Husbands and Wives (1992)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.
Starring: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Sydney Pollack, Judy Davis, Jeffrey Kurland, Liam Neeson, Juliette Lewis, Blythe Danner
Director: Woody Allen
Tootsie (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Geena Davis
Director: Sydney Pollack
Sabrina (1995)
Comedy | Drama
An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear, John Wood, Nancy Marchand, Lauren Holly
Director: Sydney Pollack
The Yakuza (1974)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter – and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia.
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan, Keiko Kishi
Director: Sydney Pollack
Three Days of the Condor / 3 Days of the Condor (1975)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
In Sydney Pollack's critically acclaimed suspense-thriller, Robert Redford stars as CIA Agent Joe Turner. Code name: Condor. When his entire office is massacred, Turner goes on the run from his enemies…and his so-called allies. After reporting the murders to his superiors, the organization wants to bring Condor in – but somebody is trying to take him out. In his frantic hunt for answers, and in a desperate run for his life, Turner abducts photographer Kathy Hale (Faye Dunaway), eventually seducing her into helping him. Every twist leads Condor to the end of his nerves…and will take you to the edge of your seat. With nowhere to turn and no one to trust, Turner realizes his most dangerous enemy may be closer than he ever feared. And as he zeroes in on the truth, he discovers there are some secrets people would kill to keep.
Starring: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman, Addison Powell
Director: Sydney Pollack
Made of Honor (2008)
Comedy | Romance
For Tom (Patrick Dempsey), life is good: he's sexy, successful, has great luck with the ladies, and knows he can always rely on Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), his delightful best friend and the one constant in his life. It's the perfect setup until Hannah goes overseas to Scotland on a six-week business trip… and Tom is stunned to realize how empty his life is without her. He resolves that when she gets back, he'll ask Hannah to marry him – but is floored when he learns that she has become engaged to a handsome and wealthy Scotsman and plans to move overseas. When Hannah asks Tom to be her "maid" of honor, he reluctantly agrees to fill the role… but only so he can attempt to woo Hannah and stop the wedding before it's too late.
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Kathleen Quinlan, Sydney Pollack, Chris Messina
Director: Paul Weiland
The Swimmer (1968)
Drama
In suburban Connecticut, a handsome advertising executive heads home by swimming from pool to pool through his neighborhood. Along the way, more of his life story is revealed via his complicated interaction with his neighbors.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule, Marge Champion, David Garfield, Kim Hunter, Charles Drake
Director: Sydney Pollack, Frank Perry
The Way We Were (1973)
Drama | Romance
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Viveca Lindfors, Murray Hamilton, Patrick O'Neal
Director: Sydney Pollack
Michael Clayton (2007)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Michael Clayton is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach. Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
Starring: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe, Amy Hargreaves
Director: Tony Gilroy
Out of Africa (1985)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | Romance
The most acclaimed motion picture of 1985 stars Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in one of the screen's great epic romances. Directed by Oscar winner Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa is the fascinating true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer), runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment, she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people, and a mysterious white hunter (Redford). The masterfully crafted, breathtakingly produced story of love and loss earned Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay (based on material from another medium), cinematography, Original Score, Art Direction (Set Decoration) and Sound.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Gough, Michael Kitchen, Leslie Phillips
Director: Sydney Pollack
The Firm (1993)
Drama | Thriller
A Harvard Law School grad discovers that the law firm he has recently joined is run by the Mafia.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney, Ed Harris
Director: Sydney Pollack
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Adventure | Drama | Western
In order to keep from being sent to fight in the Mexican War, an American soldier travels west and begins to live as a hermit. An elderly trapper takes him in and teaches him what he needs to know to survive in the wilderness. He takes a Native American wife and they adopt a child, but their idyllic existence is spoiled when he becomes entangled in a vendetta with the local Crow Indians.
Starring: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton, Josh Albee, Joaquín Martínez
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Changing Lanes (2002)
Drama | Thriller
Modern society draws lines between right and wrong, good and evil, rage and redemption. A moment of self absorption and a spark of anger will cause the two men to cross them. As the battle of wills escalates, both lives are changes forever. Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Affleck star in a provocative and gripping drama that exposes the best and worst in all of us.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt
Director: Roger Michell
Absence of Malice (1981)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
A prosecutor leaks a false story to a reporter that the nephew of a mob boss is under investigation for murder, hoping to pressure the nephew into turning informant. The reporter has no responsibility for the truth of the story, only for accurately repeating what she's been told.
Starring: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Melinda Dillon, Wilford Brimley
Director: Sydney Pollack
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The Scalphunters (1968)
Comedy | Western
Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raided themselves by a group of scalphunters under the greedy Howie. Not only the hides, but also Joseph falls into their hands. Now Joe follows them alone and tries to trick the numerical superior group out of his hides.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Cruise plays Dr. William Harford, who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage – and may even ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery – after his wife's (Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. Graceful tracking shots, controlled pacing, rich colors, startling images: bravura trails that make Kubrick a filmmaker for the ages are here to keep everyone's eyes wide open.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Serbedzija
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Random Hearts (1999)
Romance | Mystery | Drama
Dutch Van Den Broeck, an Internal Affairs sergeant, becomes entangled with Kay Chandler, a high-powered Congresswoman when an airplane crash kills both their spouses. Dutch soon discovers that it was more than coincidence that had their spouses on the same plane – it was an affair. Details of the affair anger Kay, who is determined to protect both her daughter and her political career. As the story unfolds, she finds herself unable to resist being drawn into Dutch's investigation, and the passion they find in each other brings about the most unexpected discovery of all.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton, Bonnie Hunt, Dennis Haysbert
Director: Sydney Pollack
