Sydney Pollack is a Actor, Director, Producer, Director of Photography and Thanks American born on 1 july 1934 at New York City (USA)
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack participated to
72 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
27 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Director
, 2h34
Directed by Sydney PollackOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Mafia films,
Films about the labor movement,
Gangster filmsActors Tom Cruise,
Jeanne Tripplehorn,
Gene Hackman,
Ed Harris,
Holly Hunter,
Hal HolbrookRating68%
Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) is a young man from an impoverished background, but with a promising future in law. About to graduate from Harvard Law School near the top of his class, he receives a generous job offer from Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a small, boutique firm in Memphis specializing in accounting and tax law. He and his wife, Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn), move to Memphis and Mitch sets to work studying to pass the Tennessee bar exam. Avery Tolar (Gene Hackman), one of the firm's senior partners, becomes his mentor and begins introducing Mitch to BL&Ls professional culture, which demands complete loyalty, strict confidentiality, and a willingness to charge exceptional fees for their services. Seduced by the money and perks showered on him, including a house and car, he is at first totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his new employer, although Abby has her suspicions. Mitch passes the bar exam and begins working long hours that put a strain on his marriage. Working closely with Avery, Mitch learns that most of the Firm's work involves helping wealthy clients hide large amounts of money in off-shore shell corporations and other dubious tax-avoidance schemes. While on a trip to the Cayman Islands on behalf of a client, Mitch lets himself be seduced by a local woman. But the encounter is a set-up and their tryst on the beach is photographed by people working for the firm's sinister "head of security", Bill DeVasher (Wilford Brimley), who uses it to blackmail Mitch into keeping quiet about what he knows.Team
, 2h2
Directed by David O. RussellOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Dance films,
Films about families,
Medical-themed films,
Christmas films,
Films about sexuality,
Sports films,
American football films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films set in psychiatric hospitalsActors Bradley Cooper,
Jennifer Lawrence,
Robert De Niro,
Jacki Weaver,
Chris Tucker,
Anupam KherRoles Thanks
Rating76%
After eight months of treatment for bipolar disorder, Pat Solitano is released from a mental health facility in Baltimore, and returns to Lansdowne, Pennsylvania into the care of his father Patrizio and mother Dolores. Pat soon learns that his estranged wife, Nikki, has moved away, and that his father is out of work and resorting to illegal bookmaking to earn money with the hopes of opening a restaurant. Pat is determined to get his life back on track and reconcile with Nikki, who obtained a restraining order against him after a violent episode sent him away.Director
, 2h30
Directed by Sydney PollackOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films set in AfricaActors Robert Redford,
Meryl Streep,
Klaus Maria Brandauer,
Michael Gough,
Malick Bowens,
Suzanna HamiltonRating71%
The story begins in 1913 in Denmark, when Karen Dinesen (a wealthy but unmarried woman) asks her friend Baron Bror Blixen (Klaus Maria Brandauer) to enter into a marriage of convenience with her. Although Bror is a member of the aristocracy, he is no longer financially secure; therefore, he agrees to the marriage, and the two of them plan to move to Africa to begin a dairy farm.Producer
, 2h7
Directed by Alan J. PakulaGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Assassinat,
Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Harrison Ford,
Brian Dennehy,
Raúl Juliá,
Bonnie Bedelia,
Paul Winfield,
Greta ScacchiRoles Producer
Rating68%
Rozat "Rusty" Sabich (Ford) is a prosecutor and the right-hand man of District Attorney Raymond Horgan (Dennehy). When his colleague, Carolyn Polhemus (Scacchi), is found raped and murdered in her apartment, Raymond insists that Rusty take charge of the investigation. The election for District Attorney is approaching and Tommy Molto (Joe Grifasi), the acting head of the homicide division, has left to join the rival campaign of Nico Della Guardia (Tom Mardirosian).Director
, 1h57
Directed by Sydney PollackOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Melodrama,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Films about television,
L'usurpation d'identité,
LGBT-related films,
Transgender in film,
Musical films,
Escroquerie,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related film,
