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Kung Fu (TV Series)Kung Fu (TV Series) (1972-1975) Recommended
Feat. David Carradine, Jodie Foster, Jose Feliciano
The memorable TV series starring David 'Grasshopper' Carradine as a Shaolin monk wandering the wild west, armed only with his martial–arts…
Ghost Story (TV Series)Ghost Story (TV Series) (Circle of Fear) (1972-1973)
Feat. Sheila Larken , Meg Foster, Don Barry
Horror anthology TV series presented by Sebastian Cabot, who also plays the owner of a mysterious hotel beset by creepy occurrences. Produced by…
Tom Sawyer (1973)
Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Johnnie Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates
Award–winning musical version of Mark Twain's classic raggamuffin adventures. A youthful Jodie Foster appears as Tom's girlfriend.
Smile Jenny, You're DeadSmile Jenny, You're Dead (1974)
Dir. Jerry Thorpe
Feat. David Janssen, Jodie Foster, Andrea Marcovicci
David Janssen plays a cop turned private sleuth who is on the trail of the psychopath who is targeting his ex–partner's supermodel daughter.
Taxi DriverTaxi Driver (1976) Aro Favourite
Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks
Robert De Niro stalks the decaying streets of the Big Apple to Bernard Herrmann's haunting score before flipping his lid and enacting brutal revenge…
Bugsy MaloneBugsy Malone (1976) Recommended
Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, John Cassini
Alan Parker's directing debut was this startlingly original feature debut reinvents the gangster movie as a musical pastiche cast entirely with…
Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane, TheLittle Girl Who Lives Down The Lane, The (1976) Recommended
Dir. Nicolas Gessner
Feat. Martin Sheen, Jodie Foster, Alexis Smith
A precocious Jodie Foster, 13–years–old and home alone, attempts to ward off nosy neighbours and a perverted Martin Sheen in this…
Freaky FridayFreaky Friday (1977) Recommended
Dir. Gary Nelson
Feat. Jodie Foster, Barbara Harris
Barbara Harris and a 13–year–old Jodie Foster are mother and daughter who miraculosly swap personalities for a day. Plenty of fun here.
FoxesFoxes (1980)
Dir. Adrian Lyne
Feat. Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman
Four teenage loose cannons speed towards self–destruction in this frank, impressionistic portrait of L.A. teen culture. A young Jodie Foster…
SvengaliSvengali (1983)
Dir. Anthony Harvey
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Jodie Foster, Holly Hunter
Has been vocalist turned singing instructor O'Toole takes young rocker Foster under his wings. By all accounts a complete misfire. Though if you can…
Hotel New HampshireHotel New Hampshire (1984)
Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Jodie Foster, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski
Jodie Foster falls in love with brother Rob Lowe. From the John Irving novel.
Mesmerized (1985)
Dir. Michael Laughlin
Feat. Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy
Jodie Foster plays a young woman in colonial NZ who flees an orphanage but finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage to a much older business man…
Five CornersFive Corners (1987)
Dir. Tony Bill
Feat. Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff
Ambitious, although ultimately chaotic, drama set in the Bronx in 1964, where a young Jodie Foster is stalked by her former boyfriend (Turturro), who…
Accused, TheAccused, The (1988) Recommended
Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis
Jodie Foster won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a rape victim who suffered the additional ordeal of prosecuting her attackers in the face of…
Stealing HomeStealing Home (1988)
Dir. Steven Kampmann
Feat. Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jonathan Silverman
Coming–of–age romantic drama about a washed up baseball player (Mark Harmon) who finds out his childhood love (Jodie Foster) has…
SiestaSiesta (1989) Recommended
Dir. Mary Lambert
Feat. Ellen Barkin, Jodie Foster, Gabriel Byrne
An enigmatic, arty thriller with a terrific cast, gorgeous lensing and Miles Davis soundtrack. Possibly meaningless, but a pleasure to watch the cast…
CatchfireCatchfire (1990)
Dir. Alan Smithee
Feat. Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster
An engaging oddity directed by Dennis Hopper under a pseudonym, after producers cut the film from its original 3hr length. Hopper himself plays a…
Little Man TateLittle Man Tate (1991)
Dir. Jodie Foster
Feat. Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest
A super–intelligent child is the central figure of a tug–of–war between mother Jodie Foster and child psychologist Dianne Wiest.…
Shadows and FogShadows and Fog (1991)
Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, John Malkovich, Kathy Bates
Woody, John Malkovich, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Jodie Foster and Madonna cast their prominent shadows for his droll tale of mystery stranglers,…
Silence of the Lambs, TheSilence of the Lambs, The (1991) Aro Favourite
Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Celebrated adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel follows the hunt of a gruesome serial killer by a rookie cop (Jodie Foster), 'aided' by an incarcerated…
SommersbySommersby (1993)
Dir. Jon Amiel
Feat. Jodie Foster, Richard Gere
Previously filmed in its native French as THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE. An atypically down–beat Hollywood remake.
