Direction: Mike Nichols
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Mike Nichols. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 21
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 · Movie · 129 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Sandy Dennis · George Segal
Plot Turning the underbelly of bourgeois academia into a microcosm of human relationships in all their arduous complexities, Mike Nichols' auspicious debut feature is a harrowing descent into the private lives...
7.7
7K votes
7.7
7K votes
The Graduate
1967 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Dustin Hoffman · Anne Bancroft · Katharine Ross · William Daniels
Plot In the mid-1960s, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a confused college graduate, is pulled in myriad directions by his wealthy family, friends, and associates just days after receiving his degree. Seduced...
7.5
48K votes
7.5
48K votes
Angels in America (TV Miniseries)
2003 · Series · 352 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Al Pacino · Meryl Streep · Emma Thompson · Patrick Wilson
Plot It follows a sprawling group of characters as they navigate their way through the cutthroat New York City of the 1980s, when AIDS began to rear its ugly head. Getting...
7.2
3K votes
7.2
3K votes
Wit (TV)
2001 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Emma Thompson · Christopher Lloyd · Eileen Atkins · Audra McDonald
Plot Vivian Bearing, a demanding and uncompromising professor of 17th century English poetry specializing in the holy sonnets of John Donne, is diagnosed with advanced (stage 4) metastatic ovarian cancer. Being...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
Closer
2004 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Julia Roberts · Jude Law · Natalie Portman · Clive Owen
Plot An intriguing story of passion, drama, love, and abandonment involving two couples, which only gets more complicated when the man from the first couple gets acquainted with the woman from...
6.7
47K votes
6.7
47K votes
Silkwood
1983 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
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...
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
The Birdcage
1996 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Robin Williams · Gene Hackman · Nathan Lane · Dianne Wiest
Plot Armand Goldman owns a popular drag nightclub in South Miami Beach. His long-time lover Albert stars there as Starina. "Their" son Val (actually Armand's by his one heterosexual fling, twenty...
6.4
14K votes
6.4
14K votes
Working Girl
1988 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Harrison Ford · Sigourney Weaver · Melanie Griffith · Alec Baldwin
Plot A young secretary (Melanie Griffith) with dreams of moving up the corporate ladder thinks that her brains will help her achieve her goals. And when she finds a job with...
6.4
14K votes
6.4
14K votes
Regarding Henry
1991 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Harrison Ford · Annette Bening · Michael Haley · Stanley Swerdlow
Plot Henry Turner (Harrison Ford) is a top New York City lawyer who struggles to regain his memory and recover his speech and mobility after he survives a shooting. When Turner...
6.3
20K votes
6.3
20K votes
Catch-22
1970 · Movie · 121 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Alan Arkin · Orson Welles · Jon Voight · Anthony Perkins
Plot A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is...
6.2
757 votes
6.2
757 votes
Charlie Wilson's War
2007 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Tom Hanks · Julia Roberts · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Amy Adams
Plot Adapted from George Crile's book, Charlie Wilson's War tells the story of a rogue congressman and CIA agent who found the means to secretly arm rebels to fight against invading...
6.2
14K votes
6.2
14K votes
Carnal Knowledge
1971 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Jack Nicholson · Candice Bergen · Ann-Margret · Art Garfunkel
Plot The sex lives of two lifelong friends provide the basis for this satirical sex comedy that features Jack Nicholson and folk-rocker Art Garfunkle. The men become friends in college, and...
6.1
901 votes
6.1
901 votes
Heartburn
1986 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Meryl Streep · Jack Nicholson · Stockard Channing · Jeff Daniels
5.9
6K votes
5.9
6K votes
Postcards from the Edge
1990 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Meryl Streep · Shirley MacLaine · Simon Callow · Gene Hackman
Plot Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her...
5.8
2K votes
5.8
2K votes
Primary Colors
1998 · Movie · 143 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast John Travolta · Emma Thompson · Billy Bob Thornton · Kathy Bates
Plot Henry, the idealistic grandson of a civil rights leader, joins the campaign of presidential hopeful Jack Stanton, the progressive and libidenous governor of a southern state. Also on the team...
5.7
4K votes
5.7
4K votes
Wolf
1994 · Movie · 125 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Jack Nicholson · Michelle Pfeiffer · James Spader · Kate Nelligan
Plot Worn down and out of luck, mild-mannered, middle-aged book editor Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches both his job and...
5.6
34K votes
5.6
34K votes
Biloxi Blues
1988 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Matthew Broderick · Christopher Walken · Corey Parker · Markus Flanagan
Plot Directed by Mike Nichols and starring Broadway star Matthew Broderick as Simon's stand-in, Eugene Jerome, the story follows him from the nest of Brooklyn to army basic training in Biloxi,...
5.5
878 votes
5.5
878 votes
The Day of the Dolphin
1973 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast George C. Scott · Trish Van Devere · Paul Sorvino · Fritz Weaver
Plot Director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry team up again (after collaborating on The Graduate and Catch-22) for this adaptation of Robert Merle's best-selling adventure novel concerning dolphins who become...
5.2
167 votes
5.2
167 votes
The Fortune
1975 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Warren Beatty · Jack Nicholson · Stockard Channing · Florence Stanley
Plot The early 1900's with its Mann-Act (disallowing women to be transported across State lines for immoral reasons) brings a married man to devise a scheme for taking his upper-class girlfriend...
5.2
268 votes
5.2
268 votes
What Planet are You From?
2000 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Garry Shandling · Annette Bening · Greg Kinnear · Ben Kingsley
4.2
969 votes
4.2
969 votes