Stephen LangFilmography

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Actors: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Lang

Synopsis: A reporter (Ewan McGregor) delves into the world of experimental psychic U.S. military units during the Iraq War in this adaptation of the Jon Ronson book The Men Who Stare at Goats. George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, and Jeff Bridges star in the Smoke House/BBC Films production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Read More

From Mexico With Love

Actors: Kuno Becker, Bruce McGill, Alex Nesic, Steven Bauer, Danay Garcia, Stephen Lang

Synopsis: Jimmy Nickerson, fight coordinator on such films as Raging Bull and Rocky, takes the directorial reins for this tale of a self-destructive amateur boxer seeking to follow in his father's footsteps by making a name for himself in the ring. Hector Villa (Kuno Becker) may have the spirit of a winner Read More

Public Enemies

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

Save Me

Actors: Chad Allen, Robert Gant, Judith Light, Stephen Lang, Robert Baker

Synopsis: They say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and in this look at one of the most polarizing religious and sexual debates in America, filmmaker Robert Cary attempts to reconcile homosexuality with Christianity. Mark (Chad Allen) is a young gay man who has fallen into a dangerous Read More

The Bronx is Burning

Actors: John Turturro, Oliver Platt, Daniel Sunjata

Synopsis: Filmed on location in New York and Connecticut, the ESPN miniseries The Bronx is Burning was a vivid (if not overly expensive) retelling of the New York Yankees' championship year of 1977. Heading the enormous cast of celebrity lookalikes were Oliver Platt as Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and Read More

The Treatment

Actors: Christopher Eigeman, Famke Janssen, Ian Holm, Harris Yulin, Stephanie March

Synopsis: A man and a woman are faced with an unusual "fifth wheel" in their relationship -- his analyst -- in this offbeat independent comedy. Jake Singer (Chris Eigeman) is a schoolteacher working at a respected private school for boys. Jake recently parted ways with his longtime girlfriend and isn't Read More

Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Hubert Selby, Jr., Lou Reed, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto

Synopsis: Hubert Selby Jr. was a powerful and influential literary figure whose best-known novels, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, dealt with the dark underside of life in a way that was bleak and often shocking, but also laced with compassion and understanding for the tortured lives of his Read More

The I Inside

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper Perabo, Robert Sean Leonard, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: Roland Suso Richter's psychological thriller The I Inside stars Ryan Phillippe as a man who, as the film opens, becomes involved in a terrifying accident that leaves him unable to remember the last two years of his life. As if the protagonist being unable to recognize his wife (Piper Perabo), and Read More

Gods and Generals

Actors: Kevin Conway, Robert Duvall, Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels, Mira Sorvino, Bruce Boxleitner

Synopsis: Director Ron Maxwell and producer Ted Turner return to the glory and tragedy of the Civil War in this historical drama, a prequel to Gettysburg, which examines the early days of the conflict through the experiences of three men. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels) left behind a quiet Read More

Code 11-14

Synopsis: FBI agents Kurt Novack (David James Elliott) and Andrea McInroy (played by Elliott's real-life wife Nanci Chambers) fly to Australia to follow up a lead on a serial killer who photographs his female victims before murdering them. Along for the ride are Novack's estranged wife Michelle (Terry Farrell Read More

Trixie

Actors: Emily Watson, Dermot Mulroney, Nick Nolte, Nathan Lane, Brittany Murphy, Lesley Ann Warren, Will Patton

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph directed and co-wrote this eccentric comedy about a woman who bumbles her way into fighting crime. Trixie Zurbo (Emily Watson) is a well-meaning but scatter-brained casino security guard, who dreams of a career as a private detective. Her ambition accidentally becomes reality when Read More

After the Storm

Actors: Benjamin Bratt, Armand Assante, Mili Avital, Stephen Lang

Synopsis: Adapted from an Ernest Hemingway story by Hemingway's longtime friend and associate A. E. Hotchner, After the Storm spent years in development before filming of the movie version began in 2000, several years after Hotchner's death. Set in the Bahamas in 1936, the story concerns a young fisherman Read More

The Fugitive [TV Series]

