Woody Allen Filmography

Born:: December 1, 1935 in Brooklyn, NY
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Allen Stewart Konigsberg
Biography:: Actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright Woody Allen redefined film comedy during the 1970s, bringing a new measure of sophistication and personal complexity to the form. His movies -- intimate meditations on recurring subjects such as art, religion, and romance -- put a knowing, confessional...Read More

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Whatever Works

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood

Synopsis: Billed as a "blackish comedy," Woody Allen presents this new production starring Curb Your Enthusiasm's Larry David and young starlet Evan Rachel Wood. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall, Patricia Clarkson

Synopsis: Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona stars Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson as best friends Vicky and Cristina. As the movie opens, the pair of twentysomethings travel to Barcelona so that Vicky can work on her post-graduate degree. The two meet the charming artist Juan Antonio Read More

8/15/08
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

Actors: Philip Glass

Synopsis: Shine director Scott Hicks documents a year in the life of prolific composer Philip Glass in order to explore the work that goes into creating a symphony and offer a detailed overview of his subject's remarkable career. Glass may be a composer whose name is virtually synonymous with the minimalist Read More

4/18/08
Cassandra's Dream

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Hayley Atwell, Colin Farrell, Sally Hawkins, Ewan McGregor, Tom Wilkinson

Synopsis: Director Woody Allen continued to work in the dark mold of his 2005 thriller Match Point with this suspenseful tale of two brothers (Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor) transformed into mortal enemies after scheming to alleviate their financial difficulties by turning to crime. Ian (McGregor) and Read More

1/18/08
Europe's Big Top Circus Stars Live from Hippodrome!

Actors: Tony Randall, Woody Allen, Merv Griffin, Trini Lopez, Jimmy Dean

Synopsis: Europe's Big Top Circus Stars Live from Hippodrome! features performing their popular acts before an adoring crowd in the celebrated venue. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
Scoop

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane, Charles Dance

Synopsis: Both laughs and thrills are on the masthead in this comedy drama about a would-be reporter written and directed by Woody Allen. Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson) is an American journalism student who travels to England to visit friends. While in London, she attends a magic show where magician Read More

7/28/06
The Outsider

Actors: James Toback

Synopsis: Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki offers a celluloid portrait of a cinematic mastermind at work in this documentary shot over an eight month period and following director James Toback through each phase of production of his 2004 thriller When Will I be Loved. From pre-production to final cut, Jarecki Read More

6/16/06
Home

2006
Match Point

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox

Synopsis:
A clandestine love affair sends one man's charmed life into a tailspin in this dark, disturbing drama written and directed by Woody Allen, his first film set and shot in Great Britain and one his few films sans any humor. Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) is an Irish tennis player with an Read More

12/29/05
The Ballad of Greenwich Village

Synopsis: Ever since the 1850s, Greenwich Village has been the center of New York City's (and perhaps America's) creative and bohemian community; long a bastion of artists, authors, radicals and free-thinkers, Greenwich Village was a community where outsiders of various stripes would be welcomed with open Read More

7/22/05
Melinda and Melinda

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Chloë Sevigny, Jonny Lee Miller, Will Ferrell, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: While Woody Allen has long fused comedy and drama in his films, he embraces the two styles in a new and unusual way in this feature. Sy (Wallace Shawn) is enjoying dinner with some friends when they begin debating the nature of the tragic and the humorous. Sy, observing that a very fine line Read More

3/18/05
Francois Truffaut, une Autobiographie

2004
Anything Else

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Danny DeVito, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: A young artist struggling with his career and his muse is getting more than a little aggravation from Cupid in this romantic comedy written and directed by Woody Allen. Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs) is a promising 21-year-old comedy writer living in New York City. While Jerry has talent, he's having a Read More

9/19/03
100 Years of Hope & Humor

Actors: Bob Hope, Jane Pauley

Synopsis: Taped approximately six weeks before the 100th birthday of comedy legend Bob Hope, this elaborate (and highly-rated) TV "love letter" to "Old Ski Nose" is hosted by former Today Show anchor Jane Pauley. The special covers the familiar biographical ground, tracing British-born Leslie Townes Hope Read More

2003
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

Actors: Sydney Pollack, Charles Chaplin, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey, Jr., Woody Allen, Milos Forman, Marcel Marceau

Synopsis: American film historian and author Richard Schickel directs the documentary Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin. Schickel offers an exploration into Chaplin's life, from his childhood in London until his death in 1977. The film also contains insight on his multifaceted film career and Read More

2003
Hollywood Ending

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Téa Leoni, Debra Messing, Mark Rydell, Treat Williams, George Hamilton

Synopsis: A down-on-his luck auteur gets one more chance at the big time -- provided his neuroses don't swallow him whole -- in Woody Allen's 33rd feature release, Hollywood Ending. Allen plays Val Waxman, a one-time cinematic genius who's resorted to taking advertisement work to pay the bills for himself Read More

