Stephen Gyllenhaal Filmography

Robbery Homicide Division [TV Series]

Crew: Director

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

The Shield: Dawg Days

Crew: Director

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Danny (Catherine Dent) and Lemonhead (Kenny Johnson) are moonlighting, working security at a "shake club," where rap impresario Kern Little (Sticky Fingaz) is having a party with his girl and fellow recording artist, Tyesha (Chene Lawson). Kern's rival and former labelmate, T-Bonz (Dex Elliott Sanders Read More

Talking to Heaven

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Diane Ladd, Queen Latifah, Jack Palance, Michael Moriarty

Synopsis: This two-part CBS TV movie was filmed as Talking to Heaven, the title of the autobiographical book upon which it was based. Ted Danson stars as real-life psychic James Van Praagh, a man who spent much of his life ignoring or denying his clairvoyant gifts until it became impossible for him to Read More

Warden of Red Rock

Crew: Director

Actors: James Caan, David Carradine, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Ticotin, Jim Beaver

Synopsis: James Caan stars in this made-for-cable Western as John Flinders, a former outlaw who by the year 1910 has settled down as the warden of Arizona's Red Rock Prison. Priding himself on his fair and humane treatment of his prisoners, Flinders finds his values -- and his loyalties -- sorely tested Read More

Homegrown

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Don La Fontaine, Billy Bob Thornton, John Lithgow, Hank Azaria, Kelly Lynch, Ryan Phillippe, Jon Bon Jovi, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ted Danson, Judge Reinhold

Synopsis: In this comedy thriller, set in northern California, inept but lovable pot farmers Jack Madsen (Billy Bob Thornton) and Carter (Hank Azaria) work for San Francisco entrepreneur Malcolm Stockman (John Lithgow), who arrives for a visit via copter. As soon as Malcolm steps out, the copter pilot Read More

The Patron Saint of Liars

Crew: Director

Actors: Dana Delany, Clancy Brown, Ellen Burstyn, Sada Thompson, Nancy Moore Atchison

Synopsis: Though she has struggled to put her past behind her, a woman finds the task impossible. This drama chronicles the events that transpire after she must learn to let herself get close to the man who married her even though he was aware she was pregnant from another man. Instead of repeating her Read More

Shattered Mind

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Actress Heather Locklear publicly stated that she hoped her bravura performance in the made-for-TV drama Shattered Mind would be a "career turner." Having endured an unhappy childhood from which she still carries unsavory secrets, young wife and mother Suzy (Locklear) goes completely around the Read More

The Terror Inside

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Heather Locklear, Brett Cullen, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin Dunn, Richard Herd

Losing Isaiah

Crew: Director

Actors: Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Daisy Eagan

Synopsis: Two women of dramatically different social, economic, and ethnic circumstances find themselves locked into a bitter child custody dispute in this emotionally powerful drama. Khailia Richards (Halle Berry) is a poor and drug-addicted single mother who, while stumbling out of a crack house one Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street - Bop Gun

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Robin Williams guest stars on the first of Homicide's four second-season episodes. Williams is cast as tourist Robert Ellison, who can't cope with the fact that his wife was killed in a holdup right in front of him and their children. Angrily demanding justice, Ellison may well get it when the Read More

A Dangerous Woman

Crew: Director

Actors: Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne, David Strathairn, Chloe Webb

Synopsis: Debra Winger's performance as a slow, mentally disturbed woman in A Dangerous Woman, raises the film far above its conventional, violence-ridden plot. Winger plays Martha, a quiet, lonely woman who has adjusted to a life without a man as she toils away at her small job at a dry cleaners in a small Read More

Waterland

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Ethan Hawke, Sinéad Cusack, John Heard, Cara Buono

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Graham Swift, this drama follows the past and present crises of schoolteacher Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons), who attempts to resolve the problems in his own life and the apathy of his students by relating stories of his troubled childhood in the English Fens (a marshy region in Read More

Paris Trout

Crew: Director

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris, Ray McKinnon, Tina Lifford

Synopsis: Peter Dexter adapted his National Book Award-winning novel for this probing made-for-cable film featuring Dennis Hopper in the title role as an unrepentant racist in 1949 Georgia. Trout is a greedy and paranoid shopkeeper who murders the sister and mother of a black man who refuses to repay Read More

Family of Spies: The Walker Spy Ring, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Powers Boothe, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: The true story of American turncoat John Walker, Jr. is related blow-by-blow in this made-for-TV movie. Powers Boothe stars as Walker, a Navy petty officer who spends half of his career selling secrets to the Soviets. At first the soul of discretion, the hard-drinking, philandering Walker Read More

A Killing in a Small Town

Crew: Director

Actors: Barbara Hershey

Synopsis: To escape from the boredom of her small-town life, Sunday School teacher Candy Morrison (Barbara Hershey) engages in an affair with a fellow churchgoer. When his wife Peggy learns about the relationship, she attacks Candy with an axe; after a struggle, Candy kills Peggy, hitting her 41 times with Read More

Promised a Miracle

Crew: Director

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Judge Reinhold

Synopsis: This fact-based TV drama recounts the trial of a California couple (Judge Reinhold and Rosanna Arquette) charged with manslaughter after their diabetic son died because they withheld his insulin due to their belief that a miracle from God would save him. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Leap of Faith

Crew: Director

Actors: Anne Archer, Sam Neill

Synopsis: A young woman learns that she has a lethal, rare kind of cancer. This fact-based, heart-wrenching made-for-TV drama chronicles her struggle to cope with her own personal feelings and those of her family. She then begins looking for alternative ways to treat her disease while her husband deals with Read More

Abduction

Crew: Director

Actors: Tracy Pollan

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama is based on the true story of a harrowing country abduction. Tracy Pollan stars as Kari Swenson, an Olympic biathlon athlete-in-training who is kidnapped by some reclusive, backwoods mountain men looking for marriage. The movie follows her captivity, the massive Read More

Certain Fury

Crew: Director

Actors: Tatum O'Neal, Irene Cara, Nicholas Campbell, George Murdock, Moses Gunn

Synopsis: This Canadian exploitational actioner offers a remake of the Defiant Ones with a contemporary twist: this time the fugitives are women. The Caucasian girl is a prostitute who was picked up for vagrancy, while the other is a wealthy African-American woman who, with her boyfriend, is arrested for Read More

The New Kids

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Shannon Presby, Lori Loughlin, James Spader, John Philbin, David H. MacDonald

Synopsis: Abby (Lori Loughlin) and her brother, Loren (Shannon Presby), seem to have it all: good looks, lots of friends, and a great relationship with their loving mom and their heroic, discipline-minded military dad. When their folks are killed in a car crash, however, the siblings must move to small-town Read More

What Are Best Friends For?

Crew: Director

Actors: Melora Hardin, Dana Hill, Susan Adams, Tasha Zemrus, Sally Kemp

Synopsis: Amy Warner (Melora Hardin) and Michelle Mudd (Dana Hill) are two 12-year-old girls with one thing in common: Their parents are going through the process of a divorce. Both girls are angry and resentful, especially because they feel they've been "deserted" by their fathers. Out of their grief the Read More

Rodeo Champ

Crew: Director

The Champion

Crew: Director

Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain

Crew: Associate Producer, Editor

Synopsis: This documentary examines the fight initiated by the Shoshone Indians of Nevada to claim some twenty-four million acres of land ceded to them in an 1863 treaty with the Federal government. However, not content simply to ignore their treaty, the government gives in to pressure from local white Read More