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Sidney Lumet
Director 1924 - 2011

Sidney Lumet

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Sidney Lumet (June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his name. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982). He... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

52 titles
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Sidney Lumet 2007 1h 57m 7.6

Two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store. The job goes horribly wrong, triggering off a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.

Find Me Guilty

Find Me Guilty

Sidney Lumet 2006 2h 5m 6.7

Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.

Strip Search

Strip Search

Sidney Lumet 2004 56m

Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.

Rachel, quand du seigneur

Sidney Lumet 2004 12m

A passionate performance of "Rachel, quand du Seigneur" (Rachel, when the Lord...), a celebrated aria from the Fromental Halévy's famous opera "La Juive" (The Jewess).

Gloria

Gloria

Sidney Lumet 1999 1h 48m 3.0

Sharon Stone plays a street-wise, middle-aged moll standing up against the mobs, all of which is complicated by a 6 year old urchin with a will of his own who she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.

Critical Care

Critical Care

Sidney Lumet 1997 1h 47m

A hospital resident is put in the middle of a legal battle between two half-sisters on whether to pull their comatose dad's life support. But more seems to be at stake than dad's life - his inheritance.

Night Falls on Manhattan

Night Falls on Manhattan

Sidney Lumet 1996 1h 53m 6.3

A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

Guilty as Sin

Guilty as Sin

Sidney Lumet 1993 1h 47m 5.5

A lawyer (Rebecca De Mornay) defends a womanizing accused wife slayer (Don Johnson)

A Stranger Among Us

A Stranger Among Us

Sidney Lumet 1992 1h 50m 5.8

Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in.

Q & A

Q & A

Sidney Lumet 1990 2h 12m 6.2

A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuse to help him in this gritty crime film.

Family Business

Family Business

Sidney Lumet 1989 1h 50m 5.0

Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity.

Running on Empty

Running on Empty

Sidney Lumet 1988 1h 56m 8.2

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind.

The Morning After

The Morning After

Sidney Lumet 1986 1h 42m 6.0

A woman wakes up next to a murdered man. Did she do it herself, and if not, is she in danger herself?

Power

Power

Sidney Lumet 1986 1h 51m 5.0

Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...

Garbo Talks

Garbo Talks

Sidney Lumet 1984 1h 43m

A New York accountant (Ron Silver) sets out to grant his dying mother's last wish--to meet film star Greta Garbo. Sidney Lumet's bittersweet 1984 comedy also stars Anne Bancroft, Catherine Hicks, Carrie Fisher, Harvey Fierstein, Howard Da Silva, Steven Hill, Hermione Gingold, Dorothy Loudon and Betty Comden.

Daniel

Daniel

Sidney Lumet 1983 2h 10m 8.0

The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.

The Verdict

The Verdict

Sidney Lumet 1982 2h 9m 7.5

A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.

Deathtrap

Deathtrap

Sidney Lumet 1982 1h 56m 6.9

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

Prince of the City

Prince of the City

Sidney Lumet 1981 2h 47m 7.5

New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants

Just Tell Me What You Want

Just Tell Me What You Want

Sidney Lumet 1980 1h 52m

A television producer woman tries to let down her overbearing boyfriend who is her boss. She wants to marry with a young writer.

The Wiz

The Wiz

Sidney Lumet 1978 2h 14m 6.1

A re-imaging of The Wizard of Oz, set against an urban background with an African American cast.

Equus

Equus

Sidney Lumet 1977 2h 17m 6.0

A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.

Network

Network

Sidney Lumet 1976 2h 2m 7.8

Not since the dawn of time has America experienced a man like Howard Beale!

Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon

Sidney Lumet 1975 2h 5m 8.3

Dog Day Afternoon is a film based on true events and directed by Sidney Lumet. The film stars Al Pacino as a robber who held a bank hostage in Brooklyn, New York.