5/3/02
Woody Allen: A Life in Film

Actors: Woody Allen

Synopsis: The notoriously reclusive comedian/filmmaker Woody Allen forsook his characteristic silence to engagingly participate in this 90-minute TV documentary. Speaking in his celebrated shambling, self-deprecatory manner (but generally avoiding jokes and one-liners), Allen discusses his cinematic Read More

2002
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Helen Hunt, Elizabeth Berkley, John Schuck

Synopsis: Writer and director Woody Allen returns to the Manhattan of the past with this romantic comedy set in 1940, the era of fedora hats and gumshoe detectives. Allen stars as C.W. Briggs, an insurance investigator whose razor-sharp instincts have just led to the successful conclusion of another case Read More

8/24/01
Company Man

Actors: Douglas McGrath, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro, Anthony LaPaglia, Ryan Phillippe

Synopsis: Former Woody Allen collaborator Douglas McGrath co-wrote, co-directed, and stars in this historical screwball comedy that offers up its own creative suggestion as to what might have spurned 1961's Bay of Pigs invasion. McGrath plays Allen Quimp, a nebbish schoolteacher who -- in an attempt to Read More

3/9/01
The Concert For New York City

Synopsis: In the wake of the attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001, many figures in the entertainment community stepped forward to offer their talents to raise money towards relief efforts for the victims and their survivors. On October 20, 2001, some of the biggest names in Read More

2001
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Actors: Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick was one of the most acclaimed and controversial filmmakers of his generation, but he was also an intensely private man who rarely gave interviews and produced most of his films under a shroud of secrecy, which tended to foster a great deal of rumor and speculation about his working Read More

2001
Small Time Crooks

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Hugh Grant, Elaine May, Michael Rapaport

Synopsis: Thirty-one years after Take the Money and Run, Woody Allen returns to a life of crime in this broad comedy. Allen plays Ray Winkler, a low-brow con man who is married to Frenchy (Tracy Ullman), a former stripper. Ray and his buddies concoct a scheme to rob a bank by digging a tunnel from a defunct Read More

5/19/00
Light Keeps Me Company

Actors: Woody Allen, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Richard Attenborough

Synopsis: This moving, finely-wrought portrayal of legendary cinematographer Sven Nykvist was directed by his son Carl-Gustav Nykvist -- a noted filmmaker himself. Spanning from long forgotten kiddie flick in 1945 to Woody Allen's Celebrity (1997), Nykvist's career came to an abrupt end when he was Read More

2000
Picking Up the Pieces

Actors: Woody Allen, David Schwimmer, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Cheech Marin, Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: A crime of passion unwittingly leads to a "miracle" in this satirical comedy. Tex (Woody Allen) is a butcher who is married to Candy (Sharon Stone), a former exotic dancer who has no skill or enthusiasm for fidelity. Unhappy with her extramarital affairs, Tex kills Candy while performing a "sawing Read More

2000
Sweet and Lowdown

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman, Brian Markinson, Anthony LaPaglia, Woody Allen

Synopsis: Woody Allen immerses himself in the world of vintage jazz in this period mock-biography of a musician gifted in his art but a sad student in life. Emmet Ray (Sean Penn) is a 1930s jazz guitarist considered one of the finest musicians ever to touch a fretboard, second only to the legendary Django Read More

12/3/99
Celebrity

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Famke Janssen, Joe Mantegna, Melanie Griffith

Synopsis: Black-and-white Sven Nykvist cinematography highlights this Woody Allen comedy about fame and obscurity among Manhattan celebs. Journalist Lee Simon (Kenneth Branagh), makes a play for actress Nicole Oliver (Melanie Griffith), subject of his current story. Lee is separated from his wife Robin (Judy Davis Read More

11/20/98
The Impostors

Actors: Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Teagle F. Bougere, Elizabeth Bracco, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Actor Stanley Tucci made his directorial debut with a strong cast in this Depression Era farce focusing on two struggling two New York actors. In opening scenes, Maurice (Oliver Platt) and Arthur (Tucci) fabricate a fake fight at an outdoor cafe, do acting exercises, audition for a theater Read More

10/2/98
Antz

Actors: Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images collaborated on this all computer-animated comedy-adventure about the ant angst of misfit worker ant, Z (voice of Woody Allen), who feels trapped by the conformist confines of his totalitarian ant civilization and eventually sets forth in search of Insectopia. Read More

10/2/98
Wild Man Blues

Actors: John Gill, Letty Aronson, Dan Barrett, Simon Wettenhall, Woody Allen, Soon-Yi Previn

