Michael MannFilmography

Born:: February 5, 1943 in Chicago, IL
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: American director Michael Mann studied at both the University of Wisconsin and the London International Film School before commencing his career in 1965. Getting his start working on TV commercials, Mann took his rapid-paced, flash-cut approach into documentary filmmaking, producing an...Read More

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Public Enemies

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi

Synopsis: Based on author Bryan Burrough's ambitious tome Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43, director Michael Mann's sprawling historical crime drama follows the efforts of top FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale ) in capturing notorious bank robber John Read More

7/1/09
Empire

Crew: Director

Actors: Will Smith

Synopsis: Will Smith stars as a media magnate in this Columbia Pictures drama penned by John Logan (Gladiator) and helmed by Michael Mann. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
Hancock

Crew: Producer

Actors: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Eddie Marsan, Johnny Galecki

Synopsis: A hard-drinking lush finds himself thrust into superhero mode in director Peter Berg's unconventional look at the private life of a crime-fighter. Will Smith stars as the embittered do-gooder whose lifestyle is more akin to a rock star than a role model, and who has grown as disillusioned with his Read More

7/2/08
The Kingdom

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Jeremy Piven, Danny Huston

Synopsis: In the aftermath of a deadly attack on American forces in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, diplomats are slow to act, but meanwhile, FBI special agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) assembles a secret team of U.S. counter-terrorism investigators to enter the city and find the criminal behind what has quickly Read More

9/28/07
Lisa Gerrard: Sanctuary

Actors: Lisa Gerrard, Russell Crowe, Brendan Perry, Michael Mann, Hans Zimmer

Synopsis: Filmmaker Clive Collier profiles Dead Can Dance singer Lisa Gerrard in a comprehensive documentary covering everything from the acclaimed vocalist's enduring partnership with guitarist Brendan Perry to her film solo work and beyond. Shot over the course of an entire year, the film offers an Read More

2007
Miami Vice

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds

Synopsis: Writer and director Michael Mann updates the groundbreaking television crime series he created in the 1980s with this stylish thriller. Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) and Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) are two police detectives working undercover in Florida; Tubbs is smart, cool, and resourceful Read More

7/28/06
The Aviator

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale biopic documenting the life and loves one of the most colorful Americans of the 20th century, Howard Hughes. The Aviator follows Hughes (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) as the twentysomething millionaire, having already made a fortune improving Read More

12/17/04
Collateral

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg

Synopsis: A taxi driver is unexpectedly taken on the ride of his life in this stylish thriller from acclaimed director Michael Mann. Max (Jamie Foxx) is a cab driver who hopes to some day open his own limo company; one night behind the wheel begins promisingly when he picks up Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith), an Read More

8/6/04
BAADASSSSS!

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: T.K. Carter, David Alan Grier, Nia Long, Paul Rodriguez, Ossie Davis, Rainn Wilson, Joy Bryant, Khleo Thomas, Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: In 1971, filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles released his third film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which he wrote, directed, and scored. Despite boasting an all-black cast, an X rating, a low budget, and a decidedly non-Hollywood approach to moviemaking, the ground-breaking independent film went on Read More

5/28/04
Robbery Homicide Division [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Sizemore, Barry "Shabaka" Henley, Klea Scott, David Cubitt, Michael Shamus Wiles

Synopsis: Michael Mann of Miami Vice fame was the principle guiding force behind the CBS cop drama Robbery Homicide Division. In a major casting coup, Mann managed to sign the extremely "hot" film star Tom Sizemore for the lead role of Sam Cole, a hard-nosed LAPD robbery-homicide investigator. As head of a Read More

2002
Ali

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver

Synopsis: Notoriously obsessive director Michael Mann and star Will Smith devoted nearly two years and over 100 million dollars from the coffers of Columbia Pictures and other financiers to creating this biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time Read More

12/25/01
The Insider

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: The Insider tells the true story of a man who decided to tell the world what the seven major tobacco companies knew (and concealed) about the dangers of their product. Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) was a scientist employed in research for a tobacco firm, Brown and Williamson. Not long after he Read More

11/5/99
Howard Hawks: American Artist

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Angie Dickinson, Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin, Walter Hill, Todd McCarthy

Synopsis: This British-produced documentary offers an insightful portrait of American filmmaker Howard Hawks, whose remarkable five decade long career encompassed some of Hollywood's best loved movies. Hawks' personal and professional life is recalled by such friends and co-workers as Todd McCarthy (the Read More

1997
Heat

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora

Synopsis: A successful career criminal considers getting out of the business after one last score, while an obsessive cop desperately tries to put him behind bars in this intelligent thriller written and directed by Michael Mann. Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is a thief who specializes in big, risky jobs Read More

