Sidney Lumet
Director, Actor
- 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.