flashback gets an intense workout in this tragic coming of age drama. Mark Harmon stars as washed-up baseball player Billy Wyatt, who is shocked when he receives news that his childhood sweetheart and friend Katie Chandler (Jodie Foster) has committed suicide and Read More

Five Corners

Actors: Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff, John Turturro, Elizabeth Berridge

Synopsis: Quirky comedy, intense drama, and warm nostalgia are all combined in this eccentric look at one night in 1964 amongst the residents of the Five Corners neighborhood of the Bronx. The bulk of the film concerns Linda (Jodie Foster), a young woman who finds herself stalked by a disturbed rapist fresh Read More

Siesta

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Isabella Rossellini, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: Sky diver Clare (Ellen Barkin) wakes up disheveled and almost naked in Spain. She has left her husband Del (Martin Sheen) in Death Valley in order to find her former lover Augustine (Gabriel Byrne). She may have committed a murder, or it may all be fantasy. This film, directed by Mary Lambert is Read More

Mesmerized

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy, Harry Andrews, Dan Shor

Synopsis: This psychodrama is set in New Zealand during the 1880s and is based on the true story of an orphaned 18-year-old who marries a cruel, much-older man. He constantly abuses her and keeps her under his thumb until she snaps and using hypnotism, kills him. Later she is tried in court. ~ Sandra Read More

The Hotel New Hampshire

Actors: Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: This macabre, whimsical, erotic, dark, seriocomic film is a complex tale about an eccentric family and the psychological and emotional maelstroms that follow them around from New England to New York to Vienna, where the Hotel New Hampshire is located. Writer-director Tony Richardson worked from Read More

The Blood of Others

Actors: Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Lambert Wilson, Marie Bunel, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: Produced on behalf of the HBO cable service, The Blood of Others is a rare venture into English-language filmmaking by Claude Chabrol. Set during World War II, the film stars Jodie Foster and Michael Ontkean as a pair of French resistance fighters. If you can swallow that, then you'll accept New Read More

Svengali

Actors: Peter O'Toole

Synopsis: Peter O'Toole goes over-the-top as a has-been rocker who mentors a young female singer. This version of the old story was made for cable television. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

O'Hara's Wife

Actors: Ed Asner, Mariette Hartley, Jodie Foster, Perry Lang, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: This ghostly made-for-television romance tells the story of a struggling widower who finds that life becomes easier once his beloved comes back from the grave to assist him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Foxes

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

Carny

Actors: Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson, Elisha Cook, Jr., Meg Foster

Synopsis: In Robert Kaylor's Carny, the world of the carnival is an illusion manipulated by the carnies to fleece the suckers. The marks generally deserve what they get, because of their greed, corruption, or just plain stupidity. It's share and share alike for Frankie (Gary Busey) and Patch (Robbie Robertson Read More

Il Casotto

Actors: Jodie Foster, Paolo Stoppa, Ugo Tognazzi, Mariangela Melato

Synopsis: This farce features Jodi Foster, Catherine Deneuve, and Ugo Tognazzi. Tersina (Foster) is a pregnant teen whose parents want her married, pronto. Cerquette (Tognazzi) is an insurance man who wears a chastity belt to keep him from ravishing the two women he desires. A pair of bachelors liven up the Read More

Moi, Fleur Bleue

Actors: Jodie Foster, Jean Yanne, Sydne Rome, Bernard Giraudeau, Lila Kedrova

Synopsis: Isabelle (Jodie Foster) is a young American girl who has accompanied her older sister Ble (Sydne Rome) a model, to Paris. There, the two of them have romances. For the teenaged Isabelle, her romantic and sexual encounter with Isidore (Bernard Giraudeau) is her first. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Read More

Candleshoe

Actors: David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern, Veronica Quilligan

Synopsis: Though she owns a large estate and is herself a noblewoman, Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes) is anything but rich. Indeed, if she cannot raise the money needed to pay taxes on the estate, she and the large crew of orphans she has taken in will be thrown out. Legend has it that one of her ancestors, a Read More

Taxi Driver

Actors: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster

Synopsis: "All the animals come out at night" -- and one of them is a cabby about to snap. In Martin Scorsese's classic 1970s drama, insomniac ex-Marine Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works the nightshift, driving his cab throughout decaying mid-'70s New York City, wishing for a "real rain" to wash the Read More

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

Actors: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman, Scott Jacoby

Synopsis: In this Canadian thriller, Jodie Foster plays the title character, a reclusive, fiercely self-reliant teenager who lives alone in her father's house. When visitors call, Foster explains that her father is away on business. He's away, all right...far, far, away. And Foster, determined not to lose Read More

Freaky Friday

Actors: Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin, Patsy Kelly, Dick Van Patten

Synopsis: Prolific television director Gary Nelson made the Walt Disney live-action comedy Freaky Friday, based on the novel by Mary Rodgers. Barbara Harris stars as suburban housewife Ellen Andrews, the wife of Bill (John Astin) and the mother of Annabel (Jodie Foster) and Ben (Sparky Marcus). Ellen just Read More

Echoes of a Summer

Actors: Richard Harris, Lois Nettleton, Geraldine Fitzgerald, William Windom, Brad Savage

Synopsis: 14-year-old Jodie Foster portrays Deirdre Striden, an 11-year-old cancer victim in Echoes of a Summer. Eugene (Richard Harris) and Ruth (Lois Nettleton), her parents, are consumed by grief over the imminent demise of their daughter. It is Deirdre herself who, during a summer vacation in Nova Read More

Saturday Night Live: Jodie Foster

Actors: Jodie Foster, Brian Wilson

Synopsis: This 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Jodie Foster and features musical guest Brian Wilson. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Bugsy Malone

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 Secret Life of T.K. Dearing

Actors: Jodie Foster, Eduard Franz, Zoey Karant, Leonard Stone, Brian Part

Synopsis: A 12-year-old Jodie Foster makes one of her periodic ABC Afterschool Special appearances as the title character in The Secret Life of T.K. Dearing. Considered something of an oddball by her family and peer group, peppery preteen T.K. Dearing finds a friend and kindred spirit in her young-at-heart Read More

The Addams Family: The Circus Story

Synopsis: This video is more animated action from the Addams Family, when the ghoulish group finds there's sawdust in their veins and they heed the "call of the circus." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Alfred Lutter, Billy Green Bush, Diane Ladd, Lelia Goldoni

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's first Hollywood studio production also marked his first (and only) foray into a woman-centered story. Alice Hyatt (Ellen Burstyn), a resigned Southwest housewife, takes advantage of her trucker husband's sudden death to hit the road with her bratty son Tommy (Alfred Lutter) and Read More

The Addams Family: Ghost Town

Synopsis: In these zany cartoon creations of the Addams bunch, we find the family traveling coast-to-coast in a retrofitted castle-camper. Who says these guy have to stay home? These animated episodes, titled "Ghost Town," "Addams Go West," "Follow that Loaf of Bread," and "The Fastest Creepy Camper in the Read More

Smile, Jenny, You're Dead

Actors: David Janssen, Andrea Marcovicci, Zalman King

Synopsis: David Janssen stars as private eye Harry Orwell in the made-for-TV Smile, Jenny, You're Dead. Investigating the murder of his friend's son-in-law, Harry sizes up the dead man's wife Jenny (Andrea Marcovicci) as the most likely suspect. The actual killer--and we're really not giving anything away Read More