1995
The Last of the Mohicans

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May, Wes Studi

Synopsis: Director Michael Mann based this lushly romantic version of the James Fenimore Cooper novel more on his memory of the 1936 film version (starring Randolph Scott) than on Cooper's novel (in fact, Philip Dunne's 1936 screenplay is cited as source material for this film). Set in the 1750s during the Read More

9/25/92
L.A. Takedown

Crew: Director

Actors: Alex McArthur

Synopsis: Producer/director Michael Mann, kappelmeister of the trendy TV series Miami Vice, tried to impose his MTV mentality on Tinseltown with L.A. Takedown. Los Angeles cop Scott Plank is on the trail of master thief Alex McArthur. After McArthur pulls off "the score of a lifetime," the crook and the cop Read More

1989
Miami Vice: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Edward James Olmos

Synopsis: The fifth and final season of the ultrahip crime series Miami Vice opens with a 2-parter resolving the incredible cliffhanger from Season Four. A blow on the head had caused Dade County vice cop Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) to assume the identity of his undercover alter ego Sonny Burnett, and Read More

1988
Miami Vice: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Edward James Olmos

Synopsis: Season Four of Miami Vice marks the first of several appearances by singer Sheena Easton in the role of recording star Caitlin Davies, with whom Dade County undercover vice cop Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) falls in love in the episode "Like a Hurricane"--and to whom he is abruptly wed in the very Read More

1987
Manhunter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: William L. Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina

Synopsis: Red Dragon, the Thomas Harris novel that introduced serial killer Hannibal Lecter to the world, was adapted for the screen by Michael Mann as Manhunter. Ace criminal profiler Will Graham (William Petersen) is very good at his job because he has the ability to make himself think like the killers he Read More

8/15/86
Band of the Hand

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Stephen Lang, Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly, John Cameron Mitchell, Daniele Quinn, James Remar

Synopsis: Former Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser warmed the director's chair for Band of the Hand. The film zeroes in on five juvenile delinquents who are plucked from their various detention facilities and unceremoniously dumped in the wilds of the Everglades. The boys begin to panic until Read More

4/11/86
Miami Vice: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Edward James Olmos

Synopsis: Season Three of the too-hip-for-the-room crime series Miami Vice opens with a bang as the beloved Ferrari of Dade County undercover vice cop Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) is accidentally blown up. This, however, proves easier to take than the jolt delivered to Crockett's partner Ricardo Tubbs Read More

1986
Crime Story [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dennis Farina, Anthony John Denison, John Santucci, Stephen Lang, Bill Smitrovich

Synopsis: Crime Story was a valiant attempt by Miami Vice producer Michael Mann to present a compelling police drama series in a serialized fashion. Introduced as a two-hour TV movie on September 18, 1986, the weekly, hour-long series was initially set in Chicago in 1963. Dennis Farina, a former cop in real Read More

1986
Miami Vice: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Edward James Olmos

Synopsis: Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), Dade County's coolest undercover vice cops, are back for more MTV-influenced adventures as Miami Vice begins its second season. Though there'd been friction between the two main characters in season one, their teaming is a Read More

1985
Miami Vice [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Miami Vice has been described as "the first cop show for the MTV generation." Brilliantly capturing the mood, the style, the rhythm, the pulsations, the bright electric colors, and the garish glitz of the early '80s, the weekly, 60-minute series was just a much an elongated music video (with a Jan Hammer Read More

1984
The Keep

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow, Robert Prosky, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: The Keep is an ambitious visual feast from director Michael Mann, whose previous effort was the moody, stylish Thief, and who would soon produce the quintessential pastel-colored '80s TV series Miami Vice. Adapted from the novel by F. Paul Wilson and set in German-occupied Romania of 1943, the Read More

1983
Thief

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: In Thief, James Caan plays Frank, a professional jewel thief who wants to marry Jessie (Tuesday Weld) and settle down into a normal life. In order to achieve his dream of a family, Frank--who is used to working solo--has to align himself with a crime boss named Leo (Robert Prosky), who will help Read More

1981
Swan Song

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: David Soul stars in the made-for-TV Swan Song as a former Olympic skiing champ. There is a consensus of opinion that Soul lost the Olympics when he withdrew due to a mysterious, possibly psychosomatic illness. Feeling that he was exploited and misused as an amateur, Soul stages a comeback at age Read More

1980
The Jericho Mile

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Strauss

Synopsis: Director Michael Mann co-wrote the teleplay for The Jericho Mile with Patrick J. Nolan. Peter Strauss stars as "Rain" Murphy, serving a life sentence in Folsom Prison for first-degree murder. To break up the boredom of prison life, Murphy begins running laps around the prison recreation track. Read More

1979