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

Sidney Lumet 1974 2h 8m 7.1

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Lovin' Molly

Lovin' Molly

Sidney Lumet 1974 1h 38m

Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.

The Offence

The Offence

Sidney Lumet 1973 1h 53m 7.6
Serpico

Serpico

Sidney Lumet 1973 2h 9m 7.8

The true story about an honest New York cop who blew the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Child's Play

Child's Play

Sidney Lumet 1972 1h 40m 6.0

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

The Anderson Tapes

The Anderson Tapes

Sidney Lumet 1971 1h 39m 6.0

A career criminal goes for one last big score... but are the police on to him?

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

Sidney Lumet 1970 1h 40m 5.0

Director: Sidney Lumet Released: 1970

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1970 3h 5m

Follows Martin Luther King's life and decades-long civil rights activism.

The Appointment

The Appointment

Sidney Lumet 1969 1h 55m

The lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to believe that his wife Carla in secret is Rome's highest paid prostitute.

The Sea Gull

The Sea Gull

Sidney Lumet 1968 2h 24m

Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.

Bye Bye Braverman

Bye Bye Braverman

Sidney Lumet 1968 1h 34m

Friends gather for the funeral of a friend. Sub-plots unfold as the group attempts to link-up to attend the funeral of their friend, Braverman.

The Group

The Group

Sidney Lumet 1966 2h 32m 8.0

Sidney Lumet's adaptation of the acclaimed Mary McCarthy novel follows the experiences and struggles of eight friends following their graduation from a New England all-women's college in the 1930s.

The Deadly Affair

The Deadly Affair

Sidney Lumet 1966 1h 55m 7.0

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case.

The Hill

The Hill

Sidney Lumet 1965 2h 3m 8.3

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

The Pawnbroker

The Pawnbroker

Sidney Lumet 1964 1h 56m 8.0

A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.

Fail-Safe

Fail-Safe

Sidney Lumet 1964 1h 52m 8.2

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring. Director Sidney Lumet gives an atmospheric vision of the future with a Cold War backdrop.

Vu du pont

Vu du pont

Sidney Lumet 1962 1h 50m 7.5

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho.

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Sidney Lumet 1962 2h 50m 8.3

The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one another.

The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh

Sidney Lumet 1960 4h

Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes semi-annual visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams."

The Fugitive Kind

The Fugitive Kind

Sidney Lumet 1960 1h 59m 8.1

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.

Rashomon

Rashomon

Sidney Lumet 1960 1h 30m 9.0

Set in ancient Japan, Rashomon follows the aftermath of a bandit’s attack on a warrior and his wife, as the bandit, the wife, the husband, and a woodcutter each offer different versions of what happened.

John Brown's Raid

John Brown's Raid

Sidney Lumet 1960 1h

White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Based on true events.

That Kind of Woman

That Kind of Woman

Sidney Lumet 1959 1h 32m

A young GI (Tab Hunter) falls in love with a kept woman (Sophia Loren) on a train to New York.

Stage Struck

Stage Struck

Sidney Lumet 1958 1h 35m

A young woman arrives in New York City determined to become a great theatrical star, but discovers that her goal may not be as easily attainable as she had hoped.

Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

Sidney Lumet, George Schaefer 1958 1h 30m

In Holland, poor but industrious and honorable 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister yearn to participate in December's great ice skating race on the canal.

All the King's Men

All the King's Men

Sidney Lumet 1958 1h 30m

The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, based upon the Robert Penn Warren novel.

Mr. Broadway

Mr. Broadway

Sidney Lumet 1957 1h 30m

A musical television special chronicling the early career of playwright George M. Cohan, focusing primarily on his vaudeville years as part of his family singing group "The Four Cohans."

12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet 1957 1h 37m 9.2

12 Angry Men is the 1957 film debut for director Sidney Lumet. An interpretion from a Broadway show, this film is about 12 jurors who must decide whether an 18-year-old is guilty of killing his father.

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