Marc Forster Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: It often seems that people find their true callings in the most unexpected manner, and for a young boy growing up in a remote town in Switzerland who didn't see a movie until he was 12 years old, the prospect of growing up to become a movie director may have seemed as unlikely as they come. Upon...Read More

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The Jury

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Director Marc Forster (The Kite Runner) adapts Pete Travis' 2002 courtroom drama miniseries with this Fox 2000 production from a script by playwright Beau Willimon. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
Quantum of Solace

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Craig, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Olga Kurylenko

Synopsis: A devastating betrayal sends James Bond from Australia to Italy and South America on a mission of vengeance that pits the suave super-spy against a powerful businessman with diabolical intentions. Betrayed by Vesper, 007 (Daniel Craig) suppresses the urge to make his latest mission personal as he Read More

10/31/08
The Kite Runner

Crew: Director

Actors: Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Zekiria Ebrahimi, Shaun Toub

Synopsis: Finding Neverland director Marc Forster adapts author Khaled Hosseini's critically acclaimed novel about two childhood best friends forever torn apart as their country is ravaged by endless war and bitter strife. As children, Amir (Khalid Abdalla) and Hassan were inseparable; their long days under Read More

12/14/07
Stranger Than Fiction

Crew: Director

Actors: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson

Synopsis: A socially isolated IRS agent whose every move is documented by a disembodied female voice discovers that his life is the subject of a book currently being written by a best-selling author, whose creative block has stunted her repeated efforts to kill him off, in a quirky fantasy comedy written by Read More

11/10/06
Stay

Crew: Director

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling, Janeane Garofalo, B.D. Wong, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: A man struggling to save the life of another finds himself drawn into a strange netherworld he didn't know existed in this stylish thriller. Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) is a psychiatrist living in New York City with his girlfriend, Lila Culpepper (Naomi Watts), who was once one of his patients. Read More

10/21/05
Sueño

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Leguizamo, Ana Claudia Talancón, Elizabeth Peña, Nestor Serrano, Jose Maria Yazpik

Synopsis: An aspiring musician looking to break big finds the singer who may finally be able to make his dreams come true in director Renee Chabria's musical drama starring John Leguizamo and Elizabeth Peña. There's nothing that Antonio (Leguizamo) wants more out of life than to be standing on the stage Read More

9/30/05
Brasileirinho

Crew: Producer

Actors: Thelma De Freitas

Synopsis: Innumerable documentaries have explored the essence and cultural legacy of such universalized strands of Brazilian music as samba<>I> and bossa nova; Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki's Brasileirinho) represents the first to unearth and dissect the highly regional Brazilian musical strain Read More

2005
Finding Neverland

Crew: Director

Actors: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell, Dustin Hoffman, Freddie Highmore

Synopsis: Following up his critically acclaimed Monster's Ball, director Marc Forster took on this biography of playwright James Matthew Barrie, the scribe who penned the children's classic Peter Pan. Johnny Depp stars as the turn-of-the-century writer as the film follows Barrie as he struggles to write and Read More

11/12/04
Suena

Crew: Producer

2004
Monster's Ball

Crew: Director

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger, Halle Berry, Peter Boyle, Sean Combs

Synopsis: Director Marc Forster, winner of Best Feature at Slamdance for his debut film Loungers (1996) and the "Someone to Watch" Independent Spirit Award for his indie drama Everything Put Together (2000), follows up those acclaimed projects with this intense, racially charged romance. Billy Bob Thornton Read More

12/26/01
Everything Put Together

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Megan Mullally, Justin Louis, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Alan Ruck

Synopsis: Marc Forster directs this chilling psychological drama about a young mother trying to come to terms with the loss of her first born. Angie (Radha Mitchell) and her husband Russ (Justin Louis) live a quiet suburban life. At the film's opening, Angie, along with her best friends Judith (Catherine Lloyd Burns Read More

11/2/01