Synopsis: Barbara Kopple directed this documentary portrait of Woody Allen, seen traveling with friends and fellow musicians during their New Orleans jazz band's 1996 European tour. Allen's relationship with Soon Yi Previn is captured on film here, and others on the European jaunt include bandleader Eddy Davis Read More

2/11/98
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

Synopsis: In June 1998, the American Film Institute announced the top 100 films of the 20th century. The list was complied from a survey of 1,500 participants, including filmmakers, historians, critics, and other entertainment industry professionals. The AFI and CBS produced this multi-packet video feature Read More

1998
Deconstructing Harry

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Bob Balaban, Richard Benjamin, Billy Crystal

Synopsis: Woody Allen wrote, directed, and stars in this very dark comedy about a novelist, Harry Block, who says with admirable honesty, "I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art." So far, Harry has made his way through six psychiatrists and three marriages (one, conveniently enough Read More

1997
The Sunshine Boys

Actors: Woody Allen, Peter Falk, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael McKean, Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: Neil Simon adapted this 1997 comedy from his 1972 play, first filmed in 1975 with Walter Matthau and George Burns as two feuding veteran vaudevillians reuniting to do a television special. For this new version, Simon updated the period and characters into a tale of two comedians (Woody Allen, Peter Falk Read More

1997
Everyone Says I Love You

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Alda, Edward Norton, Woody Allen, Drew Barrymore, Goldie Hawn, Gaby Hoffmann, Julia Roberts, Natasha Lyonne

Synopsis: Featuring a soundtrack filled with beloved "standard" songs such as "Just You, Just Me" and "My Baby Just Cares for Me," this musical comedy by Woody Allen concerns a polite and comfortably well-off group of people and their romantic difficulties. DJ (Natasha Lyonne), who narrates the picture, is Read More

1996
Mighty Aphrodite

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Helena Bonham Carter, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rapaport, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: A dissatisfied Manhattan sportswriter finds more than he expected when he searches for the biological mother of his adopted child in Woody Allen's comedy. Writer-director Allen also plays Lenny, a slightly more relaxed incarnation of his usual neurotic screen persona. Lenny is trapped in a bad Read More

1995
Don't Drink the Water

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mayim Bialik, Michael J. Fox, Edward Herrmann, Julie Kavner, Woody Allen, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: The second film to be made from Woody Allen's successful stage comedy (following a 1969 feature starring Jackie Gleason), Don't Drink the Water is a made-for-television adaptation directed by and starring Allen himself. The fish-out-of-water premise remains the same: Allen plays Walter Hollander Read More

1994
Bullets Over Broadway

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: John Cusack, Jack Warden, Chazz Palminteri, Joe Viterelli, Jennifer Tilly, Dianne Wiest

Synopsis: Bullets Over Broadway is a Woody Allen romp that, as the title suggests, combines gangsters with show business at the height of the Roaring Twenties. David Shayne (John Cusack) is a straight-arrow playwright who plans to stand firm against compromising his work, but quickly abandons that stance Read More

1994
Manhattan Murder Mystery

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Adler

Synopsis: There's a real murder and a real mystery in Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery, but these plot pegs are used mainly to allow Allen to explore modern urban relationships. Allen plays a N.Y.C. book editor, Larry Lipton, married to Carol (Diane Keaton, who replaced Mia Farrow at the last minute Read More

1993
Husbands and Wives

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Mia Farrow, Sydney Pollack, Juliette Lewis

Synopsis: One of Woody Allen's most seemingly biographical films, Husbands and Wives opens with upper-middle class Manhattan couple Sally (Judy Davis) and Jack (Sydney Pollack) announcing to their best friends, the Roths, that they are splitting up. Gabe Roth (Allen) and his wife Judy (Mia Farrow) are taken Read More

9/18/92
Shadows and Fog

Crew: Director, Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, Madonna, Kathy Bates, Lily Tomlin, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and Death Read More

3/20/92
Scenes from a Mall

Actors: Bette Midler, Woody Allen, William Irwin, Daren Firestone, Rebecca Nickels

Synopsis: Woody Allen and Bette Midler star as a well-heeled couple who spend their 16th wedding anniversary at the mall shopping for a party that they're throwing that night. In the course of the shopping afternoon, they watch their marriage hit the rocks as serious problems develop when the guy admits to Read More

2/22/91
Alice

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mia Farrow, Joe Mantegna, Alec Baldwin, Blythe Danner, Judy Davis

Synopsis: Woody Allen's character study of a well-kept, upscale Manhattan woman (Mia Farrow) takes the title character on a journey through a Wonderland of her own making, in which she learns some truths about herself, her relationships, and the universe in general. Alice leads a comfortable life, except Read More

12/25/90
Crimes and Misdemeanors

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: Woody Allen spent most of the 1980s and '90s veering between comedy and drama, and he rarely combined the two with greater success than in Crimes and Misdemeanors, in which he weaved together two stories, one deadly serious, one often funny, both ending in sadness. Martin Landau plays Dr. Judah Read More

