Direction: Norman Jewison
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Norman Jewison. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
In the Heat of the Night
1967 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Sidney Poitier · Rod Steiger · Warren Oates · Lee Grant
Plot When a prominent local businessman is found murdered in the tiny southern town of Sparta, Mississippi, Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) gets picked up at the train station as a potential...
7.5
13K votes
7.5
13K votes
Fiddler on the Roof
1971 · Movie · 181 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Topol · Norma Crane · Leonard Frey · Molly Picon
Plot This rousing musical, based on the stories of Shalom Aleichem, takes place in pre-revolutionary Russia and centers on the life of Tevye (Topol), a milkman who is trying to keep...
7.5
7K votes
7.5
7K votes
The Hurricane
1999 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Denzel Washington · Vicellous Reon Shannon · Deborah Kara Unger · John Hannah
Plot In June 1966, Rubin Hurricane Carter was a strong contender for the middleweight boxing title. When three people were murdered in a New Jersey bar, Carter's dreams were destroyed. Driving...
7.2
28K votes
7.2
28K votes
The Cincinnati Kid
1965 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Steve McQueen · Edward G. Robinson · Karl Malden · Tuesday Weld
Plot A rising cardshark challenges a veteran player for the chance to be known as "The Man." Set in the swampy hedonism of New Orleans during the Great Depression, the card...
7.2
5K votes
7.2
5K votes
Jesus Christ, Superstar
1973 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Ted Neeley · Carl Anderson · Yvonne Elliman · Barry Dennen
Plot Based on a concept album project written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and the subsequent long-running Broadway performance, this film tells the story of the final 6 days...
6.8
8K votes
6.8
8K votes
...And Justice for All
1979 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Al Pacino · Jack Warden · John Forsythe · Lee Strasberg
Plot Arthur Kirkland, an idealistic defense attorney in Baltimore, cares about his clients and visits his aging grandfather, who put him through law school, every week. Things aren't going well for...
6.6
3K votes
6.6
3K votes
Send Me No Flowers
1964 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Doris Day · Rock Hudson · Tony Randall · Paul Lynde
Plot A hypochondriac thinks he's dying this time, and makes plans for his wife which she discovers and misunderstands.
6.6
2K votes
6.6
2K votes
The Thomas Crown Affair
1968 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Steve McQueen · Faye Dunaway · Paul Burke · Jack Weston
Plot Four men pull off a daring daytime robbery at a bank, dump the money in a trash can and go their separate ways. Thomas Crown (McQueen), a successful, wealthy businessman...
6.5
3K votes
6.5
3K votes
Moonstruck
1987 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Cher · Nicolas Cage · Olympia Dukakis · Danny Aiello
Plot In this glowingly atmospheric comedy, a young Italian-American woman, bitter after having been widowed by a speeding bus, makes a practical decision to marry a longtime friend for stability and...
6.3
7K votes
6.3
7K votes
A Soldier's Story
1984 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Howard E. Rollins Jr. · Adolph Caesar · Art Evans · Denzel Washington
Plot In the towm of Tynen, Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. A military lawyer, also a black man, is sent...
6.3
1K votes
6.3
1K votes
Agnes of God
1985 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Jane Fonda · Anne Bancroft · Meg Tilly · Anne Pitoniak
Plot When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novitiate, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent...
6.2
2K votes
6.2
2K votes
The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming
1966 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Alan Arkin · Eva Marie Saint · Paul Ford · Brian Keith
Plot When a Soviet submarine captain comes up for a look at America (off the coast of a small island in Massachusetts) he runs aground. He sends his two English speaking...
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
F.I.S.T
1978 · Movie · 125 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Sylvester Stallone · Rod Steiger · Peter Boyle · Melinda Dillon
Plot Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become...
6.1
2K votes
6.1
2K votes
Only You
1994 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Marisa Tomei · Robert Downey Jr. · Bonnie Hunt · Joaquim de Almeida
Plot Destiny. Faith (Marisa Tomei) believes that two soul-mates can be united if they find each other. From the Ouija board, she has found the name of her missing half, and...
5.9
12K votes
5.9
12K votes
Rollerball
1975 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast James Caan · John Houseman · Ralph Richardson · Maud Adams
Plot In the year 2018, all world problems have been quelled by the establishment of huge corporations that control resources. The masses are pacified and violence diverted by the spectacle of...
5.8
3K votes
5.8
3K votes
40 Pounds of Trouble
1962 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Tony Curtis · Suzanne Pleshette · Larry Storch · Howard Morris
5.6
138 votes
5.6
138 votes
The Thrill of It All
1963 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Doris Day · James Garner · Arlene Francis · Edward Andrews
Plot At a dinner party, Beverly Boyer, wife of an obstetrician and mother of two, tells the manufacturer of Happy soap about her experience with his product. Charmed by her spontaneity,...
5.6
233 votes
5.6
233 votes
The Statement
2003 · Movie · 120 min. · Canada
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Michael Caine · Tilda Swinton · Jeremy Northam · Charlotte Rampling
Plot Set in modern-day France, The Statement is the story of Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine) who, as a young man during World War II, committed a heinous crime. Brossard has never...
5.6
1K votes
5.6
1K votes
The Art of Love
1965 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast James Garner · Dick Van Dyke · Miiko Taka · Elke Sommer
Plot Painter Paul Sloan (Dick Van Dyke) feels he's a failure, since nobody will buy his paintings. His art dealer informs him, that the works of an artist become much more...
5.6
138 votes
5.6
138 votes
Gaily, Gaily
1969 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Beau Bridges · Melina Mercouri · Brian Keith · George Kennedy
Plot To escape sinful impulses, Ben Harvey, a callow youth, leaves his small town for Chicago in 1910. A pickpocket promptly relieves him of his money, and he nearly starves before...
5.3
41 votes
5.3
41 votes