Sidney Lumet Filmography

12 Angry Men is a movie starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, and Martin Balsam. A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence....

Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with problem-filled women....

Long Day's Journey Into Night is a movie starring Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, and Jason Robards. At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and......

A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?...

The Pawnbroker is a movie starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Brock Peters. A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions....

The Hill is a movie starring Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, and Ian Bannen. In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards....

The Group is a movie starring Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, and Elizabeth Hartman. After graduating from a prestigious Eastern university, eight devoted women friends go their separate ways: one leaves for Europe, while the others......

The Deadly Affair is a movie starring James Mason, Maximilian Schell, and Simone Signoret. A British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee's suicide....

After Duke Anderson is released from prison after ten years for taking the rap for a scion of a Mafia family, he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper....

A burnt-out British police detective finally snaps whilst interrogating a suspected child molester....

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him....

Murder on the Orient Express is a movie starring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, and Ingrid Bergman. In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in......

Dog Day Afternoon is a movie starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, and Penelope Allen. Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly......

Network is a movie starring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, and Peter Finch. A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit....

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

The Wiz is a movie starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and Nipsey Russell. An adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience....

Prince of the City is a movie starring Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, and Richard Foronjy. A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon......

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

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

The Morning After is a movie starring Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, and Raul Julia. A washed up, alcoholic actress who is prone to blackouts wakes up next to a murdered man. Did she kill him and, if not, is she in danger?...

Running on Empty is a movie starring River Phoenix, Christine Lahti, and Judd Hirsch. The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own....

Family Business is a movie starring Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, and Matthew Broderick. An ex professor offers Adam $1,000,000 to "get" some plasma from a high tech company's lab. Adam asks his criminal grandpa for help. Can they......

Emily, a tough NYPD cop, is sent to an orthodox Jewish community to investigate a missing person plus $720,000 in missing diamonds. To solve what becomes a murder case, she has to join the community....

Guilty as Sin is a movie starring Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson, and Stephen Lang. A female lawyer takes an accused wife-murderer as a client, but finds herself morally compelled to betray him one way or another....

Night Falls on Manhattan is a movie starring Andy Garcia, Richard Dreyfuss, and Lena Olin. A newly elected District Attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his......

Gloria is a movie starring Sharon Stone, Jean-Luke Figueroa, and Jeremy Northam. After serving three years in prison covering for her gangster boyfriend, Kevin, Gloria returns to New York City for the money she was promised. Inside......

Strip Search is a TV movie starring Austin Pendleton, Tom Guiry, and Fred Koheler. Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve......

Find Me Guilty is a movie starring Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, and Ron Silver. In the late 1980s, a low level gangster named Jackie DiNorscio defends himself in court in what became the longest criminal trial in American judicial......

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife hurtling towards a shattering climax....