Cross-dressing in filmActors Dustin Hoffman,
Jessica Lange,
Teri Garr,
Charles Durning,
Bill Murray,
Dabney ColemanRating73%
Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) is a respected but perfectionist actor. Nobody in New York wants to hire him anymore because he is difficult to work with. According to his long-suffering agent George Fields (Sydney Pollack), Michael's attention to detail and difficult reputation led a commercial he worked on to run significantly over-schedule, because the idea of a tomato sitting down was "illogical" to him. After many months without a job, Michael hears of an opening on the soap opera Southwest General from his friend and acting student Sandy Lester (Teri Garr), who tries out for the role of a hospital administrator Emily Kimberly but does not get it. In desperation, and as a result of his agent telling him that "no one will hire you", he dresses as a woman, auditions as "Dorothy Michaels" and wins the part. Michael takes the job as a way to raise $8,000 to produce a play, written by his roommate Jeff Slater (Bill Murray) and to star Sandy, titled Return to Love Canal. Michael plays his character as a feisty, feminist administrator, which surprises the other actors and crew who expected Emily to be (as written) another swooning female in the plot. His character quickly becomes a television sensation.Producer
, 2h28
Directed by Anthony MinghellaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Adventure,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Political filmsActors Jude Law,
Nicole Kidman,
Renée Zellweger,
Eileen Atkins,
Brendan Gleeson,
Philip Seymour HoffmanRoles Producer
Rating71%
When North Carolina secedes from the Union on May 20, 1861, the young men of a rural, provincial, North Carolina backwater known only as Cold Mountain hurry to enlist in the Confederate military. Among them is W.P. Inman (Jude Law), a carpenter who has fallen in love with Ada (Nicole Kidman), a minister´s daughter, and finds their whirlwind courtship interrupted by the American Civil War.Director
, 2h
Directed by Sydney PollackOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Films set in Africa,
Monde imaginaire,
Politique,
Political films,
Films about language and translationActors Nicole Kidman,
Sean Penn,
Catherine Keener,
Jesper Christensen,
Yvan Attal,
Earl CameronRating63%
Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is an interpreter working at the United Nations in New York City. She was raised in the Republic of Matobo, a fictional African country, but has dual citizenship. The U.N. is considering indicting Edmond Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), Matobo's president, to stand trial in the International Criminal Court. Initially a liberator, over the past 20 years he has become as corrupt and tyrannical as the government he overthrew, and is now responsible for ethnic cleansing and other atrocities within Matobo. Zuwanie is soon to visit the U.N. and put forward his own case to the General Assembly, in an attempt to avoid the indictment.Actor
, 2h39
Directed by Stanley Kubrick,
Brian W. CookOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Crime,
Erotic thrillerThemes Christmas films,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Tom Cruise,
Nicole Kidman,
Sydney Pollack,
Todd Field,
Jackie Sawiris,
Madison EgintonRoles Victor Ziegler
Rating74%
Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), are a young couple living in New York. They go to a Christmas party thrown by a wealthy patient, Victor Ziegler (Sydney Pollack). Bill meets an old friend from medical school, Nick Nightingale (Todd Field), who now plays piano professionally. While a Hungarian man named Sandor Szavost (Sky du Mont) tries to pick up Alice, two young models try to take Bill off for a tryst. He is interrupted by a call from his host upstairs, who had been having sex with Mandy (Julienne Davis), a young woman who has overdosed on a speedball. Mandy recovers with Bill's aid.Producer
, 2h15
Directed by Ang LeeOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
RomanceActors Emma Thompson,
Alan Rickman,
Kate Winslet,
Hugh Grant,
Greg Wise,
Gemma JonesRoles Executive Producer
Rating76%
On his deathbed, Mr. Dashwood (Tom Wilkinson) tells his son from his first marriage, John (James Fleet), to take care of his second wife (Gemma Jones) and three daughters, Elinor (Emma Thompson), Marianne (Kate Winslet) and Margaret (Emilie François), since they will inherit nothing. John's greedy and snobbish wife Fanny (Harriet Walter) convinces him to give his half sisters practically nothing financially; John and Fanny immediately install themselves in the large house, forcing the Dashwood ladies to look for a new home. Fanny invites her brother Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant) to stay with them. Elinor and Edward soon form a close friendship, but Fanny haughtily tells Mrs. Dashwood that Edward would be disinherited if he married someone of no importance with no money. Mrs. Dashwood understands her meaning completely., 2h18
