Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A newly elected District Attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
Starring: Andy Garcia, Richard Dreyfuss, Lena Olin, James Gandolfini, Ian Holm
Director: Sidney Lumet
The Offence (1973)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A burnt-out British police detective finally snaps whilst interrogating a suspected child molester.
Starring: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, Ian Bannen, Peter Bowles, Derek Newark
Director: Sidney Lumet
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Drama
At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell
Director: Sidney Lumet
The Wiz (1978)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical
An adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.
Starring: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Lena Horne, Richard Pryor
Director: Sidney Lumet
Strip Search (2004)
Drama
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.
Starring: Glenn Close, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ken Leung, Bruno Lastra
Director: Sidney Lumet
Serpico (1973)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
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.
Starring: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Barbara Eda-Young, Cornelia Sharpe
Director: Sidney Lumet
The Deadly Affair (1966)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee's suicide.
Starring: James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Harriet Andersson, Harry Andrews, Simone Signoret, Kenneth Haigh
Director: Sidney Lumet
The Fugitive Kind (1960)
Drama | Romance
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.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani, Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory, R.G. Armstrong
Director: Sidney Lumet
Q & A (1990)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
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.
Starring: Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante, Patrick O'Neal, Luis Guzmán, Charles S. Dutton
Director: Sidney Lumet
The Morning After (1986)
Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
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 and stabbed someone. Her only support, Turner, an ex cop and recovering alcoholic who is unsympathetic to her plight.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Raul Juliá, Diane Salinger, Kathleen Wilhoite, George Fisher
Director: Sidney Lumet
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Crime | Drama | Romance
The robbery should have taken 10 minutes. 4 hours later, the bank was like a circus sideshow. 8 hours later, it was the hottest thing on live T.V. 12 hours later, it was all history. And it's all true.
Starring: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Sully Boyar, Chris Sarandon, Lance Henriksen
Director: Sidney Lumet
Guilty as Sin (1993)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A female lawyer takes an accused wife-murderer as a client, but finds herself morally compelled to betray him one way or another.
Starring: Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson, Stephen Lang, Jack Warden, Dana Ivey, Luis Guzmán
Director: Sidney Lumet
Network (1976)
Drama
Newscaster Howard Beale has a message for those who package reports of cute puppies, movie premieres and fender benders as hard news: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore." A satire (an Academy Award-winning screenplay) about the things people do for love…and ratings.
Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty
Director: Sidney Lumet
Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot immediately starts investigating.
Starring: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Director: Sidney Lumet
The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When Duke Anderson gets out of the cooler, he discovers the mother lode in his rich girlfriend's ritzy apartment building. With help from a safecracker, a decorator, and a thug, Duke might be able to pull off the greatest heist yet.
Starring: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Alan King, Christopher Walken
Director: Sidney Lumet
The Verdict (1982)
Drama
A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
Starring: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea, Lindsay Crouse
Director: Sidney Lumet
Prince of the City (1981)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
New York City 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 police corruption. Danny agrees as long as he does not have to turn in his partners but he soon learns that he cannot trust anyone and he must decide whose side he is on and who is on his.
Starring: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Kenny Marino
Director: Sidney Lumet
The Hill (1965)
Drama | War
WWII, in a British disciplinary camp located in the Libyan desert. Prisoners are persecuted by Staff Sergeant Williams, who made them climb again and again, under the heavy sun, an artificial hill built right in the middle of the camp. Harris is a more human and compassionate guard, but the chief, S.M. Wilson, refuses to disown his subordinate Williams. One day, five new prisoners arrive. Each of them will deal in a different way with the authority and Williams' ferocity.
Starring: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch, Ossie Davis, Roy Kinnear, Jack Watson
Director: Sidney Lumet
Running on Empty (1988)
Crime | Drama | Music | Romance
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. Today, their eldest son wants a life of his own although he is aware that would mean that his parents would either get caught or he will never see them again.
Starring: River Phoenix, Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, Martha Plimpton, Steven Hill
Director: Sidney Lumet
Fail-Safe (1964)
Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
At the height of the Cold War, during the standard investigation of a possible incursion into US airspace by the Soviets, the nuclear bombers that are always in the air are sent towards their "Fail-Safe" points, about which they orbit while waiting to be sent to their targets if a preemptive attack by the USSR is confirmed. The alert turns out to be false and the various flights are recalled, but a technical error occurs, and one flight of 6 aircraft, armed with multiple 20 megaton nuclear weapons, passes beyond its "Fail-Safe" point, and heads towards its assigned target of Moscow. With the World racing towards WWIII, can the US President and Soviet Premier overcome their distrust, and avoid nuclear annihilation?!
Starring: Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda
Director: Sidney Lumet
