Cast: David Strathairn

Direction Curtis Hanson

Cast Guy Pearce · Russell Crowe · Kevin Spacey · Kim Basinger

Plot Take strong performances, an involved story and period atmosphere, then throw in sex, violence, corruption and politics to make one hell of a crime drama. It’s the early ‘50s. Hopefuls...

Direction Mick Jackson

Cast Claire Danes · Julia Ormond · Catherine O'Hara · David Strathairn

Plot A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman born in 1947 who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.

Direction Peter Askin

Cast Michael Douglas · Joan Allen · Donald Sutherland · Liam Neeson

Plot TRUMBO is the story of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo’s remarkable journey from Hollywood royalty to blacklisted writer to Academy Award winner. Focusing on the writer’s own indelible words, the film features...

Direction John Sayles

Cast Chris Cooper · James Earl Jones · Mary McDonnell · Will Oldham

Plot It is 1920 and the mining towns of West Virginia are owned and operated by the coal companies. The men are paid by the tonnage of coal they can load,...

Direction Paul Greengrass

Cast Matt Damon · Joan Allen · David Strathairn · Julia Stiles

Plot Bourne is once again brought out of hiding, this time inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar--an upgrade to Project Treadstone--in a series of...

Direction Brian Koppelman · David Levien · Andrew Ross Sorkin · Neil Burger

Cast Paul Giamatti · Damian Lewis · Maggie Siff · David Costabile

Plot TV Series (2016-Today). Billions tells the lives of two of New York’s most powerful titans: U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and hedge fund king, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, and the battle between...

Direction John Sayles

Cast Mary McDonnell · Alfre Woodard · Leo Burmester · Angela Bassett

Plot Mary McDonnell stars as May-Alice Culhane, a New York-based soap opera star who is paralyzed in a road accident. She returns to the Louisiana bayou where she grew up and...

Direction Hossein Amini · James Watkins

Cast James Norton · David Strathairn · Juliet Rylance · Aleksey Serebryakov

Plot TV Series (2018). 8 Episodes. Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate...

Direction Elie Chouraqui

Cast Andie MacDowell · Elias Koteas · Brendan Gleeson · Adrien Brody

Plot Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and...

Direction George Clooney

Cast David Strathairn · George Clooney · Robert Downey Jr. · Jeff Daniels

Plot Set in 1953, during the early days of television broadcast journalism. Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and his dedicated staff — headed by his co-producer Fred Friendly (George Clooney) and...

Direction Taylor Hackford

Cast Kathy Bates · Jennifer Jason Leigh · David Strathairn · Judy Parfitt

Plot Eighteen years ago, the abusive husband of Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) died under mysterious circumstances. His death was ruled an accident despite the suspicions of police detective John Mackey. Now...

Direction Chloé Zhao

Cast Frances McDormand · David Strathairn · Linda May · Charlene Swankie

Plot Fern is a woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

Direction John Sayles

Cast Vincent Spano · Chris Cooper · Joe Morton · David Strathairn

Plot City of Hope is a portrait of a typical middle-sized American city of the present day. The crux of the story is an old apartment block which stands in the...

Direction Tim Robbins

Cast Tim Robbins · Giancarlo Esposito · Ray Wise · Rebecca Jenkins

Plot A corrupt rightwing folksinger runs a crooked election campaign while only one independent muck-raking reporter is trying to stop him.

Direction Wong Kar-Wai

Cast Norah Jones · Jude Law · Natalie Portman · Rachel Weisz

Plot A young woman (Norah Jones) takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way. In Wong Kar...

Direction John Sayles

Cast Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio · David Strathairn · Vanessa Martinez · Kris Kristofferson

Plot Unconventional narrative about the interactions amongst a group of people in a small town in Alaska, each of whom has guards a secret.

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Tom Cruise · Gene Hackman · Jeanne Tripplehorn · Holly Hunter

Plot Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer...

Direction Larysa Kondracki

Cast Rachel Weisz · Monica Bellucci · Benedict Cumberbatch · Vanessa Redgrave

Plot A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal.

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Meryl Streep · Kurt Russell · Cher · Craig T. Nelson

Plot Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood (played by Meryl Streep), the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who...

Direction John Sayles

Cast Bruce MacDonald · Adam LeFevre · David Strathairn · Gordon Clapp

Plot Seven friends, during their college days, were arrested in New Jersey on their way to a protest in Washington D.C. Now, ten years later, the friends gather at the home...