Directed by Anthony MinghellaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about sexuality,
L'usurpation d'identité,
LGBT-related films,
Films about psychiatry,
Escroquerie,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Matt Damon,
Gwyneth Paltrow,
Jude Law,
Cate Blanchett,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Jack DavenportRoles Executive Producer
Rating73%
Tom Ripley is a young man struggling to make a living in 1950s New York City using his "talents"—forgery, lying and impersonation. While playing piano at a cocktail party in New York City, he is approached by wealthy shipbuilder Herbert Greenleaf, who mistakenly believes that Ripley went to Princeton with his son, Dickie, because Ripley is wearing a borrowed Princeton blazer. Greenleaf recruits Ripley to travel to Italy and persuade Dickie to return to the United States, for which he will pay Ripley $1,000 (equivalent to $8 804 in 2015). Ripley accepts the proposal, even though he did not attend Princeton and has never met Dickie., 2h4
Directed by Stephen DaldryOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about religion,
Political films,
Films about Jews and JudaismActors Kate Winslet,
Ralph Fiennes,
David Kross,
Lena Olin,
Bruno Ganz,
Alexandra Maria Lara Claudia PaolinaRoles Producer
Rating75%
Berlin in 1995. Michael Berg watches an U-Bahn pass by—then flashing back to a tram in 1958 Neustadt. A 15-year-old Michael (David Kross) gets off because he feels sick and wanders the streets, pausing in the entryway of a nearby apartment building where he vomits. Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), a tram conductor, comes in and helps him return home.Actor
, 1h39
Directed by Roger MichellOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Films about alcoholism,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugsActors Ben Affleck,
Samuel L. Jackson,
Toni Collette,
Sydney Pollack,
William Hurt,
Amanda PeetRoles Stephen Delano
Rating64%
A successful New York City attorney, Gavin Banek, is in a rush to file a power of appointment, which will prove a dead man signed his foundation over to Banek's law firm. He has a collision on FDR Drive with another car, belonging to an insurance salesman, Doyle Gipson, who is also in a rush to a hearing to try to gain custody of his children and to prevent his estranged wife from taking them to Oregon. Banek tries to brush Gipson off with a blank check thereby disobeying the law. After Gipson refuses to accept the check and voices his desire to "do the right thing", that is, filing a police report and insurance claim, Banek strands Gipson, telling him, "better luck next time". After arriving to the court late, Gipson learns that it proceeded without him and that it did not go in his favor., 1h59
Directed by Tony GilroyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about psychiatryActors George Clooney,
Tom Wilkinson,
Tilda Swinton,
Sydney Pollack,
Michael O'Keefe,
Tom McCarthyRoles Marty Bach
Rating71%
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a "fixer" in a prestigious New York City law firm, using his connections and his knowledge of legal loopholes for his clients' benefit. After leaving an underground poker game and dealing with a wealthy client's (Denis O'Hare) hit and run, Michael drives despondently and stops at a remote field, where some horses are standing on a hill. When he leaves his car to climb up the hill to admire the horses, the car explodes behind him.Director
, 2h2
Directed by Sydney PollackOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Adventure,
Romance,
WesternThemes Films about animals,
Transport films,
Films about horses,
Road movies,
Chase films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Robert Redford,
Jane Fonda,
Valerie Perrine,
John Saxon,
Willie Nelson,
Allan ArbusRating63%
Norman "Sonny" Steele is a former championship rodeo rider who has sold out to a business conglomerate and is now reduced to making public appearances to sell a brand of breakfast cereal. Prior to making a Las Vegas promotional appearance to ride the $12 million champion thoroughbred race horse who responds to the name of Rising Star, Sonny discovers to his horror that the horse has been drugged and is injured., 2h7
Directed by Sydney PollackOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films based on playsActors Harrison Ford,
Julia Ormond,
Greg Kinnear,
Nancy Marchand,
Fanny Ardant,
Richard CrennaRating62%
Sabrina Fairchild is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Thomas, and has been in love with David Larrabee all her life. David is a playboy, constantly falling in love, yet he has never noticed Sabrina, much to her dismay.