Direction: Sidney Lumet

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Henry Fonda · Lee J. Cobb · Jack Warden · E.G. Marshall

Synopsis Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion?

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Dan O'Herlihy · Henry Fonda · Walter Matthau · Fritz Weaver

Synopsis A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly beyond their fail safe distance. At this point the flight...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Faye Dunaway · William Holden · Peter Finch · Robert Duvall

Synopsis NETWORK follows the doomed path of aging newsman Howard Beale (Peter Finch), who upon learning that he is to be fired after decades as a news anchor announces to millions of viewers that he will publicly commit suicide during his...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Paul Newman · Charlotte Rampling · Jack Warden · James Mason

Synopsis Sidney Lumet directs Paul Newman as an alcoholic lawyer whose once-promising legal career is on the skids and who gets and one last chance to prove himself in this tense courtroom drama. Frank Galvin (Newman) can't even scare up clients...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Al Pacino · John Cazale · Charles Durning · Carol Kane

Synopsis Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege by a gay bank robber determined to steal enough money for his male lover to undergo a...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Sean Connery · Harry Andrews · Ian Bannen · Alfred Lynch

Synopsis In a British Army "glasshouse" (military detention camp) in the Libyan Desert, the prisoners are British soldiers convicted of service offences such as insubordination, drunkenness on duty, or profiteering, and are subjected to repetitive drill in the blazing desert heat....

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Al Pacino · John Randolph · Jack Kehoe · Tony Roberts

Synopsis Serpico is a cop in the early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues, he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico, and he's in constant danger of being...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Rod Steiger · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Brock Peters · Jaime Sanchez

Synopsis The Pawnbroker, directed by Sidney Lumet, stars Rod Steiger in this grim, dark tale of a Holocaust survivor who runs a pawnshop in Harlem. The film traces his deterioration as modern times force old memories to painfully flood back to...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Treat Williams · Jerry Orbach · Richard Forojny · Don Billet

Synopsis New York cop Daniel Ciello is involved in some questionable police practices. He is approached by internal affairs and in exchange for him potentially being let off the hook, he is instructed to begin to expose the inner workings of...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Philip Seymour Hoffman · Ethan Hawke · Albert Finney · Marisa Tomei

Synopsis A suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all – itself. Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended broker who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke) into a larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Christine Lahti · Judd Hirsch · River Phoenix · Martha Plimpton

Synopsis Running on Empty is the moving tale of a young man whose parents were political agitators in the 1960s. Ever since, the family has been changing locations, changing their names, and hiding from the FBI. The young man wants to...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Albert Finney · Lauren Bacall · Ingrid Bergman · Sean Connery

Synopsis The Famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express, and one of the passengers requests his protection. The next day the passenger is found dead in his compartment, and Poirot is determined to atone for his failure by solving...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Jason Robards · Ralph Richardson · Dean Stockwell

Synopsis Long Day's Journey Into Night is one of the screen's most insightful examinations of lives caught in a downward cycle of co-dependency and despair. Working from the highly autobiographical stage play by Eugene O'Neill, director Sidney Lumet keeps the material...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Raf Vallone · Jean Sorel · Maureen Stapleton · Carol Lawrence

Synopsis 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. Catherine falls in love with...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Timothy Hutton · Mandy Patinkin · Lindsay Crouse · Ed Asner

Synopsis 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...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Marlon Brando · Anna Magnani · Joanne Woodward · Maureen Stapleton

Synopsis Valentine Xavier (Marlon Brando) is an "entertainer" in New Orleans - he plays a guitar given to him by Leadbelly - but when he runs afoul of the law one too many times, he vows to quit the scene and...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Michael Caine · Christopher Reeve · Dyan Cannon · Irene Worth

Synopsis Sidney Lumet faithfully adapts Ira Levin's witty play of intertwining intentions and duplicitous loyalties in his stinging thriller DEATHTRAP. Set in the glittering milieu of New York's Hamptons, the film stars Michael Caine as Sidney Bruhl, a washed-up writer of...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast James Mason · Simone Signoret · Maximilian Schell · Harriet Andersson

Synopsis Based on a John le Carre novel and directed by Sidney Lumet, The Deadly Affair is a cold war thriller centred in the world of espionage. When foreign Office official Samuel Fennan and his wife (Simone Signoret) are anonymously accused...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Richard Burton · Peter Firth · Colin Blakely · Joan Plowright

Synopsis A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Nick Nolte · Timothy Hutton · Armand Assante · Paul Calderon

Synopsis A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector... In this suspenseful action thriller a bad-to-the-bone renegade cop kills a drug dealer and tries to cover up...