Cinematography: John Foster

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by John Foster. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Wild Style

1983 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Charlie Ahearn

Cast Lee Quinones · Sandra Fabara · Patti Astor · Busy Bee

Plot Legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays the role of Zoro, the city's hottest and most elusive graffiti writer. The actual story of the movie concerns the tension between...

6.8

248 votes

6.8

248 votes

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

1998 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Tod Williams

Cast Adrian Grenier · Clark Gregg · Aleksa Palladino · Margaret Colin

Plot In June, 1983, in Dutchess County, New York, Sabastian Cole joins his mother, step-father, and sister for dinner. Hank, Sabastian's step-father, drops a bomb: he announces he's changing sexes. Sebastian's...

6.5

60 votes

6.5

60 votes

Keane

2004 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Lodge Kerrigan

Cast Damian Lewis · Abigail Breslin · Amy Ryan · Liza Colón-Zayas

Plot We first meet William Keane (Damian Lewis) in the Port Authority bus terminal where he is desperately searching for his 6-year-old daughter, who has been missing for months. Repeatedly drawn...

6.4

899 votes

6.4

899 votes

Adrift in Manhattan

2007 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Alfredo De Villa

Cast Heather Graham · Victor Rasuk · Richard Petrocelli · Nicolle Rochelle

Plot A meditation on isolation and intersection in the big city - the layered story of three characters who find courage to move to the next stage of life through profound...

4.8

21 votes

4.8

21 votes

Killer Bees

2017 · Documentary · 85 min. · United States

Direction Ben Cummings · Orson Cummings

Cast Carl Johnson · Joshua Lamison · Tylik Furman · Jamari Gant

Plot A championship high school basketball team provides pride, tradition and hope for an African American community struggling to survive in the middle of one of the wealthiest communities in America...

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The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons

2022 · Documentary · min. · United States

Direction Harold Crooks · Judd Tully

Plot A portrait of African-American artist David Hammons whose elusive, rule-breaking practice offers an essential commentary on race in America.

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The Year That Trembled

2002 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Jay Craven

Cast Fred Willard · Jonathan Brandis · Martin Mull · Marin Hinkle

Plot The film takes place in Ohio following the 1970 student murders at Kent State. A 1970 coming-of-age drama, war chronicle, and unconventional love story set on the American home-front during...

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Resident Alien

1990 · Documentary · 85 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Nossiter

Cast Peter Walker · Quentin Crisp · John Sex · Felicity Mason

Plot At age 72, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908–1999), became an Englishman in New York. John Foster's camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan,...

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Variety

1983 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bette Gordon

Cast Sandy McLeod · Will Patton · Richard Davidson · Luis Guzmán

Plot Christine (Sandy McLeod) takes a job selling tickets at a porno theater near Times Square. Instead of distancing herself from the dark and erotic nature of this milieu, she develops...

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The Trials of Darryl Hunt

2006 · Documentary · 106 min. · United States

Direction Ricki Stern · Anne Sundberg

Plot "The Trials of Darryl Hunt" is a feature documentary about a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly twenty years in prison for a...

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Tully

2000 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Hilary Birmingham

Cast Anson Mount · Glenn Fitzgerald · Bob Burrus · Julianne Nicholson

Plot "Tully" explores a legacy of love between a family of men, and the events of one summer that change their world forever. Through the eyes of Tully Coates Jr. (Anson...

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Fonda on Fonda (TV)

1992 · Documentary · 46 min. · United States

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My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports

1996 · Documentary · 76 min. · United States

Direction Melissa Hacker

Plot This documentary reveal the heart-wrenching story behind the Kindertransport. A powerful account of this astonishing slice of Holocaust history, it is told with poignant intimacy by the daughter of a...

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