MaverickMaverick (1994)
Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner
The popular TV Western is refried with Mel Gibson as the carefree card–shark, Jodie Foster his not–too–bright love interest and…
NellNell (1994)
Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Liam Neeson, Jodie Foster
Small–town doctor Liam Neeson discovers a young woman untouched by twentieth century developments who has even developed her own language.…
Home for the HolidaysHome for the Holidays (1995)
Dir. Jodie Foster
Feat. Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jnr., Anne Bancroft
Holly Hunter returns to her family for a holiday get–together and finds a mixture of romance and family conflicts amid some bright, eccentric…
ContactContact (1997) Recommended
Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Jodie Foster, Jena Malone, Matthew McConaughey
The E.T.s phone Earth in this lavish adaptation of Carl Sagan's novel, with scientists retrieving alien radio signals from Somewhere Out There. …
Anna and the KingAnna and the King (1999)
Dir. Andy Tennant
Feat. Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat
English governess Jodie Foster governs the King of Siam's (Chow–Yun Fat) children in another version of the true–story that formed the…
Panic RoomPanic Room (2002) Recommended
Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam
Gifted visual stylist David Fincher downsizes a little with a dark, Hitchcockian chamber piece that pushes enough of the right buttons to make it a…
Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, TheDangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The (2002)
Dir. Peter Care
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Kieran Culkin, Vincent D'Onofrio
A quietly sobering, yet refreshingly humorous memoir of hormonal and delinquent adolescence under the arches of a strict Catholic high school, with…
Very Long Engagement, AVery Long Engagement, A (Long dimanche de fiançailles, Un) (2004) Recommended
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Clovis Cornillac
Another crowd–pleasing favourite from the dir. of AMELIE, which uses the Great War as setting for the fairytale search by Audrey Tatou for her…
FlightplanFlightplan (2005) Recommended
Dir. Robert Schwentke
Feat. Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean
A riveting spin on THE LADY VANISHES with Jodie Foster playing a stressed aircraft engineer who boards a jumbo passenger jet with her young daughter,…
Inside ManInside Man (2006) Recommended
Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster
Proficient, personalised heist thriller from dir. Spike Lee (25TH HOUR) in which a smooth and cold super–crim (Owen) engineers the robbery of…
Brave One, TheBrave One, The (2007)
Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Jodie Foster, Naveen Andrews, Terrence Howard
Jodie’s gotta gun, here playing a radio jock turned vigilante avenging her husband's fatal mugging in Neil Jordan's tough stylish, revenge…
Nim's Island Nim's Island (2008) Recommended
Dir. Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
Feat. Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler
Sun–baked family adventure set in the magical land of Nim's Island, where an imaginative bookworm (Abigail Breslin) must enlist the help of her…
Beaver, TheBeaver, The (2011)
Dir. Jodie Foster
Feat. Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin
A haggard Mel Gibson adopts the persona of a beat–up hand puppet in an attempt to cope with his deteriorating mental health in this…
CarnageCarnage (2011) Recommended
Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly
Two sets of parents resort to increasingly childish tactics over an altercation between their sons in this fiery war of words directed by Roman…
ElysiumElysium (2013)
Dir. Neill Blomkamp
Feat. Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley
DISTRICT 9 dir. Neill Blomkamp helms this arresting sci–fi blockbuster about a dystopian earth whose underprivileged survivors dream of gaining…
Money MonsterMoney Monster (2016)
Dir. Jodie Foster
Feat. George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell
Jodie Foster directs this angry media satire starring George Clooney as a financial TV host held hostage by an irate investor.
Hotel ArtemisHotel Artemis (2018)
Dir. Drew Pearce
Feat. Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella
A dystopian action–thriller starring Jodie Foster as The Nurse, who runs a secret, members–only emergency clinic for criminals in a…

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