Joel Schumacher is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Production Design and Costume Design American born on 29 august 1939 at New York City (USA)
Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher participated to
41 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
9 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Director
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Directed by Joel SchumacherOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Fantastic,
Comedy,
Fantasy,
Action,
CrimeThemes Films about children,
Medical-themed films,
Batman films,
Superhero films,
Films about psychiatry,
Super-héros inspiré de comics,
Films set in psychiatric hospitalsActors Val Kilmer,
Tommy Lee Jones,
Jim Carrey,
Nicole Kidman,
Chris O'Donnell,
Michael GoughRating54%
In Gotham City, Batman stops a hostage situation in a bank caused by Two-Face, the alter ego of the disfigured former district attorney, Harvey Dent. However, Two-Face escapes. Edward Nygma, a researcher at Wayne Enterprises, develops a device to beam television directly to a person's brain; Bruce Wayne—with whom Nygma is obsessed—rejects the invention, noting that it "raises too many questions", and Nygma angrily resigns from his position after killing his supervisor Fred Stickley, and forging his suicide note and footage. Everybody except Bruce is convinced it was a genuine suicide. During a news report, it shows how Harvey Dent became Two-Face: While he was prosecuting Sal Maroni, Maroni threw acid in Harvey's face; Batman tried to stop him but failed. After meeting Batman-obsessed psychiatrist Dr. Chase Meridian, Bruce invites her to a charity circus event. There, Two-Face and his henchmen storm the event in an attempt to discover Batman's secret identity, and in the process murder The Flying Graysons, a family of acrobats who attempt to stop him. The youngest member, Dick, survives and throws Two-Face's bomb into the river to detonate safely underwater but the rest of the family dies., 2h5
Directed by Joel SchumacherOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Comedy,
Fantasy,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Films about children,
Medical-themed films,
Batman films,
Superhero films,
Films about psychiatry,
Super-héros inspiré de comics,
Films set in psychiatric hospitals,
Eco-terrorism in fictionActors Michael Paul Chan,
John Glover,
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Vivica A. Fox,
George Clooney,
Chris O'DonnellRating38%
Batman and Robin fail to stop Mr. Freeze from stealing a cache of diamonds. They learn that Freeze was once a scientist named Victor Fries, who became dependent on a diamond-powered subzero suit following an accident in a cryogenics lab while working to save his wife, Nora, from a terminal illness called MacGregor's Syndrome., 2h23
Directed by Joel SchumacherOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Musical theatre,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Théâtre,
Ghost films,
Musical films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on musicalsActors Gerard Butler,
Emmy Rossum,
Patrick Wilson,
Miranda Richardson,
Minnie Driver,
Simon CallowRating72%
In the year 1919, the Opéra Populaire holds a public auction to clear the theatre's vaults. The Vicomte de Chagny purchases a papier-mâché music box in the shape of a monkey and eyes it sadly as Madame Giry, an aged woman dressed in black, watches him. The auctioneer then presents a shattered chandelier as the next item up for bid, explaining that it once played a key role in "the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opéra." As the chandelier is displayed for all to see, it flickers to life and slowly ascends to its original place in the rafters as the audience is transported back in time to the year 1870., 2h29
Directed by Joel SchumacherOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about racism,
Films about sexuality,
Rape in fiction,
Films about capital punishmentActors Sandra Bullock,
Samuel L. Jackson,
Matthew McConaughey,
Kevin Spacey,
Ashley Judd,
Donald SutherlandRating74%
Two white supremacists (Nicky Katt and Doug Hutchison) come across a ten-year-old black girl named Tonya (Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly) in rural Mississippi. They violently rape and beat Tonya and dump her in a nearby river after a failed attempt to hang her; she survives, and the men are arrested., 1h59
Directed by Joel SchumacherOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Films about children,
Mafia films,
Gangster filmsActors Susan Sarandon,
Tommy Lee Jones,
Mary-Louise Parker,
Anthony LaPaglia,
J. T. Walsh,
Brad RenfroRating66%
Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his little brother, Ricky, are smoking cigarettes in the woods near their home when they encounter Mob lawyer Jerome Clifford. Clifford tells Mark that he is about to kill himself to avoid being murdered by Barry "The Blade" Muldanno, the nephew of notorious mob kingpin Johnny Sulari. Ricky becomes catatonic after witnessing the suicide and is hospitalized. Authorities — and the Mob — realize that Clifford may have told Mark where a Louisiana senator who was murdered by Muldanno is buried., 1h21
Directed by Joel SchumacherOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Horror,
CrimeThemes L'action se déroule en une journée,
Medical-themed films,
Films about psychiatry,
Children's filmsActors Colin Farrell,
Forest Whitaker,
Radha Mitchell,
Katie Holmes,
Kiefer Sutherland,
Domenick LombardozziRating70%
Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is an arrogant New York City publicist who has been courting a woman named Pam (Katie Holmes) behind his wife Kelly (Radha Mitchell). He uses the last remaining public phone booth in the city to contact Pam. During the call, he is interrupted by a pizza delivery man, who attempts to deliver a free pizza to him, but Stu rudely turns him away by insulting his weight. As soon as Stu completes his call to Pam, the phone rings. Stu answers, to find that the caller (Kiefer Sutherland), who knows his name, warns him not to leave the booth, and says he will say hello to Pam for him. He also says he will call Kelly, leaving Stu panicked., 2h3
Directed by Joel SchumacherOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
CrimeThemes Films about films,
Medical-themed films,
Psychologie,
Films about sexuality,
Snuff films in fiction,
Films about television,
BDSM in films,
Films about pornography,
Films about psychiatryActors Nicolas Cage,
Joaquin Phoenix,
James Gandolfini,
Peter Stormare,
Anthony Heald,
Chris BauerRating65%
Private investigator Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) is contacted by Daniel Longdale (Anthony Heald), attorney for wealthy widow Mrs. Christian (Myra Carter), whose husband has recently died. While clearing out her late husband's safe, she and Longdale found an 8mm film which appears to depict a real murder of a girl, but Mrs. Christian wants to know for certain., 1h55
Directed by Joel SchumacherOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
HorrorThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about religionActors Kiefer Sutherland,
Julia Roberts,
Kevin Bacon,
William Baldwin,
Oliver Platt,
Kimberly ScottRating64%
Nelson Wright (Kiefer Sutherland), convinces four of his medical school classmates — Joe Hurley (William Baldwin), Dave Labraccio (Kevin Bacon), Randy Steckle (Oliver Platt) and Rachel Manus (Julia Roberts) — to help him discover what lies beyond death. To do this they must stop his heart, producing a flat line graph on the heart monitor signal. Nelson flatlines for one minute before his classmates resuscitate him. While "dead", he experiences a sort of afterlife. He sees a vision of a boy he bullied as a child, Billy Mahoney. He merely tells his friends that he can't describe what he saw, but something is there. The others decide to follow Nelson's daring feat. Joe flatlines next, and he experiences an erotic afterlife sequence. He agrees with Nelson's claim that something indeed exists. Dave is third to flatline, and he sees a vision of a girl, Winnie Hicks (Kesha Reed), that he bullied in grade school. The three men start to experience vivid hallucinations that are related to their afterlife visions, but Nelson's circumstances are particularly freakish; he is repeatedly physically attacked by Billy Mahoney and each day presents with fresh cuts and wounds. Joe, engaged to be married, is haunted by home videos that he secretly filmed of his sexual trysts with other women. Dave is confronted by a vision of Winnie Hicks on a train, and she verbally taunts him like he did to her., 1h53
Directed by Joel SchumacherOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes L'action se déroule en une journéeActors Michael Douglas,
Robert Duvall,
Barbara Hershey,
Tuesday Weld,
Frederic Forrest,
Rachel TicotinRating75%
William Foster is recently divorced, and his ex-wife Beth has a restraining order to keep him away from her and their child, Adele. In addition, he was recently laid off from his job due to the early 90s recession. His frustration grows when his car air conditioning fails while he is stuck in traffic. He abandons his car and walks across Los Angeles to attend Adele's birthday party. At a convenience store, Foster becomes frustrated when the Korean owner refuses to give him change for a phone call. Foster disarms the owner and uses his bat to destroy merchandise before paying for a coke and leaving. Shortly thereafter, two gang members accost him with a knife. Foster attacks them with the bat and takes their knife.