Steven Soderbergh Filmography

Born:: January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, GA
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: At the age of 26, Steven Soderbergh permanently altered the face of independent cinema when he became the youngest-ever winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival for sex, lies and videotape, his feature-film directorial debut. A simmering exploration of the nature of modern...Read More

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Untitled Liberace Production

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Douglas

1/1/10
The Informant

Crew: Director

Actors: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula

Synopsis: Matt Damon and Scott Bakula star in Steven Soderbergh's spy thriller The Informant, which tells the true story of a biochemist and an FBI agent who brought down a global price-fixing plan. Scott Burns adapts Kurt Eichenwald's book for Warner Independent Pictures. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
The Girlfriend Experience

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The high-priced world of call girls is opened up in the Steven Soderbergh-helmed indie feature, returning the director to the low-budget cross-platform release à la 2005's Bubble. Brian Koppelman and David Levien provide the script for the 2929 Entertainment release. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Read More

1/1/09
Solitary Man

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, Jenna Fischer

Synopsis: Michael Douglas stars as a former car dealer who's turned his life upside down from years of infidelity and bad business practices in the Millennium Films production. Brian Koppelman directs from a script he wrote with David Levien, with Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, and Jenna Fischer heading up Read More

1/1/09
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The events of 1977 and 1978 permanently marred director Roman Polanski's life. Accused of unlawful sexual assault on minor Samantha Geimer during his stay at actor Jack Nicholson's house in March of 1977, Polanski wound up in the midst of controversial judicial proceedings that many read as Read More

7/11/08
Tishomingo Blues

Crew: Producer

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Don Cheadle

Synopsis: Academy Award-nominated actor Don Cheadle makes his feature directorial debut with this crime drama based on a book by Elmore Leonard. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/08
Che

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Santiago Cabrera, Jorge Minguez, Edgar Ramirez

Synopsis: Nearly 40 years after Che Guevara's execution in Bolivia, director Steven Soderbergh retraces the life of the iconic Cuban revolutionary across the span of two feature-length films -- The Argentine and Guerrilla. The Argentine begins on November 26, 1956, as Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir) sails into Read More

1/1/08
The Argentine

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Javier Bardem, Julia Ormond, Ryan Gosling, Franka Potente, Demián Bichir

Synopsis: Steven Soderbergh's The Argentine stars Benicio Del Toro as Che Guevara. The film opens with Che as one of the important figures in the growing Cuban rebellion led by Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir). The movie charts how the two successfully built an underground army large enough to successfully Read More

1/1/08
Come Like Shadows

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton

1/1/08
I'm Not There

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere

Synopsis: Director Todd Haynes' unconventional biopic of the legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan features different actors playing the part of the Minnesota native at various stages of his remarkable career. Among the actors playing the singer are Cate Blanchett, who portrays the man during his Don't Look Back Read More

11/21/07
Michael Clayton

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe

Synopsis: Michael Clayton (George Clooney) handles all of the dirty work for a major New York law firm, arranging top-flight legal services and skirting through loopholes for ethically questionable clients. But when a fellow "fixer" decides to turn on the very firm they were hired to clean up for, Clayton Read More

10/5/07
Ocean's Thirteen

Crew: Director

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia

Synopsis: Cinema icon Al Pacino joins a powerhouse cast headed by of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, and series newcomer Ellen Barkin for this, the third installment of director Steven Soderbergh's popular series of glitzy crime comedies. The only hotelier in Las Read More

6/8/07
Wind Chill

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: Two college students heading home for the holidays break down on a lonesome stretch of highway, only to find themselves targeted by the malevolent spirits of other travelers who met their end on the same road in a supernatural road movie directed by Greg Jacobs, and produced by Steven Soderbergh Read More

4/27/07
The Good German

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Beau Bridges, Tony Curran

Synopsis: A U.S. Army war correspondent is drawn into a deadly mystery in post-war Berlin as he seeks out his wartime mistress in this adaptation of author Joseph Kanon's best-selling novel. The war is over, and Jake Geismar (George Clooney) is an American journalist assigned the task of covering the peace Read More

12/15/06
A Scanner Darkly

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey, Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, Rory Cochrane

Synopsis: The war on drugs has been lost, and when a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to spy on those he is closest to, the toll that the mission takes on his sanity is too great to comprehend in director Richard Linklater's rotoscoped take on Philip K. Dick's classic novel. With stratospheric concern Read More

7/7/06
Bubble

Crew: Director

Actors: Debbie Doebereiner, Dustin Ashley, Misty Wilkins, Omar Cowan, Laurie Lee

Synopsis: Steven Soderbergh followed up his slick, star-studded sequel, Ocean's Twelve, with Bubble, a small-town drama about workers in a doll factory, played by a cast of unknowns. Martha (Debbie Doebereiner) seems to have acclimated herself to a very simple life. She works at the factory, where she eats Read More