10/13/89
New York Stories

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Patrick O'Neal, Heather McComb, Talia Shire, Jesse Borrego, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Mae Questel, Julie Kavner, Giancarlo Giannini, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: The omnibus film New York Stories is the product of three powerhouse filmmakers. The film is divided into three stories, each exploring a different aspect of life in the Big Apple. Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorcese, is a Dostoevsky-like tale of the rarefied Art World, with Nick Nolte as a Read More

3/1/89
Another Woman

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner, Gene Hackman

Synopsis: Grad-school administrative head Marion Post (Gena Rowlands) is in the midst of writing a book. The walls are thin in the apartment she's taken for work purposes, and soon Marion begins listening to the sessions conducted by her neighbor, an analyst. One of the patients is Hope (Mia Farrow), whose Read More

10/14/88
King Lear

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Peter Sellars, Molly Ringwald, Jean-Luc Godard, Woody Allen

Synopsis: Two highly talented and innovative directors -- filmdom's Jean-Luc Godard and the theatre world's Peter Sellars -- join forces in this unusual (to say the least) slant on Shakespeare's King Lear. This offbeat adaptation gives the viewer a postmodern taste of Shakespeare through the eyes of a Read More

1/22/88
September

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Denholm Elliott, Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow, Elaine Stritch, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: A weekend stay at a Vermont summer house provides glimpses into the lives of six unhappy people, plagued by unrequited feelings, thoughts and desires. Mia Farrow plays Lane, a troubled woman who hides from a terrible childhood memory. She's in love with Peter (Sam Waterston), who is tempted by Read More

12/18/87
Radio Days

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mia Farrow, Seth Green, Julie Kavner, Josh Mostel, Michael Tucker

Synopsis: Woody Allen's gentle and nostalgic tribute to the glory days of radio and coming-of-age during World War II plays like Fellini's Amarcord filtered through Neil Simon. The nominal star is Seth Green as Joe, a teenage Jewish boy, growing up with a house full of relatives in Brooklyn. Allen cuts Read More

1/30/87
Hannah and Her Sisters

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest, Carrie Fisher, Michael Caine, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: A Woody Allen Manhattan mosaic, Hannah and Her Sisters concerns the lives, loves, and infidelities among a tightly-knit artistic clan. Hannah (Mia Farrow) regularly meets with her sisters Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Lee (Barbara Hershey) to discuss the week's events. It's what they don't always tell Read More

2/7/86
50 Years of Action!

Actors: Stanley Ackerman, Woody Allen, John A. Alonzo, Warren Beatty

Synopsis: One of the few documentaries to shine a spotlight on directors in Hollywood, this informative film sketches out the 50-year history of the Directors Guild of America. Formed at a time when people were still fighting for unions in the United States, the guild also had its problems when the studios Read More

1986
The Best of Candid Camera, Vol. 1

Synopsis: This video features some of the most hilarious gags ever cooked up by practical joke-meister Alan Funt and his gang. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
The Purple Rose of Cairo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Dianne Wiest, Van Johnson

Synopsis: Woody Allen blurs the the boundaries between the real and unreal in this unique comic fantasy. The scene is a small town in the mid-1930s. Trapped in a dead-end job and an abusive marriage, Cecelia (Mia Farrow) regularly seeks refuge in the local movie house. She becomes so enraptured by the Read More

1985
Broadway Danny Rose

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte, Milton Berle, Sandy Baron

Synopsis: A smaller, amusing comedy from writer/director Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose begins with a bunch of show business vets sitting around a table at New York's Carnegie Deli and reminiscing about the legendary titular character, a loser of an agent who would represent anyone, including blind Read More

1984
Zelig

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Garrett M. Brown, Stephanie Farrow, Will Holt

Synopsis: Leonard Zelig, the "human chameleon", is profiled in this mock-documentary. Director Woody Allen appears as Zelig in scenes that purport to be vintage newsreel clips of the 1920s and 1930s, but are actually clever recreations, "aged" and scratched-up Citizen Kane-style by special-effects maestros Joel Hynick Read More

1983
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts

Synopsis: Woody Allen brings a diverting whimsy and a hopeful innocence to this period roundelay, based upon Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer's Night and Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game. Allen plays Andrew, a Wall Street broker and eccentric inventor who is having frigidity problems with his wife Adrian (Mary Steenburgen Read More

1982
Stardust Memories

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jessica Harper, John Rothman, Amy Wright

Synopsis: Woody Allen's tenth film as writer/director, Stardust Memories opens with a scene reminiscent of the opening of 8 1/2 and continues to use that film for inspiration. Sandy Bates (Allen) sits in a train at a train station, the car filled with very unhappy looking people. In a train on another set Read More

1980