Actors: Tim Daly, Mykelti Williamson, Stephen Lang, Connie Britton, Bob Morrisey

Synopsis: A remake of the popular 1960s TV series of the same name (which had previously spawned a smash-hit 1993 theatrical feature), CBS' The Fugitive stakes out the old familiar ground. This time out, former Wings star Timothy Daly is cast as Dr. Richard Kimble, who was falsely accused of murdering his Read More

The Proposal

Actors: Jennifer Esposito, Nick Moran, Stephen Lang

Synopsis: Undercover cop Terry Martin (Nick Moran) has spent six months getting close to unctuous playboy kingpin Simon Bacig (Stephen Lang) and gathering evidence that will bring the brutal mobster to his knees. But when Bacig has a birthday party, Terry and his wife are invited, and attendance is not Read More

The Story of a Bad Boy

Actors: Jeremy Hollingworth, Christian Camargo, Stephen Lang, Julie Kavner, Lauren Ward

Synopsis: A teenager who is struggling with the usual trials of adolescence also has to deal with his homosexuality in the dramatic comedy The Story Of A Bad Boy. Pauly (Jeremy Hollingworth) is a 17-year-old Catholic boy who was booted from the parochial school he attended for kissing a nun. While he has an Read More

The Unknown Civil War: Battle of Shiloh

Synopsis: One of the bloodiest and militarily greatest battles occurred along the riverbanks of Shiloh, TN, during the War Between the States. This battle is considered one of the first major battles of engagement during that war -- a two-day conflict in April 1862 between Union forces under the commands of Read More

At the Mercy of a Stranger

Synopsis: Habitually abused by her arrogant surgeon husband Thomas (Stephen Lang), successful realtor Elizabeth Cooper (Joanna Kerns) has decided to get a divorce. Shortly after this decision, Elizabeth is in conference with a new client, John Davis (Tim Matheson)--who stops her short by announcing that he Read More

The Unknown Civil War: Frassanito - Battlefield Photography Then & Now

A Town Has Turned to Dust

Actors: Ron Perlman, Stephen Lang, Judy Collins, Barbara Jane Reams, Gabriel Olds

Synopsis: Based on a teleplay by the late Rod Serling, this drama is set in a far-off and arid future. The tale follows the growing racial tension and conflicts within a mining town gripped by a terrible drought. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Niagara Niagara

Actors: Robin Tunney, Henry Thomas, Michael Parks, Stephen Lang, John A. MacKay

Synopsis: Two emotionally scarred young people find both love and tragedy as they run away together in this drama. Marcy (Robin Tunney) and Seth (Henry Thomas) meet while shoplifting at the same department store; Seth is the son of an angry, abusive father and steals out of rebellion, while Marcy suffers Read More

Fire Down Below

Actors: Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger, Harry Dean Stanton, Stephen Lang, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Martial arts star Steven Seagal stars in this action drama as Jack Taggart, an undercover agent working for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, Taggart is sent in -- posing as a handyman working with a Christian relief Read More

Journey of the Heart

Actors: Cybill Shepherd, Chris Demetral, Stephen Lang

Human Cargo

Actors: Treat Williams, Stephen Lang, Larry Dane, Sasson Gabai, Ze'ev Revach

Synopsis: This taut made-for-television adventure is based on the true story of an American businessman who loses his passport and exit visa in Saudi Arabia. His dishonest clients exploit this fact and do all they can to hold him captive in their country, thereby forcing the American to take desperate Read More

Loose Women

Synopsis: Three attractive girl friends in their 20s spend the bulk of this melodrama walking and talking their way through the funky streets of New York City. They have come together to celebrate a 30th birthday. Their favorite topic of discussions include men, their pasts, men, their relationships, and Read More

An Occasional Hell

Actors: Tom Berenger, Kari Wuhrer, Stephen Lang, Trent McDevitt, Sherril M. Turner

Synopsis: This preposterous thriller stars Tom Berenger (Platoon) as Ernie Dewalt, a drug-addicted ex-cop with a catheter, and that isn't the worst of it. Ernie teaches creative writing at a small college where prominent professor Alex Laughton (Stephen Lang) has been blown apart with a shotgun while Read More

Gang in Blue

Actors: Mario Van Peebles, Josh Brolin, J.T. Walsh, Stephen Lang, Cynda Williams

Synopsis: In this highly-charged police drama, Officer Michael Rhoades is becoming increasingly disturbed by the amount of white-on-black violence that has been escalating in his quiet town. He is especially disturbed that much of that interracial brutality is coming from the police. Rhoades calls they FBI Read More

The Possession of Michael D.

