Brian De Palma

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Greetings (1968): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Robert De Niro, Gerrit Graham, Allen Garfield; Anarchic early De Palma is an episodic look at three friends caught up in the heady times of 60's America. Features an early comedic turn from De…
Wedding Party, The (1969): Dir. Cynthia Monroe, Brian De Palma, Wilford Leach
Feat. Jill Clayburgh, Robert De Niro; Brian De Palma collaborated with others to make this while still at college in 1963. Improvised film details the sparring between a couple before…
Hi Mom! (1970): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Robert De Niro, Charles Durning, Allen Garfield…; One of dir. De Palma's underrated early satires is loosely a sequel to 'Greetings', with Robert De Niro returning from the Vietnam War to try and…
Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. John Astin, Tom Smothers, Allen Garfield…; Quirky Brian de Palma comedy about an exec who wants to become a tapdancing magician.
Sisters (1973): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Margot Kidder; This early De Palma film is a gripping account of a woman (Margot Kidder) who discovers her twin sister is a homicidal maniac. Features an…
Phantom of the Paradise (1974): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper…; A genuine oddity, this musical/horror spans both dir. De Palma’s satirical and horror periods, with the story of the PHANTOM OF THE OPERA updated…
Obsession (1975): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, John Lithgow; The director imitates Hitchcock once again, but does it well. This time it's VERTIGO, with an obsessed Cliff Robertson in the Jimmy Stewart role.…
Carrie (1976): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Sissy Spacek, John Travolta; One of the best screen adaptations of any Stephen King novel, and also one of dir. De Palma's best, this is the frightening story of a persecuted…
Fury, The (1978): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes; Despite a barmy sci–fi plot concerning telekinetic teenagers being used for military experiments, this Brian de Palma–directed thriller…
Dressed to Kill (1980): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Angie Dickinson, Michael Caine, Nancy Allen; A slick video nasty involving a murderer, a prostitute, a psychiatrist, a bored housewife and her resourceful son. In reworking PSYCHO, De Palma…
Blow Out (1981): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow; A seemingly ordinary car–crash is found by sound–recordist John Travolta to have sinister overtones when he rewinds his chance taping of…
Scarface (1983): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Al Pacino; Sweat–breakingly violent portrait of a contemporary mobster with Pacino in top gear as the ruthless megalomaniac. Stunning, if you can hack…
Body Double (1984): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry; A sleazy but thoroughly fascinating tale of how one man's voyeurism leads him to witness a murder. In an attempt to track down the psychopath, he…
Wise Guys (1986): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Danny De Vito, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel…; Mob comedy in which Danny De Vito and Joe Piscopo play errand boys who run off to Atlantic City after losing $250,000 and are set up to kill each…
Untouchables, The (1987): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro; Well–cast and generally classy update of the adventures of Elliot Ness, the earnest law enforcer who took on Al Capone during the prohibition…
Casualties of War (1989): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Sean Penn, Michael J. Fox, John Leguizamo…; A squad of soldiers become caught in the moral dilemma of wartime Vietnam. Platoon leader Sean Penn goes beyond the call of duty while Michael J.…
Bonfire of the Vanities (1990): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith…; Hanks, Willis and Griffith stumble through Tom Wolfe's novel about a hot–shot stockbroker who is scandalised through misdemeanor. A famous…
Raising Cain (1992): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer…; De Palma's tongue–in–cheek return to the psycho–thriller contains many flashy set pieces including an elaborate ten–minute…
Carlito's Way (1993): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Viggo Mortensen; De Palma contains his usual showy excess and proves he can be a consummate storyteller with this captivating, multi–layered crime yarn. Al…
Mission: Impossible (1996): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Tom Cruise; Hollywood refit of the '60s cult TV show with classic stylings and theme–tune thankfully intact. Precisely executed action sequences redeem a…
Snake Eyes (1998): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise; Morally dubious cops Nicolas Cage and Gary Sinise investigate an assassination during a pro–boxing match. Esteemed hack Brian De Palma…
Mission to Mars (2000): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle; A loop–ily solemn mission to the red planet in the year 2020 with Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins and Don Cheadle, that threatens at times to overcome…
Femme Fatale (2002): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos; Best viewed as a campy homage to the film noir genre, this snaky thriller revels in the multiple plot twists of its tale of diamond thieves and…
Black Dahlia, The (2006): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank…; Seething with atmosphere, this noir crime–drama (based on James Ellroy's novel) presents a complicated case of the unsolved Hollywood murder of…
Redacted (2007): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Patrick Carroll; In typically melodramatic, unorthodox and ironic fashion, Brian De Palma returns with this wartime drama based on the true story of a group of…
Passion (2012): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Karoline Herfurth…; Dir. Brian De Palma remakes Alain Corneau's LOVE CRIME with lashings of Hitchcock to deliver another heady erotic thriller, with Rachel McAdams and…
De Palma (2015): Dir. Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow
Feat. Brian De Palma; A comprehensive overview of the career of prolific and sometimes controversial film–maker Brian De Palma, an avid disciple of Alfred Hitchcock…

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