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Michael Bay
Director 61 years old

Michael Bay

Los Angeles, California, USA

Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

15 titles
Ambulance

Ambulance

Michael Bay 2022 2h 16m 6.5

Decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills, asks for help from his adoptive brother Danny. A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million.

6 Underground

6 Underground

Michael Bay 2019 2h 8m 4.0

After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.

Transformers: The Last Knight

Transformers: The Last Knight

Michael Bay 2017 2h 34m 6.0

Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.

13 Hours

13 Hours

Michael Bay 2016 2h 24m 6.0

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Michael Bay 2014 2h 45m 4.4

As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history…while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its crosshairs. With help from Cade Yeager, Optimus Prime and the Autobots rise to meet their most fearsome challenge yet.

Pain & Gain

Pain & Gain

Michael Bay 2013 2h 10m 6.2

A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Michael Bay 2011 2h 34m 6.1

Sam Witwicky takes his first tenuous steps into adulthood while remaining a reluctant human ally of Autobot-leader Optimus Prime. The film centers around the space race between the USSR and the USA, suggesting there was a hidden Transformers role in it all that remains one of the planet's most dangerous secrets.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Michael Bay 2009 2h 30m 6.3

Decepticon forces return to Earth on a mission to take Sam Witwicky prisoner, after the young hero learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers. Joining the mission to protect humankind is Optimus Prime, who forms an alliance with international armies for a second epic battle.

Transformers

Transformers

Michael Bay 2007 2h 24m 6.7

The Earth is caught in the middle of an intergalactic war between two races of robots, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, which are able to change into a variety of objects, including cars, trucks, planes and other technological creations.

The Island

The Island

Michael Bay 2005 2h 16m 7.3

Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly Utopian but contained facility in the mid 21st century. Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island" the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.

Bad Boys II

Bad Boys II

Michael Bay 2003 2h 26m 6.6

Two loose-cannon narcotics cops investigate the flow of Ecstacy into Florida.

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor

Michael Bay 2001 3h 3m 5.9

Pearl Harbor is a fictional enriched film from 2001 about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during the Second World War.

Armageddon

Armageddon

Michael Bay 1998 2h 31m 6.8

As the millennium approaches, top scientists are mysteriously dying.

The Rock

The Rock

Michael Bay 1996 2h 17m 7.2

A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader demands $100 million to be paid, as restitution to families of Marines who died in covert ops. Otherwise, he will launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX gas into the San Francisco Bay area.

Bad Boys

Bad Boys

Michael Bay 1995 1h 59m 6.6

Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

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