Actors: Phylicia Rashad, Sheila McCarthy, Stephen Lang, Michael Riley

The Amazing Panda Adventure

Actors: Stephen Lang, Ryan Slater, Huang Fei

Synopsis: This family adventure concerns Ryan (Ryan Slater), a ten-year-old boy who has traveled to China with his father, a scientist working with a wildlife preserve dedicated to the rescue and protection of giant pandas, who are quickly becoming an endangered species in their native land. However, the Read More

Season of Hope

Actors: JoBeth Williams, Stephen Lang, Jeremy London, Ralph Waite

Tall Tale

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt, Roger Aaron Brown, Nick Stahl, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: This ambitious Disney movie uses a remarkable screenplay from Steven L. Bloom and Robert Rodat to tell a rollicking tale of America's transition from a close-to-the-land culture of mythic heroes to a corporate world of real estate tycoons. The strong theme about the decline of folk culture is Read More

Murder Between Friends

Actors: Timothy Busfield, Stephen Lang, Martin Kemp, Lisa Blount, O'Neal Compton

Synopsis: Another "based on an actual event!" TV movie, Murder Between Friends is set in 1980s New Orleans. Two friends become involved in murder when the wife of one of them begins cheating on her spouse. Constructed along the lines of "Rashomon", the script offers two entirely different accounts of the Read More

My Addiction

Crew: Director

Actors: Caroline Gillis, Ellen-Ray Hennessey, Daniel MacIvor, O'Mara, Tracy Wright

Synopsis: The odd relationship between a man, his wife, and his male pay-for-play lover is examined in the Canadian gay comedy. When Mary, a housewife, suspects her husband Matt is being unfaithful she hires a private eye to film his activities. Sure enough, Matt is recorded fooling around with Dick, a Read More

The Mother

Tombstone

Actors: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Robert John Burke, Dana Delany

Synopsis: A high-energy action adventure based on legend rather than historical fact finds Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) desiring to retire from law enforcement. With brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot) and Morgan (Bill Paxton), he arrives in Tombstone, Arizona intending to build his fortune. He discovers that Read More

Gettysburg

Actors: Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Stephen Lang, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara becomes this sprawling historical epic. As in Shaara's novel, director Ronald Maxwell focuses on a handful of major players to dramatize the events of July 1863, when the armies of the Union and Confederacy clash at the small Read More

Guilty As Sin

Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson, Stephen Lang, Jack Warden, Dana Ivey

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet directed this Larry Cohen-scripted courtroom procedural that owes more than it should to Jagged Edge. Jennifer Haines (Rebecca De Mornay), one of the top female lawyers in the country and flush from the success of defending a gangster, has a new client to defend. A suave ladies man in Read More

Darkness Before Dawn

Actors: Meredith Baxter, Stephen Lang, Chelsea Hertford, Alana Austin, Gwynyth Walsh

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this made-for-television drama chronicles a couple's downward spiral into drug addiction. Meredith Baxter stars as Mary Ann Guard, a nurse who gets romantically involved with heroin abuser Guy Grand (Stephen Lang). Guy turns Mary Ann onto drugs and her once-stable life is Read More

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story

Synopsis: This movie is based on the true story of Nancy Ziegenmeyer, a rape victim who announced to the world that rape is not the fault of the victim, thereby taking back her right to a normal life and inspiring other victims to stand up to what was being done to them ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Another You

Actors: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl, Stephen Lang

Synopsis: When con man Eddie Dash (Richard Pryor) is released from prison he's told to fulfill the required 100 hours of community service as the bodyguard/escort of a recently released mental patient (Gene Wilder). It's not too long before Wilder figures out a way to make a little dough at the expense of Read More

The Hard Way

Actors: Michael J. Fox, James Woods, Annabella Sciorra, Penny Marshall, LL Cool J, John Capodice

Synopsis: Action film director John Badham bites the hand that feeds him in this action movie spoof that features ribbing of pretty-boy Hollywood action stars by Michael J. Fox and a parody of colorful, hair-trigger James Woods types by the man himself. Woods plays New York homicide detective John Moss, who Read More

