Cast: Jodie Foster

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jodie Foster. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Silence of the Lambs

1991 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Jodie Foster · Anthony Hopkins · Scott Glenn · Ted Levine

Synopsis Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), a young and ambitious FBI agent, enlists the aid of criminally insane ex-psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to help track down a vicious serial killer named "Buffalo Bill" who skins his victims and who has...

8.2

171K votes

8.2

171K votes

Taxi Driver

1976 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Robert De Niro · Cybill Shepherd · Jodie Foster · Albert Brooks

Synopsis For psychotic, pistol-packing Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), New York City seems like a circle of hell. Driving his cab each night through the bleak Manhattan streets, Bickle observes with fanatical loathing the sleazy lowlifes who comprise most...

8.1

117K votes

8.1

117K votes

Making 'Taxi Driver'

1999 · Documentary · 71 min. · United States

Direction Laurent Bouzereau

Cast Martin Scorsese · Paul Schrader · Peter Boyle · Robert De Niro

Synopsis This 70-minute documentary delves into the making of Scorsese's film and highlights the many contributions put forth by Taxi Driver's ensemble of talented actors and artisans.

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

Inside Man

2006 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Denzel Washington · Clive Owen · Jodie Foster · Willem Dafoe

Synopsis Inside Man is the story of a tough cop, Detective Frazier (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen), in a tense hostage drama. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline...

7.1

48K votes

7.1

48K votes

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Direction Wendy Apple

Cast Jodie Foster · Anthony Minghella · Sean Penn · Walter Murch

Synopsis Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

7.0

667 votes

7.0

667 votes

Carnage

2011 · Movie · 79 min. · France

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Kate Winslet · Christoph Waltz · Jodie Foster · John C. Reilly

Synopsis Based on french Yasmina Reza's play, it tells the story of two sets of parents from New York who decide to have a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a schoolyard brawl.

7.0

43K votes

7.0

43K votes

A Very Long Engagement

2004 · Movie · 134 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Cast Audrey Tautou · Gaspard Ulliel · Dominique Pinon · Chantal Neuwirth

Synopsis Five desperate men shoot themselves in order to be relieved from the horrifying frontline at the Somme, in WWI. A court-martial decides to punish them by leaving them alone in no-man's land, to be killed in the crossfire. Then all...

6.9

29K votes

6.9

29K votes

6.8

83 votes

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Direction Rachel Boyd

Cast Jodie Foster · Anthony Hopkins · Scott Glenn · Ted Levine

Synopsis The Inside Story takes us behind the scenes of classic movies, from The Silence of the Lambs through to JAWS. We tell you everything you wanted to know about what really happens behind the scenes. We start our behind-the-scenes journey...

6.8

188 votes

6.8

188 votes

The Mauritanian

2021 · Movie · 129 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Kevin Macdonald

Cast Tahar Rahim · Jodie Foster · Shailene Woodley · Benedict Cumberbatch

Synopsis A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

Shadows and Fog

1991 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · John Malkovich · Mia Farrow · Madonna

Synopsis A strangler is sowing panic in the city, cloaked in a dense fog. The insignificant Kleinman is wakened in the middle of the night to participate in a plan ending with the criminal’s arrest. But his specific role in this...

6.7

7K votes

6.7

7K votes

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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

1974 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Ellen Burstyn · Alfred Lutter · Kris Kristofferson · Diane Ladd

Synopsis Thirty-five year old housewife and mother Alice Hyatt, along with her precocious eleven year old son Tommy, decides to move from their current home in Socorro, New Mexico to her home town of Monterrey, California, the only place she has...

6.6

4K votes

6.6

4K votes

Contact

1997 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Jodie Foster · Matthew McConaughey · James Woods · John Hurt

Synopsis She's known it since she was a young girl, when she would magically connect with distant voices on her father's shortwave radio. She's known it since college, when she chose the search for intelligent extraterrestrial messages as her discipline. She's...

6.5

36K votes

6.5

36K votes

Direction Jeffrey Schwarz

Cast Diane Baker · Roger Corman · Jonathan Demme · Jodie Foster

Synopsis A behind-the-scenes look at the making of this Oscar winning thriller, prepared for its tenth anniversary. Includes interviews with star Anthony Hopkins, as well as other members of the cast and crew, giving their views on the experience of creating...

6.5

24 votes

6.5

24 votes

The Accused

1988 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Kaplan

Cast Jodie Foster · Kelly McGillis · Bernie Coulson · Ann Hearn

Synopsis This movie is based on actual events. Sarah Tobias goes into a bar one night and winds up being gang raped by 3 guys. She is introduced to an attorney named Katherine Murphy. Not only does Katherine Murphy want to...

6.4

6K votes

6.4

6K votes

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Nyad

2023 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi · Jimmy Chin

Cast Annette Bening · Jodie Foster · Rhys Ifans · Ethan Jones Romero

Synopsis At the age of 60, and 30 years after giving up long-distance swimming for a prominent career as a sports journalist, Diana Nyad becomes obsessed with accomplishing the feat that has always eluded her: the nearly 180-kilometer swim from Cuba...

6.3

4K votes

6.3

4K votes

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

2002 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Peter Care

Cast Kieran Culkin · Vincent D'Onofrio · Jena Malone · Emile Hirsch

Synopsis A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

True Detective: Night Country

2024 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Issa López

Cast Jodie Foster · Kali Reis · John Hawkes · Christopher Eccleston

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2024). 6 Episodes. When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station disappear without a trace. To solve the case, detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro will have...

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6.1

10K votes

6.1

10K votes

Maverick

1994 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Mel Gibson · Jodie Foster · James Garner · James Coburn

Synopsis Bret Maverick is a superb professional poker gambler, as handy with the handgun as he handles the cards, but also a master at avoiding violence by deception. Like all great poker layers, he's on his way to a winner take...

6.1

18K votes

6.1

18K votes

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