MRQE Ranks: The Films of Sidney Lumet

1

Network (1976)

Cast: Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: A trenchant satire of "trash TV," Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the dean of newscast... [MORE]

2

12 Angry Men (1957)

Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Ed Begley, Jack Warden

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury room, having been admonis... [MORE]

3

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, James Broderick, Chris Sarandon

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: Based on a true 1972 story, Sidney Lumet's 1975 drama chronicles a unique bank robbery on a hot summer afternoon in New York City. Shortly before c... [MORE]

4

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei, Rosemary Harris

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, and Marisa Tomei star in director Sidney Lumet's thriller concerning two brothers who hatch a p... [MORE]

5

The Verdict (1982)

Cast: Paul Newman, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charlotte Rampling, Milo O'Shea

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: In Sidney Lumet's powerful courtroom drama The Verdict, Paul Newman stars as Frank Galvin, an alcoholic Boston lawyer who tries to redeem his perso... [MORE]

6

Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)

Cast: Andy Garcia, Lena Olin, Richard Dreyfuss, Ian Holm, Ron Leibman

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writer: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: A lawyer discovers just how fine the line between good and evil can be in this drama based on the novel Tainted Evidence by Robert Daley. When a ca... [MORE]

7

Find Me Guilty (2006)

Cast: Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Linus Roache, Ron Silver, Alex Rocco

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: A wise guy turns his own trial upside down by serving as his own lawyer in this comedy drama based on a true story. In 1987, an extensive investiga... [MORE]

8

Gloria (1999)

Cast: Sharon Stone, Jeremy Northam, Jean-Luke Figueroa, Cathy Moriarty, Mike Starr

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: Director Sidney Lumet has remade the 1980 movie by his contemporary, John Cassavetes, casting Sharon Stone in the role of Gloria (portrayed in the ... [MORE]

10

The Pawnbroker (1964)

Cast: Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jaime Sanchez, Brock Peters, Thelma Oliver

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: Critically acclaimed Rod Steiger plays Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker who survived imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp, even though his wi... [MORE]

11

The Fugitive Kind (1960)

Cast: Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: Fugitive Kind began life as Battle of Angels, a never-produced 1939 play by a young Tennessee Williams. Nearly 20 years later, Williams refined thi... [MORE]

12

Running on Empty (1988)

Cast: River Phoenix, Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, Martha Plimpton, Ed Crowley

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: In this family drama from director Sidney Lumet, Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti play Arthur and Annie Pope, a pair of '60s radicals who have elude... [MORE]

13

Prince of the City (1981)

Cast: Treat Williams, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Kenny Marino

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, Prince of the City stars Treat Williams as a Manhattan detective who agrees to help the US Department of Justice weed out... [MORE]

14

Deathtrap (1982)

Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth, Henry Jones

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet provides another of his film adaptations of Broadway successes -- in this case Ira Levin's 1978 clever Broadway murder mystery that st... [MORE]

15

Equus (1977)

Cast: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: Richard Burton plays a psychiatrist who attempts to discover why young Peter Firth has taken to mutilating live horses. In probing Firth's psyche, ... [MORE]

16

The Anderson Tapes (1971)

Cast: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Christopher Walken, Ralph Meeker

Director: Sidney Lumet

17

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Cast: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Martin Balsam

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writer: Agatha Christie

Synopsis: Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In ... [MORE]

18

The Wiz (1978)

Cast: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Lena Horne, Ted Ross

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet's The Wiz is the film version of the popular Broadway musical that retells the events of L. Frank Baum's classic novel The Wonderful W... [MORE]

19

Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)

Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr., Dean Stockwell, Jeanne Barr

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold Random House the text of his intensely autobiographical 1941 play on the proviso that the play not be produced durin... [MORE]