Barry Levinson
Director, Actor
- Diner (1982)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Kevin Bacon…
- Endearing, and enduring, tale of college friends growing up in the 1950s Baltimore was a box–office flop but soon found an enthusiastic…
- Natural, The (1984)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger
- The classic novel by Bernard Malamud gets a typical Hollywood going over, with Robert Redford playing a young dreamer who aspires to baseball…
- Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear (1985)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
- Highly watchable updating of Sherlock Holmes, with his teenage incarnation plumbing 'thugee' cult mysteries in Victorian London.
Notable at the…
- Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker
- Robin Williams tour–de–force performance as an irreverant, rebel radio–jock stationed in Saigon during the Vietnam War. The funny…
- Tin Men (1987)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Danny De Vito, Richard Dreyfuss, Barbara Hershey
- A bitter feud escalates between aluminum–cladding salesm en Danny De Vito and Richard Dreyfuss in the 1950s. Both chinwaggers are in their…
- Rain Man (1988)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
- Oscar–winning road drama featuring Dustin Hoffman's virtuoso performance as the idiot savant brother of Tom Cruise, who does equally well in a…
- Avalon (1990)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Armin Mueller-Stahl, Aidan Quinn
- The director's semi–autobiography is a gorgeously lensed account of a Polish immigrant family facing the trials and tribulations of growing up…
- Bugsy (1991)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Warren Beatty, Annette Bening
- Glamourous portrait of infamous gangster 'Bugsy' Siegel, whose dream to build Las Vegas turned out to be his fatal flaw. Warren Beatty, Annette…
- Toys (1993)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack…
- Even Robin Williams' enormous talent and inspired art direction fail to enliven this comic fantasy. It plays more like a bad dream from which you…
- Homicide (TV Series) (Life On The Street) (1993-1999)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Richard Belzer, Ned Beatty, Yaphet Kotto…
- Award–winning cop drama, from the creator of THE WIRE, centred on a group of homicide detectives investigating grisly crimes on the tough…
- Jimmy Hollywood (1994)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Joe Pesci, Christian Slater, Victoria Abril
- Joe Pesci is marvellous as a starry–eyed Hollywood no–hoper whose attention–seeking transforms him into a vigilante media hero with…
- Disclosure (1994)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Michael Douglas, Demi Moore
- Michael Douglas exposes himself to become the sexual prey of no–nonsense lady–boss Demi Moore and is forced to sue her for sexual…
- Sleepers (1996)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman
- Based on a purportedly fact–based novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra, a disastrous prank lands four schoolboys in a borstal where they suffer…
- Wag the Dog (1997)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Dustin Hoffman
- A Clinton–inspired political satire, coincided with the Lewinsky scandal on release (and then Iraq), sees Whitehouse spin–doctor Robert…
- Sphere (1998)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson
- Back in the ocean depths, a 300yr–old alien spacecraft lies silently waiting for the team to investigate. Michael Crichton's story unavoidably…
- Liberty Heights (2000)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Adrien Brody, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth
- Drawing once again on memories of his Baltimore childhood, dir. Levinson (DINER) examines life for a Jewish family on the eve of the rock'n'roll era…
- An Everlasting Piece (2000)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Barry McEvoy, Brian F. O'Byrne, Billy Connolly…
- Dir. Levinson heads east of Baltimore for a bravely irreverent slice of Northern Irish sectarian humour, with Barry McEvoy (who also scripted) and…
- Bandits (2001)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett…
- Genuine wit is visited upon this comedy–drama built around the unlikely character alliance of successful bank–robbers Bruce Willis and…
- Envy (2004)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Rachel Weisz…
- Ben Stiller and Jack Black team together for the first time in a black comedy that, for all its waywardness, is refreshingly off the beaten track for…
- Man of the Year (2006)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robin Williams, Christopher Walken, Laura Linney…
- Played for quick laughs, this political satire suitably casts Robin Williams as an affable, late–night talk show host who runs for President…
- What Just Happened (2008)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Catherine Keener, Bruce Willis…
- Robert De Niro is in late–career–best form in this amiable showbiz satire that captures two weeks in the life of a frustrated film…
- You Don't Know Jack (2010)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Al Pacino, Danny Huston, Susan Sarandon…
- Al Pacino delivers his most committed performance in years in this divisive tale of Euthanasia advocate Jack Kevorkian, with seasoned dir. Levinson…
- Bay, The (2012)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Kether Donohue, Will Rogers, Kristen Connolly…
- A found footage eco–horror film directed by Hollywood veteran Barry Levinson who creates an edgy yet entirely believeable series chaotic events…
- Humbling, The (2014)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Dianne Wiest…
- Al Pacino and Greta Gerwig headline this erotic comedy about a stage actor who is slowly losing his mind who engages in a relationship with a…
- Rock the Kasbah (2015)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Bill Murray, Leem Lubany, Kate Hudson…
- Bill Murray strikes out in this tepid comedy as down–on–his–luck music manager who discovers a teenage girl with an extraordinary…
- Wizard of Lies, The (2017)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alessandro Nivola…
- True story of one of the largest frauds in US history, with Robert De Niro regaining some credibility in the role of corrupt businessman Bernie…