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Alan Parker
Director 1944 - 2020

Alan Parker

Islington, London, England, UK

Sir Alan William Parker (14 February 1944 – 31 July 2020) was a director, writer and producer. His feature films have won nineteen BAFTA awards, ten Golden Globes and ten Oscars. His films include Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning, The Commitments, Evita,... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

13 titles
The Life of David Gale

The Life of David Gale

Alan Parker 2003 2h 10m 7.6

Dr. David Gale, an advocate of eliminating the death penalty, is falsely accused of rape and murder. Once convicted, he ends up on death row in Texas himself, telling his story to a reporter through a series of flashbacks.

Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes

Alan Parker 1999 2h 25m 7.5

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

Evita

Evita

Alan Parker 1996 2h 15m 5.8

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

The Road to Wellville

The Road to Wellville

Alan Parker 1994 1h 58m 5.0

An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.

The Commitments

The Commitments

Alan Parker 1991 1h 58m 8.2

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin.

Come See the Paradise

Come See the Paradise

Alan Parker 1990 2h 13m

The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.

Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning

Alan Parker 1988 2h 8m 7.7

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.

Angel Heart

Angel Heart

Alan Parker 1987 1h 53m 7.6

The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spur with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural journey into his soul. A thriller starring Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro.

Birdy

Birdy

Alan Parker 1984 2h 7.8

After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Alan Parker 1982 1h 35m 8.2

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

Fame

Fame

Alan Parker 1980 2h 14m 6.8

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts

Midnight Express

Midnight Express

Alan Parker 1978 2h 1m 8.2

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

Bugsy Malone

Bugsy Malone

Alan Parker 1976 1h 33m 6.6

New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone, an all-round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy.

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