Direction: Mike Nichols

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Mike Nichols. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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...

Max

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...

Max

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...

Max

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

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

4.2

969 votes

4.2

969 votes