M. Night Shyamalan Filmography

Born:: August 6, 1970 in Madras, India
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: A director who struck gold with the 1999 blockbuster The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan came out of almost nowhere to become one of the year's greatest sensations. The second biggest moneymaker of 1999 (the first being Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace), The Sixth Sense also proved to be...Read More

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The Last Airbender

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Suspense auteur M. Night Shyamalan takes a break from crafting original screenplays to tell this tale of a 12-year old boy who provides the last hope for restoring harmony to a land consumed by chaos. In a world balanced on the four nations of Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, masters known as the Read More

7/2/10
The Happening

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley

Synopsis: Lady in the Water director M. Night Shyamalan puts PG-13 suspense on pause to tell this grim apocalyptic tale about a family fleeing a natural disaster that poses a grave threat to the whole of humanity. Philadelphia high-school science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) is discussing the Read More

6/13/08
Entourage: Sorry, Harvey

2007
Lady in the Water

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury

Synopsis: M. Night Shyamalan writes and directs this self-proclaimed, grown-up "bedtime story" about an apartment building superintendent named Cleveland (Paul Giamatti) who discovers a magical sea-nymph named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) who's been transported to this world and is living in the building's Read More

7/21/06
The Village

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrien Brody, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver

Synopsis: M. Night Shyamalan, the creative mind behind The Sixth Sense and Signs, wrote and directed this characteristically atmospheric thriller. The rustic village of Covington is a small town in rural Pennsylvania that is home to 60 souls. The citizens of Covington lead a quiet and peaceful life, but not Read More

7/30/04
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan

Actors: M. Night Shyamalan

Synopsis: Everyone has a skeleton or two in his or her closet, but what about the director behind some of the most successful thrillers ever to hit the silver screen? Could M. Night Shyamalan be hiding a deep, dark secret that drives his macabre cinematic vision? Now viewers will be able to find out Read More

2004
Signs

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Cherry Jones, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin

Synopsis: Following the smash hit The Sixth Sense (1999) and the under-performing follow-up Unbreakable (2000), directing phenom M. Night Shyamalan returns to the summer box office landscape that served as the backdrop for his cinematic breakthrough. In Signs, another paranormal outing for the Read More

8/2/02
Unbreakable

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn, Charlayne Woodard, Spencer Treat Clark

Synopsis: Actor Bruce Willis and writer/director M. Night Shyamalan reunite after the surprise success of The Sixth Sense for this supernatural thriller. David Dunne (Willis) is taking a train from New York City back home to Philadelphia after a job interview that didn't go well when his car jumps the Read More

11/22/00
Stuart Little

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Miles Marsico, Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Nathan Lane, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: E.B. White's classic children's story is brought to the screen in this fantasy, which combines computer-animated characters with a cast of live actors. Mrs. Little (Geena Davis), Mr. Little (Hugh Laurie), and their son George (Jonathan Lipnicki) live in a brownstone near New York's Central Park. Read More

12/17/99
The Sixth Sense

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg

Synopsis: In this tense tale of psychological terror, Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a child psychologist whose new patient has a problem far outside his usual area of expertise. Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) is six-years-old and claims to see the spirits of dead people all around him. It seems that Read More

8/6/99
Wide Awake

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Joseph Cross, Dana Delany, Denis Leary, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: In this film by writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, a young boy learns lessons about life and God during a trying year of discovery in fifth grade at a Catholic boys' school. As the school year opens, Joshua Beal (Joseph Cross) is despondent over the recent death of his grandfather (Robert Read More

1998
Praying with Anger

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: M. Night Shyamalan

Synopsis: In this affectionate and humorous drama, a boy who was entirely raised in the U.S. returns to his Indian birthplace for a year of college. At first he resists the wild, passionate irrationality of the place but gradually learns things about himself, his family, and his birthplace that help him Read More

1992