1/27/06
The Half Life of Timofey Berezin

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Paddy Considine, Radha Mitchell, Oscar Isaac, Jason Flemyng, Nikolaj Kaas

Synopsis: First-time writer/director Scott Burns spins this suspenseful yarn about a nuclear technician who has a curious encounter with a notoriously violent Russian gangster (Nikolaj Lie Kaas). The year is 1995, and Timofey (Paddy Considine) is a nuclear power-plant worker in post-Soviet Russia. After Read More

2006
Rumor Has It...

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo, Richard Jenkins, Mena Suvari

Synopsis: A woman discovers that a part of her family history may be more complicated -- and more famous -- than she ever imagined in this comedy. Thirtysomething Sarah Huttinger (Jennifer Aniston), who has spent most of her adult life in New York City, is flying home to California with her long time Read More

12/25/05
Syriana

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt

Synopsis: Oil drives greed in Oscar-winning Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's labyrinthine sophomore directorial effort that traces the corruption of the global oil industry from the backrooms of Washington, D.C., to the petroleum-rich fields of the Middle East. Based in part on the writings of former Read More

11/23/05
Good Night, and Good Luck.

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Frank Langella

Synopsis: George Clooney pays homage to one of the icons of American broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow, in this fact-based drama, which was Clooney's second feature film as a director. In 1953, Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn) was one of the best-known newsmen on television as host of both Read More

10/7/05
Keane

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Damian Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Amy Ryan, Tina Holmes, Christopher Evan Welch

Synopsis: American independent filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan returned after a six-year hiatus with this formally challenging tale of a disheveled man desperately searching New York City for his young daughter. Keane takes its name from its central character, a middle-aged man (Damien Lewis) who wanders Port Read More

9/9/05
Eros

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gong Li, Chang Chen, Tin Fung, Robert Downey, Jr., Alan Arkin

Synopsis: Three of the world's most gifted filmmakers offer their own unique perspectives on love and lust in this omnibus film. The initial episode, "The Hand," was directed by Wong Kar-Wai, and tells the story of Zhang (Chang Chen), a young, virginal dressmaker's assistant who finds it difficult to Read More

4/8/05
The Jacket

Crew: Producer

Actors: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Synopsis: A troubled war veteran tries to unlock his memories of a terrible crime in this stylish thriller, the first American project for British filmmaker John Maybury. In 1991, Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) was an American soldier serving in the Persian Gulf when he was shot in the head; pronounced dead by Read More

3/4/05
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In 1968, avant-garde filmmaker William Greaves completed his famous Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One. This experimental feature - a hybrid of fiction and documentary - broke new ground with its dual narrative; on one level, it told of a couple enduring and suffering through a nasty breakup, while Read More

2005
Ocean's Twelve

Crew: Director

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Julia Roberts, Bernie Mac

Synopsis: After pulling off the heist of their lives, Danny Ocean and his pals unexpectedly find themselves back in harness in this sequel to 2001's blockbuster hit Ocean's Eleven. After robbing a cool $160 million from the Bellaggio Hotel Casino and winning back his former wife, Tess (Julia Roberts), from Read More

12/10/04
Criminal

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Mullan, Jonathan Tucker

Synopsis: A con artist finds family squabbles are getting in the way of a major payday in this sharp blend of comedy and suspense, based on the Argentinean hit Nueve Reinas (aka Nine Queens). Richard Gaddis (John C. Reilly) is a smart-suited confidence man who knows how to run a big con but prefers to pull Read More

9/10/04
Able Edwards

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Scott Kelly Galbreath, Steve Beaumont Jones, David Ury, Keri Bruno, Johari Johnson

Synopsis: A handful of businessmen face the question of who is real and who is not as they look back on the life, death, and second life of an iconic American in this satiric comedy drama. In the future, after a variety of disasters have decimated the Earth, the world's population has been relocated to a Read More

2004
A Decade Under the Influence

Actors: Steven Soderbergh, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Ellen Burstyn

Synopsis: In the late '60s, American culture experienced a period of change as the youth movement challenged conventional attitudes about politics, sex, drugs, and gender issues, while the advancement of the Vietnam War found many citizens questioning the actions and wisdom of their government for the first Read More

4/25/03
K Street: Week 8

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Washington lawyer Bob Bennett calls James Carville to tell him that Richard Bergstrom is going through a difficult time, and will only communicate with Carville through him. Bennett also warns Carville to be careful to whom he talks. Carville appears on Crossfire with Tucker Carlson, who warns him Read More

