Search results for "Sidney Lumet"
12 Angry Men (1957)

12 Angry Men (1957)

12 Angry Men (1957)
IMDb: 9.0
96 min

Now, the defense and prosecution are done. The jury will decide whether a man was guilty or not of the murder of his father. It starts out as an unresolved…

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Genre: Drama
Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon
IMDb: 8.0
125 min

Sonny is based on a true-life situation that occurred in August 1972. A Chase Manhattan Bank branch was under siege in Gravesend in Brooklyn. He was a Vietnam vet who…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express
IMDb: 7.3
128 min

It was full for the departure from Istanbul of December 1935 of the Orient Express in the first class. This is unusual at this time of year. The famous and…

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Network

Network

Network
IMDb: 8.1
121 min

Terrorist violence was a major topic in the 70s and UBS Television Network’s corporate structure is evolving. Howard Beale (the aging UBS news anchor) has fallen from favor and is…

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Genre: Drama
Serpico

Serpico

Serpico
IMDb: 7.7
130 min

Serpico was a police officer in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He refuses to share the cash that cops regularly extort local criminals, unlike his fellow officers. Serpico is…

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Genre: Crime, History
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
IMDb: 7.3
117 min

Two brothers, desperate for extra money, conspire to commit the perfect crime, with no victims. No guns, no violence, no problem. If an accomplice disregards the rules or crosses the…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Night Falls on Manhattan

Night Falls on Manhattan

Night Falls on Manhattan
IMDb: 6.6
113 min

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

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Offence

The Offence

The Offence
IMDb: 6.9
112 min

A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Gloria (1999)

Gloria (1999)

Gloria (1999)
IMDb: 5.2
108 min

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…

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The Pawnbroker

The Pawnbroker

The Pawnbroker
IMDb: 7.7
116 min

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.

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Family Business

Family Business

Family Business
IMDb: 5.7
110 min

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…

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Prince of the City

Prince of the City

Prince of the City
IMDb: 7.4
167 min

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…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Deadly Affair

The Deadly Affair

The Deadly Affair
IMDb: 6.7
107 min

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…

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Child’s Play

Child’s Play

Child’s Play
IMDb: 6.2
100 min

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…

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The Hill

The Hill

The Hill
IMDb: 7.9
123 min

World War II, in a British disciplinary camp located in the Libyan desert, prisoners are persecuted by Staff Sergeant Williams (Ian Hendry), who made them climb again and again, under…

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Genre: Drama, War
The Verdict

The Verdict

The Verdict
IMDb: 7.7
129 min

Frank Galvin was once a promising Boston lawyer with a bright future ahead. An incident early in his career in which he was trying to do the right thing led…

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Genre: Drama
Q & A

Q & A

Q & A
IMDb: 6.6
132 min

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 refuses to help him…

Find Me Guilty

Find Me Guilty

Find Me Guilty
IMDb: 7.0
125 min

The mobster Jackie DiNorscio is shot by his own cousin at home while on probation but survives. Later he is arrested dealing drugs and sentenced to thirty years in prison….

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Fugitive Kind

The Fugitive Kind

The Fugitive Kind
IMDb: 7.1
119 min

Having fled New Orleans to avoid arrest, the undeniably alluring Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier (Val), a trouble-prone, guitar-playing drifter, wanders into a small Mississippi town aiming to go straight and lead…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Deathtrap

Deathtrap

Deathtrap
IMDb: 7.0
116 min

To make Sidney's slump all the more painful, Clifford Anderson, a student of one of Sidney's writing seminars, has recently sent his mentor a copy of his first attempt at…

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The Anderson Tapes

The Anderson Tapes

The Anderson Tapes
IMDb: 6.4
99 min

A thief (Duke Anderson) just released from ten years in jail, takes up with his old girlfriend (Ingrid) in her posh apartment. He makes plans to rob the entire building….

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Running on Empty

Running on Empty

Running on Empty
IMDb: 7.6
116 min

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…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Guilty as Sin

Guilty as Sin

Guilty as Sin
IMDb: 5.6
107 min

A man accused of murdering his wife approaches a hotshot female criminal attorney to take his case. The man is a self-professed womaniser, and his alleged motive would be the…

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The Morning After

The Morning After

The Morning After
IMDb: 6.0
103 min

Alex Sternberg wakes up with a hangover and no memory of how she ended up in bed with a dead man. She flees, convinced that she has had another blackout…

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Equus

Equus

Equus
IMDb: 7.2
137 min

Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) 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…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Wiz

The Wiz

The Wiz
IMDb: 5.5
134 min

24-year-old kindergarten teacher Dorothy, born, raised, and still working in Harlem, is celebrating Thanksgiving with her extended family, but she doesn't seem to be thankful for much. She lives a…

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Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)

Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)

Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)
IMDb: 7.6
174 min

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest…

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Genre: History
A Stranger Among Us

A Stranger Among Us

A Stranger Among Us
IMDb: 5.6
110 min

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…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Power

Power

Power
IMDb: 5.7
111 min

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,…

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Genre: Drama
Daniel

Daniel

Daniel
IMDb: 6.6
130 min

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…

Genre: Drama
The Group

The Group

The Group
IMDb: 6.5
150 min

In June 1933, eight young women, who are close friends and members of the upper-class group at South Tower College, graduate and start their adult lives. The film documents the…

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Genre: Drama