John Cazale's resume as a film actor isn't long, but it's distinguished. Cazale appeared in five feature films, and each one...
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2009
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The American film industry took it upon itself to act as a cheerleader for United States and Allied military interests during...
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2008
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Director
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2007
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A wise guy turns his own trial upside down by serving as his own lawyer in this comedy drama based on a true story. In 1987,...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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2006
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In the late '60s, American culture experienced a period of change as the youth movement challenged conventional attitudes...
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2003
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One of the most compelling strokes of fate in the past millenium is the fact that the 20th century's most hated dictator and...
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2002
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Oscar-winning director Sidney Lumet, who began his career during the "golden age" of live television, returned to his TV...
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Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter
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2001
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Director
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1999
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A lawyer discovers just how fine the line between good and evil can be in this drama based on the novel Tainted Evidence by...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1997
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Sidney Lumet filmed this hospital satire at a Canadian studio. Alcoholic Dr. Butz (Albert Brooks in old-age makeup) advises...
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Director, Producer
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1997
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Director
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1993
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When a Jewish jeweler is found dead and his store is missing more than one million dollars in diamonds, a New York police...
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Director
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1992
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Fonda on Fonda offers an intimate look at one of America's most highly regarded megastars, the Academy and Tony award-winning...
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1992
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Hollywood Collection: William Holden - The Golden Boy takes a comprehensive look at an unconventional actor, who frequently...
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1991
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The extraordinary life of Quincy Jones -- one of the 20th century's most influential and talented composers, musicians and...
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1990
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Director, Screenwriter
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1990
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You've probably already guessed that the Family Business in this all-star melodrama is the business of crime. Adapted from a...
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Director
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1989
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Director
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1988
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In this excellent thriller, crisply directed by Sidney Lumet, Alex Sternbergen (Jane Fonda), a washed-up, alcoholic actress...
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Director
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1986
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A star-studded cast portrays political movers and shakers in this drama about politics and the media. Richard Gere is Pete...
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Director
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1986
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One of the few documentaries to shine a spotlight on directors in Hollywood, this informative film sketches out the 50-year...
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1986
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This bittersweet comedy is, among many other things, a tour de force for the marvelous Anne Bancroft. The star is cast as...
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Director
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1984
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Director, Executive Producer, Producer
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1983
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In Sidney Lumet's powerful courtroom drama The Verdict, Paul Newman stars as Frank Galvin, an alcoholic Boston lawyer who...
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Director
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1982
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Sidney Lumet provides another of his film adaptations of Broadway successes -- in this case Ira Levin's 1978 clever Broadway...
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Director
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1982
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Inspired by a true story, Prince of the City stars Treat Williams as a Manhattan detective who agrees to help the US...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1981
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In this Sidney Lumet romantic comedy, Max Herschel (Alan King) is a powerful businessman who keeps a bevy of beauties for...
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Director, Producer
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1980
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Sidney Lumet's The Wiz is the film version of the popular Broadway musical that retells the events of L. Frank Baum's classic...
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Director
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1978
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Richard Burton plays a psychiatrist who attempts to discover why young Peter Firth has taken to mutilating live horses. In...
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Director
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1977
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A trenchant satire of "trash TV," Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch...
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Director
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1976
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Based on a true 1972 story, Sidney Lumet's 1975 drama chronicles a unique bank robbery on a hot summer afternoon in New York...
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Director
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1975
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Director
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1974
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Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the...
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Director
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1974
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Director
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1974
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In The Offence, Sean Connery plays Johnson, a normally unflappable British police inspector who is emotionally shaken by a...
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Director
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1973
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Director
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1972
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This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career criminal who's just been released from...
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Director
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1971
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Having tackled every known film subject in his long career, from musicals to murder mysteries, Sidney Lumet tries his hand at...
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Director
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1970
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In this depressing slice of Southern decadence, Myrtle (Lynn Redgrave) is a woman of questionable virtue who marries an...
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Director, Producer
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1969
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Sidney Lumet directed this romantic melodrama involving deceit and marital secrets. The film takes place in Rome where lawyer...
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Director
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1969
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This is one of several film versions of the classic play by Anton Chekhov. The depressing tale of unrequited love begins when...
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Director, Producer
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1968
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Bye Bye Braverman is a bittersweet adaptation of Wallace Markfield's coldly cynical novel To an Early Grave. Braverman, an...
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Director, Producer
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1968
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Director, Producer
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1967
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Based on the novel by Mary McCarthy, The Group was one of the slickest, and most highly publicized, cinematic soap operas of...
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Director
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1966
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The Hill was unfairly subjected to ridicule by the more obtuse "critics" of 1965 who harped on the fact that it starred...
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Director
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1965
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Critically acclaimed Rod Steiger plays Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker who survived imprisonment in a Nazi concentration...
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Director
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1964
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Based on the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe is set for the most part at Strategic Air Command...
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Director, Producer
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1964
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A View from the Bridge is set in New York, but the alleged political undesirability of playwright Arthur Miller dictated that...
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Director
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1962
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Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold Random House the text of his intensely autobiographical 1941 play on the proviso that the play...
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Director
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1962
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Directing legend Sidney Lumet, of course, began his career in the Golden Age of American television, with a number of live...
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Director
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1960
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Fugitive Kind began life as Battle of Angels, a never-produced 1939 play by a young Tennessee Williams. Nearly 20 years...
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Director
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1960
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Director
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1960
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That Kind of Woman stars Sophia Loren as an Italian girl, Kay, who enjoys a brief wartime romance with American paratrooper...
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Director
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1959
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Adapted by Sally Benson (Meet Me in St. Louis) from the novel by Mary Mapes Dodge, this dazzling musical version of Hans...
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Director
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1958
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This remake of Zoe Akins' Morning Glory stars Susan Strasberg as Eva Lovelace, the role that won Katharine Hepburn her first...
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Director
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1957
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A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury...
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Director
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1957
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Created for TV by Sidney Lumet, Danger consists of three film noir episodes: "The Lady on the Rock," "Death Among the Relics"...
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Director
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1952
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1939
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Adapted from a play which was originally produced by the Federal Theatre Project (part of the WPA), this is a film from the...
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Joey Rogers
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1939
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