2003
K Street: Week 2

Crew: Director

Synopsis: James Carville joins Francisco Dupré (Roger G. Smith) at a Branford Marsalis concert. After the show, Marsalis discusses recent changes in the music business and the impact of Internet downloading, inspiring Carville to pitch the firm's services to the RIAA. Mary Matalin and the others decide it's Read More

2003
K Street: Week 3

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Maggie (Mary McCormack) is having researchers look into Francisco's (Roger G. Smith) background. Tommy (John Slattery) shows up at the office to find Amnesty International protestors outside the building. They object to the firm's account with the Council for Mideast Progress, a Saudi Arabian Read More

2003
K Street: Week 5

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As the show opens, the offices of Bergstrom Lowell are being searched for listening devices. James Carville and Mary Matalin talk to Kevin D. Murray, a consultant, about increasing their "perimeter security." He points out that none of the offices have locks on the doors, and suggests shredding Read More

2003
K Street: Week 6

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bergstrom Lowell continues to deal with the repercussions of the leak of a CIA agent's name to Robert Novak, and of unfounded rumors that Mary Matalin was the source of the leak. At a Children's Defense Fund event, Maggie (Mary McCormack) complains to John Breaux about how working at the firm has Read More

2003
K Street: Week 4

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode flashes back to July 2003, where we find Charles Perla, a well-known architectural consultant, working with James Carville and Mary Matalin on the design of their new Bergstrom Lowell offices. "Will this make people pay us a bigger fee?" Carville wants to know. He later refers to the Read More

2003
K Street: Week 7

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Maggie (Mary McCormack), out for her morning jog, is stopped by two FBI agents. They want information, but she refuses to talk to them without an attorney present. Later, at Bergstrom Lowell, the crew finds out that the FBI approached all of them. James Carville and Mary Matalin talk to their Read More

2003
K Street: Week 9

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The show flashes back again, this time to August 27, 2003. Francisco (Roger Guenveur Smith) is visiting Bergstrom (Elliott Gould) in New York, to find that the eccentric gentleman is seeing his doctor again, worried that the recent blackout has affected his health. Bergstrom wants Francisco to Read More

2003
K Street: Week 10

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The series finale of K Street opens with Maggie (Mary McCormack) on her way to see Bounce at the Kennedy Center with John Breaux. He talks about their vacation plans, but as soon as she spots Gail (Talia Balsam), Maggie bolts, telling Breaux, "This was a mistake." Mary Matalin and James Carville Read More

2003
K Street [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Carville, Mary Matalin, Mary McCormack, Michael K. Deaver, John Slattery, Roger Guenveur Smith

Synopsis: Co-created by actor George Clooney and director Steve Soderbergh, the ten-part HBO series K Street was a docudrama about a political consulting firm in Washington. Each episode was based on a late-breaking political story, and each was edited just before telecast for the sake of topicality. It was Read More

2003
K Street: Week 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: James Carville upsets things at the consulting firm he runs with his wife, Mary Matalin, by accepting an offer to prep Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean for an upcoming debate. This sends Maggie (Mary McCormack) scrambling to tell the firm's conservative clients, including Republican Read More

2003
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? Read More

12/31/02
Solaris

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis

Synopsis: A therapist travels to a distant space station to treat a group of astronauts traumatized by mysterious entities -- and ends up having to deal with an entity of his own -- in this second film version of Stanislaw Lem's philosophical sci-fi novel. Solaris stars George Clooney as Chris Kelvin, a Read More

11/27/02
Far from Heaven

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson, Viola Davis

Synopsis: Maverick director Todd Haynes embraces the look and feel of classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s in this period drama. Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) and her husband, Frank (Dennis Quaid), are a seemingly perfect couple; living in a handsome suburban neighborhood in Hartford, CT, in 1957 Read More

11/8/02
Naqoyqatsi

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Filmmaker, philosopher and activist Godfrey Reggio completes the film trilogy he began with Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi in this visually striking examination of the impact of technology upon our culture. Naqoyqatsi is a word from the Hopi language which roughly translates as "war as a way of Read More

10/18/02
Welcome to Collinwood

Crew: Producer

Actors: Luis Guzman, Michael Jeter, Patricia Clarkson, Andrew Davoli, Isaiah Washington

Synopsis: A group of likable losers try to pull of what by their standards seems like a major heist in this offbeat crime comedy, loosely based on the classic Italian caper comedy I Soliti Ignoti. A group of sad sacks living in a rundown neighborhood in Cleveland all have one thing in common -- they need Read More

10/4/02
Full Frontal

Crew: Director

Actors: David Duchovny, Nicky Katt, Catherine Keener, Mary McCormack, David Hyde Pierce, Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood

