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Richard Linklater
Director 66 years old

Richard Linklater

Houston, Texas, USA

Richard Linklater (/ˈlɪŋkleɪtər/; born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker. He is known for making films that deal thematically with suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. In 2015, Linklater was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

22 titles
Nouvelle Vague

Nouvelle Vague

Richard Linklater 2025 1h 46m 8.0

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result?

Blue Moon

Blue Moon

Richard Linklater 2025 1h 41m

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator, Richard Rodgers, celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical, “Oklahoma!”

Hit Man

Hit Man

Richard Linklater 2023 1h 56m 6.0

A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure

Richard Linklater 2022 1h 39m 7.0

A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the moon.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Richard Linklater 2019 1h 49m 7.0

When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter Bee goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.

Everybody Wants Some!!

Everybody Wants Some!!

Richard Linklater 2016 1h 57m 6.2

A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.

Boyhood

Boyhood

Richard Linklater 2014 2h 45m 7.6

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

Before Midnight

Before Midnight

Richard Linklater 2013 1h 49m 7.2

We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.

Bernie

Bernie

Richard Linklater 2011 1h 39m 6.6

The true story of mortician Bernie Tiede, who befriended and killed a wealthy widow in Texas, and then attempted to conceal her death from family and townspeople.

Me and Orson Welles

Me and Orson Welles

Richard Linklater 2008 1h 54m 6.3

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.

Fast Food Nation

Fast Food Nation

Richard Linklater 2006 1h 56m 6.2

Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's New York Times best-seller of the same name, director Richard Linklater's ensemble drama examines the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food and features an all-star cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette, and Luis Guzman.

A Scanner Darkly

A Scanner Darkly

Richard Linklater 2006 1h 40m 7.6

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

Bad News Bears

Bad News Bears

Richard Linklater 2005 1h 53m 6.0

Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic pest removal worker and former professional baseball player (for a very short time), is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team of 12 year olds which is about to be thrown out of the league.

Before Sunset

Before Sunset

Richard Linklater 2004 1h 20m 8.1

Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.

The School of Rock

The School of Rock

Richard Linklater 2003 1h 50m 7.5

A wannabe rock star in need of cash poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school, and tries to turn his class into a rock band.

Waking Life

Waking Life

Richard Linklater 2001 1h 41m 6.9

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.

Tape

Tape

Richard Linklater 2001 1h 27m

Three old high school friends meet in a Michigan motel room to dissect painful memories from their past.

The Newton Boys

The Newton Boys

Richard Linklater 1998 2h 2m 6.0

Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. The oldest of them, Willis, one day realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become a bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers, and five years later execute the greatest train robbery in American history.

SubUrbia

SubUrbia

Richard Linklater 1996 2h 1m

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

Before Sunrise

Before Sunrise

Richard Linklater 1995 1h 41m 8.2

A dialogue marathon of a film, this fairy tail love story of an American boy and French girl. During a day and a night together in Vienna their two hearts collide.

Dazed and Confused

Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater 1993 1h 42m 7.5

It's the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.

Slacker

Slacker

Richard Linklater 1991 1h 37m 7.8

Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another's lives.

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