Babe Ruth

Actors: Bruce Weitz, Lisa Zane, Donald Moffat, Brian Doyle-Murray

Synopsis: Babe Ruth is a made-for-TV biopic about the titular baseball legend, here played by Stephen Lang. The film covers the events of Babe's life from his orphanage childhood to his retirement from baseball in 1935. Recounted are Babe's two marriages, the first to the benighted Helen Woodford (Yvonne Suhor Read More

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Actors: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Hubert Selby's controversial 1964 cult novel Last Exit To Brooklyn is adapted to the big screen by director Ulrich Edel in this drama. The story is set in the early 1950s in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blighted waterfront town of boarded-up storefronts and striking factory workers. Harry Black (Stephen Lang Read More

The Unknown Civil War: The Appomattox Campaign

Synopsis: This program that traces the various Civil War battles that led up to the end of the war at Appomattox, Virginia in 1865. Viewers will hear all about both Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, the two men who led their troops into this final, decisive conflict. Find out more about the hundreds of Read More

Finish Line

Actors: James Brolin

Synopsis: James Brolin costars with his son Josh in the made-for-cable Finish Line. The film's ad copy says it all: "His father made him run. The steroids made him win." In a justifiably melodramatic fashion, the film, based on a true story, examines the win-at-any-cost mentality of high school athletes and Read More

Project X

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, Bill Sadler, Johnny Ray McGhee, Jonathan Stark

Synopsis: Project X is a top-secret government undertaking involving trained chimpanzees. Grounded pilot Matthew Broderick, assigned to teach the chimps how to operate a flight simulator, discovers that his charges are to be subjected to high levels of radiation to test potential human endurance. Risking a Read More

Crime Story: Season 02

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

Synopsis: Astonishingly, gangster Ray Luca (Anthony John Denison) and his doltish henchman Paulie (John Santucci) have managed to survive the atom bomb explosion that ended season one of the serialized cop drama Crime Story. This allows the duo to resume their criminal activities, ever keeping one step Read More

Manhunter

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

Band of the Hand

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

Crime Story: The Complete Saga

Crime Story: The Chicago Years

Crime Story: Season 01

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

Synopsis: Season one of the serialized cop drama Crime Story begins in the Chicago of 1963, with Lt. Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) of the city's MCU (Major Crime Unit) deeply committed to bringing his longtime nemesis, youthful gangster Ray Luca (Anthony John Denison) to justice. The effort exacts a heavy Read More

Crime Story [TV Series]

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

Death of a Salesman

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang, Charles Durning

Synopsis: In 1984, actor Dustin Hoffman starred in a critically-acclaimed Broadway revival of playwright Arthur Miller's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Death of a Salesman. A year later, Hoffman and most of his fellow cast members starred in this made-for-TV production, the first English-language film Read More

Stone Pillow

Actors: Lucille Ball, Daphne Zuniga

Synopsis: The ads for The Stone Pillow tended to suggest that this TV movie was Lucille Ball's dramatic debut--completely ignoring the fact that Ball had started out as a "straight" actress in the 1930s who only occasionally played comedy until I Love Lucy came along. Whatever the case, the Ball we see in Read More

Twice in a Lifetime

Actors: Gene Hackman, Ann-Margret, Ellen Burstyn, Amy Madigan, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: On the occasion of his 50th birthday, blue-collar family man Gene Hackman is possessed by our old friend, The Mid-Life Crisis. Visiting a local tavern, Hackman becomes enchanted by gorgeous barmaid Ann-Margret. In less time than it takes to down his beer, he has resolved to leave his wife Ellen Burstyn Read More

Private Conversations

Actors: Arthur Miller, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Volker Schlöndorff, Stephen Lang

Synopsis: Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival, Christian Blackwood's Private Conversations is a behind-the-scenes look at the process of turning Arthur Miller's Pulitzer-prize winning stage-play Death of a Salesman into an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning made-for-television Read More

We're Fighting Back

Synopsis: In this urban drama set in New York City, a man tries to rally youths together to combat a gang-related crime spree. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

War and Peace

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Anita Ekberg

Synopsis: War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and personal upheavals attending Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, $6 million was shelled out by coproducers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis and Read More

The Unknown Civil War: The Petersburg Campaign