Synopsis: Described as a modern-day Hollywood version of Day for Night, director Steven Soderbergh's first digital video production was also shot employing a modified version of the frills-free Dogma 95 rules set forth by Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, allowing a relatively small budget of Read More

8/2/02
Insomnia

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Tierney, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: Director Christopher Nolan follows up his breakthrough sophomore film Memento with this remake of a stylish Norwegian thriller. Al Pacino stars as Detective Will Dormer, a Los Angeles Police Department legend who temporarily escapes an internal affairs investigation that may ruin his career by Read More

5/24/02
Ocean's Eleven

Crew: Director

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: A rag-tag group of con artists and ex-cons team up for the heist to end all heists in this high-profile remake of the 1960 Rat Pack favorite. As with its predecessor, Ocean's Eleven opens with its titular hero Danny Ocean (George Clooney stepping into the Frank Sinatra role) eager for a new Read More

12/7/01
Waking Life

Actors: Wiley Wiggins

Synopsis: Richard Linklater returned to the semi-improvised approach and philosophical themes of his debut feature Slacker while embracing a new and groundbreaking visual technology in his sixth feature film, Waking Life. Linklater and cameraman Tommy Pallotta shot the film on location in Austin, TX, using Read More

10/19/01
Who Is Bernard Tapie?

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In France, Bernard Tapie has developed a reputation as a man of many talents and varied interests; he's found success as an actor, a singer, a businessman, the host of a TV talk show, an elected official, a competitive sailor, an advisor to French president François Mitterand, and manager of a Read More

2001
Traffic

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Luis Guzman, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Erika Christensen

Synopsis: Described by director Steven Soderbergh as "Nashville meets The French Connection," this multi-character drama explores the effects of international drug trafficking on all fronts: from their source, to the U.S. border, to the federal government, to the private lives of users. Based upon a Read More

12/27/00
Erin Brockovich

Crew: Director

Actors: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry Jones

Synopsis: Julia Roberts stars in this legal drama based on the true story of a woman who helped win the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit. Erin Brockovich (Roberts) is a single mother of three who, after losing a personal injury lawsuit, asks her lawyer, Ed Masry (Albert Finney), if he Read More

3/17/00
The Limey

Crew: Director

Actors: Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzman, Barry Newman, Nicky Katt

Synopsis: Two actors best known for their work in the late 1960s, Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda, star in The Limey, a drama in which a recently released felon contemplates the gulf between aging criminals like himself and their modern counterparts. Wilson (Stamp) is a British career criminal who has been Read More

10/8/99
Pleasantville

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Gary Ross, Oscar nominated for his Dave and Big screenplays, made his directorial debut with this comedy. The cheerful '50s TV sitcom "Pleasantville" is revived in the '90s for a loyal cable audience. One devoted fan is shy suburban teen David Wagner (Tobey Maguire), who has an almost obsessive Read More

10/23/98
Out of Sight

Crew: Director

Actors: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Dennis Farina

Synopsis: Steven Soderbergh directed this crime caper adapted from the novel by Elmore Leonard. When ex-con Jack Foley (George Clooney) robs a bank, his car goes dead, and Foley lands in a Florida prison. His escape from prison doesn't go as planned, since it's witnessed by deputy federal marshal Karen Read More

6/26/98
Nightwatch

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Josh Brolin, Patricia Arquette, Alix Koromzay

Synopsis: Like The Vanishing (1988 and 1993), Nightwatch is an English-language version of a foreign-made film with the original director hired to remake his own movie. Ole Bornedal was the writer-director of the suspenseful 1994 thriller, Nattevagten, which had no U.S. release immediately on the heels of Read More

4/17/98
Independent's Day

Synopsis: The Sundance Channel produced this guided tour through the world of independent films and filmmakers, tossing out the statistic that the movement has escalated from some 50 films in 1985, to 800 in 1997. Interview segments include Sundance fest director Geoffrey Gilmore, fest programmer Bob Hawk Read More

1998
The Daytrippers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hope Davis, Pat McNamara, Anne Meara, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: The debut from writer/director Greg Mottola, The Daytrippers follows a Long Island family as they make a disastrous journey into New York City. The impetus is a love letter discovered by suburbanite Eliza (Hope Davis) which seemingly incriminates her publisher husband Louis (Stanley Tucci) in an Read More

1996
Schizopolis

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Steven Soderbergh, Betsy Brantley, Dave Jensen, Mike Malone

Synopsis: After years of making movies in the fringes of the Hollywood system after his debut success sex, lies, and videotape, director Steven Soderbergh made Schizopolis as, in his own words, an artistic "wake-up call to himself." The result is a discombobulated, irreverent, comedic meta-movie, a Read More

1996