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

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