Sidney Lumet

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Twelve Angry Men (12 Angry Men) (1957): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley…; Henry Fonda holds–out on a unanimous jury who wish to convict an alleged murderer. A sweltering tension is worked up as he struggles to…
Fugitive Kind, The (1959): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani…; A directionless, but quirky version of Tennesse Williams' play 'Orpheus Descending' with Brando playing a troublesome hobo who spreads romantic…
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr.…; Faithful and masterful adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play about family life, love and losers drinking and tearing each other apart in leafy New…
Fail Safe (1964): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman; Henry Fonda plays the American president struggling to avert an imminent nuclear holocaust, due to a computer malfunction. A nailbiting Cold War…
Hill, The (1965): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Roy Kinnear; Intense military stockade drama, with Sean Connery doing gruelling punishment in the Sahara.
Pawnbroker, The (1965): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Rod Steiger; Rod Steiger gives a career–best performance as a Jewish pawnbroker whose new life in Spanish Harlem conjures haunting images of his Nazi prison…
Anderson Tapes, The (1971): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam…; An inventive, if over–ambitious thriller in which a master–thief (Connery) recently released from prison plans a difficult heist, without…
Serpico (1973): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Al Pacino; Pacino plays a tough, non–conformist cop who exposes police corruption and suffers persecution. Influential, authentic crime drama.
Offence, The (1973): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant…; One of the better Lumet films. Sean Connery – in a rare impressive performance – as a British cop who loses control while interrogating a…
Murder On the Orient Express (1974): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam…; Extravagent production of Agatha Christie's mystery with Albert Finney as Poirot rounding up an all–star cast of suspects.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Al Pacino; Al Pacino is stunning as a deluded no–hoper who robs a New York bank to finance his lover's sex change operation. Riveting drama based on a…
Network (1976): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway…; Explosive drama about an ailing TV station desperate to improve their ratings. Peter Finch won the Best Actor Oscar post–humously as the…
Equus (1977): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Peter Firth, Richard Burton, Joan Plowright…; Straightforward adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s play concerning a disturbed stablehand (Peter Firth) with an equine fixation who has blinded some…
Wiz, The (1978): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor; Much maligned 'black musical' version of L. Frank Baum's classic fairytale (best known through the Judy Garland version). Here, New York City was…
Prince of the City (1981): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Treat Williams; A rookie cop is victimised and ostracised after blowing the whistle on a corruption ring in his own precinct. This epic, highly detailed treatment of…
Verdict, The (1982): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason…; Sombre dramatic death–march, with Paul Newman playing a convincingly booze–soaked lawyer, whose last chance in the courtroom sees him…
Deathtrap (1982): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Joe Silver…; A clever, self–referential comedy based around a failing writer of crime playwright who plans to murder his student for his brilliant whodunnit…
Garbo Talks (1984): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Ron Silver, Greta Garbo, Anne Bancroft…; This enchanting film sees Ron Silver attempting to fulfil his dying mother's last request; to meet Greta Garbo. Fine supporting cast.
Morning After, The (1986): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Raul Julia; Jane Fonda is implicated for murder after waking up next to a dead man. With Jeff Bridges.
Running On Empty (1988): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, Christine Lahti…; A married couple, on the run for activist crimes in the 1960s, come to terms with their childrens' right to be free. A moving story, handled with…
Family Business (1989): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick; Star–studded caper film that follows a family of criminals and their struggles when attachment clashes with business. Adapted by Vincent…
Q & A (1990): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Nick Nolte, Armand Assante, Timothy Hutton…; Lengthy, sometimes incoherent thriller from genre specialist Sidney Lumet, set amid a not entirely unfamiliar cesspit of NYC corruption. Notable for…
Guilty As Sin (1993): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson, Stephen Lang…; Attorney Rebecca De Mornay finds herself unable to discharge her suave lady–killing client (Don Johnson – perfectly cast). Never as…
Night Falls On Manhattan (1997): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Andy Garcia, Lena Olin; Poking around among the NYPD's rotten apples, this unsettling thriller gouges up about as much police corruption and moral dry–rot as you can…
Critical Care (1999): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. James Spader, Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick; Veteran dir. Sidney Lumet (NETWORK) elevates a potentially humdrum comedy about hospital ethics into smart satire. James Spader plays an intern who…
Gloria (1999): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sharon Stone; Stepping into the moll stilettos worn by Gena Rowlands in the 1980 original, Sharon Stone plays a hard–boiled dame who is landed with a mouthy…
Find Me Guilty (2006): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Vin Diesel; An against–type Vin Diesel fuels this mob comedy from seasoned courtroom exponent Sidney Lumet, based on the shenanigans of one Jackie…
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney…; Intense tragi–thriller centred around a pair of hapless brothers (Hoffman and Hawke) who face devastating family consequences after a botched…

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Filmography (All Films)